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>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:56:54 -0700
>From: Akira Miyake <miyake@psych.colorado.edu>
>Subject: March 29 Colloquium --- Randi Martin
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>Departmental Colloquium
>Monday, March 29, 1999
>4:00-5:00 p.m.
>Muenzinger E214
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>Dr. Randi C. Martin
>Department of Psychology
>Rice University
>
>"Working Memory, Language Processing, and Language Learning"
>
>Neuropsychological evidence from our lab suggests that there are multiple
>components of working memory.  Within the language domain, there are
>separable components involved in the retention of phonological and semantic
>information.  The studies reviewed here examine the role of these
>components in language production and language learning.  With regard to
>language production, the issue is whether the different processing
>requirements of production, as compared to comprehension, necessitate a
>further fractionation of working memory components.  Results from both
>normal and brain-damaged subjects indicate that a single lexical-semantic
>working memory capacity is involved in comprehension and production.  In
>contrast, different capacities are required for the retention of input
>phonological forms during comprehension and the retention of output
>phonological forms during production.  With regard to language learning,
>the results suggest that the capacities involved in the retention of
>phonological information are critical for the learning of new words (i.e.,
>new phonological forms) whereas the capacity involved in the retention of
>semantic information is critical for the learning of new meanings.
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>  Akira Miyake, Ph.D.
>  Department of Psychology
>  University of Colorado at Boulder
>  Campus Box 345
>  Boulder, CO  80309-0345
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>  E-mail: miyake@psych.colorado.edu
>  Phone: (303)492-2305
>  Fax: (303)492-2967
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Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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