Sentence parsing & WM

Question 1

Online parsing measure

Answer 1

Investigated by measuring how much time participants spend on each word in a sentence, to measure the difficulty of integration of that word to the previous text

Question 2

Integration cost

Answer 2

The cost of integrating the next word.

• the higher the cost the more items must be held in WM
• The further the current word is from the one it refers to (has to agree with), the more likely you are to judge it correct