Episodic memory and sleep are involved in the maintenance of context-specific lexical information.
Matthew HC Mak, Adam James Curtis, Jennifer M. Rodd, M. Gareth Gaskell
Abstract
) in sentences where the words were used in their dispreferred word class (e.g., "He will loan me money"). Both experiments showed that such sentential experience influenced later interpretation and usage of the words more after a night's sleep than a day awake. We interpret these results as evidence for a general role of episodic memory in language comprehension such that new episodic memories are formed every time a sentence is comprehended, and these memories contribute to lexical processing next time the word is encountered, as well as potentially to the fine-tuning of long-term lexical knowledge. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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PsychologyEpisodic memoryGeneralityCognitive psychologySentenceCognitionPsycINFOLinguisticsComputer scienceNatural language processingNeuroscienceLawMEDLINEPolitical sciencePhilosophyPsychotherapistNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism