Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
[Introduction]Verbs classified into 2 categories: Volitional and Non-volitional verb. This study examined the relationship between difference of WMC and verbal operation.[Participants and Methods]28 normal adults with right-handedness(22.46±3.26 age) divided into 3 groups by Reading Span Test: High Span, Middle Span and Low Span. They were requested to express within 60 sec. as many verbs as possible related with the target noun and with participants’ inner representation. [Analysis]Tests used: (1)One-way ANOVA with generated words as independent variables and Post Hoc Test. (2)One-way ANOVA examining the generating-word number ratio of Volitional and Non-volitional verbs. [Results](1) Statistically a significant difference (p<.05) was found in the generating word number between HS group and others. (2) Non-volitional verb generating ratio was significantly greater (p<.05) in LS than in HS group.[Discussions]The difference of Non-volitional verb generating ratio indicates that HS group is superior to LS group in inner representation capable of operating from the first-person viewpoint.
