Mohan W. Gupta , Steven C. Pan , Timothy C. Rickard
{"title":"Interaction between the testing and forward testing effects in the case of Cued-Recall: Implications for Theory, individual difference Studies, and application","authors":"Mohan W. Gupta , Steven C. Pan , Timothy C. Rickard","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recall from episodic memory has been shown to enhance both memory for the retrieved information (e.g., relative to a restudy control condition; the <em>testing effect, or</em> TE) and memory for different, subsequently studied materials (the <em>forward testing effect, or</em> FTE). Hence, the TE may be subject to an FTE confound when training in a TE experiment involves either testing prior to restudy or when restudied and tested items are randomly mixed. Across two cued-recall TE experiments, we show that (1) a potent FTE confound exists in the test-first but not the mixed training design, (2) there are no other evident learning related interactions between restudied and tested items across three frequently used training phase task orderings, and (3) the predictions of the dual-memory model of test-enhanced learning – which posits that a test trial creates a memory that is separate from the initially encoded study memory, yielding two routes to retrieval for tested items – are held both when there is and is not a confounding FTE. Further, our results yielded no evidence for two accounts of the FTE (the proactive interference and reset of encoding hypotheses) as applied to cued recall but are consistent with two alternative accounts (the strategy change and increasing effort hypotheses). Through distribution analyses we identify a novel and potent FTE individual differences effect that can be accommodated by the latter accounts. Finally, we show that at least three large-<em>n</em> studies exploring individual differences in the TE are confounded by the FTE, compromising conclusions in those papers about the efficacy of the TE across individuals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 104476"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X2300075X/pdfft?md5=fb987b63056b3e615d24c1ad82319ffa&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X2300075X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134656284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romanian (subject-like) DPs attract more than bare nouns: Evidence from speeded continuations","authors":"Adina Camelia Bleotu , Brian Dillon","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates whether agreement attraction is modulated by distributional properties determining subject-likelihood by examining the degree to which bare nouns and full determiner phrases (DPs) cause agreement attraction effects in Romanian. Romanian represents an ideal testing ground for this, given two distributional constraints making bare nouns less subject-like: <em>Locative Determiner Omission</em>, preventing locative prepositions from taking nouns with definite articles (unless modified by adjectives), and the <em>Naked Noun Constraint</em><span>, disallowing bare nouns as preverbal subjects. We predicted that bare nouns should be less likely to trigger agreement attraction than overt DPs. We conducted four speeded forced-choice sentence continuation tasks on Romanian native speakers to test this prediction. We observe that overt DPs cause significantly more attraction than bare nouns. We suggest that the results are consistent with a cue-based retrieval mechanism for forming agreement dependencies, where cues that determine subjecthood are used to reactivate elements in working memory upon processing a verb. These cues can be language specific, and in Romanian, this means that agreement attraction is sensitive to the morphophonological overtness of the determiner.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 104445"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109146069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jukka Hyönä , Lei Cui , Timo T. Heikkilä , Birgitta Paranko , Yun Gao , Xingzhi Su
{"title":"Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study","authors":"Jukka Hyönä , Lei Cui , Timo T. Heikkilä , Birgitta Paranko , Yun Gao , Xingzhi Su","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104474","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two eye-tracking experiments in alphabetic Finnish and two in logographic Chinese examined the recognition of two-constituent compound words in reading. In Finnish, two-constituent compound words vary greatly in length, whereas in Chinese they are identical in length. According to the visual acuity principle (<span>Bertram & Hyönä, 2003</span>), short Finnish compound words and all two-character Chinese compound words that fit in foveal vision are recognized holistically, whereas long Finnish compound words are recognized via components. Experiment 1 in Finnish provided evidence consistent with the account, whereas the results for long compound words presented in condensed font in Experiment 2 were inconsistent with it. In Chinese, the first-character frequency effect was non-significant even when the compound words were presented in large font. The Finnish results suggest that componential processing is necessary when the compound word entails more than 10 letters. The Chinese results are compatible with the Chinese Reading Model (<span>Li & Pollatsek, 2020</span>) that assumes whole-word representations to overrule the activation of components during compound word recognition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 104474"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X23000736/pdfft?md5=1bc809d1f89499693927f3f209f4e66c&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X23000736-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92045821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aleksandra Krogulska, Sarah Allen , Rachel Bailey, Yimei Liu, Simran Saraf, Elizabeth A. Maylor
{"title":"Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning","authors":"Aleksandra Krogulska, Sarah Allen , Rachel Bailey, Yimei Liu, Simran Saraf, Elizabeth A. Maylor","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores whether people’s preference to restrict to-be-learned material is influenced by memory test timing. In Experiments 1a and 2a, participants studied word lists. For control groups, lists were displayed in their entirety, whereas participants in other groups could stop the lists early. We investigated whether participants decided to terminate learning when they expected their free-recall memory to be tested after a short (Experiment 1a) or long (Experiment 2a) delay. Experiments 1b and 2b tested participants’ theoretical assumptions about learning termination. Participants who terminated learning recalled fewer words than those who saw all to-be-remembered materials. When the memory test immediately followed the learning phase, more than half of the participants decided to stop learning. However, when there was any time delay between learning and testing, only around a quarter of them decided to stop. Delayed testing can effectively discourage a maladaptive learning strategy of learning termination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 104473"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49871683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) influential model overshadowed their contemporary theory of human memory","authors":"John T. Wixted","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104471","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104471","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although every student of memory knows about the Atkinson-Shiffrin (1968) model, few know that it was advanced as a general-purpose modeling framework, not as the specific theoretical instantiation that appears in textbooks today. Largely missing from the historical record is the broader theoretical perspective proposed by <span>Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)</span>, one that is surprisingly consistent with contemporary views of human memory. For example, they described “working memory” (using those words) as consisting of a verbal short-term store and a visual short-term store. In addition, using logic that still makes sense today, they justified the distinction between short-term store and long-term store based on the memory profile of the amnesic patient HM, whose verbal short-term store was largely intact despite his inability to form long-term memories. Finally, they explained that some “coding processes” are more effective than others in transferring information from short-term store to long-term store, a perspective that is consistent with the subsequently proposed notion of “depth of processing.” Given its preeminent status in the history of human memory research and its enduring influence on the field today, <span>Atkinson and Shiffrin’s 1968</span> chapter is reproduced here so that students of memory, including textbook writers, can better appreciate the surprisingly modern ideas they actually proposed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"136 ","pages":"Article 104471"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X23000700/pdfft?md5=ab215861066c05bf922d01670e2cdd26&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X23000700-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136009628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew Z. Flores, Jessica L. Montag, Jon A. Willits
{"title":"Using known words to learn more words: A distributional model of child vocabulary acquisition","authors":"Andrew Z. Flores, Jessica L. Montag, Jon A. Willits","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Why do children learn some words before others? A large body of behavioral research has identified properties of the language environment that facilitate word learning, emphasizing the importance of particularly informative language contexts that build on children’s prior knowledge. However, these findings have not informed research that uses distributional properties of words to predict vocabulary composition. In the current work, we introduce a predictor of word learning that emphasizes the role of prior knowledge. We investigate item-based variability in vocabulary development using lexical properties of distributional statistics derived from a large corpus of child-directed speech. Unlike previous analyses, we predicted word trajectories cross-sectionally across child age, shedding light on trends in vocabulary development that may not have been evident at a single time point. We also show that regardless of a word’s grammatical class, the best distributional predictor of whether a child knows a word is the number of other known words with which that word tends to co-occur.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 104446"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49856948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Parallels between self-monitoring for speech errors and identification of the misspoken segments” [J. Mem. Lang. 69(3) (2013) 417-428]","authors":"S.G. Nooteboom, H. Quené","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 104448"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45998264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are two words recalled or recognised as one? How age-of-acquisition affects memory for compound words","authors":"Mahmoud M. Elsherif , Jonathan C. Catling","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The age at which a person acquires knowledge of an item is a strong predictor of item retrieval, hereon defined as the Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect. This effect is such that early-acquired words are processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired items. One account to explain this effect is the integrated account, where the AoA effect occurs in the early processes of lexical retrieval and hence should increase in tasks necessitating greater semantic processing. Importantly, this account has been applied to lexical processing, but not, to date, memory tasks. The current study aimed to assess whether the integrated account could explain memory tasks, using compound words, which differ from monomorphemic words regarding ease of mapping and semantic processes. Four-hundred-and-eighty participants were split into four groups of 120 participants for each of four experiments. Participants were required to recall unspaced and spaced compound words (Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) or make a recognition decision for unspaced and spaced compound words (Experiments 3 and 4, respectively). This approach allowed us to establish how semantic processing was involved in recalling and recognising the items. We found that (AoA) was related to all tasks such that irrespective of space, early-acquired compound words were recalled more accurately than late-acquired compound words in free recall. In recognition memory, late-acquired compound words were recognised more accurately than early-acquired compound words. However, the slope for the AoA was semantic processing influenced free recall to a greater extent than the recognition memory, with the AoA effect being larger in free recall than recognition memory. In addition, the AoA effect for the compound word was larger in spaced compound words than unspaced compound words. This demonstrates that the AoA effect in memory has multiple sources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 104449"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46524579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural inhibition during speech planning contributes to contrastive hyperarticulation","authors":"Michael C. Stern, Jason A. Shaw","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous work has demonstrated that words are hyperarticulated on dimensions of speech that differentiate them from a minimal pair competitor. This phenomenon has been termed contrastive hyperarticulation (CH). We present a dynamic neural field (DNF) model of voice onset time (VOT) planning that derives CH from an inhibitory influence of the minimal pair competitor during planning. We test some predictions of the model with a novel experiment investigating CH of voiceless stop consonant VOT in pseudowords. The results demonstrate a CH effect in pseudowords, consistent with a basis for the effect in the real-time planning and production of speech. The scope and magnitude of CH in pseudowords was reduced compared to CH in real words, consistent with a role for interactive activation between lexical and phonological levels of planning. We discuss the potential of our model to unify an apparently disparate set of phenomena, from CH to phonological neighborhood effects to phonetic trace effects in speech errors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 104443"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49856950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence from a within-language comparison in Japanese for orthographic depth theory: Monte Carlo simulations, corpus-based analyses, neural networks, and human experiment","authors":"Keisuke Inohara , Taiji Ueno","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2023.104434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The orthographic depth theory assumes that reading “deep” orthographies relies on lexical semantics more than “shallow” orthographies. Although Japanese kanji is a representative “deep” case, some scholars argue that kanji reading does not particularly recruit more lexical semantics than kana (the system of syllabic writing used for Japanese consisting of two forms). To reconcile this inconsistency, we ran a Monte Carlo simulation and found that orthographic neighbors in kanji had higher semantic similarities than those in kana. We further conducted a semantic space analysis (‘Word2Vec’) and showed that there was significant radical-level orthographic-semantic consistency in kanji characters. Furthermore, we demonstrated that this consistency had a positive effect on language performance in models (in terms of next-character prediction) and humans (in terms of semantic plausibility judgment). These findings suggest that radicals in kanji may help children to efficiently learn to use the vast number of characters present in Japanese.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 104434"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48580519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}