Speak, Act, Remember: The Language-Production Basis of Serial Order and Maintenance in Verbal Memory

The fields of language production and verbal memory have relatively little contact. I argue that utterance planning for language production has substantial memory maintenance demands and that utterance planning provides the maintenance and ordering processes for short-term verbal memory tasks. There...

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Published in:Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society 2016-02, Vol.25 (1), p.47-53
Main Author: MacDonald, Maryellen C.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Grammar
Language
Memory
Psychological aspects
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Summary:The fields of language production and verbal memory have relatively little contact. I argue that utterance planning for language production has substantial memory maintenance demands and that utterance planning provides the maintenance and ordering processes for short-term verbal memory tasks. There has already been some movement toward this view. I discuss benefits to pursuing these links more fully.
ISSN:0963-7214
1467-8721
DOI:10.1177/0963721415620776