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Kornell, Nate; Bjork, Robert A.; Garcia, Michael A. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Retrieving information from memory produces more learning than does being presented with the same information, and the benefits of such retrieval appear to grow as the delay before a final recall test grows longer. Recall tests, however, measure the number of items that are above a recall threshold, not memory strength per se. According to the…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Learning Theories, Testing, Feedback (Response)
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Dupoux, Emmanuel; Parlato, Erika; Frota, Sonia; Hirose, Yuki; Peperkamp, Sharon – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Listeners of various languages tend to perceive an illusory vowel inside consonant clusters that are illegal in their native language. Here, we test whether this phenomenon arises after phoneme categorization or rather interacts with it. We assess the perception of illegal consonant clusters in native speakers of Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese,…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Phonology, Classification
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Murphy, Gregory L.; Ross, Brian H. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
In one form of category-based induction, people make predictions about unknown properties of objects. There is a tension between predictions made based on the object's specific features (e.g., objects above a certain size tend not to fly) and those made by reference to category-level knowledge (e.g., birds fly). Seven experiments with artificial…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Classification, Prediction, Experiments
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Maguire, Angela M.; Humphreys, Michael S.; Dennis, Simon; Lee, Michael D. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This paper addresses two Global Matching predictions in embedded-category designs: the within-category choice advantage in forced-choice recognition (superior discrimination for test choices comprising a same-category distractor); and the category length effect in forced-choice and old/new recognition (a loss in discriminability with increases in…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Prediction, Classification
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Kuipers, Jan-Rouke; La Heij, Wido – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Basic-level picture naming is hampered by the presence of a semantically related context word (compared to an unrelated word), whereas picture categorization is facilitated by a semantically related context word. This reversal of the semantic context effect has been explained by assuming that in categorization tasks, basic-level distractor words…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Semantics, Classification, Vocabulary Development
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Verbeemen, Timothy; Vanpaemel, Wolf; Pattyn, Sven; Storms, Gert; Verguts, Tom – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Categorization in well-known natural concepts is studied using a special version of the Varying Abstraction Framework (Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2006). A varying abstraction framework for categorization. Manuscript submitted for publication; Vanpaemel, W., Storms, G., & Ons, B. (2005). A varying abstraction model for categorization. In B. Bara,…
Descriptors: Memory, Classification, Concept Formation, Multivariate Analysis
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Hino, Yasushi; Pexman, Penny M.; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
According to parallel distributed processing (PDP) models of visual word recognition, the speed of semantic coding is modulated by the nature of the orthographic-to-semantic mappings. Consistent with this idea, an ambiguity disadvantage and a relatedness-of-meaning (ROM) advantage have been reported in some word recognition tasks in which semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Word Recognition, Classification
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Finkbeiner, Matthew; Forster, Kenneth; Nicol, Janet; Nakamura, Kumiko – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
A well-known asymmetry exists in the bilingual masked priming literature in which lexical decision is used: namely, masked primes in the dominant language (L1) facilitate decision times on targets in the less dominant language (L2), but not vice versa. In semantic categorization, on the other hand, priming is symmetrical. In Experiments 1-3 we…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Dominance, Semantics, Models
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Taraban, Roman – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
According to "noun-cue" models, arbitrary linguistic categories, like those associated with case and gender systems, are difficult to learn unless members of the target category (i.e., nouns) are marked with phonological or semantic cues that reliably co-occur with grammatical morphemes (e.g., determiners) that exemplify the categories. "Syntactic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Cues, Models