{"title":"Symbol manipulation: Alternatives to the computational view of mind","authors":"Paul A. Kolers, William E. Smythe","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90182-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90182-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Acquisition and manipulation of symbols are the fundamental constituents of cognitive activity, but modern information processing theory has not explored their basis sufficiently. Computationalism is the one modern approach that takes an explicit position in regard to symbol manipulation. We here explore some of the virtues of that approach and show its principal deficiency, which is to construe symbolization too narrowly, thereby blocking more adequate treatments of learning and acquisition of skills. Symbols come in many kinds; the different kinds allow for different representational capabilities. A proper sorting of symbols and an understanding of their different capabilities is prerequisite, and should be of the greatest benefit, to an account of cognitive processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 289-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90182-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modality and suffix effects in the absence of auditory stimulation","authors":"Robert L. Greene, Robert G. Crowder","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90259-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90259-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Three experiments showed that silent mouthing or lipreading of immediate-memory lists leads to modality and suffix effects of the sort formerly believed to occur only following auditory presentation. Although lip-read and mouthed suffixes interfered somewhat with recency recall of auditory items, and vice versa, the suffix effect was greatest when the modality of the suffix matched exactly that of the test items. These findings are inconsistent with previous assumptions about sensory memory (precategorical acoustic storage). Specifically, it now seems likely that gestural information relevant to the synthesis of auditory features can also be held in a precategorical store specialized for auditory feature detection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 371-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90259-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternatives to the computational view of mind: the baby or the bathwater? A commentary on Kolers and Smythe","authors":"A. Allport","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90193-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90193-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 1","pages":"315-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90193-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The limits of analytic symbols: A comment on Kolers and Smythe","authors":"Lee R. Brooks","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90204-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90204-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 325-327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90204-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the status of final consonant clusters in english syllables","authors":"Rebecca Treiman","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90237-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90237-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Linguistic and behavioral evidence suggests that the syllable is composed of two major constituents, an <em>onset</em> and a <em>rime</em>. The onset is the initial consonant or consonant cluster. The rime is the remainder of the syllable, excepting any inflectional endings or <em>appendices</em>. The internal structure of the rime was studied in four experiments. When an obstruent followed the vowel, subjects most readily divided the rime between the vowel and the obstruent. Thus, final consonant clusters beginning with obstruents formed cohesive units. Postvocalic liquids were grouped with the vowel rather than the final consonant. Postvocalic nasals were intermediate. These results are consistent with linguistic notions of a sonority hierarchy, by which classes of consonants differ in their affinity with vowels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 343-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90237-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Script-based inferences: Effects of text and knowledge variables on recognition memory","authors":"Carol H. Walker, Frank R. Yekovich","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90248-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90248-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two experiments examined the tendency for subjects to falsely recognize script-based concepts after reading incomplete script-based texts. On an immediate recognition test, both the hypothesized position of a concept in the reader's preexperimental knowledge structure (central, peripheral) and the number of times the concept was implied in the text (0, 1, 3, or 5) affected the reader's judgments about whether the concept had been presented in the text. For central concepts, the number of text implications had no significant effect on either error rates or judgment times. For peripheral concepts, error rates and response times were dependent on the number of text implications. These findings were interpreted as evidence for selective activation of concepts within scripts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 357-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90248-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian MacWhinney, Elizabeth Bates, Reinhold Kliegl
{"title":"Cue validity and sentence interpretation in English, German, and Italian","authors":"Brian MacWhinney, Elizabeth Bates, Reinhold Kliegl","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90093-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90093-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Linguistic and psycholinguistic accounts based on the study of English may prove unreliable as guides to sentence processing in even closely related languages. The present study illustrates this claim in a test of sentence interpretation by German-, Italian-, and English-speaking adults. Subjects were presented with simple transitive sentences in which contrasts of (1) word order, (2) agreement, (3) animacy, and (4) stress were systematically varied. For each sentence, subjects were asked to state which of the two nouns was the actor. The results indicated that Americans relied overwhelming on word order, using a first-noun strategy in NVN and a second-noun strategy in VNN and NNV sentences. Germans relied on both agreement and animacy. Italians showed extreme reliance on agreement cues. In both German and Italian, stress played a role in terms of complex interactions with word order and agreement. The findings were interpreted in terms of the “competition model” of Bates and MacWhinney (in H. Winitz (Ed.), <em>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Native and Foreign Language Acquisition</em>. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1982) in which cue validity is considered to be the primary determinant of cue strength. According to this model, cues are said to be high in validity when they are also high in applicability and reliability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 127-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90093-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55829440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fractionation of working memory: Neuropsychological evidence for a phonological short-term store","authors":"Giuseppe Vallar, Alan D. Baddeley","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90104-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90104-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A patient with grossly defective short-term memory but fluent speech was studied in order to pinpoint the locus of the deficit. Her immediate memory for consonant sequences showed a clear phonological similarity effect with auditory presentation, but no effect of similarity when presentation was visual. She showed no effect of articulatory suppression and no effect of word length on span, both of which suggest that she was not using subvocal rehearsal. A further test showed that this was not due to her inability to articulate rapidly since her rate of repeating the number sequence 1–10 and of the alphabet was comparable with normal control subjects. These results are interpreted in terms of the articulatory loop component of a working memory model. It is suggested that the loop comprises a phonological store, with obligatory access by auditory spoken material, and optional access through the control process of subvocal rehearsal. Our patient appears to suffer from a defect of the phonological store. This removes the normal advantage gained from using subvocal rehearsal, and induces her to rely instead on visual storage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 151-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90104-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55829485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Pressley, Joel R. Levin, Elizabeth S. Ghatala
{"title":"Memory strategy monitoring in adults and children","authors":"Michael Pressley, Joel R. Levin, Elizabeth S. Ghatala","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90181-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90181-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In five experiments, adults and 11- to 13-year-old children were exposed to two study strategies for vocabulary learning: repetition of words with meanings and associative elaboration (the keyword method). Subjects were asked to choose one of the two study methods for learning a 24-item list of new vocabulary words. Adults demonstrated awareness of the relative efficacy of the two study strategies only following practice with the two methods accompanied by a test on the practice list. They did not exhibit an awareness of the relative utility of the two methods when the practice test was omitted. Children, in addition to having to experience the practice list and test, required explicit feedback about their performance with the two strategies before they demonstrated clear awareness that the elaboration method was superior. The data are relevant to recent positions on the role of metacognitive experiences for metacognitive knowledge and cognitive actions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 270-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90181-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55830050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstructive recall of linguistic style","authors":"William F. Brewer, Anne E. Hay","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90159-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90159-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present experiment investigated reconstructive recall for linguistic style. It was hypothesized that (a) features of linguistic style would be difficult to recall compared to underlying content; (b) reconstructive errors would include stylistic forms recalled as standard forms when subjects lacked productive control of a particular feature of a style; (c) reconstructive errors would include standard forms recalled as stylistic forms when subjects with productive control of a style attempted to style match. Subjects carried out recall tasks with texts of five different styles (business, biblical, academic, legal, primer). Objective procedures were developed to classify the style of the reconstructed responses and the results showed that a large proportion of the total responses consisted of the predicted types of reconstructive errors. The reconstructive-style hypothesis was used to integrate a range of experimental findings from studies of memory for text.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89821,"journal":{"name":"Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 237-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5371(84)90159-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55829833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}