{"pk":26480,"title":"Linguistic Signatures of Cognitive Processes during Writing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The relationship between working memory capacity andwriting ability was examined via a linguistic analysis ofstudent essays. Undergraduate students (n = 108) wrotetimed, prompt-based essays and completed a battery ofcognitive assessments. The surface- and discourse-levellinguistic features of students’ essays were then analyzedusing natural language processing tools. The results indicatedthat WM capacity was related to surface-level, but notdiscourse-level features of student essays. Additionally, theresults suggest that these relationships were attenuated forstudents with high inferencing skills, as opposed to those withlower inferencing skills","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"writing; natural language processing;computational linguistics; strategies; working memory"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tp8f26c","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Allen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Arizona State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Cecile","middle_name":"","last_name":"Perret","name_suffix":"","institution":"Arizona State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Danielle","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"McNamara","name_suffix":"","institution":"Arizona State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26480/galley/16116/download/"}]}