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Schremm, Andrea; Horne, Merle; Roll, Mikael – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The present response time study investigated how a hypothesized time-based working memory constraint of 2-3 s affects the resolution of grammatical and semantic dependencies. Congruent and incongruent object relative (OR) and subject relative sentences were read at different presentation rates so that the distance between dependent words was…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Language Processing, Short Term Memory, Grammar
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Silkes, JoAnn P.; Rogers, Margaret A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: Previous research has suggested that impairments of automatic spreading activation may underlie some aphasic language deficits. The current study further investigated the status of automatic spreading activation in individuals with aphasia as compared with typical adults. Method: Participants were 21 individuals with aphasia (12 fluent, 9…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Priming, Adults, Language Processing
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LoCasto, Paul C.; Connine, Cynthia M.; Patterson, David – Language and Speech, 2007
Three phoneme monitoring experiments examined the manner in which additional processing time influences spoken word recognition. Experiment 1a introduced a version of the phoneme monitoring paradigm in which a silent interval is inserted prior to the word-final target phoneme. Phoneme monitoring reaction time decreased as the silent interval…
Descriptors: Intervals, Reaction Time, Phonemes, Word Recognition