Open Peer Commentary Caplan & Waters: Working memory and sentence comprehension
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John N. Towse a1, Graham J. Hitch a2andUna Hutton a3 a1 Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX United Kingdom
j.towse@rhbnc.ac.uk a2 Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YF United Kingdom
ghitch@lancaster.ac.uk a3 Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX United Kingdom
u.hutton@rhbnc.ac.ukwww.pc.rhbnc.ac.uk/jt/jt.html
Abstract
Working memory span forms an important cornerstone of current
accounts of cognition, and cognitive development. We describe data
that challenge the conventional interpretation of span as a measure of
working memory capacity. We argue that the implications of these data
undermine the analysis provided by Caplan & Waters concerning the
role of working memory in sentence comprehension.
