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Linda Espey; Marta Ghio; Christian Bellebaum; Laura Bechtold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Elsherif, M. M.; Preece, E.; Catling, J. C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly and accurately than those acquired later. Over several decades, the AoA effect has been investigated using neuroscientific, behavioral, corpus and computational…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
Vlach, Haley A.; DeBrock, Catherine A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Children are able to resolve the referential ambiguity of learning new words by tracking co-occurrence probabilities across moments in time, a behavior termed cross-situational word learning (CSWL). Although we know that children can use co-occurrence data to map words to objects, the literature has a striking limitation: research has focused on…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Lieberman, Amy M.; Borovsky, Arielle; Hatrak, Marla; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Sign language comprehension requires visual attention to the linguistic signal and visual attention to referents in the surrounding world, whereas these processes are divided between the auditory and visual modalities for spoken language comprehension. Additionally, the age-onset of first language acquisition and the quality and quantity of…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Deafness, Adults
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
Pajak, Bozena; Creel, Sarah C.; Levy, Roger – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
How are languages learned, and to what extent are learning mechanisms similar in infant native-language (L1) and adult second-language (L2) acquisition? In terms of vocabulary acquisition, we know from the infant literature that the ability to discriminate similar-sounding words at a particular age does not guarantee successful word-meaning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Auditory Perception, Speech
Endress, Ansgar D.; Hauser, Marc D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Rules, and exceptions to such rules, are ubiquitous in many domains, including language. Here we used simple artificial grammars to investigate the influence of 2 factors on the acquisition of rules and their exceptions, namely type frequency (the relative numbers of different exceptions to different regular items) and token frequency (the number…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Familiarity
Lindsay, Shane; Gaskell, M. Gareth – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Learning a new word involves integration with existing lexical knowledge. Previous work has shown that sleep-associated memory consolidation processes are important for the engagement of novel items in lexical competition. In 3 experiments we used spaced exposure regimes to investigate memory for novel words and whether lexical integration can…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, English, Sleep
Szmalec, Arnaud; Loncke, Maaike; Page, Mike P. A.; Duyck, Wouter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The present study offers an integrative account proposing that dyslexia and its various associated cognitive impairments reflect an underlying deficit in the long-term learning of serial-order information, here operationalized as Hebb repetition learning. In nondyslexic individuals, improved immediate serial recall is typically observed when one…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Recall (Psychology), Language Acquisition, Reading Difficulties
Muench, Kristin L.; Creel, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Learners frequently experience phonologically inconsistent input, such as exposure to multiple accents. Yet, little is known about the consequences of phonological inconsistency for language learning. The current study examines vocabulary acquisition with different degrees of phonological inconsistency, ranging from no inconsistency (e.g., both…
Descriptors: Phonology, Vocabulary Development, Learning Problems, Linguistic Input
Hudson Kam, Carla L.; Chang, Ann – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
When language learners are exposed to inconsistent probabilistic grammatical patterns, they sometimes impose consistency on the language instead of learning the variation veridically. The authors hypothesized that this regularization results from problems with word retrieval rather than from learning per se. One prediction of this, that easing the…
Descriptors: Probability, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Language Processing
Snoeren, Natalie D.; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Di Betta, Anna Maria – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
The present study investigated the mechanisms underlying perceptual compensation for assimilation in novel words. During training, participants learned canonical versions of novel spoken words (e.g., "decibot") presented in isolation. Following exposure to a second set of novel words the next day, participants carried out a phoneme…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Auditory Perception
Colome, Angels; Miozzo, Michele – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Whether words are or are not activated within the lexicon of the nonused language is an important question for accounts of bilingual word production. Prior studies have not led to conclusive results, either because alternative accounts could be proposed for their findings or because activation could have been artificially induced by the…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Bilingualism, Language Usage, Vocabulary
Goschke, Thomas; Bolte, Annette – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Through the use of a new serial naming task, the authors investigated implicit learning of repeating sequences of abstract semantic categories. Participants named objects (e.g., table, shirt) appearing in random order. Unbeknownst to them, the semantic categories of the objects (e.g., furniture, clothing) followed a repeating sequence.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Learning Processes, Language Processing, Experiments
Warker, Jill A.; Dell, Gary S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Speech errors reveal the speaker's implicit knowledge of phonotactic constraints, both languagewide constraints (e.g., /K/ cannot be a syllable onset when one is speaking English) and experimentally induced constraints (e.g., /k/ cannot be an onset during the experiment). Four experiments investigated the acquisition of novel 2nd-order…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Articulation (Speech), Phonology, Experiments