PMID- 28528512
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180622
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1573-6555 (Electronic)
IS  - 0090-6905 (Linking)
VI  - 46
IP  - 6
DP  - 2017 Dec
TI  - Working Memory in the Processing of Long-Distance Dependencies: Interference and 
      Filler Maintenance.
PG  - 1353-1365
LID - 10.1007/s10936-017-9499-6 [doi]
AB  - During the temporal delay between the filler and gap sites in long-distance 
      dependencies, the "active filler" strategy can be implemented in two ways: the 
      filler phrase can be actively maintained in working memory ("maintenance 
      account"), or it can be retrieved only when the parser posits a gap ("retrieval 
      account"). The current study tested whether filler content is maintained during 
      the processing of dependencies. Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we compared 
      reading times on a noun phrase (NP) between the filler and gap sites in object 
      relative clauses, to reading times on an NP between the antecedent and ellipsis 
      sites in ellipsis sentences. While in the former type of dependency a filler by 
      hypothesis can be maintained, in the latter there is no indication for the 
      existence of a dependency prior to the ellipsis site, and hence no maintenance. 
      By varying the amount of similarity-based interference between the antecedent and 
      integration sites, we tested the influence of holding an unresolved dependency on 
      reading times. Significantly increased reading times due to interference were 
      found only in the object relative condition, and not in the ellipsis condition, 
      demonstrating filler maintenance costs. The fact that these costs were measured 
      as an effect on similarity-based interference indicates that the maintained 
      representation of the filler must include at least some of the features shared by 
      the interfering NP.
FAU - Ness, Tal
AU  - Ness T
AD  - Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Webb Building, room 413, Ramat 
      Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel. talness@mail.tau.ac.il.
FAU - Meltzer-Asscher, Aya
AU  - Meltzer-Asscher A
AD  - Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Webb Building, room 413, Ramat 
      Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel.
AD  - Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Psycholinguist Res
JT  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
JID - 0333506
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Comprehension/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Language
MH  - Male
MH  - Memory, Short-Term/*physiology
MH  - *Reading
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Filler-gap dependencies
OT  - Long-distance dependencies
OT  - Parsing
OT  - Sentence processing
OT  - Syntax
OT  - Working memory
EDAT- 2017/05/22 06:00
MHDA- 2018/06/23 06:00
CRDT- 2017/05/22 06:00
PHST- 2017/05/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/06/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/05/22 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s10936-017-9499-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10936-017-9499-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Psycholinguist Res. 2017 Dec;46(6):1353-1365. doi: 10.1007/s10936-017-9499-6.