Aphasia, prefrontal dysfunction and the use of strategies. Open-peer commentary on 'Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension' by D. Caplan & G. Waters

Abstract

Caplan & Waters' neuropsychological evidence for the two types of verbal working memory rests entirely on a very restricted definition of syntactic complexity, one in terms of word order. This opens the possibility that the dissociation they observe relates to the differential use of word order strategies, rather than to the structure of verbal working memory.