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Jones, Angela C.; Folk, Jocelyn R.; Rapp, Brenda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
A central issue in the study of reading and spelling has been to understand how the consistency or frequency of letter-sound relationships affects written language processing. We present, for the first time, evidence that the sound-spelling frequency of "subgraphemic" elements of words (letters within digraphs) contributes to the…
Descriptors: Spelling, Written Language, Short Term Memory, Language Processing
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Hoffman, Paul; Jefferies, Elizabeth; Ehsan, Sheeba; Hopper, Samantha; Lambon Ralph, Matthew A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Semantic short-term memory (STM) patients have a reduced ability to retain semantic information over brief delays but perform well on other semantic tasks; this pattern suggests damage to a dedicated buffer for semantic information. Alternatively, these difficulties may arise from mild disruption to domain-general semantic processes that have…
Descriptors: Semantics, Short Term Memory, Patients, Aphasia