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Verbal, visual, and spatial working memory in written language production.

Ronald T Kellogg1, Thierry Olive, Annie Piolat

  • 1Department of Psychology, Shannon Hall, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63103-2097, USA. kelloggr@slu.edu

Acta Psychologica
|July 11, 2006
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Writing definitions interferes with cognitive tasks. Defining concrete nouns specifically impacts visual working memory (WM), while all definitions affect verbal WM, suggesting language production relies on phonological and verbal WM.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) is crucial for cognitive tasks.
  • Language production involves distinct memory processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how defining abstract and concrete nouns impacts concurrent working memory tasks.
  • To determine the specific WM systems engaged during language production.

Main Methods:

  • College students defined abstract or concrete nouns.
  • Participants concurrently performed a verbal, visual, or spatial WM task.
  • Response times to target stimuli were measured.

Main Results:

  • Defining nouns increased response times to verbal targets.

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  • Visual targets showed interference only when defining concrete nouns.
  • Spatial targets were unaffected by noun definition.

    • Conclusions:

    • Language production necessitates phonological or verbal working memory.
    • Visual working memory is selectively recruited for concrete noun imagery.