NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)9
Since 2006 (last 20 years)52
Source
Journal of Experimental…52
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 52 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dillon, Brian; Andrews, Caroline; Rotello, Caren M.; Wagers, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
One perennially important question for theories of sentence comprehension is whether the human sentence processing mechanism is "parallel" (i.e., it simultaneously represents multiple syntactic analyses of linguistic input) or "serial" (i.e., it constructs only a single analysis at a time). Despite its centrality, this question…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Comprehension, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kukona, Anuenue – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Two visual world experiments investigated the priming of form (e.g., phonology) during language processing. In Experiment 1, participants heard high cloze probability sentences like "In order to have a closer look, the dentist asked the man to open his . . ." while viewing visual arrays with objects like a predictable target mouth,…
Descriptors: Prediction, Priming, Phonology, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yao, Bo; Keitel, Anne; Bruce, Gillian; Scott, Graham G.; O'Donnell, Patrick J.; Sereno, Sara C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Emotion (positive and negative) words are typically recognized faster than neutral words. Recent research suggests that emotional valence, while often treated as a unitary semantic property, may be differentially represented in concrete and abstract words. Studies that have explicitly examined the interaction of emotion and concreteness, however,…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Emotional Response, Language Processing, Language Usage
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Scaltritti, Michele; Longcamp, Marieke; Alario, F. -Xavier – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The selection and ordering of response units (phonemes, letters, keystrokes) represents a transversal issue across different modalities of language production. Here, the issue of serial order was investigated with respect to typewriting. Following seminal investigations in the spoken modality, we conducted an experiment where participants typed as…
Descriptors: Office Occupations, Serial Ordering, Word Order, Psychomotor Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jonker, Tanya R.; MacLeod, Colin M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Reconstructing memory for sequences is a complex process, likely involving multiple sources of information. In 3 experiments, we examined the source(s) of information that might underlie the ability to accurately place an event within a temporal context. The task was to estimate, after studying each list, the temporal position of a single test…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Sequential Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Warrington, Kayleigh L.; McGowan, Victoria A.; Paterson, Kevin B.; White, Sarah J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Reductions in stimulus quality may disrupt the reading performance of older adults more when compared with young adults because of sensory declines that begin early in middle age. However, few studies have investigated adult age differences in the effects of stimulus quality on reading, and none have examined how this affects lexical processing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Word Frequency, Eye Movements
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lowder, Matthew W.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Two visual-world eye-tracking experiments investigated the role of prediction in the processing of repair disfluencies (e.g., "The chef reached for some salt uh I mean some ketchup ..."). Experiment 1 showed that listeners were more likely to fixate a critical distractor item (e.g., "pepper") during the processing of repair…
Descriptors: Prediction, Evidence, Eye Movements, Experiments
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
White, Darcy; Besner, Derek – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
There are multiple reports, in the context of the time taken to read aloud, that the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency (a) interact when only words appear in the list but (b) are additive when nonwords are intermixed with words (O'Malley & Besner, 2008). This triple interaction has been explained in terms of the idea that…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Stimuli, Word Frequency, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gorman, Kristen S.; Gegg-Harrison, Whitney; Marsh, Chelsea R.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
When referring to named objects, speakers can choose either a name ("mbira") or a description ("that gourd-like instrument with metal strips"); whether the name provides useful information depends on whether the speaker's knowledge of the name is shared with the addressee. But, how do speakers determine what is shared? In 2…
Descriptors: Experiments, Language Processing, Cognitive Processes, Memory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lowder, Matthew W.; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Two eye-tracking experiments examined the effects of sentence structure on the processing of complement coercion, in which an event-selecting verb combines with a complement that represents an entity (e.g., "began the memo"). Previous work has demonstrated that these expressions impose a processing cost, which has been attributed to the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Experiments, Sentence Structure, Verbs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jared, Debra; Ashby, Jane; Agauas, Stephen J.; Levy, Betty Ann – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Three experiments examined the role of phonology in the activation of word meanings in Grade 5 students. In Experiment 1, homophone and spelling control errors were embedded in a story context and participants performed a proofreading task as they read for meaning. For both good and poor readers, more homophone errors went undetected than spelling…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reading, Grade 5, Experiments
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cleary, Anne M.; Claxton, Alexander B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
This study shows that the presence of a tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state--the sense that a word is in memory when its retrieval fails--is used as a heuristic for inferring that an inaccessible word has characteristics that are consistent with greater word perceptibility. When reporting a TOT state, people judged an unretrieved word as more likely to…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Heuristics, Metacognition, Memory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
O'Séaghdha, Pádraig G.; Frazer, Alexandra K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Form preparation in word production, the benefit of exploiting a useful common sound (such as the first phoneme) of iteratively spoken small groups of words, is notoriously fastidious, exhibiting a seemingly categorical, all-or-none character and a corresponding susceptibility to "killers" of preparation. In particular, the presence of a…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Phonology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gagl, Benjamin; Hawelka, Stefan; Richlan, Fabio; Schuster, Sarah; Hutzler, Florian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
The study investigated parafoveal preprocessing by the means of the classical invisible boundary paradigm and a novel manipulation of the parafoveal previews (i.e., visual degradation). Eye movements were investigated on 5-letter target words with constraining (i.e., highly informative) initial letters or similarly constraining final letters.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Reading Processes, Visual Perception
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Holsinger, Edward; Kaiser, Elsi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Current models of idiom representation and processing differ with respect to the role of literal processing during the interpretation of idiomatic expressions. Word-like models (Bobrow & Bell, 1973; Swinney & Cutler, 1979) propose that idiomatic meaning can be accessed directly, whereas structural models (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988;…
Descriptors: Experiments, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Sentences
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4