Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 447-454

  Lewis, Richard L ^a   Vasishth, Shravan ^b   Van Dyke, Julie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL PRINCIPLES; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION; WORKING MEMORY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; READING; THEORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33748802030     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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