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Components of verbal working memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Aaro Toomela  and
Jüri Allik
Aaro Toomela
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia EE-2484 toomela@psych.ut.ee
Jüri Allik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia EE-2484 toomela@psych.ut.ee
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Abstract

The target article differentiates a new, syntactic component in verbal working memory. We suggest that several more components could be differentiated to make a model of working memory complete. Next, syntax is not always separable from the subject's verbal memory capacity as measured by standard working memory tasks. Finally, interference between different processes cannot be taken as evidence for the processes sharing the same resources. Interference might be a result of active mutual inhibition.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 110
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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