How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level
Yang, Xiaohong1,2; Zhang, Xiuping3; Zhang, Ying1,2; Zhang, Qian1,2; Li, XiaoQing1,2
刊名NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
2020-03-16
卷号140页码:8
关键词Working memory capacity Semantic integration N400 P600 Sentence Discourse
ISSN号0028-3932
DOI10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107383
英文摘要

During comprehension, language users not only immediately integrate information from local sentence context, but also information from global discourse context for full understanding. In the present study, we examined whether the time course of these integration processes is constrained by language users' working memory capacity. Sentence and discourse stimuli were constructed. For the sentence stimuli, each sentence contained a critical word that was either congruent or incongruent with its preceding sentence context. For the discourse stimuli, each discourse contained four sentences with a target word embedded at the final sentence and the target word was either congruent or incongruent with the information provided at the first sentence of the discourse. Participants of high and low working memory span were instructed to read for comprehension. Our results showed that while the high span readers showed the N400 and P600 effects to semantically incongruent words, the low span readers only showed the P600 effect. This pattern was found regardless of whether the incongruent words were placed at sentence or discourse context. These results suggest that the low span readers are relatively delayed than the high span ones at both sentence- and discourse-level semantic integration and indicate that working memory functions have greater influence than context scope on the time course of semantic integration.

资助项目Natural National Science Foundation of China[31871108] ; Natural National Science Foundation of China[61433018] ; CAS Key Laboratory of Behavior Science, Institute of Psychology[Y5CX052003]
WOS关键词INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES ; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION ; WORLD KNOWLEDGE ; ERPS ; RESOLUTION ; ANOMALIES ; AMBIGUITY
WOS研究方向Behavioral Sciences ; Neurosciences & Neurology ; Psychology
语种英语
出版者PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号WOS:000522136500008
资助机构Natural National Science Foundation of China ; CAS Key Laboratory of Behavior Science, Institute of Psychology
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/31521]  
专题心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者Li, XiaoQing
作者单位1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Lincui Rd 16, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
3.Beijing Language & Culture Univ, Res Inst Int Chinese Language Educ, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China
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Yang, Xiaohong,Zhang, Xiuping,Zhang, Ying,et al. How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level[J]. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA,2020,140:8.
APA Yang, Xiaohong,Zhang, Xiuping,Zhang, Ying,Zhang, Qian,&Li, XiaoQing.(2020).How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level.NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA,140,8.
MLA Yang, Xiaohong,et al."How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level".NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA 140(2020):8.
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