Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 2021"

TL;DR: Bayesian analyses reveal that, compared to concrete ones, abstract concepts are more grounded in interoceptive experience and concrete concepts less in linguistic experience (mouth motor system involvement), and that the experience on which different kinds of abstract andcrete concepts differs widely.

TL;DR: A robust linear relationship between lexical predictability and word processing times across all three studies is observed, contradicting the empirical predictions of surprisal theory and supporting a proportional pre-activation account of lexical prediction effects in comprehension.

TL;DR: The authors showed that contextual variation shapes verbal learning and memory, an effect replicated by simulating spreading activation in lexical networks differing in semantic diversity and attributed to anchoring, a process of stabilizing novel word representations by securing them onto a familiar topic in long-term memory.

TL;DR: The Deese/Roediger/McDermott (DRM) illusion offers an attractive testbed for comparing semantic and surface false memories under closely matched conditions, owing to parallel semantic and phonological versions of the illusion.

TL;DR: The authors assessed the reliability of individual differences among fluent adult readers in the effects of four variables (word frequency, predictability, visual contrast, and font difficulty) on eye fixation duration measures, word skipping probability, and regression probability.

TL;DR: The authors argue that missing-link conditionals can be reconciled with general principles of Gricean pragmatics, if the connection is treated as a part of a conventional, core meaning of a conditional.

TL;DR: This article found that memory for eating behavior was more accurate than memory for similar but noneating behaviors, and they ruled out a potential physiological mechanism (glucose ingestion) behind this effect.

TL;DR: The novel findings fit neatly with the theoretical extrapolations from the CRM and suggest that its framework may be valuable for future investigations of the development of eye movement control in Chinese reading.

TL;DR: The emotional ambiguity hypothesis as discussed by the authors predicts three signature effects: ambiguity-driven declines in valence-arousal correlations, a quadratic law relating perceived valence to valence ambiguity, and improvements in episodic memory as a function of increases in the perceived ambiguity.

TL;DR: In this article, an objective, data-driven, computational approach was adopted to independently quantify vision-based and language-based similarities for prime-target pairs on a continuous scale, and whether these measures predict behavioural performance in a semantic priming mega-study with various experimental settings.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that resource and schema-based theories provide complementary accounts of how prior knowledge influences memory detail, suggesting that stimuli associated with prior knowledge are indeed efficiently encoded into memory, freeing more attentional resources to encode extrinsic context.

TL;DR: This paper used a computational model that learns phoneme and word sequence knowledge from naturalistic language corpora to simulate the linguistic knowledge that a child has acquired up to the point when learning occurs.

TL;DR: This paper found that learners consistently produce numbers closer to the noun stem than case morphemes, and that this tendency holds independent of morpheme position (prefixal or suffixal), degree of boundedness (free or bound morphology), frequency, and which particular case/number feature values are instantiated in the overt markers (accusative or nominative, plural or singulative).

TL;DR: This article investigated whether free time is used for elaboration, and whether elaboration causes the free-time benefit, and found that for young adults, assisted elaboration through sentences and the additional instruction to form a mental image, benefited performance in a working-memory test as much as longer free time, but not more.

TL;DR: The results suggest that during the global matching process, the feature-match assessments of separately encoded instances of isolated rhythm and isolated pitch information combine additively across memory traces to increase the familiarity of the test song clip in which they are embedded.

TL;DR: This paper tested whether comprehenders can use Binding Principle B (Chomsky, 1981) to guide antecedent search during the processing of cataphoric pronouns, and found gender mismatch effects at the main clause subject when coreference with the cataphor is grammatically acceptable.

TL;DR: The results suggest that default-language selection is driven primarily by boosting activation of the default language, not by proactive inhibition of the nondefault language, a contextually driven dynamic tradeoff in language control mechanisms.

TL;DR: The present study suggests that semantic knowledge can be used to free up WM resources that can be reallocated for maintenance purposes, and supports models postulating that long-term memory knowledge constrains WM maintenance processes.

TL;DR: The authors examined the production effect for memory over the short-term and found that the effect relates to the better memory of words read aloud during a study phase compared to silently read items, and they put forward an interpretation based on relative distinctiveness and the costs of the richer encoding associated with production.

TL;DR: This paper showed that in-the-moment labeling activates categorical knowledge that facilitates the storage of visual details, which can be applied broadly or narrowly to categorize stimuli, yielding a labeling benefit.

TL;DR: The authors found that speakers tend to use their interlocutor's prior lexical expressions to facilitate ease and success of comprehension for the interlocutors, while taking into account their own linguistic competence when producing language.

TL;DR: The forward testing effect (FTE) refers to the finding that retrieval practice of previously studied information can facilitate learning and memory of newly studied information as mentioned in this paper, and it can arise with both unrelated and categorized item lists.

TL;DR: Results show that evidence of incremental processing and phonological competition seen in the VWP are not dependent on preview, and are not enhanced by manipulations that directly encourage phonological prenaming.

TL;DR: It is found that participants in the prefix condition were unable to discriminate between frequent, but uninformative cues and low-frequency, informative cues, which resulted in them being more likely to show incorrect overgeneralization of that feature for low frequency test items than participants inThe suffix condition.

TL;DR: This paper found that the external working memory load interfered with coherence monitoring, as reflected by reduced responses to inconsistencies, while the effect of availability was only significant in no-load conditions, suggesting that load reduces the inconsistency effect regardless of availability.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of external information in monitoring language production and found that removing the visual information affected the correction of typing errors more than their conscious detection, while reinstating partial visual information (positional information) increased correction rates but not to the level of full visual information, independently of the probability of error detection.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether idioms of this type are parafoveally and foveally processed as MCUs during natural reading and found that idioms with a 1-character verb and 2-character noun structure are more likely MCU candidates due to significant modifier constraint over the subsequent noun.

TL;DR: The authors found that phonological neighborhood density had an inhibitory effect on latency among low frequency signs in American Sign Language (ASL) using an unprimed lexical decision task.

TL;DR: The authors used a choice reaction time paradigm in which participants have to select quickly one of the two vocal response alternatives based on predefined categories of perceptual magnitude, such as short distance between perceived objects and long distance, which facilitates the initiation of the vowel [i] production, while long distance facilitates the production [u] and [ae].

TL;DR: The authors found evidence for a confirmation bias during word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task: Learners who are highly confident they know the meaning of a word are more likely to persist in their belief than learners who are not, even after observing objective evidence disconfirming their belief.