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Miller, Leonie M.; Roodenrys, Steven – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Studies of the effect of word frequency in the serial recall task show that lists of high-frequency words are better recalled than lists of low-frequency words; however, when high- and low-frequency words are alternated within a list, there is no difference in the level of recall for the two types of words, and recall is intermediate between lists…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Speech, Word Frequency, Short Term Memory
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Ozubko, Jason D.; Joordens, Steve – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., rare words or pronounceable nonwords) give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. Using the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) model of recognition memory, we tested a familiarity-based account of the pseudoword effect: Specifically, the pseudoword effect arises because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Familiarity, Word Recognition
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Roelofs, Ardi; Piai, Vitoria; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
E. Dhooge and R. J. Hartsuiker (2010) reported experiments showing that picture naming takes longer with low- than high-frequency distractor words, replicating M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (2003). In addition, they showed that this distractor-frequency effect disappears when distractors are masked or preexposed. These findings were taken to refute…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Experiments, Semantics
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Bordag, Denisa; Pechmann, Thomas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
In 3 picture-word experiments, the authors explored the activation of 2 grammatical features in Czech during lexical access: declensional class of nouns and conjugational class of verbs. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated congruency effects of declensional and conjugational class, respectively. Picture naming times were reliably longer if the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Slavic Languages, Speech, Language Processing
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Schiller, Niels O.; Costa, Albert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Free standing and bound morphemes differ in many (psycho)linguistic aspects. Some theorists have claimed that the representation and retrieval of free standing and bound morphemes in the course of language production are governed by similar processing mechanisms. Alternatively, it has been proposed that both types of morphemes may be selected…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Morphemes, Language Processing, Selection
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Haskell, Todd R.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
A number of studies have shown that structural factors play a much larger role than the linear order of words during the production of grammatical agreement. These findings have been used as evidence for a stage in the production process at which hierarchical relations between constituents have been established (a necessary precursor to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Grammar, Language Processing
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Duyck, Wouter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Using a lexical-decision task performed by Dutch-English bilinguals, the author showed that the recognition of visually presented first language (L1; e.g., touw) and second language (L2; e.g., back) targets is facilitated by L2 and L1 masked primes, respectively, which are pseudohomophones (roap and ruch) of the target's translation equivalent…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Translation
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Perfetti, Charles A.; Wlotko, Edward W.; Hart, Lesley A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Adults learned the meanings of rare words (e.g., gloaming) and then made meaning judgments on pairs of words. The 1st word was a trained rare word, an untrained rare word, or an untrained familiar word. Event-related potentials distinguished trained rare words from both untrained rare and familiar words, first at 140 ms and again at 400-600 ms…
Descriptors: Memory, Paired Associate Learning, Vocabulary Development, Semantics
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Jescheniak, Jorg D.; Hahne, Anja; Hoffmann, Stefanie; Wagner, Valentin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
There is a long-standing debate in the area of speech production on the question of whether only words selected for articulation are phonologically activated (as maintained by serial-discrete models) or whether this is also true for their semantic competitors (as maintained by forward-cascading and interactive models). Past research has addressed…
Descriptors: Phonology, Articulation (Speech), Semantics, Language Processing