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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrast coding choices in a decade of mixed models	56
Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts	44
Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension	42
Semantic and phonological false memory: A review of theory and data	29
Domain-general auditory processing as an anchor of post-pubertal second language pronunciation learning: Behavioural and neurophysiological investigations of perceptual acuity, age, experience, develo	27
Context-based facilitation of semantic access follows both logarithmic and linear functions of stimulus probability	27
How emotion is learned: Semantic learning of novel words in emotional contexts	26
How reliable are individual differences in eye movements in reading?	22
Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading	20
Morphemes as letter chunks: Discovering affixes through visual regularities	19
Immediate sensorimotor grounding of novel concepts learned from language alone	18
The effects of elaboration on working memory and long-term memory across age	17
The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm	17
The signed mental lexicon: Effects of phonological neighborhood density, iconicity, and childhood language experience	15
Integrating statistical learning into cognitive science	14
Reanalysis and lingering misinterpretation of linguistic dependencies in native and non-native sentence comprehension	14
What cognates reveal about default language selection in bilingual sentence production	14
Does retrieval potentiate new learning when retrieval stops but new learning continues?	14
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	14
A model of the production effect over the short-term: The cost of relative distinctiveness	14
Magnitude sound symbolism influences vowel production	13
The influence of prior knowledge on the formation of detailed and durable memories	13
Production without rules: Using an instance memory model to exploit structure in natural language	13
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	13
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	12

Categorical distinctiveness constrains the labeling benefit in visual working memory	12
Semantic ambiguity and memory	11
Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication	11
Linguistic focus guides attention during the encoding and refreshing of Working Memory content	11
Elaborative strategies contribute to the long-term benefits of time in working memory	11
Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading	11
Language learning as uncertainty reduction: The role of prediction error in linguistic generalization and item-learning	11
Factors influencing bilinguals’ speed and accuracy of number judgments across languages: A meta-analytic review	10
Multimodal language processing: How preceding discourse constrains gesture interpretation and affects gesture integration when gestures do not synchronise with semantic affiliates	10
Minding the load or loading the mind: The effect of manipulating working memory on coherence monitoring	10
Foveal and parafoveal processing of Chinese three-character idioms in reading	10
Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg	10
Attending to encode: The role of consistency and intensity of attention in learning ability	10
How does dialectal experience modulate anticipatory speech processing?	10
Chunks of phonological knowledge play a significant role in children’s word learning and explain effects of neighborhood size, phonotactic probability, word frequency and word length	9
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence	9
When retrieval practice promotes new learning – The critical role of study material	9
Prior context influences lexical competition when segmenting Chinese overlapping ambiguous strings	9
What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?	9
Psychometric models of individual differences in reading comprehension: A reanalysis of Freed, Hamilton, and Long (2017)	9
How does semantic knowledge impact working memory maintenance? Computational and behavioral investigations	9
Reducing retrieval time modulates the production effect: Empirical evidence and computational accounts	9
Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing	9
Calories count: Memory of eating is evolutionarily special	8
Content matters: Measures of contextual diversity must consider semantic content	8
The semantic relatedness effect in serial recall: Deconfounding encoding and recall order	8
Initial landing position effects on Chinese word learning in children and adults	8
Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction	8
Principle B constrains the processing of cataphora: Evidence for syntactic and discourse predictions	8
Global matching in music familiarity: How musical features combine across memory traces to increase familiarity with the whole in which they are embedded	8
The dissociations of confidence from accuracy in forced-choice recognition judgments	7
Cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect cognitive biases: An experimental study of case and number morphology	7
The role of visual feedback in detecting and correcting typing errors: A signal detection approach	7
The episodic encoding of talker voice attributes across diverse voices	7
True clauses and false connections	7
The development of shared syntactic representations in late L2-learners: Evidence from structural priming in an artificial language	7
A model of position effects in the sequential lineup	7
Conventional metaphors elicit greater real-time engagement than literal paraphrases or concrete sentences	6
Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task	6
Indirect associations in learning semantic and syntactic lexical relationships	6
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	6
Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children	6
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	6
Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking	6
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	6
Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data when we can’t see our participants	6
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	6
How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?	6
The relationship between sentence comprehension and lexical-semantic retuning	5
Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit	5

Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59	5
Rethinking bilingual enhancement effects in associative learning of foreign language vocabulary: The role of proficiency in the mediating language	5
The processing of pronominal relative clauses: Evidence from eye movements	5
Are there segmental and tonal effects on syntactic encoding? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin	5
Where is mirror invariance? Masked priming effects by mirrored and rotated transformations of reversible and nonreversible letters	5
Effects of divided attention at encoding on specific and gist representations in working and long-term memory	5
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	5
What masked priming effects with abbreviations can tell us about abstract letter identities	5
Revealing pragmatic processes through a one-word answer: When the French reply Si	5
Effects of phonological neighbourhood density and frequency in picture naming	4
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	4
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	4
Syllable and letter similarity effects in Korean: Insights from the Korean Lexicon Project	4
Referencing context in sentence processing: A failure to replicate the strong interactive mental models hypothesis	4
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	4
The dependence of root extraction in a non-concatenated morphology on the word-specific orthographic context	4
Infrequent but adaptive outsourcing in recognition memory	4
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty	4
Selective activation of language specific structural representations: Evidence from extended picture-word interference	4
Sound-space symbolism: Associating articulatory front and back positions of the tongue with the spatial concepts of forward/front and backward/back	4
Tradeoffs between item and order information in short-term memory	4
Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition	4
Does grammatical gender affect object concepts? Registered replication of Phillips and Boroditsky (2003)	4
The interplay between syntactic and non-syntactic structure in language production	4
Inference strength predicts the probability of conditionals better than conditional probability does	4
The head or the verb: Is the lexical boost restricted to the head verb?	4
Do we remember when to better recall what? Repetition benefits are probably not due to explicit temporal context memory	3
Towards a processing model for argument-verb computations in online sentence comprehension	3
Priming reveals similarities and differences between three purported cases of implicature: Some, number and free choice disjunctions	3
SEAM: An integrated activation-coupled model of sentence processing and eye movements in reading	3
MINERVA-DE: An instance model of the deficient processing theory	3
Statistical and explicit learning of graphotactic patterns with no phonological counterpart: Evidence from an artificial lexicon study with 6–7-year-olds and adults	3
Morphemes as letter chunks: Linguistic information enhances the learning of visual regularities	3
Lexical prediction does not rationally adapt to prediction error: ERP evidence from pre-nominal articles	3
Working memory prioritization: Goal-driven attention, physical salience, and implicit learning	3
Retrieval processes and audience design	3
Agreement attraction in grammatical sentences and the role of the task	3
True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors	3
Reprint of: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes	3
Processing of linguistic focus depends on contrastive alternatives	3
Do particle verbs share a representation with their root verbs? Evidence from structural priming	3
Discrepant findings on the relation between episodic memory and retrieval practice: The impact of analysis decisions	3
Language modality and temporal structure impact processing: Sign and speech have different windows of integration	3
Lexical choice and word formation in a taboo game paradigm	3