The Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model: theoretical, empirical, and clinical advances
By J. Rönnberg, T. Lunner, A. Zekveld, Patrik Sörqvist, H. Danielsson, B. Lyxell, Ö. Dahlström, Carine Signoret, S. Stenfelt, M. Pichora-Fuller and 1 more. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013
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Working memory is important for online language processing during conversation. We use it to maintain relevant information, to inhibit or ignore irrelevant information, and to attend to conversation selectively. Working memory helps us to keep track of and actively participate in conversation, including taking turns and following the gist. This paper examines the Ease of Language Understanding model (i.e., the ELU model, Rönnberg, 2003; Rönnberg et al., 2008) in light of new behavioral and neural findings concerning the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in uni-modal and bimodal language processing. The new ELU model is a meaning prediction system that depends on phonological and semantic interactions in rapid implicit and slower explicit processing mechanisms that both depend on WMC albeit in different ways. It is based on findings that address the relationship between WMC and (a) early attention processes in listening to speech, (b) signal processing in hearing aids and its effects on short-term memory, (c) inhibition of speech maskers and its effect on episodic long-term memory, (d) the effects of hearing impairment on episodic and semantic long-term memory, and finally, (e) listening effort. New predictions and clinical implications are outlined. Comparisons with other WMC and speech perception models are made.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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- Association of Age-Related Hearing Loss With Cognitive Function, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia (2017, background): “This situation is estimated to lead to less decline in these functions but greaterdecline inepisodicandsemantic long-termmemoryowing to reallocationofcognitive resources.(65)Consistentwith this research,weobservedthathearing losswas lessassociatedwith decline in executive functions and immediate rec”
- Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world (2016, neutral): “Differences in working memory have been linked to individual differences in speech perception in noisy conditions (Akeroyd, 2008; Rönnberg et al., 2013).”