The Role of Working Memory in Language Comprehension and Production

This chapter addresses the role of verbal working memory (WM) in language production and comprehension, focusing on data from brain-damaged individuals, while also drawing on related findings from healthy adults. The perspective on WM is the domain-specific model which includes WM buffers that are specific to phonological and semantic information and separate from long-term knowledge in these domains (Marti et al., 2020). Thus, the focus is on the separable contributions of these two buffers to language processes