ABSTRACT
Memory and inferences derived from memory are essential to the study of language understanding. Even such low-level tasks as resolving ambiguity illustrate the critical role of memory in understanding. Because of this critical role, it seems desirable that the understanding process should, in turn, affect memory in a way that would increase its usefulness in successive understanding tasks. For this, it is critical that new information that is understood using some prior information in memory be related to that prior information so that it, in turn, can be used in the future.
