TY - JOUR
T1 - Now or … later
T2 - Perceptual data are not immediately forgotten during language processing
AU - Bicknell, Klinton
AU - Jaeger, T. Florian
AU - Tanenhaus, Michael K.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Christiansen & Chater (C&C) propose that language comprehenders must immediately compress perceptual data by "chunking" them into higher-level categories. Effective language understanding, however, requires maintaining perceptual information long enough to integrate it with downstream cues. Indeed, recent results suggest comprehenders do this. Although cognitive systems are undoubtedly limited, frameworks that do not take into account the tasks that these systems evolved to solve risk missing important insights.
AB - Christiansen & Chater (C&C) propose that language comprehenders must immediately compress perceptual data by "chunking" them into higher-level categories. Effective language understanding, however, requires maintaining perceptual information long enough to integrate it with downstream cues. Indeed, recent results suggest comprehenders do this. Although cognitive systems are undoubtedly limited, frameworks that do not take into account the tasks that these systems evolved to solve risk missing important insights.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X15000734
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X15000734
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 27562505
AN - SCOPUS:85021856600
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 39
SP - e67
JO - The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ER -