OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Memory and Language is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	152
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi	84
Pragmatic effects on semantic learnability: Insights from evidentiality	45
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	40
Production increases both true and false recognition	40
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	38
Editorial Board	30
Knowing a translation pair by the cross-linguistic company it keeps: cross-linguistic context consistency shapes semantic overlap in bilingual conceptual representation	28
Judgments of learning enhance elaborative rather than relational processing: Implications from phonologically related and phonological-semantic mediated pairs	27
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	20
Improving Reproducibility in the Journal of Memory and Language	19
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	19
Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall	18
Exploring the role of sublexical information in speech perception and misperception	17
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	17
Editorial Board	16
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords	15
Incremental alternative sampling as a lens into the temporal and representational resolution of linguistic prediction	15
Action and abstraction: Motor interference changes meaning in language understanding	14
Editorial Board	14
The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	14
The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns	14
The impact of emotional states on bilingual language control in cued and voluntary switching contexts	13
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	12

Memory retrieval in discourse: Illusions of coherence during presupposition resolution	12
The representation of agreement features in memory is updated during sentence processing: Evidence from verb-reflexive interactions	12
Intermediate decisional and response states in lexical decision: evidence from electromyography and metacognitive confidence ratings	12
Segmental contributions to prosodic weight in processing English auxiliary contractions	12
The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems	12
Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production	11
What roles do constituents play in the identification of Chinese compound words? A meta-analytic review	11
Individual differences in working memory and the benefit of retrieval practice	11
Editorial Board	11
Do readers here what they sea?: Effects of lexicality, predictability, and individual differences on the phonological preview benefit	11
What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences	11
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	11
Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set	11
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	11
On idle idols and ugly icons: Investigating lexical selection in typing through homophones	10
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference	10
Editorial Board	10
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	10
Exploring the animacy effect in focal prospective memory tasks: When animates don’t stand out	10
Better language models better model the N400, but not reading time	9
Evidence of cross-domain phase entrainment effects between nonspeech tones and speech sounds	9
Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning	9
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	9
The interplay between syntactic and non-syntactic structure in language production	9
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure	9
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables	9
Editorial Board	9
Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data when we can’t see our participants	9
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty	9
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	8
The importance of attention for variation in learning to learn	8
Animacy outweighs topichood when choosing pronouns and word order	8
Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling	8
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement	8
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	8
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	8
Effects of specific negative emotions on the retrieval dynamics underlying recognition memory decisions	8
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	8
Editorial Board	7
Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach	7
Unpacking similarity effects in visual memory search: categorical, semantic, and visual contributions	7
The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners	7
Editorial Board	7
Pausing to breathe and the speech–language relationship in production	7
Orthographic priming from unrelated primes: Heterogeneous feedforward inhibition predicted by associative learning	7
Parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading: Evidence for multi-constituent unit hypothesis	7
Corrigendum to “Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking” [J. Memory Lang. 122 (2022) 104298]	7
Type and token frequency jointly drive learning of morphology	7
The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses	7
Retrieval practice and verbal-visuospatial transfer: From memorization to inductive learning	6

Orthographic-Semantic consistency effects in lexical decision: What types of neighbors are responsible for the Effects?	6
Editorial Board	6
Isolated and contextualized comprehension exposures have sustained effects on spoken word production: Evidence from bilingual repetition priming	6
Editorial Board	6
Planning competing values of a single phonological feature vs. planning values for multiple features	6
Color interpretation is guided by informativity expectations, not by world knowledge about colors	6
Editorial Board	6
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing?	6
Interference from adjacent words in visual word recognition	6
LLMs model how humans induce logically structured rules	5
Reframing linguistic bootstrapping as joint inference using visually-grounded grammar induction models	5
A lifetime of reading experience facilitates the perception of crowded letters	5
Learning filler-gap dependencies with neural language models: Testing island sensitivity in Norwegian and English	5
Editorial Board	5
The role of memory and instruction in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar: An aptitude–treatment interaction study	5
Sample size and its justification in the Journal of Memory and Language	5
Language concatenates perceptual features into representations during comprehension	5
Still no evidence for audience design in syntax: Resumptive pronouns are not the exception	5
Relating foveal and parafoveal processing efficiency with word-level parameters in text reading	5
Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension	5
Measurement and sampling noise undermine inferences about awareness in location probability learning: A modeling approach	5
Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors	5
Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59	5
Recall and recognition of discourse memory across sleep and wake	5
Editorial Board	5
Corrigendum to “Parallels between self-monitoring for speech errors and identification of the misspoken segments” [J. Mem. Lang. 69(3) (2013) 417-428]	5
Acoustic correlates of stress in speech perception	4
Conceptualising acoustic and cognitive contributions to divided-attention listening within a data-limit versus resource-limit framework	4
An embedded computational framework of memory: Accounting for the influence of semantic information in verbal short-term memory	4
Influences of learned verbal labels and sleep on temporal event memory	4
Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory	4
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	4
Phonological input processing is reduced during speech planning in turn taking	4
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	4
Coordinating reference in conversation: The choice between linguistic conventions and linguistic precedents	4
Pragmatic inferencing influences the referential status of all potential referents in word learning	4
Retrieval-induced semantic interference	4
True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors	4
Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition	4
Distractors serve as a reference point in the bias of Targets’ visual working memory	4
Lexical tone is different and special: evidence from a speeded repeated production task	4
Language comprehenders are sensitive to multiple states of semantically similar objects	4
Domain-specificity and the development of syntactic dependencies: The role of working memory in the acquisition of adjunct control	4
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention	4
Working memory and attentional control abilities predict individual differences in visual long-term memory tasks	4
Variation in the intensity and consistency of attention during learning: The role of conative factors	4
Number attraction in verb and anaphor production	4
Task goals constrain the alignment in eye-movements and speech during interpersonal coordination	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
Why are you telling me this? The availability and timing of relevance inferences	3
Phonological prediction during comprehension: A review and meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies	3
Dissociable frequency effects attenuate as large language model surprisal predictors improve	3
Executive functioning predicts development of reading skill and perceptual span seven years later	3
Interaction between the testing and forward testing effects in the case of Cued-Recall: Implications for Theory, individual difference Studies, and application	3
Suspect-filler similarity: replicating distinctive features in police lineups	3
Readers target words where they expect to minimize uncertainty	3
Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?	3
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	3
Beware influential findings that have not been replicated	3
Editorial Board	3
Listening to disfluent speech: Robust effect at processing may not extend to learning	3
A distributional model of concepts grounded in the spatial organization of objects	3
Do individual differences in working memory capacity, episodic memory ability, or fluid intelligence moderate the pretesting effect?	3
Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing	3
Sound-space symbolism: Associating articulatory front and back positions of the tongue with the spatial concepts of forward/front and backward/back	3
Reprint of: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes	3
Hierarchical prediction in toddlers: Semantic and phonological development	3
Morphemes as letter chunks: Linguistic information enhances the learning of visual regularities	3
Morphological segmentation of nonwords in individuals with acquired dyslexia	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