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Simultaneous and successive syntheses and linguistic processes 1
Author(s) -
Cummins James,
Das J.P.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597808246617
Subject(s) - psychology , comprehension , class (philosophy) , inclusion (mineral) , association (psychology) , cognition , task (project management) , word association , cognitive psychology , linguistics , word (group theory) , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , neuroscience , psychotherapist , philosophy , management , psychoanalysis , economics
The present study investigated the relationships between simultaneous and successive modes of cognitive processing and performance on word association, ambiguities and class inclusion tasks in a sample of 60 grade three children. Simultaneous processing was significantly related to class inclusion performance and to comprehension of lexical ambiguities. There was also some evidence of a relationship between paradigmatic responding on the word association task and simultaneous processing. Successive processing was significantly related to surface structure and underlying structure ambiguities and was also involved in class inclusion performance. These results are consistent with hypotheses derived from the neurolinguistic theories of Luria and Jakobson.