Open AccessMemória de trabalho e produção oral da linguagem
Author(s) -
Paula Lenz Costa Lima,
Edson Françozo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cadernos de estudos lingüísticos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-0686
pISSN - 0102-5767
DOI - 10.20396/cel.v40i0.8637122
Subject(s) - span (engineering) , working memory , task (project management) , reading (process) , psychology , memory span , brazilian portuguese , test (biology) , computer science , portuguese , linguistics , audiology , engineering , medicine , cognition , philosophy , paleontology , civil engineering , systems engineering , neuroscience , biology
In this paper, we examine the use of silent pauses made by high and low working memory span individuals, during the reading span test (the Brazilian Portuguese version), aiming at verifying possible strategies used by the subjects in order to accommodate the transient computational and storage demands that occur in the task. Our results are congruent with the idea that language production quality is also influenced by the subjects´ working memory capacity: high span subjects produced more sentences without pause, made shorter pauses, and therefore spent less time reading the test sentences than low span subjects.