Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 2013"

TL;DR: It is argued that researchers using LMEMs for confirmatory hypothesis testing should minimally adhere to the standards that have been in place for many decades, and it is shown thatLMEMs generalize best when they include the maximal random effects structure justified by the design.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether bilingual readers predict sentence final words when they read in their second language and found that L2 comprehenders do not actively predict upcoming words during sentence comprehension to the same extent as L1 comprehenders.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between linguistic representation and memory access by comparing the processing of two linguistic dependencies that require comprehenders to check that the subject of the current clause has the correct morphological features: subject-verb agreement and reflexive anaphors.

TL;DR: This paper showed that language-specific tone preference emerges even earlier for lexical tones, at 4 to 9 months of age, compared to 6 and 12 months for vowels and consonants.

TL;DR: This paper explored how bilingualism affects various task-switching mechanisms and concluded that bilinguals did not show reduced switch cost in any experiment, not even in an omnibus analysis combining the standardized switch cost scores of 292 participants across the three experiments.

TL;DR: The impact of working memory training on a broad set of transfer tasks was examined in this article, where three groups of participants were compared to an active control group practicing perceptual matching tasks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the claim that the inhibition theory provides a better account of forgetting than more traditional competition-based theories and conclude that the theoretical status of inhibition as an explanation for interference and forgetting is problematic.

TL;DR: This paper used reflexive binding and the gender mismatch paradigm to show that a complete and faithful syntactic structure is built following processing of the garden-path meaning from the first sentence interferes with reading of the second.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a complete theory of syntactic complexity must integrate insights from both expectation-based and memory-based theories, and that key predictions in processing difficulty at RC-initial accusative noun phrase (NP) objects should be highly unexpected.

TL;DR: This paper found that cognates with a low English frequency showed a larger cognate advantage than those with a high English frequency and N400 amplitude was sensitive to cognate status and both the English and French frequency of the cognate words.

TL;DR: New evidence of both locality and anti-locality effects in the same type of dependency relation in a single language-verb-final constructions in German-while controlling for lexical identity, plausibility, and sentence position is provided.

TL;DR: Why synonyms provide semantic preview benefit in reading English is discussed in relation to previous failures to find semantic Preview Benefit in English and the fact that semantic Preview benefit is observed in other languages even for non-synonymous words.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the first longitudinal study of sensitivity to syllable stress in children with dyslexia, enabling the exploration of predictive factors, such as prosodic patterning and prosodic awareness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether readers can predict broad semantically defined classes of words beyond a specific word in a short story context, using event-related brain potentials, while reading short stories for comprehension.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that all three forms of release from proactive interference are accompanied by a decrease in participants' response latencies, which suggest that release can reflect more focused memory search, with the previously studied nontarget items being largely eliminated from the search process.

TL;DR: This article used a mouse-tracking technique in a sentence verification paradigm to test different accounts of the effect of scalar implicatures in sentence comprehension tasks and found that mouse paths initially moved towards the true target and then changed direction mid-flight to select the false target.

TL;DR: This paper found that the context effects induced by these paradigms arise at distinct levels of processing, namely at the lemma level (blocked paradigm), and at the interface of conceptual and lexical representations (continuous paradigm).

TL;DR: The actions and the eye-movements suggest that for both adults and children, interpretations of passive are easier when they do not require revision of an earlier role assignment.

TL;DR: The authors used the masked priming lexical decision task to address previous contradictory evidence about the relative strength of priming for (i) transparent pairs (e.g., worker WORK ) which are morphologically and semantically related; (ii) opaque pairs (i.e., corner CORN ) which appear to be morphological relatives but are not semantically relevant; and (iii) form pairs ( i.e. turnip TURN ) that are only orthographically related.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of lexical factors on phonetic convergence and explored the relationship between acoustic and perceptual measures of convergence by using a mixed-effects regression model using a combination of acoustic convergence measures.

TL;DR: This paper investigated how people interpret spoken sentences in the context of a relevant visual world by focusing on garden-path sentences, such as Put the book on the chair in the bucket, in which the prepositional phrase on a chair is temporarily ambiguous between a goal and modifier interpretation.

TL;DR: This paper found that Know judgments in free recall do in fact reflect the episodic retrieval of item-only information from an episodic memory search set, and that the temporal dynamics of free recall were similar for high-confidence Remember and highconfidence Know judgments (as if both judgments reflected retrieval from the same search set).

TL;DR: The authors show that a single encounter with an ambiguous word in context is sufficient to bias a listener's interpretation of that word after an average delay of more than 20min, and this effect is not affected by changes to the speakers' identity between initial exposure and later testing, and is longerlasting than purely semantic priming without the presence of the ambiguous word.

TL;DR: The authors report an asymmetric pattern of interference between verbal and visual-spatial tasks, such that imposing a verbal memory load provokes graded decreases in visual memory performance, but imposing a visual memory load does not much affect verbal memory performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce and test the constructive retrieval hypothesis, according to which retrieval practice will be most effective when it encourages constructive elaborations of text content, and demonstrate that it is not retrieval practice alone, but rather the kind of constructive processing invoked during retrieval attempts that can improve both retention and comprehension.

TL;DR: Results suggest readers encode a narrow set of only those alternatives plausible in the particular discourse, and indicate that multiple manipulations of linguistic prominence, not just prosody, can lead to consideration of alternatives.

TL;DR: It is concluded that conceptual structure is a level of representation activated during priming, and that it has implications for both Message Planning and Linguistic Formulation.

TL;DR: This article found that JOLs underestimate recall on second and subsequent study-test cycles of multi-cycle paired-associate learning tasks (e.g., Koriat, Sheffer, & Ma'ayan, 2002).

TL;DR: This article investigated whether the meanings of ambiguous morphemes were activated during word recognition using a meaning generation task and a masked priming lexical decision task, and found that the recognition of targets which took the dominant meaning of ambiguous words was facilitated by all morpheme-sharing primes, regardless of their intended interpretation.

TL;DR: The authors examined electrophysiological responses to sentences about unrealistic counterfactual worlds that require people to construct novel conceptual combinations and infer their consequences as the sentence unfolds in time (e.g., “If dogs had gills…”).