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Segaert, Katrien; Weber, Kirsten; Cladder-Micus, Mira; Hagoort, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Speakers sometimes repeat syntactic structures across sentences, a phenomenon called syntactic priming. We investigated the influence of verb-bound syntactic preferences on syntactic priming effects in response choices and response latencies for German ditransitive sentences. In the response choices we found "inverse preference effects":…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Verbs, Syntax, Priming
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Weisberg, Steven M.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Research on the existence of cognitive maps and on the cognitive processes that support effective navigation has often focused on functioning across individuals. However, there are pronounced individual differences in navigation proficiency, which need to be explained and which can illuminate our understanding of cognitive maps and effective…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Short Term Memory, Individual Differences
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Scholten, Marc; Read, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
A robust anomaly in intertemporal choice is the delay-speedup asymmetry: Receipts are discounted more, and payments are discounted less, when delayed than when expedited over the same interval. We developed 2 versions of the tradeoff model (Scholten & Read, 2010) to address such situations, in which an outcome is expected at a given time but…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Time, Models, Prediction