Evidence for a modality effect in sentence retention.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Ralf Rummer, Judith Schweppe

Abstract

It is well known that an acoustic-sensory code supports retention of linguistic materials whose storage is particularly based on phonological information (e.g., unrelated word lists). The present study investigates whether such a code also contributes to the retention of sentences. It has been shown that short-term sentence recall particularly depends on propositional and lexicosemantic information, which are assumed to be supplied independently of modality influences. We employed the intrusion paradigm of Potter and Lombardi (1990) and manipulated the availability of acoustic-sensory information. Participants were instructed to read sentences either silently or aloud. Since these two reading conditions also differ with respect to articulatory information, a further condition that provided articulatory but not acoustic-sensory information was introduced (i.e., silent mouthing). Our data suggest that acoustic-sensory information is used, if available, even in sentence recall.

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Jul 31, 2013·Journal of Cognitive Psychology·Ralf RummerRandi C Martin
Dec 24, 2019·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience·Matteo MascelloniJutta L Mueller

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