| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Working memory is a crucial resource in various mental tasks. However, in Japanese sentence comprehension, results from relative clauses have challenged the explanations provided by working-memory models. One problem with previous experimental results is that most showed sentences in isolation, which may have led to greater ambiguity, thus obscuring the predictions of working-memory factors. As opposed to the complex contexts that have been used in past literature, a new simpler context was used to obtain cleaner results for Japanese. Fragment-completion questionnaires indicate that the context had the desired effect and decreased ambiguity by eliminating expectation for alternative interpretations other than relative clauses. Reading-time experiments confirmed previous results suggesting that working-memory models cannot explain the Japanese results. At a talk to be presented in June 2016, I suggested that closure may work as chunking and may cancel out working-memory effects.
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