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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	94
Production increases both true and false recognition	38
Pragmatic effects on semantic learnability: Insights from evidentiality	36
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	27
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	26
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	26
How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?	26
The influence of prior knowledge on the formation of detailed and durable memories	24
A model of position effects in the sequential lineup	20
Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task	20
Categorical distinctiveness constrains the labeling benefit in visual working memory	17
Editorial Board	17
Ellipsis interference revisited: New evidence for feature markedness effects in retrieval	17
Improving Reproducibility in the Journal of Memory and Language	15
Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	13
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	13
The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns	13
True clauses and false connections	13
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords	13
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	13
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	12
Editorial Board	12
The development of shared syntactic representations in late L2-learners: Evidence from structural priming in an artificial language	12

The representation of agreement features in memory is updated during sentence processing: Evidence from verb-reflexive interactions	12
The impact of emotional states on bilingual language control in cued and voluntary switching contexts	12
The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	12
The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems	11
Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production	11
Semantic and phonological false memory: A review of theory and data	11
Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set	11
Are there segmental and tonal effects on syntactic encoding? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin	10
Editorial Board	10
Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit	10
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	9
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	9
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference	9
Do readers here what they sea?: Effects of lexicality, predictability, and individual differences on the phonological preview benefit	9
What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences	9
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	9
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	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
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	8
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	8
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence	8
Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning	8
Priming reveals similarities and differences between three purported cases of implicature: Some, number and free choice disjunctions	8
Corrigendum to “Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking” [J. Memory Lang. 122 (2022) 104298]	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
The negative reminding effect: Reminding impairs memory for contextual information	8
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure	8
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	8
Foveal and parafoveal processing of Chinese three-character idioms in reading	7
Animacy outweighs topichood when choosing pronouns and word order	7
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
Psychometric models of individual differences in reading comprehension: A reanalysis of Freed, Hamilton, and Long (2017)	6
Editorial Board	6
Parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading: Evidence for multi-constituent unit hypothesis	6
The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses	6
Orthographic priming from unrelated primes: Heterogeneous feedforward inhibition predicted by associative learning	6
Isolated and contextualized comprehension exposures have sustained effects on spoken word production: Evidence from bilingual repetition priming	6
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	6
Relating foveal and parafoveal processing efficiency with word-level parameters in text reading	5
Still no evidence for audience design in syntax: Resumptive pronouns are not the exception	5
Color interpretation is guided by informativity expectations, not by world knowledge about colors	5
Editorial Board	5
Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension	5
Editorial Board	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
Language concatenates perceptual features into representations during comprehension	5

Higher order factors of sound symbolism	5
Retrieval practice and verbal-visuospatial transfer: From memorization to inductive learning	5
Editorial Board	5
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing?	5
Editorial Board	5
Sample size and its justification in the Journal of Memory and Language	5
Number attraction in verb and anaphor production	4
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	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
Retrieval-induced semantic interference	4
Influences of learned verbal labels and sleep on temporal event memory	4
Variation in the intensity and consistency of attention during learning: The role of conative factors	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
Pragmatic inferencing influences the referential status of all potential referents in word learning	4
Semantic ambiguity and memory	4
Attending to encode: The role of consistency and intensity of attention in learning ability	4
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention	4
Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors	4
Eye movements in reading at 50: An introduction to the Special Issue	3
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	3
Acoustic correlates of stress in speech perception	3
Interaction between the testing and forward testing effects in the case of Cued-Recall: Implications for Theory, individual difference Studies, and application	3
Editorial Board	3
Sound-space symbolism: Associating articulatory front and back positions of the tongue with the spatial concepts of forward/front and backward/back	3
Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition	3
Readers target words where they expect to minimize uncertainty	3
Language comprehenders are sensitive to multiple states of semantically similar objects	3
A distributional model of concepts grounded in the spatial organization of objects	3
Beware influential findings that have not been replicated	3
Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words	3
Conceptualising acoustic and cognitive contributions to divided-attention listening within a data-limit versus resource-limit framework	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
Do individual differences in working memory capacity, episodic memory ability, or fluid intelligence moderate the pretesting effect?	3
Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?	3
Phonological prediction during comprehension: A review and meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies	3
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool	2
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	2
Morphemes as letter chunks: Linguistic information enhances the learning of visual regularities	2
When time shifts the boundaries: Isolating the role of forgetting in children’s changing category representations	2
Editorial Board	2
Do particle verbs share a representation with their root verbs? Evidence from structural priming	2
Agreement attraction in grammatical sentences and the role of the task	2
Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning?	2
Executive functioning predicts development of reading skill and perceptual span seven years later	2
Morphological segmentation of nonwords in individuals with acquired dyslexia	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs	2
Selective activation of language specific structural representations: Evidence from extended picture-word interference	2
Visual context benefits spoken sentence comprehension across the lifespan	2
Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study	2
Reprint of: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes	2
Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking	2
Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children	2
Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors	2
Does referential expectation guide both linguistic and social constraints on pronoun comprehension?	2