The nature of working memory capacity in sentence comprehension: Evidence against domain-specific working memory resources

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 541-553

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a   Gibson, Edward ^a   Rohde, Douglas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain specificity; Sentence comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645752078     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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