Jerwen Jou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3839271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerwen Jou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Jou |
| SIGNATURE | JOU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3056-5059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Under What Condition Does Additive Unconscious Priming Only Occur
In the research on unconscious information processing using the masking priming method, there are still controversies regarding whether participants truly unconsciously processed the presented stimuli. The reasons for the controversies mainly stem from the intensity of the masking and the consistency of criterion adopted among different researchers. Two recent studies found that two sources of unconscious stimuli could produce an additive priming…
Relations among degree of bilingualism and bilateral information processing in children and adults
Aims and objectives: The primary goal of this study was to examine whether degree of bilingualism related to dichotic listening accuracy, a measure of bilateral processing, after controlling for age and income. Methodology: Participants included 59 children ages 6–11 years ( M = 7.86, SD = 1.81) and 61 adults (18–83 years) ( M = 34.02, SD = 15.70). Participants completed demographic surveys, vocabulary assessments in English and Spanish, and a di…
Asymmetric item isolation effects
This study used an odd (isolated) item inserted into a homogeneous serial list to investigate process differences between absolute- and relative-order judgments. The serial list consisted of eight names of people ordered in height. These were all male or female names except the fourth name which was of the opposite gender. A name/rank pair accuracy recognition test was used as the absolute judgment, and a comparative judgment (comparing height ra…
Can an isolated middle-series item make a “Dent” in the bow-shaped serial-position curve of comparative judgments
Multiple sources of unconscious-information processing affect a single response
At present there is little knowledge on whether and how multiple pieces of unconscious information can simultaneously affect a single conscious response. In the present study, we manipulated the congruency relation between a masked prime arrow and the target arrow, as well as that between masked flankers and the target arrow. The results demonstrated that the masked prime and flankers produced independent unconscious priming effects on the respon…
A memory-interference versus the “dud”-effect account of a DRM false memory result
Redefining the Congruity Effect in Comparative Judgments
This article reviews major theories about the congruity effect (CE) in comparative judgments and reports 2 experiments further testing a newly proposed theory. The congruity effect is the phenomenon that in a comparative judgment, when the comparative in the instruction (“choose larger” or “choose smaller”) matches the magnitude of the 2 items being compared (“choose larger” when the two items are large, “choose smaller” when the two items are sm…
Why Are Trial-by-Trial, Strength-Based Criterion Shifts Hard to Observe? Is the Difficulty in the Mental Process Itself or in the Typical Cued Criterion Method
In the cued criterion recognition paradigm (Stretch & Wixted, 1998b), trial-by-trial memory strength-based criterion shifts have been an elusive phenomenon. Often the criterion shifts do not occur. We suggest that the frequent failure in making criterion shifts in the literature is caused by participants’ failure to understand the rationale of the task as typically presented in an abstract format. In this study, participants studied words once or…
Combining two separate series into a single ordering
This study examined the differential effects of an absolute versus a relative judgment task on the retrieval of the border-position items after the combining of two separate serial lists. Under the absolute judgment condition (Experiment 1), the border-position items showed a local distinctiveness effect (faster judgment on these items than on the neighboring items), consistent with the prediction of the local distinctiveness theory of order memo…
The Semantic Integration Between Two Subliminally Perceived Words Simultaneously Presented at Different Locations
Why seemingly more difficult test conditions produce more accurate recognition of semantic prototype words
Can people strategically control the encoding and retrieval of some morphologic and typographic details of words
This study investigated whether the encoding and retrieval of plurality information and letter-case information of words in recognition memory can be inhibited. Response-deadline experiments (Hintzman & Curran, 1994) using single words have indicted a controlled processing mode, whereas studies using meaningful sentences (e.g., Jou & Harris, 1991) have indicated an automatic mode of processing plurality information. Two similar opposing views hav…
Conscious and unconscious discriminations between true and false memories
Reading inflectionally incogruent texts
Event order versus syntactic structure in recall of adverbial complex sentences
Event order versus syntactic structure in recall of adverbial complex sentences
Reading inflectionally incogruent texts
Conscious and unconscious discriminations between true and false memories
Can people strategically control the encoding and retrieval of some morphologic and typographic details of words
This study investigated whether the encoding and retrieval of plurality information and letter-case information of words in recognition memory can be inhibited. Response-deadline experiments (Hintzman & Curran, 1994) using single words have indicted a controlled processing mode, whereas studies using meaningful sentences (e.g., Jou & Harris, 1991) have indicated an automatic mode of processing plurality information. Two similar opposing views hav…
Why seemingly more difficult test conditions produce more accurate recognition of semantic prototype words
Combining two separate series into a single ordering
This study examined the differential effects of an absolute versus a relative judgment task on the retrieval of the border-position items after the combining of two separate serial lists. Under the absolute judgment condition (Experiment 1), the border-position items showed a local distinctiveness effect (faster judgment on these items than on the neighboring items), consistent with the prediction of the local distinctiveness theory of order memo…
The Semantic Integration Between Two Subliminally Perceived Words Simultaneously Presented at Different Locations
Redefining the Congruity Effect in Comparative Judgments
This article reviews major theories about the congruity effect (CE) in comparative judgments and reports 2 experiments further testing a newly proposed theory. The congruity effect is the phenomenon that in a comparative judgment, when the comparative in the instruction (“choose larger” or “choose smaller”) matches the magnitude of the 2 items being compared (“choose larger” when the two items are large, “choose smaller” when the two items are sm…
Why Are Trial-by-Trial, Strength-Based Criterion Shifts Hard to Observe? Is the Difficulty in the Mental Process Itself or in the Typical Cued Criterion Method
In the cued criterion recognition paradigm (Stretch & Wixted, 1998b), trial-by-trial memory strength-based criterion shifts have been an elusive phenomenon. Often the criterion shifts do not occur. We suggest that the frequent failure in making criterion shifts in the literature is caused by participants’ failure to understand the rationale of the task as typically presented in an abstract format. In this study, participants studied words once or…
A memory-interference versus the “dud”-effect account of a DRM false memory result
Can an isolated middle-series item make a “Dent” in the bow-shaped serial-position curve of comparative judgments
Multiple sources of unconscious-information processing affect a single response
At present there is little knowledge on whether and how multiple pieces of unconscious information can simultaneously affect a single conscious response. In the present study, we manipulated the congruency relation between a masked prime arrow and the target arrow, as well as that between masked flankers and the target arrow. The results demonstrated that the masked prime and flankers produced independent unconscious priming effects on the respon…
Under What Condition Does Additive Unconscious Priming Only Occur
In the research on unconscious information processing using the masking priming method, there are still controversies regarding whether participants truly unconsciously processed the presented stimuli. The reasons for the controversies mainly stem from the intensity of the masking and the consistency of criterion adopted among different researchers. Two recent studies found that two sources of unconscious stimuli could produce an additive priming…
Relations among degree of bilingualism and bilateral information processing in children and adults
Aims and objectives: The primary goal of this study was to examine whether degree of bilingualism related to dichotic listening accuracy, a measure of bilateral processing, after controlling for age and income. Methodology: Participants included 59 children ages 6–11 years ( M = 7.86, SD = 1.81) and 61 adults (18–83 years) ( M = 34.02, SD = 15.70). Participants completed demographic surveys, vocabulary assessments in English and Spanish, and a di…
Asymmetric item isolation effects
This study used an odd (isolated) item inserted into a homogeneous serial list to investigate process differences between absolute- and relative-order judgments. The serial list consisted of eight names of people ordered in height. These were all male or female names except the fourth name which was of the opposite gender. A name/rank pair accuracy recognition test was used as the absolute judgment, and a comparative judgment (comparing height ra…
Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (5 works) · Recall (5 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (3 works)