Working Memory, Inhibition Mechanism And The Chinese Ambiguous Words To Understand The Relationship

Working memory is one of the important fields in modern cognitive psychology. It is defined as the memory system that stores and processes a limited amount of information temporarily. Working memory plays a role in many complicated cognitive activities, such as comprehension. A lot of studies indicate that primary function of working memory is remaining relevant and inhibiting irrelevant information. From this view, we discuss the role of the inhibition mechanism in Chinese ambiguous comprehension.Our study includes two experiments: The first is preparatory one, in which 61 subjects carry out the reading extent task. According to their extent scores, we select 32 subjects and separate high and low group within them in order to proceed the following experiment. The second is formal one, in which we measure the inhibitory quantities during the course of ambiguous comprehension directly by applying the negative priming pattern, and adopt the moving windows technology in order that participants may control the presentation of the words in sentence themselves. Experimental materials are some sentences which we create ourselves. They finish with ambiguities or neutral words. According the rule of the negative priming pattern, two sentences consist of one group, which call experimental condition or controlled condition. There is a probe word after every sentence. We demand subjects adjust it comes up to the end one of the sentence whether or not, and record the time interval from the probe word appearance to response, and compare the response time of the second sentences in both experimental condition and controlled condition.The results indicates: 1. Validity coefficient and response time are not significant between high and low groups; 2. High group displays the role of the inhibitory mechanism during e-very ambiguous sentence; 3. Low group shows negative priming effectsduring comprehension, however, high group doe-s not. These findings suggest that under some conditions, inhibitory mechanism of the readers with low capacity is void, however, the readers with high capacity may accord to matter of fact to fro-inhibition, and achieve the reversals of negative priming, or decide to proceed the role of inhibitory mechanism whether or not in terms of the actual situation.