phonological loop
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphonologicalandloop
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phonological
adjective
uk/ˌfɒn.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌfoʊ.nəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the sounds in a particular language or in languages, or to the study ...
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loop
noun[C]
uk/luːp/us/luːp/
the curved shape made when something long and thin, such as a piece of string, bends until one part of it nearly touches or crosses another part ...
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The digit span gives an indication of the capacity of the individual'sphonologicalloopcomponent.
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Studies of word learning in adults also favor this view that thephonologicalloopis involved in the phonological learning of new words.
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The most widely researched component of working memory is thephonologicalloop.
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If self-monitoring of syntax occurred via thephonologicalloop, we would predict that it would be slow in comparison to self-monitoring of phonological errors.
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According to this theory, thephonologicalloopsystem of human working memory is a key cognitive resource for language learning.
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Therefore, it is likely that thephonologicalloopinfluences eye movements.
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The visuo-spatial sketchpad works with visual and spatial information, while thephonologicalloopis specialized for the manipulation and retention of speech.
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An alternative possible tactic under cognitive control is that thephonologicalloopin working memory determines when to move the eyes in the text.
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This process cannot be characterized as either maintenance rehearsal (simply cycling phonological material around thephonologicalloop) or elaborative processing (relating current input to long-term memory schemata).
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Therefore, it was possible that the absence of articulatory suppression was due to the fast activation of word knowledge which provides support to thephonologicalloop.
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Conditions that compromise the quality of the temporary phonological representation in thephonologicalloopwill reduce the efficiency of the process of abstraction and result in slow rates of learning.
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The effect of word length on short-term memory capacity is neatly accommodated by the component of working memory theory dedicated to the processing of verbal information: thephonologicalloop.
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Young children show considerable variation in bothphonologicalloopcapacity and vocabulary knowledge, and these two variables are closely related.
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Thephonologicalloopis conventionally assessed using serial recall tasks in which verbal items are presented at a regular pace for immediate recall in the original input sequence.
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Although thephonologicalloopis considered to be a storage device that is distinct from stored lexical phonological knowledge, it does not operate in isolation from more permanent knowledge representations.
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These phonological neighbours, which were all familiar words, may have refreshed the representation of the novel word in thephonologicalloop, which then facilitated their subsequent production of that word.
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Thephonologicalloopconsists of a verbal storage system and a rehearsal system.
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Thephonologicalloopstores verbal content, whereas the visuo-spatial sketchpad caters to visuo-spatial data.
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This disturbance can be explained by the fact that the linguistic component of music can occupy thephonologicalloop, similar to the way speech does.
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