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Linguistic experience and processing speed differentially affect lexical retrieval and structural assembly during language production
Our ability to produce words and sentences relies on lexical retrieval and structural assembly processes, which are supported by domain-general...
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Travelling through time and space in working memory
We looked at how spatial and temporal position influence access of items in working memory. In three experiments, we probed people to recall items...
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Autonomy in learning: Predictability modulates the beneficial effect of choice on memory
When people are offered the opportunity to choose, they tend to learn better. However, the cognitive mechanisms of the beneficial effect of choice on...
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The survival processing advantage in memory using virtual reality versus traditional desktop display: Does it make a difference?
The survival processing advantage refers to the fact that words processed in relation to survival (e.g., finding food) are memorized better than...
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The impact of implicit scalar alternatives on the products of language comprehension: Evidence from recognition memory
Speakers often leave parts of their message unarticulated and rely on their comprehenders to make inferences about the intended meaning of their...
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A combined experimental/individual differences examination of the influence of motivation on cognitive ability assessments
The present study examined the influence of motivation on measures of cognitive ability within the domains of attention control, primary memory,...
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Orthographic codes in visual word recognition: Task-dependent effects with insertions and deletions of repeated and unique letters
How letter position and identity information in strings is processed has been of great importance for visual word recognition and understanding...
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Differential effects of contextual congruency on recognition and retrieval of perceptual details
Prediction errors arising from contextual violations play a fundamental role in learning and memory, yet their effects remain controversial. While...
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Free recall of semantically related words reveals similarity structure
In free recall, semantic associations between studied items lead to clustering of those items. In prior work, the impact of these associations on...
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Attention, memory and consciousness: Historical context, evolution, and impact of Jacoby’s process dissociation procedure
This article focuses on the last 25 years of the 20thcentury when Larry Jacoby had an extraordinary influence in the areas of attention and memory....
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Predictability effects during reading comprehension are not modulated by a visuospatial working memory load
Predictable words are processed more quickly than unpredictable words during reading, but how this predictability effect is modulated by working...
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Multinomial models of the repetition-based truth effect: Investigating the role of prior knowledge
The repetition-based truth effect refers to the phenomenon that repeated statements are more likely to be judged as true than new statements. Fazio...
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The effect of spatial boundaries on memory in a virtual environment
Crossing a spatial boundary, such as a doorway, often signals the ending of one episode and the beginning of another, segmenting ongoing experience...
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Native speakers kick buckets, but learners kick doors: A comparison of native and nonnative idiom comprehension
Multiword expressions—also called multiword chunks, fixed expressions, lexical bundles, or formulaic sequences—are familiar sequences of words that...
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Explaining away the illusion of consensus
Consensus among sources often signals a claim’s trustworthiness. However, when all sources simply echo information from a single origin, an “illusion...
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On the decay of event-files—Way more complex than previously thought
Event-files are a central concept in human action control as they integrate perception and action. The basic idea is that event-files comprise...
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Criterion shifts change the pattern of output interference
Output interference in recognition refers to a decrease in performance over the course of a test. The goal of the current study was to determine...
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Colors, characters, locations, and shapes: The capacity of working memory for multiple, dissimilar sets of items
Working memory (WM) often includes heterogenous items, as when one uses it while assembling a desk from sets of boards, knobs, bolts, and washers....
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Walking through doorways helps remembering, but not for long
The structure of events in which information has been learned can meaningfully impact memory, particularly for information that is encountered near...
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Expectation-[in]congruence differentially impacts recall and recognition of object features
Study events that are congruent with our prior expectations are better remembered than expectation-unrelated events. Paradoxically, events that are...