OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Memory and Language is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	147
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi	77
Pragmatic effects on semantic learnability: Insights from evidentiality	40
Production increases both true and false recognition	39
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	38
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	34
Editorial Board	27
Ellipsis interference revisited: New evidence for feature markedness effects in retrieval	25
Knowing a translation pair by the cross-linguistic company it keeps: cross-linguistic context consistency shapes semantic overlap in bilingual conceptual representation	23
Editorial Board	23
Judgments of learning enhance elaborative rather than relational processing: Implications from phonologically related and phonological-semantic mediated pairs	18
Editorial Board	17
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	17
Improving Reproducibility in the Journal of Memory and Language	17
Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall	16
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	15
Exploring the role of sublexical information in speech perception and misperception	15
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords	14
Editorial Board	14
The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns	14
Action and abstraction: Motor interference changes meaning in language understanding	13
The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	13
Incremental alternative sampling as a lens into the temporal and representational resolution of linguistic prediction	13
Editorial Board	12
Segmental contributions to prosodic weight in processing English auxiliary contractions	12

The representation of agreement features in memory is updated during sentence processing: Evidence from verb-reflexive interactions	11
Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set	11
Intermediate decisional and response states in lexical decision: evidence from electromyography and metacognitive confidence ratings	11
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	11
The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems	11
The impact of emotional states on bilingual language control in cued and voluntary switching contexts	11
Memory retrieval in discourse: Illusions of coherence during presupposition resolution	11
Editorial Board	10
Exploring the animacy effect in focal prospective memory tasks: When animates don’t stand out	10
Individual differences in working memory and the benefit of retrieval practice	10
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	10
What roles do constituents play in the identification of Chinese compound words? A meta-analytic review	10
Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production	10
Do readers here what they sea?: Effects of lexicality, predictability, and individual differences on the phonological preview benefit	10
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference	10
Editorial Board	9
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	9
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	9
What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences	9
Evidence of cross-domain phase entrainment effects between nonspeech tones and speech sounds	8
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables	8
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty	8
Editorial Board	8
On idle idols and ugly icons: Investigating lexical selection in typing through homophones	8
The importance of attention for variation in learning to learn	8
The interplay between syntactic and non-syntactic structure in language production	8
Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data when we can’t see our participants	8
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	8
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	7
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	7
Effects of specific negative emotions on the retrieval dynamics underlying recognition memory decisions	7
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	7
Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach	7
Corrigendum to “Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking” [J. Memory Lang. 122 (2022) 104298]	7
Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning	7
Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling	7
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure	7
Parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading: Evidence for multi-constituent unit hypothesis	7
Animacy outweighs topichood when choosing pronouns and word order	7
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	7
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement	7
The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses	6
The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners	6
Editorial Board	6
Type and token frequency jointly drive learning of morphology	6
Editorial Board	6
Orthographic priming from unrelated primes: Heterogeneous feedforward inhibition predicted by associative learning	6
Orthographic-Semantic consistency effects in lexical decision: What types of neighbors are responsible for the Effects?	5
Planning competing values of a single phonological feature vs. planning values for multiple features	5
Editorial Board	5

Learning filler-gap dependencies with neural language models: Testing island sensitivity in Norwegian and English	5
Color interpretation is guided by informativity expectations, not by world knowledge about colors	5
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing?	5
Editorial Board	5
Relating foveal and parafoveal processing efficiency with word-level parameters in text reading	5
Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59	5
Still no evidence for audience design in syntax: Resumptive pronouns are not the exception	5
Editorial Board	5
Retrieval practice and verbal-visuospatial transfer: From memorization to inductive learning	5
Isolated and contextualized comprehension exposures have sustained effects on spoken word production: Evidence from bilingual repetition priming	5
Unpacking similarity effects in visual memory search: categorical, semantic, and visual contributions	5
Recall and recognition of discourse memory across sleep and wake	5
Editorial Board	5
A lifetime of reading experience facilitates the perception of crowded letters	4
Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors	4
LLMs model how humans induce logically structured rules	4
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention	4
Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory	4
Domain-specificity and the development of syntactic dependencies: The role of working memory in the acquisition of adjunct control	4
Sample size and its justification in the Journal of Memory and Language	4
The role of memory and instruction in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar: An aptitude–treatment interaction study	4
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	4
Pragmatic inferencing influences the referential status of all potential referents in word learning	4
Influences of learned verbal labels and sleep on temporal event memory	4
True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors	4
An embedded computational framework of memory: Accounting for the influence of semantic information in verbal short-term memory	4
Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension	4
Measurement and sampling noise undermine inferences about awareness in location probability learning: A modeling approach	4
Corrigendum to “Parallels between self-monitoring for speech errors and identification of the misspoken segments” [J. Mem. Lang. 69(3) (2013) 417-428]	4
Language concatenates perceptual features into representations during comprehension	4
Retrieval-induced semantic interference	4
Working memory and attentional control abilities predict individual differences in visual long-term memory tasks	4
Reframing linguistic bootstrapping as joint inference using visually-grounded grammar induction models	4
Suspect-filler similarity: replicating distinctive features in police lineups	3
Phonological input processing is reduced during speech planning in turn taking	3
Number attraction in verb and anaphor production	3
Task goals constrain the alignment in eye-movements and speech during interpersonal coordination	3
Acoustic correlates of stress in speech perception	3
Readers target words where they expect to minimize uncertainty	3
Sound-space symbolism: Associating articulatory front and back positions of the tongue with the spatial concepts of forward/front and backward/back	3
Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words	3
Eye movements in reading at 50: An introduction to the Special Issue	3
Share the code, not just the data: A case study of the reproducibility of articles published in the Journal of Memory and Language under the open data policy	3
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	3
Lexical tone is different and special: evidence from a speeded repeated production task	3
Variation in the intensity and consistency of attention during learning: The role of conative factors	3
Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing	3
Hierarchical prediction in toddlers: Semantic and phonological development	3
Editorial Board	3
Interaction between the testing and forward testing effects in the case of Cued-Recall: Implications for Theory, individual difference Studies, and application	3
A distributional model of concepts grounded in the spatial organization of objects	3
Language comprehenders are sensitive to multiple states of semantically similar objects	3
Coordinating reference in conversation: The choice between linguistic conventions and linguistic precedents	3
Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition	3
Conceptualising acoustic and cognitive contributions to divided-attention listening within a data-limit versus resource-limit framework	3
Distractors serve as a reference point in the bias of Targets’ visual working memory	3
Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?	3
Morphemes as letter chunks: Linguistic information enhances the learning of visual regularities	3
Do individual differences in working memory capacity, episodic memory ability, or fluid intelligence moderate the pretesting effect?	3
Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs	2
Why are you telling me this? The availability and timing of relevance inferences	2
Reprint of: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes	2
Beware influential findings that have not been replicated	2
Morphological segmentation of nonwords in individuals with acquired dyslexia	2
Editorial Board	2
Predicting words across languages depends on language context: Evidence from visual world eye-tracking	2
Visual context benefits spoken sentence comprehension across the lifespan	2
Editorial Board	2
Phonological prediction during comprehension: A review and meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies	2
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	2
When time shifts the boundaries: Isolating the role of forgetting in children’s changing category representations	2
Speakers encode silent structures: Evidence from complementizer priming in English	2
Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors	2
Agreement attraction in grammatical sentences and the role of the task	2
Dissociable frequency effects attenuate as large language model surprisal predictors improve	2
Listening to disfluent speech: Robust effect at processing may not extend to learning	2
Executive functioning predicts development of reading skill and perceptual span seven years later	2
Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study	2
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool	2
Does referential expectation guide both linguistic and social constraints on pronoun comprehension?	2