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Good interactions are hard to find

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Akira Miyake
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0345 [email protected]@[email protected] psych-www.colorado.edu/faculty/miyake.html
Michael J. Emerson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0345 [email protected]@[email protected] psych-www.colorado.edu/faculty/miyake.html
Naomi P. Friedman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0345 [email protected]@[email protected] psych-www.colorado.edu/faculty/miyake.html

Abstract

Caplan & Waters's arguments for separate working memory subsystems for “interpretive” and “post-interpretive” comprehension processes do not have a solid empirical basis. The likely involvement of a separate phonological loop makes their memory-load data irrelevant to theory evaluation, and the lack of statistical power from nonoptimal experimental designs and analyses unfairly reduces the chances of detecting the relevant interactions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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