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Silva, Susana; Inácio, Filomena; Rocha e Sousa, Daniel; Gaspar, Nuno; Folia, Vasiliki; Petersson, Karl Magnus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Formal language hierarchy describes levels of increasing syntactic complexity (adjacent dependencies, nonadjacent nested, nonadjacent crossed) of which the transcription into a hierarchy of cognitive complexity remains under debate. The cognitive foundations of formal language hierarchy have been contradicted by two types of evidence: First,…
Descriptors: Vertical Organization, Language Aptitude, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Ability
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Wagner, Valentin; Jescheniak, Jorg D.; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Three picture-word interference experiments addressed the question of whether the scope of grammatical advance planning in sentence production corresponds to some fixed unit or rather is flexible. Subjects produced sentences of different formats under varying amounts of cognitive load. When speakers described 2-object displays with simple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, Visual Aids, Association (Psychology)