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Working Memory (WM) is a central structure maintaining information at short term in face of temporal decay and interference for its processing in ongoing tasks. As a consequence, WM is strongly involved in learning, especially in learning first or second languages. The Time-Based Resource Sharing (TBRS) model describes the functioning and development of WM, in particular by integrating the role of executive attention and the time constraints that affect cognitive processes. After a brief overview of the model, this chapter focuses on the distinction between a domain-specific system of maintenance in charge of verbal information and a domain-general system relying on attention. Hence, we show how verbal information is maintained in WM from childhood to adulthood, and how linguistic features of verbal information impact its short-term memory. Conversely, we explain how WM mechanisms in the TBRS model affect the creation of true and false verbal long-term memory traces.

As stressed by Perruchet & Vinter, the SOC model echoes Johnson-Laird's mental model theory. Indeed, the latter rejects rule-based processing and assumes that reasoning is achieved through the manipulation of conscious representations. However, the mental model theory as well as its modified versions resorts to the abstraction of complex schemas and some form of implicit logic that seems incompatible with the SOC approach.

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Is the self-organizing consciousness framework compatible with human deductive reasoning?

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9 - The Time-Based Resource Sharing Model of Working Memory for Language

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Is the self-organizing consciousness framework compatible with human deductive reasoning?