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Higgins, Julie A.; Johnson, Marcia K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Why do we lose, or have trouble accessing, an idea that was in the focus of attention only a moment ago, especially in the absence of any apparent distraction? We tested the hypothesis that accessing a single item that is already active is affected by implicit interference (interference of which we have little or no awareness). We presented masked…
Descriptors: Attention, Semantics, Interference (Learning), Short Term Memory
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Yee, Eiling; Huffstetler, Stacy; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Most theories of semantic memory characterize knowledge of a given object as comprising a set of semantic features. But how does conceptual activation of these features proceed during object identification? We present the results of a pair of experiments that demonstrate that object recognition is a dynamically unfolding process in which function…
Descriptors: Semantics, Eye Movements, Identification, Memory
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D'Argembeau, Arnaud; Mathy, Arnaud – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
The ability to mentally simulate possible futures ("episodic future thinking") is of fundamental importance for various aspects of human cognition and behavior, but precisely how humans construct mental representations of future events is still essentially unknown. We suggest that episodic future thoughts consist of transitory patterns…
Descriptors: Semantics, Prompting, Cognitive Processes, Simulation
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Bouwmeester, Samantha; Verkoeijen, Peter P. J. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
The present study aimed at testing theoretical predictions of the fuzzy-trace theory about true and false recognition. The effects of semantic relatedness and study opportunity on true and false recognition of words from Deese, Roediger, McDermott lists (J. Deese, 1959; D. R. Read, 1996; H. L. Roediger & K. B. McDermott, 1995) were evaluated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Associative Learning, Recall (Psychology)
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Gonnerman, Laura M.; Seidenberg, Mark S.; Andersen, Elaine S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
A considerable body of empirical and theoretical research suggests that morphological structure governs the representation of words in memory and that many words are decomposed into morphological components in processing. The authors investigated an alternative approach in which morphology arises from the interaction of semantic and phonological…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
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Neely, James H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1977
Several recent theories of information processing share the common assumption that retrieval from long-term memory is governed by the operation of two distinct processes, e.g., Posner and Snyder (1975). Examines their research through two components of attention: a fast automatic inhibitionless spreading-activation process and a slow…
Descriptors: Attention, Experimental Psychology, Information Retrieval, Information Theory
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Nelson, Thomas O.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1979
The kind of semantic information that facilitates relearning was investigated. The paradigm consisted of three stages: (1) learn a list of number-word pairs; (2) return for a retention test; and (3) relearn a new list of pairs that have various kinds of semantic relatedness to the originally learned pairs. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Cues, Higher Education, Memorization, Memory