OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Memory and Language is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Flexible utilization of spatial representation formats in working Memory: Evidence from both small-scale and large-scale environments	144
Working memory capacity limit is dependent on encoding granularity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese	76
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi	39
Pragmatic effects on semantic learnability: Insights from evidentiality	38
Production increases both true and false recognition	37
The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming	33
Editorial Board	27
Ellipsis interference revisited: New evidence for feature markedness effects in retrieval	25
Knowing a translation pair by the cross-linguistic company it keeps: cross-linguistic context consistency shapes semantic overlap in bilingual conceptual representation	23
Editorial Board	22
Judgments of learning enhance elaborative rather than relational processing: Implications from phonologically related and phonological-semantic mediated pairs	18
Editorial Board	17
Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study	17
Improving Reproducibility in the Journal of Memory and Language	17
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics	15
The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns	14
Exploring the role of sublexical information in speech perception and misperception	14
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords	14
Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall	14
Editorial Board	14
Incremental alternative sampling as a lens into the temporal and representational resolution of linguistic prediction	13
Action and abstraction: Motor interference changes meaning in language understanding	13
Editorial Board	12
The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations	12
The representation of agreement features in memory is updated during sentence processing: Evidence from verb-reflexive interactions	12

Memory retrieval in discourse: Illusions of coherence during presupposition resolution	11
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events	11
Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production	11
Segmental contributions to prosodic weight in processing English auxiliary contractions	11
Intermediate decisional and response states in lexical decision: evidence from electromyography and metacognitive confidence ratings	11
The impact of emotional states on bilingual language control in cued and voluntary switching contexts	11
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference	10
Editorial Board	10
Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set	10
Understanding words in context: A naturalistic EEG study of children’s lexical processing	10
The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems	10
Understanding the complexity of computational models through optimization and sloppy parameter analyses: The case of the Connectionist Dual-Process Model	10
Individual differences in working memory and the benefit of retrieval practice	10
What roles do constituents play in the identification of Chinese compound words? A meta-analytic review	9
Exploring the animacy effect in focal prospective memory tasks: When animates don’t stand out	9
Agents’ goals affect construal of event endpoints	9
What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences	9
Editorial Board	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
Evidence of cross-domain phase entrainment effects between nonspeech tones and speech sounds	8
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables	8
How reliable are standard reading time analyses? Hierarchical bootstrap reveals substantial power over-optimism and scale-dependent Type I error inflation	8
Do readers here what they sea?: Effects of lexicality, predictability, and individual differences on the phonological preview benefit	8
Editorial Board	8
On idle idols and ugly icons: Investigating lexical selection in typing through homophones	8
Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty	7
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure	7
Effects of specific negative emotions on the retrieval dynamics underlying recognition memory decisions	7
Examining the roles of regularity and lexical class in 18–26-month-olds’ representations of how words sound	7
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production	7
Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling	7
Effects of delayed testing on decisions to stop learning	7
The importance of attention for variation in learning to learn	7
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
Investigating the cognitive correlates of semantic and perceptual false memory in older and younger adults: A multi-group latent variable approach	6
Corrigendum to “Prediction involves two stages: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking” [J. Memory Lang. 122 (2022) 104298]	6
Producing filler-gap dependencies: Structural priming evidence for two distinct combinatorial processes in production	6
The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners	6
Editorial Board	6
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement	6
Editorial Board	6
The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses	6
The testing effect with free recall: Organization, attention, and order effects	6
Animacy outweighs topichood when choosing pronouns and word order	6
Parafoveal processing of Chinese four-character idioms and phrases in reading: Evidence for multi-constituent unit hypothesis	6