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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Best practice guidance for linear mixed-effects models in psychological science	239
Interference patterns in subject-verb agreement and reflexives revisited: A large-sample study	44
When less is more: Enhanced statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies after disruption of bilateral DLPFC	43
What did we learn from forty years of research on semantic interference? A Bayesian meta-analysis	42
Contrast coding choices in a decade of mixed models	41
Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts	38
Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension	34
Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills	34
Psycholinguists should resist the allure of linguistic units as perceptual units	33
Does case marking affect agreement attraction in comprehension?	26
Domain-general auditory processing as an anchor of post-pubertal second language pronunciation learning: Behavioural and neurophysiological investigations of perceptual acuity, age, experience, develo	25
Semantic and phonological false memory: A review of theory and data	23
How emotion is learned: Semantic learning of novel words in emotional contexts	22
Context-based facilitation of semantic access follows both logarithmic and linear functions of stimulus probability	20
Maze Made Easy: Better and easier measurement of incremental processing difficulty	20
How reliable are individual differences in eye movements in reading?	19
Delineating linguistic contexts, and the validity of context diversity as a measure of a word's contextual variability	17
Immediate sensorimotor grounding of novel concepts learned from language alone	17
Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading	16
Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers	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
Morphemes as letter chunks: Discovering affixes through visual regularities	14
The effects of elaboration on working memory and long-term memory across age	13
Reanalysis and lingering misinterpretation of linguistic dependencies in native and non-native sentence comprehension	13

Production without rules: Using an instance memory model to exploit structure in natural language	12
A story about statistical learning in a story: Regularities impact eye movements during book reading	11
Integrating statistical learning into cognitive science	11
The signed mental lexicon: Effects of phonological neighborhood density, iconicity, and childhood language experience	11
The influence of prior knowledge on the formation of detailed and durable memories	11
To catch a Snitch: Brain potentials reveal variability in the functional organization of (fictional) world knowledge during reading	11
The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm	11
Global semantic similarity effects in recognition memory: Insights from BEAGLE representations and the diffusion decision model	10
Lexical entrainment without conceptual pacts? Revisiting the matching task	10
Magnitude sound symbolism influences vowel production	10
Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication	10
Linguistic focus guides attention during the encoding and refreshing of Working Memory content	9
How top-down processing enhances comprehension of noise-vocoded speech: Predictions about meaning are more important than predictions about form	9
Foveal and parafoveal processing of Chinese three-character idioms in reading	9
How does dialectal experience modulate anticipatory speech processing?	9
How semantic processing affects recognition memory	9
When retrieval practice promotes new learning – The critical role of study material	9
Multimodal language processing: How preceding discourse constrains gesture interpretation and affects gesture integration when gestures do not synchronise with semantic affiliates	9
What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?	9
The origins of backward priming effects in logographic scripts for four-character words	9
Semantic transparency is not invisibility: A computational model of perceptually-grounded conceptual combination in word processing	9
Language learning as uncertainty reduction: The role of prediction error in linguistic generalization and item-learning	9
Semantic ambiguity and memory	8
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence	8
Calories count: Memory of eating is evolutionarily special	8
Initial landing position effects on Chinese word learning in children and adults	8
How does semantic knowledge impact working memory maintenance? Computational and behavioral investigations	8
A model of the production effect over the short-term: The cost of relative distinctiveness	8
Psychometric models of individual differences in reading comprehension: A reanalysis of Freed, Hamilton, and Long (2017)	8
Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg	8
Elaborative strategies contribute to the long-term benefits of time in working memory	8
Minding the load or loading the mind: The effect of manipulating working memory on coherence monitoring	8
Principle B constrains the processing of cataphora: Evidence for syntactic and discourse predictions	8
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	8
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	7
The role of retrieval during study: Evidence of reminding from overt rehearsal	7
Global matching in music familiarity: How musical features combine across memory traces to increase familiarity with the whole in which they are embedded	7
Content matters: Measures of contextual diversity must consider semantic content	7
Reading the written language environment: Learning orthographic structure from statistical regularities	7
Factors influencing bilinguals’ speed and accuracy of number judgments across languages: A meta-analytic review	7
Are graphemic effects real in skilled visual word recognition?	7
Attending to encode: The role of consistency and intensity of attention in learning ability	7
Categorical distinctiveness constrains the labeling benefit in visual working memory	7
Prior context influences lexical competition when segmenting Chinese overlapping ambiguous strings	7
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	7
Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing	7
Visual working memory capacity is limited by two systems that change across lifespan	7
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	7
True clauses and false connections	7
Language-specific prosodic acquisition: A comparison of phrase boundary perception by French- and German-learning infants	7

The linguistic looming effect	6
Effects of chronological age on native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German	6
Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction	6
How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?	6
The semantic relatedness effect in serial recall: Deconfounding encoding and recall order	6
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	6
Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading	6
Long-lasting gradient activation of referents during spoken language processing	6
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	6
Cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect cognitive biases: An experimental study of case and number morphology	6
Anticipating causes and consequences	6
Reducing retrieval time modulates the production effect: Empirical evidence and computational accounts	6
Indirect associations in learning semantic and syntactic lexical relationships	6
The development of shared syntactic representations in late L2-learners: Evidence from structural priming in an artificial language	6
The dissociations of confidence from accuracy in forced-choice recognition judgments	5
Revealing pragmatic processes through a one-word answer: When the French reply Si	5
Repairing speech errors: Competition as a source of repairs	5
The role of visual feedback in detecting and correcting typing errors: A signal detection approach	5
Scalar bounds and expected values of comparatively modified numerals	5
Bilingual novel word learning in sentence contexts: Effects of semantic and language variation	5
Taking another perspective on overconfidence in cognitive ability: A comparison of self and other metacognitive judgments	5
Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task	5
Video context-dependent effects in recognition memory	5
The relationship between sentence comprehension and lexical-semantic retuning	5
A model of position effects in the sequential lineup	5
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	5
Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children	4
Rethinking bilingual enhancement effects in associative learning of foreign language vocabulary: The role of proficiency in the mediating language	4
Syllable and letter similarity effects in Korean: Insights from the Korean Lexicon Project	4
Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit	4
Is buttercup a kind of cup? Hyponymy and semantic transparency in compound words	4
What masked priming effects with abbreviations can tell us about abstract letter identities	4
Conventional metaphors elicit greater real-time engagement than literal paraphrases or concrete sentences	4
Nonlinear effects of spatial connectedness implicate hierarchically structured representations in visual working memory	4
Does grammatical gender affect object concepts? Registered replication of Phillips and Boroditsky (2003)	4
Selective activation of language specific structural representations: Evidence from extended picture-word interference	4
Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking	4
Are there segmental and tonal effects on syntactic encoding? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin	4
Where is mirror invariance? Masked priming effects by mirrored and rotated transformations of reversible and nonreversible letters	4
Tradeoffs between item and order information in short-term memory	4
Effects of divided attention at encoding on specific and gist representations in working and long-term memory	4
The processing of pronominal relative clauses: Evidence from eye movements	4
Inference strength predicts the probability of conditionals better than conditional probability does	4
Referencing context in sentence processing: A failure to replicate the strong interactive mental models hypothesis	4
Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59	4
The head or the verb: Is the lexical boost restricted to the head verb?	4
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	4
The episodic encoding of talker voice attributes across diverse voices	3
Infrequent but adaptive outsourcing in recognition memory	3
The dependence of root extraction in a non-concatenated morphology on the word-specific orthographic context	3
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	3
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	3
Priming reveals similarities and differences between three purported cases of implicature: Some, number and free choice disjunctions	3
Language modality and temporal structure impact processing: Sign and speech have different windows of integration	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
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	3
Retrieval processes and audience design	3
MINERVA-DE: An instance model of the deficient processing theory	3