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O'Donnell, Ryan E.; Clement, Andrew; Brockmole, James R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Visual working memory (VWM) has a limited capacity of approximately 3-4 visual objects. Current theories of VWM propose that a limited pool of resources can be flexibly allocated to objects, allowing them to be represented at varying levels of precision. Factors that influence the allocation of these resources, such as the complexity and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Short Term Memory, Undergraduate Students, Stimuli
Cardimona, Kimberly; Smith, Pamela; Roberts, Lauren Sones – TESOL Journal, 2016
This study examined lexical organization in English language learners (ELLs) who acquired their second language (L2) either during or after the period of maximal sensitivity related to the critical period hypothesis. Twenty-three native-Spanish-speaking ELLs completed psycholinguistic tasks to examine age effects in bilingual lexical organization.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking, Psycholinguistics
Ravi, Sunil Kumar; Chengappa, Shyamala K. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
The present study aimed at exploring the semantic and syntactic processing differences between native and second languages in 20 early high proficient Kannada--English bilingual adults through accuracy and reaction time (RT) measurements. Subjects participated in a semantic judgement task (using 50 semantically correct and 50 semantically…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Bilingualism, Adults
Balota, David A.; Aschenbrenner, Andrew J.; Yap, Melvin J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
A counterintuitive and theoretically important pattern of results in the visual word recognition literature is that both word frequency and stimulus quality produce large but additive effects in lexical decision performance. The additive nature of these effects has recently been called into question by Masson and Kliegl (in press), who used linear…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Word Frequency, Literature Reviews, Priming
Masson, Michael E. J.; Kliegl, Reinhold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Additive and interactive effects of word frequency, stimulus quality, and semantic priming have been used to test theoretical claims about the cognitive architecture of word-reading processes. Additive effects among these factors have been taken as evidence for discrete-stage models of word reading. We present evidence from linear mixed-model…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Experiments, Language Processing
Ortells, Juan J.; Mari-Beffa, Paloma; Plaza-Ayllon, Vanesa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Participants performed a 2-choice categorization task on visible word targets that were preceded by novel (unpracticed) prime words. The prime words were presented for 33 ms and followed either immediately (Experiments 1-3) or after a variable delay (Experiments 1 and 4) by a pattern mask. Both subjective and objective measures of prime visibility…
Descriptors: Semantics, Priming, Decision Making, Classification
Kanske, Philipp; Plitschka, Jan; Kotz, Sonja A. – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Attention can be oriented to different spatial locations yielding faster processing of attended compared to unattended stimuli. Similarly attention can be oriented to a semantic category such as "animals" or "tools". Words from the attended category will also be recognized faster than words from an unattended category. Here, we asked whether it is…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychological Patterns, Stimuli, Cues
Castro, C.; Moreno-Rios, S.; Tornay, F. J. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
The aim of this research was to test whether there is an inherent difficulty in understanding prohibition signs rather than obligation signs. In the experiment conducted, participants decided whether simple car movements presented on a computer screen were allowed or not according to either obligation or prohibition traffic signs. The information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Signs, Cognitive Processes
Arrington, Catherine M.; Weaver, Starla M.; Pauker, Rachel L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Two voluntary task-switching experiments probed the influence of previous exposures to stimuli and categorizations of these stimuli on task choice during subsequent exposures to the same stimuli. Subjects performed origin and size judgments under standard voluntary task-switching instructions to perform the tasks equally often in a random order.…
Descriptors: Priming, Stimuli, Influences, Selection
Sui, Jie; He, Xun; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
We present novel evidence showing that new self-relevant visual associations can affect performance in simple shape recognition tasks. Participants associated labels for themselves, other people, or neutral terms with geometric shapes and then immediately judged whether subsequent label-shape pairings were matched. Across 4 experiments there was a…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Semantics, Association (Psychology), Stimuli
Vierck, Esther; Kiesel, Andrea – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Numbers are thought to be represented in space along a mental left-right oriented number line. Number magnitude has also been associated with the size of grip aperture, which might suggest a connection between number magnitude and intensity. The present experiment aimed to confirm this possibility more directly by using force as a response…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Experiments, Stimuli, Reaction Time
Barnhart, Anthony S.; Goldinger, Stephen D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Handwritten word recognition is a field of study that has largely been neglected in the psychological literature, despite its prevalence in society. Whereas studies of spoken word recognition almost exclusively employ natural, human voices as stimuli, studies of visual word recognition use synthetic typefaces, thus simplifying the process of word…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Word Recognition, Figurative Language, Reader Text Relationship
Yap, Melvin J.; Balota, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Across 3 different word recognition tasks, distributional analyses were used to examine the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency on underlying response time distributions. Consistent with the extant literature, stimulus quality and word frequency produced additive effects in lexical decision, not only in the means but also in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Frequency, Word Recognition, Reaction Time
Westbury, C. – Brain and Language, 2005
Kohler (1929) reported anecdotally that, when asked to choose, subjects were much more likely to attach the name 'takete' to a spiky abstract object, and the name 'baluma' (or, by 1947, 'maluma') to a curvy abstract object. Follow-up work has suffered from the same three weaknesses as Kohler's original anecdotal study: a reliance on small number…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Reaction Time
Hashimoto, Naomi; McGregor, Karla K.; Graham, Anne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine children's knowledge of semantic relations. Method: In Experiment 1, the 6-year-olds, 8-year-olds, and adults participated in an object decision task. Participants in the primed group made object decisions in response to primes that were related taxonomically, thematically, or perceptually to the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Stimuli, Children, Adults
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