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The Resource King is dead! Long live the Resource King!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

John N. Towse
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX United Kingdomj.towse@rhbnc.ac.uk
Graham J. Hitch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YF United Kingdomghitch@lancaster.ac.uk
Una Hutton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX United Kingdomu.hutton@rhbnc.ac.uk www.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.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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