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Working memory and inferences: evidence from eye fixations during reading.

M G Calvo1

  • 1Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. mgcalvo@ull.es

Memory (Hove, England)
|October 12, 2001
PubMed
Summary

Working memory capacity influences reading comprehension. Higher working memory aids in making inferences about predictable events during reading, particularly in later stages of text processing.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Individual differences in working memory capacity impact cognitive tasks.
  • Reading comprehension involves complex processes, including inference generation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between working memory capacity and inferential processing during reading.
  • To determine if working memory affects early lexical access or later text integration.

Main Methods:

  • Monitoring eye fixations during reading.
  • Using the reading span task to assess working memory capacity.
  • Presenting context sentences that either predicted or did not predict subsequent events.

Main Results:

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  • Higher working memory capacity correlated with shorter gaze durations.
  • Working memory capacity interacted with context predictability and target word type.
  • Predicting context facilitated inference reanalysis for high-span readers, indicated by reduced reading time and regressions.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory capacity facilitates elaborative inferences during reading.
  • This facilitation occurs during late text-integration processes, not early lexical access.