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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension	78
Sample size and its justification in the Journal of Memory and Language	32
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	29
Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication	28
How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?	24
Pragmatic effects on semantic learnability: Insights from evidentiality	23
The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm	23
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	22
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference	21
Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking	21
Visual context benefits spoken sentence comprehension across the lifespan	20
Eye-movements during reading and noisy-channel inference making	19
A model of the production effect over the short-term: The cost of relative distinctiveness	16
Word length and frequency effects on text reading are highly similar in 12 alphabetic languages	16
When time shifts the boundaries: Isolating the role of forgetting in children’s changing category representations	13
Minding the load or loading the mind: The effect of manipulating working memory on coherence monitoring	13
What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?	13
What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences	13
Production increases both true and false recognition	13
Modality and stimulus effects on distributional statistical learning: Sound vs. sight, time vs. space	13
An embedded computational framework of memory: Accounting for the influence of semantic information in verbal short-term memory	13
Editorial Board	12
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool	12
The effect of animacy on structural Priming: A replication of Bock, Loebell and Morey (1992)	12
Editorial Board	12

Language concatenates perceptual features into representations during comprehension	12
Editorial Board	11
Do readers here what they sea?: Effects of lexicality, predictability, and individual differences on the phonological preview benefit	11
Higher order factors of sound symbolism	11
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	11
Referencing context in sentence processing: A failure to replicate the strong interactive mental models hypothesis	11
Editorial Board	11
Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study	11
Statistical and explicit learning of graphotactic patterns with no phonological counterpart: Evidence from an artificial lexicon study with 6–7-year-olds and adults	11
Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit	11
Children and adults use pragmatic principles to interpret non-linguistic symbols	10
Reducing retrieval time modulates the production effect: Empirical evidence and computational accounts	10
Editorial Board	10
Contrast coding choices in a decade of mixed models	10
Arbitrary but predictive cues support attention to overlooked features	9
Spoken and written production of inflectional morphology among L1 Mandarin speakers of English	9
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	9
Corrigendum to “Parallels between self-monitoring for speech errors and identification of the misspoken segments” [J. Mem. Lang. 69(3) (2013) 417-428]	9
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	9
Editorial Board	9
Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning?	8
Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors	8
Understanding with the body? Testing the role of verb relative embodiment across tasks at the interface of language and memory	8
Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction	8
Maintenance of subcategorical information during speech perception: Revisiting misunderstood limitations	8
Retrieval-induced semantic interference	7
Retracing the garden-path: Nonselective rereading and no reanalysis	7
Sources and goals in memory and language: Fragility and robustness in event representation	7
Larger lexicons enable representation of fine-grained phonological similarity structure: Evidence from English L2 speakers’ sound similarity judgments of word pairs	7
Using known words to learn more words: A distributional model of child vocabulary acquisition	7
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	7
The influence of prior knowledge on the formation of detailed and durable memories	7
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	6
The separability of early vocabulary and grammar knowledge	6
Are two words recalled or recognised as one? How age-of-acquisition affects memory for compound words	6
The role of visual feedback in detecting and correcting typing errors: A signal detection approach	6
Inference strength predicts the probability of conditionals better than conditional probability does	6
Influences of learned verbal labels and sleep on temporal event memory	6
Elaborative strategies contribute to the long-term benefits of time in working memory	6
Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs	6
Language modality and temporal structure impact processing: Sign and speech have different windows of integration	6
Editorial Board	6
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Language learning as uncertainty reduction: The role of prediction error in linguistic generalization and item-learning	5
A model of position effects in the sequential lineup	5
Editorial Board	5
Selective activation of language specific structural representations: Evidence from extended picture-word interference	5
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence	5
The processing of pronominal relative clauses: Evidence from eye movements	5
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables	5

Editorial Board	5
True and false recognition in MINERVA 2: Extension to sentences and metaphors	5
Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) influential model overshadowed their contemporary theory of human memory	5
Does referential expectation guide both linguistic and social constraints on pronoun comprehension?	4
How does semantic knowledge impact working memory maintenance? Computational and behavioral investigations	4
Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German	4
Agreement attraction in grammatical sentences and the role of the task	4
Electrophysiological correlates of incidental L2 word learning from dialogue	4
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention	4
The interplay between syntactic and non-syntactic structure in language production	4
Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors	4
Individual differences and 11-year longitudinal changes in older adults’ prospective memory: A comparison with episodic memory, working memory, processing speed, and verbal knowledge	4
Ellipsis interference revisited: New evidence for feature markedness effects in retrieval	4
Prior context influences lexical competition when segmenting Chinese overlapping ambiguous strings	4
Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task	4
Cross-linguistic differences in gender congruency effects: Evidence from meta-analyses	4
Lexical choice and word formation in a taboo game paradigm	4
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty	3
SEAM: An integrated activation-coupled model of sentence processing and eye movements in reading	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
Editorial Board	3
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	3
Pragmatic inferencing influences the referential status of all potential referents in word learning	3
Corrigendum to “To catch a Snitch: Brain potentials reveal variability in the functional organization of (fictional) world knowledge during reading” [J. Memory Lang. 113 (2020) 104111]	3
Editorial Board	3
Effects of divided attention at encoding on specific and gist representations in working and long-term memory	3
Does grammatical gender affect object concepts? Registered replication of Phillips and Boroditsky (2003)	3
Content matters: Measures of contextual diversity must consider semantic content	3
Associations among attentional state, retrieval quality, and mnemonic discrimination	3
Moving experimental psychology online: How to obtain high quality data when we can’t see our participants	3
Editorial Board	3
Improving Reproducibility in the Journal of Memory and Language	3
Editorial Board	3
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	2
Semantic ambiguity and memory	2
Infrequent but adaptive outsourcing in recognition memory	2
Do particle verbs share a representation with their root verbs? Evidence from structural priming	2
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	2
Editorial Board	2
Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading	2
Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall	2
What’s in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation	2
The negative reminding effect: Reminding impairs memory for contextual information	2
True clauses and false connections	2
Editorial Board	2
Global matching in music familiarity: How musical features combine across memory traces to increase familiarity with the whole in which they are embedded	2
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure	2
A meta-analysis of syntactic priming experiments in children	2
Processing of linguistic focus depends on contrastive alternatives	2
Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children	2
Multimodal language processing: How preceding discourse constrains gesture interpretation and affects gesture integration when gestures do not synchronise with semantic affiliates	2
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	2
Towards a processing model for argument-verb computations in online sentence comprehension	2
Number attraction in verb and anaphor production	2
Categorical distinctiveness constrains the labeling benefit in visual working memory	2
What’s in my cluster? Evaluating automated clustering methods to understand idiosyncratic search behavior in verbal fluency	2
Autobiographical memory specificity and mnemonic discrimination	2
Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg	2
Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning	2