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Roelofs, Ardi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Since W. Wundt (1904) and H. J. Watt (1906), researchers have found no agreement on how goals direct word retrieval. A prevailing associative account (E. K. Miller & J. D. Cohen, 2001) holds that goals bias association strength, which determines retrieval latency and whether irrelevant words interfere. A symbolic account (A. Roelofs, 2003) holds…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reaction Time, Semiotics, Attention Control
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Swets, Benjamin; Desmet, Timothy; Hambrick, David Z.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
In 2 studies, the authors used a combination of psychometric and experimental techniques to investigate the effects of domain-general and domain-specific working memory factors on offline decisions concerning attachment of an ambiguous relative clause. Both studies used English and Dutch stimuli presented to English- and Dutch-speaking…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Memory, Figurative Language, Silent Reading