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Knutsen, Dominique; Le Bigot, Ludovic – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Conversational memory is subject to a number of biases. For instances, references which were reused during dialogue are remembered better than non-reused references. Two experiments examined whether speakers are aware that they are subject to such biases and whether they use information about reference origin (i.e., information about who said…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Memory, Bias, Metacognition
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Wu, Ying Choon; Müller, Horst M.; Coulson, Seana – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Multi-modal discourse comprehension requires speakers to combine information from speech and gestures. To date, little research has addressed the cognitive resources that underlie these processes. Here we used a dual-task paradigm to test the relative importance of verbal and visuospatial working memory in speech-gesture comprehension. Healthy,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Comprehension, Nonverbal Communication, Speech
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Mottarella, Malayka; Yamasaki, Brianna L.; Prat, Chantel S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Individual differences in reading skill have frequently been related to variability in working memory capacity; however, it is unclear what drives this relation. The present study investigated two attentional control mechanisms that may contribute to this relation: proactive control and online filtering. To examine how the neural mechanisms of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Short Term Memory, Vocabulary Skills, Correlation
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Mumper, Micah L.; Gerrig, Richard J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
While research has repeatedly found evidence that readers infer characters' emotions, we investigate three outstanding questions about the content and time course of such inferences. We ask whether even simple narratives give rise to emotion inferences, in what form such inferences are encoded into long-term memory, and whether they are uniquely…
Descriptors: Inferences, Emotional Response, Memory, Reading Processes
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Navarro, Ester; Macnamara, Brooke N.; Glucksberg, Sam; Conway, Andrew R. A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
The underlying cognitive mechanisms explaining why speakers sometimes make communication errors are not well understood. Some scholars have theorized that audience design engages automatic processes when a listener is present; others argue that it relies on effortful resources, even if a listener is present. We hypothesized that working memory is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Short Term Memory, Individual Differences, Error Patterns
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Browning, Catherine A.; Harris, Celia B.; Van Bergen, Penny – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Prospective memory (PM) performance suffers when individuals collaborate, consistent with findings of "collaborative inhibition" in episodic recall. However, prior research indicates strong individual differences, such that some collaborative groups are more effective than others. To identify successful and unsuccessful collaborative…
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Processes
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van Moort, Marianne L.; Koornneef, Arnout; van den Broek, Paul W. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
To build a coherent accurate mental representation of a text, readers routinely validate information they read against the preceding text and their background knowledge. It is clear that both sources affect processing, but "when" and "how" they exert their influence remains unclear. To examine the time course and cognitive…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Eye Movements, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Schüler, Anne; Mayer, Maria Gabriela – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
In this study we investigated whether the beneficial effect of adding illustrations to text can be explained by the fact that illustrations facilitate analogous mental representation construction from text in visuospatial working memory. For this the secondary task paradigm was used. It was expected that the secondary task interfered only with…
Descriptors: Illustrations, Instructional Materials, Reading Processes, Reading Materials
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Hughes-Berheim, Sarah S.; Cheimariou, Spyridoula; Shelley-Tremblay, John F.; Doheny, Margaret M.; Morett, Laura M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Taken together, the Coherence Principle of Multimedia Learning Theory and the Integrated Systems Hypothesis propose that co-occurring and semantically congruent verbal and visual information should be integrated into one mental representation that enhances memory. The purpose of this paper was to examine how learning pseudowords with matching…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Vocabulary Development, Systems Approach, Reading Processes
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Bambini, Valentina; Canal, Paolo; Resta, Donatella; Grimaldi, Mirko – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Several theoretical proposals tried to account for the meaning open-endedness of metaphors in literature and for the effortful process they trigger in readers. However, very few experiments have tackled the neurophysiological underpinnings of literary metaphor. Here we used Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) to explore the temporal dynamics of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Physiology, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Literature
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Singer, Murray; Doering, Jeffrey C. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Understanders appear to routinely and immediately evaluate the congruence of discourse at many levels of analysis, processes often labeled "validation." This study was an initial exploration of individual differences in discourse validation. Text "reading-time" profiles were examined as a function of two negligibly correlated…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Reading Rate, Profiles, Short Term Memory
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Yeung, Pui-sze; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Chan, David Wai-ock; Chung, Kevin Kien-hoa – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The present study aimed to investigate the contribution of oral language skills, linguistic skills, and transcription skills to Chinese written composition among Grade 4 students in Hong Kong. Measures assessing verbal working memory, oral language skills, linguistic skills (i.e., syntactic skills and discourse skills), transcription skills (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Chinese, Writing (Composition)