The Impact of Cognitive Load on Language Processing and Memory Recall: A Psycho Linguistic Investigation

Abstract

This study discovers a relationship between cognitive load, language processing and memory recall within a psycholinguistic basis. In a period wherever multitasking and info surplus are predominant understanding how mental effort influences linguistic comprehension and memory functions is both timely and essential. The research study purposes to inspect how variable heights of intellectual load affect competence of language dispensation and the accurateness of short-term reminiscence recall. Using a quantitative experimental design, data were collected from 150 university students with diverse linguistic backgrounds. Participants performed structured language comprehension and memory tasks under three distinct cognitive load conditions including low, reasonable and high. Further reaction times, accuracy rates and also recall performance were measured completed by computer based linguistic tasks. Corresponding qualitative data were also collected through post task interviews to advance insight into member's intellectual approaches. Conclusions specify a clear negative correlation between linguistic performance and cognitive load. Underneath high intellectual load participants confirmed slower syntactic processing, reduced lexical access speed and meaningfully lower recall accurateness. These results recommend that increased cognitive demands impair functioning memory volume and delay with ability of brain to process and retrieve language based information successfully. This study pays to fields of intellectual psychology, psycholinguistics and enlightening science by contribution experiential indication on how intellectual load curbs language and memory purposes. The implications are mainly pertinent for language teachers, instructional designers and intellectual interface developers pointing to enhance learning and communiqué in cognitively demanding backgrounds.

Keywords:  Cognitive Load; Language Processing; Memory Recall; Psycholinguistics; Working Memory; Mental Effort; Linguistic Performance