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Kubit, Benjamin M.; Janata, Petr – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Involuntary musical imagery (INMI; more commonly known as "earworms" or having a song "stuck in your head") is a common musical phenomenon and one of the most salient examples of spontaneous cognition. Despite the ubiquitous nature of INMI in the general population, functional roles of INMI remain to be fully established and…
Descriptors: Music, Memory, Probability, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Abbott, Matthew J.; Angele, Bernhard; Ahn, Y. Danbi; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Readers tend to skip words, particularly when they are short, frequent, or predictable. Angele and Rayner (2013) recently reported that readers are often unable to detect syntactic anomalies in parafoveal vision. In the present study, we manipulated target word predictability to assess whether contextual constraint modulates…
Descriptors: Syntax, Experimental Psychology, Prediction, Context Effect
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Miller, Michael B.; Guerin, Scott A.; Wolford, George L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The false memory effect produced by the Deese/Roediger & McDermott (DRM) paradigm is reportedly impervious to warnings to avoid false alarming to the critical lures (D. A. Gallo, H. L. Roediger III, & K. B. McDermott, 2001). This finding has been used as strong evidence against models that attribute the false alarms to a decision…
Descriptors: Models, Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Test Items