Sentence recall with second stratum cues

Superiority of Free Recall to Cued Recall with "Strong" Cues

Subjects encoded homographs (e.g., iron) in one of two contexts, produced by preceding them with words from two different categories to which the item belonged (e.g., items that were metals or utensils). Later, subjects were tested either under free-recall conditions, or with one or the other of the category names that were either congruous or incongruous with the original encoding of the targe...

Gestural Cues for Sentence Segmentation

In human-human dialogues, face-to-face meetings are often preferred over phone conversations. One explanation is that non-verbal modalities such as gesture provide additional information, making communication more efficient and accurate. If so, computer processing of natural language could improve by attending to non-verbal modalities as well. We consider the problem of sentence segmentation, u...

Working memory and binding in sentence recall

0749-596X/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.05.004 * Corresponding author. Fax: +44 (0)1904 433181 E-mail address: [email protected] (G.J. Hitch). A series of experiments explored whether chunking in short-termmemory for verbal materials depends on attentionally limited executive processes. Secondary tasks were used to disrupt components of working memory and chunking wa...

Perceptual cues for sentence intonation in Greek

This is a study of intonational cues for the perception of statements and polar questions in Greek. A two-part experiment was conducted with synthetic stimuli with manipulated intonation targets in stress groups, from statement to question and vice versa. According to the results, the critical perceptual cue is the boundary tone, which led listeners to identify stimuli as the reverse sentence t...

Cues, constraints, and competition in sentence processing