Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 2019"

TL;DR: This article found that the average silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and 260 wpm for fiction, and that the difference can be predicted by taking into account the length of the words, with longer words in nonfiction than in fiction.

TL;DR: It is suggested that development of new routines depends on general cognitive resources and that they can only be applied to other similarly-structured tasks.

TL;DR: This paper found that participants engage in more effective encoding strategies for high-value words than low-value items when required to use the same encoding strategy for all items, which suggests that valuable items are encoded more effectively due to strategic and to a lesser extent, automatic mechanisms.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the extent to which this interaction during development could be observed in language processing, focusing on age of acquisition (AoA) effects in reading, where early-learned words tend to be processed more quickly and accurately relative to later learned words.

TL;DR: This paper found that there may be a shared mechanism for interference control across spatial Stroop tasks and Simon tasks, but that this mechanism is apparently not recruited during bilingual language control to the extent that such practice would enhance a general ability.

TL;DR: The authors measured both fluid intelligence (using the nonverbal Raven's Progressive Matrices test) and crystalized verbal intelligence using a new Semantic Similarities Test as well as the Vocabulary subscale of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

TL;DR: This article used pupil dilation as an index of the intensity of attention to determine if variation in attention at encoding partially accounts for the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and long-term memory (LTM).

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale, preregistered, cross-linguistic study was conducted to mediate between theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphology which lie along a continuum from rule-based to analogy-based.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of generating errors versus studying on item recognition, cued recall, associative recognition, two-alternative forced choice and multiple-choice performance.

TL;DR: This article investigated the cognitive processing of seven scalar words that differ, inter alia, in their scalarity, i.e., whether they impose a lower (some) or upper (low) bound on their dimension.

TL;DR: This article explored different states of experience associated with retrieval failures that vary in intensity and found that not remembering reflects a failure in accessibility and forgetting, whereas not knowing reflects the experience of not having information in the knowledge base.

TL;DR: This article showed that the epenthetic glottal stop is more likely to occur when the preceding word is longer, showing a kind of preboundary lengthening at a phrase-level prosodic boundary.

TL;DR: Whether speakers align partner-specifically even without a communicative need is investigated, and thus whether the mechanism driving alignment is sensitive to communicative and social factors of the linguistic context is investigated.

TL;DR: This article showed that articulatory rehearsal does not require central attention at all, being in essence a cost-free strategy, whereas elaboration and refreshing are assumed to incur large and continuous costs on central attention, implying that participants did not continuously refresh the words.

TL;DR: This article found that learners who use less beneficial or no memory strategies showed a greater benefit of retrieval practice than learners who used helpful memory strategies. But not all learners experience a benefit from retrieval practice, whereas episodic memory skills and general fluid intelligence do not.

TL;DR: This article examined the contribution of prior knowledge to incremental learning and found that prior knowledge facilitated processing, as evidenced by decreased reaction times, in a task that was unrelated to previous knowledge, and that this decrease only emerged with repetitions and was maintained throughout the experiment.

TL;DR: This article found that adults can adjust their predictive strategies to the disfluency distribution at hand (e.g., hearing a talker unexpectedly say uh before high-frequency words) when presented with the same atypical disluency distribution but produced by a non-native speaker.

TL;DR: The authors showed that indexical information can be encoded in lexical representations and affect spoken word recognition and referent selection in a dual-route model, in which inferences about the talker can guide access to meaning via a route external to the mental lexicon.

TL;DR: This paper found that structural information is associated with syntactic heads (i.e., the verb), but not with non-heads such as the subject noun and the VP-internal arguments.

TL;DR: An effect the authors term syntactic entrainment that is well positioned to reflect the recalibration of the strength of the mappings or associations that allow syntactic structures to convey emergent properties of events is revealed.

TL;DR: This paper found that relational processing is evoked to a greater extent during free recall practice than during recognition practice, and that performance on measures of relational processing (clustering and category access) was greater following free recall vs. recognition practice.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the mechanisms involved in diglossic language control and lexical access, in which participants who were highly proficient in the two varieties, or languages, named pictures in Swiss German or Standard German (Experiment 1), or in Switzerland German or Tamil (Experimental 2), with pictures having cognate or non-cognate names in Swiss Germany and Standard German.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effect of medium of presentation (pictures, words) and psychological distance (proximal, distal) on episodic memory and found that memory would be better for congruent combinations of medium and distance than incongruent combinations (i.e., pictures of psychologically proximal entities and verbal labels of psychologically distal entities).

TL;DR: This article examined how adults with and without ASD make sense of reality-violating fantasy narratives by testing real-time understanding of counterfactuals, and found that anomaly detection effects in the early moments of processing (immediately in Experiment 1, and from the post-critical region in Experiment 2), which were not modulated by group.

TL;DR: The authors found that configural cues can promote an other-centric strategy and its stabilization, influence response dynamics selectively, and impact the interpretation of spatial language, and that the cue also influenced how listeners interpreted the front-back terms.

TL;DR: This article investigated the role of filler-gap dependency production in the formation of relative clauses, which require speakers to establish an argument-predicate relationship between a phrase, the filler, (the boy) and a further embedded predicate (saw).

TL;DR: In this article, a simple signal detection model was proposed to predict how the sequential lineup procedure should affect the ability of eyewitnesses to discriminate innocent from guilty suspects, and the results of two experiments reported here confirmed these predictions.

TL;DR: The authors report two four-word tongue twister experiments eliciting consonantal errors and their repairs, in word initial and medial positions, testing some predictions relating to temporal aspects of self-monitoring.

TL;DR: The authors examine novel category systems that emerge from communication, cultural transmission, and both processes combined, concluding that cultural transmission allows individuals to coordinate their semantic systems more effectively than they can through shared perceptual biases alone.

TL;DR: This paper showed that French speakers prefer to attach relative clauses to the most local antecedent once pseudo relative availability is controlled for, and provided direct support for the pseudo relative preference: grammatically forced disambiguation to a relative clause interpretation leads to degraded acceptability and greater processing cost in a pseudo relative environment than maintaining compatibility with a relative.