Schemata and associative processes in pragmatics

Associative processes in intuitive judgment.

Dual-system models of reasoning attribute errors of judgment to two failures: the automatic operations of a 'System 1' generate a faulty intuition, which the controlled operations of a 'System 2' fail to detect and correct. We identify System 1 with the automatic operations of associative memory and draw on research in the priming paradigm to describe how it operates. We explain how three featu...

Associative processes in immediate recency.

Some theorists have argued that the immediate recency effect observed in free recall reflects the emptying out of the contents of a short-term memory buffer (Davelaar, Goshen-Gottstein, Ashkenazi, Haarmann, & Usher, 2005). Others have argued that immediate recency reflects the properties of temporal context used to cue free recall (Howard & Kahana, 2002). We examined immediate free recall of li...

Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication

RUNNING HEAD: Cognitive Processes in Categorical and Associative Priming Cognitive Processes in Associative and Categorical Priming: A Diffusion Model Analysis

Cognitive processes and mechanisms underlying different forms of priming were investigated using a diffusion model approach. In a series of six experiments, effects of prime-target associations and of a semantic and affective categorical match of prime and target were analyzed for different tasks. Significant associative and categorical priming effects were found in standard analyses of RTs and...

Associative Omega-product of Processes

The notion of an associative omega-product is applied to processes. Processes are one of the ways to represent behavior of Petri nets. They have been studied for some years as an alternative to traces and dependence graphs. One advantage of processes, as compared to traces, is a very simple way to define infinite concatenation. We take a closer look at this operation, and show that it is a free...