Word Frequency Is Associated With Cognitive Effort During Verbal Working Memory: A Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study

PurposePsycholinguistic models traditionally view verbal working memory capacity as independent from linguistic features; connectionist models suggest otherwise. Moreover, lexical processing studies show high frequency words differ in cognitive effort from low frequency words, although these effects...

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Main Authors: Amy Berglund-Barraza, Fenghua Tian, Chandramalika Basak, Julia L. Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00433/full