名词记忆优势影响句内优先效应和近期效应

Classic research in psychology has shown that comprehenders in recall tasks ‘chunk’ word lists in order to facilitate later retrieval. Here we ask how chunking mechanisms apply in grammatically structured sentence stimuli. How do comprehenders make use of this grammatical structure to guide chunking of a sentence’s component words in memory? In previous studies of multi-clause sentence recall, many researchers have argued that chunking is clause-based, as evidenced by scalloped serial accuracy curves in which primacy and recency effects are observed within each clause. Here we suggest that the