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Ostarek, Markus; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Previous research has shown that processing words with an up/down association (e.g., bird, foot) can influence the subsequent identification of visual targets in congruent location (at the top/bottom of the screen). However, as facilitation and interference were found under similar conditions, the nature of the underlying mechanisms remained…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Association (Psychology), Perception, Simulation
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Isberner, Maj-Britt; Richter, Tobias – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Whether information is routinely and nonstrategically evaluated for truth during comprehension is still a point of contention. Previous studies supporting the assumption of nonstrategic validation have used a Stroop-like paradigm in which participants provided yes/no judgments in tasks unrelated to the truth or plausibility of the experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Validity, Evaluative Thinking, Semantics
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de Bot, Kees; Fang, Fang – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Human behavior is not constant over the hours of the day, and there are considerable individual differences. Some people raise early and go to bed early and have their peek performance early in the day ("larks") while others tend to go to bed late and get up late and have their best performance later in the day ("owls"). In…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Sleep, Language Processing, Second Language Learning