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Direct linkVan Dyke, Julie A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption was observed when items occurring between a head and a dependent overlapped with either (or both) syntactic or semantic features of the dependent. Effects of syntactic…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Semantics, Comprehension, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedGernsbacher, Morton Ann; Robertson, Rachel R. W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
In a study of knowledge activation and sentence mapping, subjects read stories that described concrete actions, and then the content of the stories was manipulated (i.e. stories were written that implied different emotional states). It is suggested that the more emotionally evoking situations one encounters the more memory traces are stored and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Emotional Response, Fiction
