Showing papers in "Cognitive Psychology in 1986"

TL;DR: The TRACE model, described in detail elsewhere, deals with short segments of real speech, and suggests a mechanism for coping with the fact that the cues to the identity of phonemes vary as a function of context.

TL;DR: The authors found that the effects of syntactic priming were specific to features of sentence form, independent of sentence content, and that the empirical isolability of structural features from conceptual characteristics of successive utterances is consistent with the assumption that some syntactic processes are organized into functionally independent subsystem.

TL;DR: Norman and Rumelhart as discussed by the authors described a study on the recall of 2400 events from the author's daily life, recorded during a period of 6 years, and all events were recorded by means of four aspects, viz., what the event was, who was involved, and where and when it happened.

TL;DR: The authors found that the ability to analyze an everyday problem with reference to the law of large numbers was much greater for those with several years of training in statistics than for those who had less.

TL;DR: Three classes of theories of the mental representation of spatial relations were tested, one of which supported partially hierarchical theories of spatial representations, and computer simulations supported this conclusion.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that people often reason using a type of knowledge structure termed pragmatic reasoning schemas, and that brief abstract training on a pragmatic reasoning schema had a substantial impact on subjects' reasoning about problems that were interpretable in terms of the schema.

TL;DR: In this article, a family of models for category learning is developed, all members being based on a common memory array but differing in memory access and decision processes, and fully controlled comparisons of exemplar-similarity, feature-frequency, and prototype models reveal isomorphism between models of different types under some conditions but empirically testable differences under others.

TL;DR: Four experiments were designed to determine if the ease with which abstract category structures are learned interacts with the specific type of knowledge that is applied to the task, and revealed a strong interaction between abstract category structure and knowledge structures.

TL;DR: Two experiments examined the effects of variations in melodic rule structure and rhythm upon the ability of musically sophisticated listeners to reproduce auditory patterns to evaluate different theoretical perspectives on auditory pattern perception and the role of rule structure in perceiving and remembering.

TL;DR: People’s ability to assess everyday life correlations such as the degree of agreement that exists for various kinds of evaluations and the level of consistency that characterizes social behavior from occasion to occasion is examined.

TL;DR: The empirical and theoretical analyses suggest that the selective adaptation paradigm can be a powerful tool for investigating the perception of complex acoustic stimuli like speech.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that form-oriented errors occur in production tasks for past tense -ed, present tense -s, indefinite a/an, and three irregular past tense patterns, which supports the following strong principle in language production: if a form resembles the output of an inflectional pattern, there will be a tendency to use it without actually applying that pattern.

TL;DR: Findings of recency and suffix effects for written music refute PAS (precategorical acoustic store), primary language, and static vs changing state theories of modality and suffix effect and support more general sensory or short-term memory theories.

TL;DR: This study provides data from judgments of four sensory continua, two visual and two tactual-kinesthetic, which show that the adaptation level for a set of stimuli serves as a category boundary whether stimuli on the continuum differ by linear or logarithmic increments.