OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Memory and Language is 7. 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
Production increases both true and false recognition	40
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	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The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	14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
The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems	12

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
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
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
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
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	8
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
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
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