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‘Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex’ with Cory Shain

The Language Neuroscience Podcast

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The Dominant View of Working Memory in Language Parsing

Working memories needed in a lot of different domains, not just language. So for example, if I'm processing like a complex mathematical equation with hierarchical structure, I may need working memory to keep elements in memory and compose them. We have this kind of general store of working memory that we can draw across the maze. Some researchers are quite explicit that they do think it's the same store.

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