?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Verbal+Working+Memory+and+Sentence+Comprehension&rft.creator=Caplan%2C+David&rft.creator=Waters%2C+Gloria&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Syntax&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.description=This+target+article+discusses+the+verbal+working+memory+system+used+in+sentence+comprehension.+We+review+the+idea+of+working+memory+as+a+short+duration+system+in+which+small+amounts+of+information+are+simultaneously+stored+and+manipulated+in+the+service+of+a+task+and+that+syntactic+processing+in+sentence+comprehension+requires+such+a+storage+and+computational+system.+We+inquire+whether+the+working+memory+system+used+in+syntactic+processing+is+the+same+as+that+used+in+verbally+mediated+tasks+involving+conscious%2C+controlled+processing.+Various+forms+of+evidence+are+considered%3A+the+relationship+between+individual+differences+in+working+memory+and+individual+differences+in+the+efficiency+of+syntactic+processing%3B+the+effect+of+concurrent+verbal+memory+load+on+syntactic+processing%3B+and+syntactic+processing+in+patients+with+poor+short+term+memory%2C+poor+working+memory%2C+or+aphasia.+The+experimental+results+suggest+that+the+verbal+working+memory+system+specialized+for+assigning+the+syntactic+structure+of+a+sentence+and+for+using+that+structure+in+determining+sentence+meaning+is+distinct+from+the+working+memory+system+that+underlies+the+use+of+sentence+meaning+to+accomplish+further+functions.+We+present+a+theory+of+the+components+of+the+verbal+working+memory+system+and+suggestions+as+to+its+neural+basis.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F623%2F1%2Fbbs_caplan.html&rft.identifier=++Caplan%2C+David+and+Waters%2C+Gloria++(1998)+Verbal+Working+Memory+and+Sentence+Comprehension.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F623%2F