Revisiting the attentional demands of rehearsal in working-memory tasks
Publication date: April 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 105Author(s): Mirko Thalmann, Alessandra S. Souza, Klaus OberauerAbstractThere is a recent surge of interest in maintenance processes in working memory, such as articulatory rehearsal, elaboration, and attentional refreshing. Yet, we know little about the central attentional demand of these processes. It has been assumed that articulatory rehearsal does not require central attention at all (Vergauwe, Camos, & Barrouillet, 2014), being in essence a cost-free strategy. In contrast, elaboration and attentional refreshing are assumed to incur large and ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 29, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
New initiatives to promote open science at the Journal of Memory and Language
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Richard Gerrig, Kathleen Rastle (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 16, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Making sense of sequential lineups: An experimental and theoretical analysis of position effects
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Brent M. Wilson, Kristin Donnelly, Nicholas Christenfeld, John T. WixtedAbstractAs part of a criminal investigation, the police often administer a recognition memory task known as a photo lineup. A typical 6-person photo lineup consists of one suspect (who may or may not be guilty) and five physically similar foils (all known to be innocent). The photos can be shown simultaneously (i.e., all at once) or sequentially (i.e., one at a time). Approximately 30% of U.S. police departments have moved to using the sequential lineup procedur...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Exploring the shape of signal-detection distributions in individual recognition ROC data
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Simone Malejka, Arndt BröderAbstractThe question of whether recognition performance should be analyzed assuming continuous memory strength or discrete memory states has been bothering researchers for decades. Continuous-strength models (signal-detection theory) assume that memory strength varies according to Gaussian distributions, leading to graded memory-strength values. In contrast, discrete-state models (threshold theory) are formally equivalent to continuous-strength models with rectangular distributions, giving rise to detect...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Learning from failure: Errorful generation improves memory for items, not associations
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Tina Seabrooke, Timothy J. Hollins, Christopher Kent, Andy J. Wills, Chris J. MitchellAbstractPotts and Shanks (2014) recently reported that making mistakes improved the encoding of novel information compared with simply studying. This benefit of generating errors is counterintuitive, since it resulted in less study time and more opportunity for proactive interference. Five experiments examined the effect of generating errors versus studying on item recognition, cued recall, associative recognition, two-alternative forced choice and...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Information packaging in speech shapes information packaging in gesture: The role of speech planning units in the coordination of speech-gesture production
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Isabella Fritz, Sotaro Kita, Jeannette Littlemore, Andrea KrottAbstractLinguistic encoding influences the gestural manner and path depiction of motion events. Gestures depict manner and path of motion events differently across languages, either conflating or separating manner and path, depending on whether manner and path are linguistically encoded within one clause (e.g., “rolling down”) or multiple clauses (e.g., “descends as it rolls”) respectively. However, it is unclear whether such gestural differences are affected by ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 13, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability” [J. Mem. Lang. 103 (2018) 151–175]
Publication date: Available online 22 September 2018Source: Journal of Memory and LanguageAuthor(s): Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, Andrew Gelman (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Individual differences in working memory capacity and long-term memory: The influence of intensity of attention to items at encoding as measured by pupil dilation
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Ashley L. Miller, Marina P. Gross, Nash UnsworthAbstractThe present study used pupil dilation as an index of the intensity of attention to determine if variation in attention at encoding partially accounts for the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and long-term memory (LTM). In Experiment 1, participants completed a delayed free recall task while pupil dilation was simultaneously recorded. Results revealed high WMC individuals displayed an increase in pupil dilation across serial positions, whereas low WMC individuals e...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Exploring the intrinsic-extrinsic distinction in prospective metamemory
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Jonathan A. Susser, Neil W. MulliganAbstractThe overwhelming majority of research on metamemory examines retrospective memory – memory for past events. The metamemory of prospective memory – remembering to carry out intentions in the future – is little studied. The cue utilization account is a prominent framework for analyzing retrospective metamemory, here applied to prospective metamemory. This framework predicts that intrinsic cues (e.g., characteristics of the to-be-remembered information) readily impact metamemory whereas...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Social and configural effects on the cognitive dynamics of perspective-taking
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Alexia Galati, Rick Dale, Nicholas D. DuranAbstractHow do environmental cues and social perspectives influence perspective selection? Listeners responded to instructions (e.g., “Give me the folder on the right”) from a simulated partner, selecting from two objects consistently aligned with themselves (ego-aligned; Experiment 1a) or the speaker (other-aligned; Experiment1b). In Experiment 2, listeners selected from triangular 3-object configurations whose orientation varied (ego-, other-, or neither-aligned). When the configural ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - September 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 103Author(s): (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - September 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Linguistic expectation management in online discourse processing: An investigation of Dutch inderdaad 'indeed' and eigenlijk 'actually'
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 103Author(s): Geertje van Bergen, Hans Rutger BoskerAbstractInterpersonal discourse particles (DPs), such as Dutch inderdaad (≈‘indeed’) and eigenlijk (≈‘actually’) are highly frequent in everyday conversational interaction. Despite extensive theoretical descriptions of their polyfunctionality, little is known about how they are used by language comprehenders. In two visual world eye-tracking experiments involving an online dialogue completion task, we asked to what extent inderdaad, confirming an inferred expectation, and eigenlijk, ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - September 6, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Topic situations: Coherence by inclusion
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 103Author(s): Lyn Frazier, Charles CliftonAbstractTopic situations have been studied in the linguistic literature but for the most part have not been studied psycholinguistically. Five experiments tested predictions of the hypothesis that a sentence-initial prepositional phrase (PP) in English introduces a Topic Situation, which by default restricts the interpretation of the following discourse. Participants in judgment experiments interpreted later discourse events as being more likely to take place in the location specified by a PP when that PP...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - August 31, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability
Publication date: December 2018Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 103Author(s): Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, Andrew GelmanAbstractIt is well-known in statistics (e.g., Gelman & Carlin, 2014) that treating a result as publishable just because the p-value is less than 0.05 leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability. These effects get published, leading to an overconfident belief in replicability. We demonstrate the adverse consequences of this statistical significance filter by conducting seven direct replication attempts (268 participants in total) of a recent paper (Levy & Kelle...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - August 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
