PSYCH 140M Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psych
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Slave system responsible for speech aspects of memory. Consists of phonological store and articulatory rehearsal process. Supporting evidence comes from the phonological similarity effect, the. Phonological loop in language comprehension? irrelevant speech effect, and the word length effect. Baddeley started by studying pv"s capacity for understanding spoken and written prose. Results suggest that phonological loop is not central to language. Phonological loop in new phonological learning comprehension. Attempted to teach pv new russian vocabulary. Experiment 1 learn to associate pairs of words in her native language (italian) Presented word pairs (e. g. cavallo - libro) Pv asked to correctly recall the pair. Since pv"s ltm is normal, and ltm seems to be based on meaning, pairing these long-time familiar words presented no problem for pv. Experiment 2 learn to associate new unfamiliar russian words with their italian equivalent. Results: complete failure no words learned. Perhaps the phonological loop is specialized for language. Phonological loop in phonological learning in normal subjects.
