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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	123
Editorial Board	65
Pragmatic effects on semantic learnability: Insights from evidentiality	47
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi	35
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	32
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	28
Production increases both true and false recognition	26
A model of position effects in the sequential lineup	24
Ellipsis interference revisited: New evidence for feature markedness effects in retrieval	21
Judgments of learning enhance elaborative rather than relational processing: Implications from phonologically related and phonological-semantic mediated pairs	20
Editorial Board	19
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	18
Editorial Board	17
Improving Reproducibility in the Journal of Memory and Language	16
Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall	15
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	15
Editorial Board	14
The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns	14
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords	13
The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	13
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
Editorial Board	12
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	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
Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set	11
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	10
Memory retrieval in discourse: Illusions of coherence during presupposition resolution	10
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	10
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	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
Editorial Board	9
Individual differences in working memory and the benefit of retrieval practice	9
Exploring the animacy effect in focal prospective memory tasks: When animates don’t stand out	8
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	8
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	8
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure	8
Editorial Board	8
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty	8
Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning	8
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	8
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables	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
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement	8
Editorial Board	8
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	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
Editorial Board	7
Animacy outweighs topichood when choosing pronouns and word order	7
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	7
Parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading: Evidence for multi-constituent unit hypothesis	6
Type and token frequency jointly drive learning of morphology	6
Recall and recognition of discourse memory across sleep and wake	6
The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses	6
Relating foveal and parafoveal processing efficiency with word-level parameters in text reading	6
Editorial Board	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
Orthographic-Semantic consistency effects in lexical decision: What types of neighbors are responsible for the Effects?	6
Retrieval practice and verbal-visuospatial transfer: From memorization to inductive learning	5
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing?	5
Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59	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
Editorial Board	5
Color interpretation is guided by informativity expectations, not by world knowledge about colors	5
Still no evidence for audience design in syntax: Resumptive pronouns are not the exception	5
The role of memory and instruction in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar: An aptitude–treatment interaction study	5
Measurement and sampling noise undermine inferences about awareness in location probability learning: A modeling approach	4

Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors	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
Editorial Board	4
Sample size and its justification in the Journal of Memory and Language	4
Language concatenates perceptual features into representations during comprehension	4
Pragmatic inferencing influences the referential status of all potential referents in word learning	4
Working memory and attentional control abilities predict individual differences in visual long-term memory tasks	4
A lifetime of reading experience facilitates the perception of crowded letters	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
Reframing linguistic bootstrapping as joint inference using visually-grounded grammar induction models	4
Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension	4
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention	4
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	4
Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory	3
Variation in the intensity and consistency of attention during learning: The role of conative factors	3
Retrieval-induced semantic interference	3
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	3
Conceptualising acoustic and cognitive contributions to divided-attention listening within a data-limit versus resource-limit framework	3
True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors	3
Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition	3
Coordinating reference in conversation: The choice between linguistic conventions and linguistic precedents	3
Readers target words where they expect to minimize uncertainty	3
Number attraction in verb and anaphor production	3
Domain-specificity and the development of syntactic dependencies: The role of working memory in the acquisition of adjunct control	3
Lexical tone is different and special: evidence from a speeded repeated production task	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 comprehenders are sensitive to multiple states of semantically similar objects	3
Agreement attraction in grammatical sentences and the role of the task	2
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool	2
When time shifts the boundaries: Isolating the role of forgetting in children’s changing category representations	2
Executive functioning predicts development of reading skill and perceptual span seven years later	2
Beware influential findings that have not been replicated	2
Acoustic correlates of stress in speech perception	2
Do individual differences in working memory capacity, episodic memory ability, or fluid intelligence moderate the pretesting effect?	2
Reprint of: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes	2
Dissociable frequency effects attenuate as large language model surprisal predictors improve	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
Does referential expectation guide both linguistic and social constraints on pronoun comprehension?	2
Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking	2
Editorial Board	2
Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors	2
Hierarchical prediction in toddlers: Semantic and phonological development	2
Morphemes as letter chunks: Linguistic information enhances the learning of visual regularities	2
A distributional model of concepts grounded in the spatial organization of objects	2
Eye movements in reading at 50: An introduction to the Special Issue	2
Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?	2
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	2
What’s in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation	2
Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs	2
Speakers encode silent structures: Evidence from complementizer priming in English	2
Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study	2
Phonological prediction during comprehension: A review and meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies	2
Sound-space symbolism: Associating articulatory front and back positions of the tongue with the spatial concepts of forward/front and backward/back	2
Morphological segmentation of nonwords in individuals with acquired dyslexia	2
Interaction between the testing and forward testing effects in the case of Cued-Recall: Implications for Theory, individual difference Studies, and application	2
Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words	2
Visual context benefits spoken sentence comprehension across the lifespan	2
Towards a processing model for argument-verb computations in online sentence comprehension	2
Editorial Board	2