Are visuospatial working memory influences on prediction in speech contingent on the co-presence of a relevant visual world? An ERP study.
A concurrent visuospatial working memory (vsWM) task has been shown to reduce predictive gaze behaviour in several visual world eye-tracking experiments. This reduction could be due to general aspects of prediction or an effect contingent on the additional demand of visually co-present objects. In a...
| Publicado en: | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 907 - 919 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , |
| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2026
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| Sumario: | A concurrent visuospatial working memory (vsWM) task has been shown to reduce predictive gaze behaviour in several visual world eye-tracking experiments. This reduction could be due to general aspects of prediction or an effect contingent on the additional demand of visually co-present objects. In an N400 event-related potentials study, L2 English participants heard the same sentences and completed the same vsWM task from a study which showed a reduction in predictive gaze behaviour, but without visually co-present objects. We observed robust effects of predictability but evidence against an influence of the vsWM task. These results suggest that vsWM does not interfere with the pre-activation of a target word without a co-present visual array. We conclude that previously observed effects of vsWM on prediction are instead likely specific to gaze behaviour and situations in which spoken language refers to a co-present relevant visual context. |
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