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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	99
Production increases both true and false recognition	39
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	34
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	27
How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?	27
The influence of prior knowledge on the formation of detailed and durable memories	26
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi	24
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	20
A model of position effects in the sequential lineup	20
Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task	20
Ellipsis interference revisited: New evidence for feature markedness effects in retrieval	18
Editorial Board	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	15
The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns	14
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	14
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	14
Editorial Board	14
True clauses and false connections	14
Categorical distinctiveness constrains the labeling benefit in visual working memory	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The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	13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	13
Editorial Board	13

The development of shared syntactic representations in late L2-learners: Evidence from structural priming in an artificial language	12
The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems	12
The impact of emotional states on bilingual language control in cued and voluntary switching contexts	12
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	12
Editorial Board	12
Semantic and phonological false memory: A review of theory and data	12
Are there segmental and tonal effects on syntactic encoding? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin	11
Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set	11
Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production	11
What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences	10
Memory retrieval in discourse: Illusions of coherence during presupposition resolution	10
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference	10
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	10
Editorial Board	10
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	9
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables	9
Do readers here what they sea?: Effects of lexicality, predictability, and individual differences on the phonological preview benefit	9
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	9
Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit	9
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	8
Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data when we can’t see our participants	8
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	8
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement	8
The interplay between syntactic and non-syntactic structure in language production	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
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	8
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence	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
Corrigendum to “Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking” [J. Memory Lang. 122 (2022) 104298]	8
Editorial Board	7
Animacy outweighs topichood when choosing pronouns and word order	7
Foveal and parafoveal processing of Chinese three-character idioms in reading	7
Parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading: Evidence for multi-constituent unit hypothesis	7
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	7
Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach	7
Type and token frequency jointly drive learning of morphology	6
Editorial Board	6
The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses	6
Editorial Board	6
Psychometric models of individual differences in reading comprehension: A reanalysis of Freed, Hamilton, and Long (2017)	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
Orthographic priming from unrelated primes: Heterogeneous feedforward inhibition predicted by associative learning	6
Editorial Board	5
Planning competing values of a single phonological feature vs. planning values for multiple features	5
Replication of Cutler, A., & Fodor, J. A. (1979). Semantic focus and sentence comprehension. Cognition, 7(1), 49–59	5
Editorial Board	5

Retrieval practice and verbal-visuospatial transfer: From memorization to inductive learning	5
Editorial Board	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
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing?	5
Relating foveal and parafoveal processing efficiency with word-level parameters in text reading	5
Orthographic-Semantic consistency effects in lexical decision: What types of neighbors are responsible for the Effects?	5
Recall and recognition of discourse memory across sleep and wake	5
Editorial Board	5
Influences of learned verbal labels and sleep on temporal event memory	4
Retrieval-induced semantic interference	4
Sample size and its justification in the Journal of Memory and Language	4
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	4
Pragmatic inferencing influences the referential status of all potential referents in word learning	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
Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension	4
Measurement and sampling noise undermine inferences about awareness in location probability learning: A modeling approach	4
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention	4
Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory	4
Language concatenates perceptual features into representations during comprehension	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
Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors	4
Attending to encode: The role of consistency and intensity of attention in learning ability	3
Conceptualising acoustic and cognitive contributions to divided-attention listening within a data-limit versus resource-limit framework	3
Coordinating reference in conversation: The choice between linguistic conventions and linguistic precedents	3
Eye movements in reading at 50: An introduction to the Special Issue	3
Acoustic correlates of stress in speech perception	3
Number attraction in verb and anaphor production	3
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	3
Language control after phrasal planning: Playing Whack-a-mole with language switch costs	3
Language comprehenders are sensitive to multiple states of semantically similar objects	3
Do individual differences in working memory capacity, episodic memory ability, or fluid intelligence moderate the pretesting effect?	3
Variation in the intensity and consistency of attention during learning: The role of conative factors	3
Semantic ambiguity and memory	3
Weaker than you might imagine: Determining imageability effects on word recognition	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
Readers target words where they expect to minimize uncertainty	3
Executive functioning predicts development of reading skill and perceptual span seven years later	2
Editorial Board	2
Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words	2
Morphological segmentation of nonwords in individuals with acquired dyslexia	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
Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning?	2
Sound-space symbolism: Associating articulatory front and back positions of the tongue with the spatial concepts of forward/front and backward/back	2
A distributional model of concepts grounded in the spatial organization of objects	2
Phonological prediction during comprehension: A review and meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies	2
Visual context benefits spoken sentence comprehension across the lifespan	2
Editorial Board	2
Dissociable frequency effects attenuate as large language model surprisal predictors improve	2
When time shifts the boundaries: Isolating the role of forgetting in children’s changing category representations	2
Reprint of: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes	2
Beware influential findings that have not been replicated	2
Interaction between the testing and forward testing effects in the case of Cued-Recall: Implications for Theory, individual difference Studies, and application	2
Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?	2
Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study	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
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool	2