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Jonker, Tanya R.; MacLeod, Colin M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
McDaniel and Bugg (2008) proposed that relatively uncommon stimuli and encoding tasks encourage elaborative encoding of individual items (item-specific processing), whereas relatively typical or common encoding tasks encourage encoding of associations among list items (relational processing). It is this relational processing that is thought to…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Semantics, Interference (Learning)
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De Vega, Manuel; Rinck, Mike; Diaz, Jose; Leon, Inmaculada – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
Multiclause sentences with the temporal adverbs "while" or "when" referring to simultaneous events (e.g., "While [when] John was writing a letter, Mary comes into the room") were compared in German and Spanish. Following Talmy (2001), we assumed that the event in the main clause is the figure (F; the event to be located in time), and the event in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), German, English (Second Language)