The nature and consequences of false memories for visual stimuli
Publication date: August 2018 Source:Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 101 Author(s): Jianqin Wang, Henry Otgaar, Mark L. Howe, Felix Lippe, Tom Smeets Different theoretical views exist regarding whether false memories contain perceptual information or are merely conceptual in nature. To address this question, we conducted three experiments to examine whether false memories for pictures had a priming effect on a perceptual closure task. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with pictorial versions of Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) lists and received a recognition task. Finally, in the perceptual closure ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - April 29, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Influences of context load and sensibleness of background photographs on local environmental context-dependent recognition
Publication date: August 2018 Source:Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 101 Author(s): Takeo Isarida, Toshiko K. Isarida, Takayuki Kubota, Miyoko Higuma, Yuki Matsuda The present study explored which theory can best explain local environmental context-dependent recognition. One type of theory (encoding specificity principle) posits that recognition reflects remembering of the past episode, whereas the other theory (ICE: Item Context Ensemble) posits that recognition reflects familiarity-based judgements. In three experiments, a total of 120 undergraduates intentionally studied a list of unrelated words superimpo...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - April 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cataphoric pronoun resolution in native and non-native sentence comprehension
We report the results from a series of eye-movement monitoring and questionnaire experiments investigating cataphoric pronoun resolution in German. Given earlier findings suggesting that the application of structure-sensitive constraints on reference resolution may be delayed in non-native language processing, we tested both native and proficient non-native speakers of German. Our results show that cataphoric pronouns trigger an active search in both native and non-native comprehenders. Whilst both participant groups demonstrated awareness of Condition C in an offline task, we found Condition C effects to be restricted to ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - April 18, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling
Publication date: August 2018 Source:Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 101 Author(s): Yun Wen, Walter J.B. van Heuven Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence suggests that Chinese translations of English words are automatically activated when Chinese-English bilinguals read English words (e.g., Thierry & Wu, 2007; Wu & Thierry, 2010; Zhang, van Heuven, & Conklin, 2011). The present study investigated the impact of translation activation in three behavioural experiments with in total 118 Chinese-English bilinguals. First, we investigated whether Chinese phonology was the source of the ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - April 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The non-strategic nature of linguistic long-term memory effects in verbal short-term memory
This study provides novel evidence for linguistic accounts of vSTM by demonstrating a robust impact of lexical and surface-level semantic knowledge on vSTM in non-strategic, fast-encoding conditions. (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - April 2, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
