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There is a wealth of evidence showing that increasing the distance between an argument and its head leads to more processing effort, namely, locality effects; these are usually associated with constraints in working memory (DLT: Gibson, 2000; activation-based model: Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). In SOV languages, however, the opposite effect has been found: antilocality (see discussion in Levy et al., 2013). Antilocality effects can be explained by the expectation-based approach as proposed by Levy (2008) or by the activation-based model of sentence processing as proposed by Lewis and Vasishth (2005). We report an eye-tracking and a self-paced reading study with sentences in Spanish together with measures of individual differences to examine the distinction between expectation- and memory-based accounts, and within memory-based accounts the further distinction between DLT and the activation-based model. The experiments show that (i) antilocality effects as predicted by the expectation account appear only for high-capacity readers; (ii) increasing dependency length by interposing material that modifies the head of the dependency (the verb) produces stronger facilitation than increasing dependency length with material that does not modify the head; this is in agreement with the activation-based model but not with the expectation account; and (iii) a possible outcome of memory load on low-capacity readers is the increase in regressive saccades (locality effects as predicted by memory-based accounts) or, surprisingly, a speedup in the self-paced reading task; the latter consistent with good-enough parsing (Ferreira et al., 2002). In sum, the study suggests that individual differences in working memory capacity play a role in dependency resolution, and that some of the aspects of dependency resolution can be best explained with the activation-based model together with a prediction component. © 2015 Nicenboim, Vasishth, Gattei, Sigman and Kliegl.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution
Autor:Nicenboim, B.; Vasishth, S.; Gattei, C.; Sigman, M.; Kliegl, R.
Filiación:Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Grupo de Lingüística y Neurobiología Experimental del Lenguaje, Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Mendoza, Argentina
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires/Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Palabras clave:Activation; Antilocality; DLT; Expectation; Individual differences; Locality; Spanish; Working memory capacity
Año:2015
Volumen:6
Número:MAR
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00312
Título revista:Frontiers in Psychology
Título revista abreviado:Front. Psychol.
ISSN:16641078
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_16641078_v6_nMAR_p_Nicenboim

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Nicenboim, B., Vasishth, S., Gattei, C., Sigman, M. & Kliegl, R. (2015) . Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(MAR).
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00312
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Nicenboim, B., Vasishth, S., Gattei, C., Sigman, M., Kliegl, R. "Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution" . Frontiers in Psychology 6, no. MAR (2015).
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00312
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Nicenboim, B., Vasishth, S., Gattei, C., Sigman, M., Kliegl, R. "Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution" . Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 6, no. MAR, 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00312
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Nicenboim, B., Vasishth, S., Gattei, C., Sigman, M., Kliegl, R. Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution. Front. Psychol. 2015;6(MAR).
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00312