Jerome L Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3884993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome L Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome L |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Processing an Anaphor When There Is No Antecedent
In 5 experiments, participants read passages with sentences containing a categorical anaphoric reference. The exemplar referred to was either present in the passage, present but negated, or absent from the passage. Reading times were at least as fast when the exemplar was absent as when it was present, and reading times were slowest when the exemplar was negated. Naming and recognition probe data from several experiments demonstrated that the exe…
Availability and Accessibility of Information and Causal Inferences From Scientific Text
In these experiments, we examine inferences from simple scientific passages that provided all inference-relevant information for the reader. In Experiment 1, we use a contradiction paradigm to test whether readers compute causal bridging inferences from scientific text. In Experiments 2 and 3, we use the same methodology but vary the availability of the critical information by manipulating the distance between critical pieces of information. The …
Semantic and Episodic Effects on Bridging Inferences
In 3 experiments, participants read pairs of sentences requiring a bridging inference between a category in 1 sentence and a typical or atypical exemplar of that category in the following sentence. In Experiments 2 and 3, the critical pair of sentences was preceded by several lines of text in which the exemplar was introduced and then backgrounded by a shift in topic. Accessibility of the earlier mentioned exemplar was manipulated by varying the …
Syntactic Focusing Structures Influence Discourse Processing
In 5 experiments, we investigated how syntactic focusing structures such as "There was this . . ." and "It was the . . ." influence discourse processing during reading. In Experiment 1, participants read brief stories and continued them by writing sentences of their own. Constituents introduced with a focusing structure were more likely to be referred to in story continuations than were concepts introduced with a neutral determiner (a, an, or the…
Accessing distant text information during reading: Effects of contextual cues
In 5 experiments, we investigated conditions under which readers access distant information. Participants read texts containing 2 episodes; the first of which described a goal that was satisfied or unsatisfied. Following the 2nd episode, participants read a statement that reinstated some part of the goal context. Experiments 1 through 3 demonstrated that reactivation of unsatisfied goal information depended on the type of original goal context an…
Accessing the discourse representation during reading
The process of text comprehension requires the integration of the information in the sentence currently being read with information previously read. This, in turn, implies that information presented earlier in the text must be accessed. We present a view of that access process as one in which concepts and propositions in the discourse representation resonate in response to related elements in the current sentence, initiating a process that makes …
Regression analyses of repeated measures data in cognitive research.
Degree of causal relatedness and memory
Repeated measurements of dichotomous variables: Q and F tests
Repeated measurements of dichotomous variables: Q and F tests
Group dynamics and individual performances: Pseudogroup and quasi-F analyses
A comparison of two procedures for testing multiple contrasts
Some Personality Correlates of Risk Taking
(1966). Some Personality Correlates of Risk Taking. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 51-60
Effects of Success and Instructions on Verbalized Expectancies and Amount Bet in a Two-Choice Situation
Ss were told that their success in a two-choice situation would depend on either chance or skill. Their predictions of success on future trials, as well as their willingness to gamble on their performance, were studied as functions both of instructions and of actual level of success as manipulated by E. The major findings were: (a) Ss who were more successful during the training trials had significantly greater verbalized expectancies and bet sig…
A Sequential Analysis of Gambling Behavior
Some Parameters of Risk-Taking Behavior
Range of Payoffs and Feedback in Risk Taking
Range of Payoffs and Feedback in Risk Taking
Secondary Reinforcement in a Discrimination Problem
On the interaction of two scaled variables
The Statistical Analysis of Some Group Experiments
(1959). The Statistical Analysis of Some Group Experiments. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 205-210
Exact probability treatments of factorial designs
Secondary reinforcement: A review of recent experimentation
Accessing the discourse representation during reading
The process of text comprehension requires the integration of the information in the sentence currently being read with information previously read. This, in turn, implies that information presented earlier in the text must be accessed. We present a view of that access process as one in which concepts and propositions in the discourse representation resonate in response to related elements in the current sentence, initiating a process that makes …
Accessing distant text information during reading: Effects of contextual cues
In 5 experiments, we investigated conditions under which readers access distant information. Participants read texts containing 2 episodes; the first of which described a goal that was satisfied or unsatisfied. Following the 2nd episode, participants read a statement that reinstated some part of the goal context. Experiments 1 through 3 demonstrated that reactivation of unsatisfied goal information depended on the type of original goal context an…
Semantic and Episodic Effects on Bridging Inferences
In 3 experiments, participants read pairs of sentences requiring a bridging inference between a category in 1 sentence and a typical or atypical exemplar of that category in the following sentence. In Experiments 2 and 3, the critical pair of sentences was preceded by several lines of text in which the exemplar was introduced and then backgrounded by a shift in topic. Accessibility of the earlier mentioned exemplar was manipulated by varying the …
Syntactic Focusing Structures Influence Discourse Processing
In 5 experiments, we investigated how syntactic focusing structures such as "There was this . . ." and "It was the . . ." influence discourse processing during reading. In Experiment 1, participants read brief stories and continued them by writing sentences of their own. Constituents introduced with a focusing structure were more likely to be referred to in story continuations than were concepts introduced with a neutral determiner (a, an, or the…
Processing an Anaphor When There Is No Antecedent
In 5 experiments, participants read passages with sentences containing a categorical anaphoric reference. The exemplar referred to was either present in the passage, present but negated, or absent from the passage. Reading times were at least as fast when the exemplar was absent as when it was present, and reading times were slowest when the exemplar was negated. Naming and recognition probe data from several experiments demonstrated that the exe…
Availability and Accessibility of Information and Causal Inferences From Scientific Text
In these experiments, we examine inferences from simple scientific passages that provided all inference-relevant information for the reader. In Experiment 1, we use a contradiction paradigm to test whether readers compute causal bridging inferences from scientific text. In Experiments 2 and 3, we use the same methodology but vary the availability of the critical information by manipulating the distance between critical pieces of information. The …
Some Personality Correlates of Risk Taking
(1966). Some Personality Correlates of Risk Taking. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 51-60
A comparison of two procedures for testing multiple contrasts
A Sequential Analysis of Gambling Behavior
Exact probability treatments of factorial designs
Secondary reinforcement: A review of recent experimentation
On the interaction of two scaled variables
The Statistical Analysis of Some Group Experiments
(1959). The Statistical Analysis of Some Group Experiments. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 205-210
Some Parameters of Risk-Taking Behavior
Range of Payoffs and Feedback in Risk Taking
Range of Payoffs and Feedback in Risk Taking
Secondary Reinforcement in a Discrimination Problem
A Sequential Analysis of Gambling Behavior
Effects of Success and Instructions on Verbalized Expectancies and Amount Bet in a Two-Choice Situation
Ss were told that their success in a two-choice situation would depend on either chance or skill. Their predictions of success on future trials, as well as their willingness to gamble on their performance, were studied as functions both of instructions and of actual level of success as manipulated by E. The major findings were: (a) Ss who were more successful during the training trials had significantly greater verbalized expectancies and bet sig…
Some Personality Correlates of Risk Taking
(1966). Some Personality Correlates of Risk Taking. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 51-60
A comparison of two procedures for testing multiple contrasts
Group dynamics and individual performances: Pseudogroup and quasi-F analyses
Repeated measurements of dichotomous variables: Q and F tests
Repeated measurements of dichotomous variables: Q and F tests
Degree of causal relatedness and memory
Regression analyses of repeated measures data in cognitive research.
Accessing distant text information during reading: Effects of contextual cues
In 5 experiments, we investigated conditions under which readers access distant information. Participants read texts containing 2 episodes; the first of which described a goal that was satisfied or unsatisfied. Following the 2nd episode, participants read a statement that reinstated some part of the goal context. Experiments 1 through 3 demonstrated that reactivation of unsatisfied goal information depended on the type of original goal context an…
Accessing the discourse representation during reading
The process of text comprehension requires the integration of the information in the sentence currently being read with information previously read. This, in turn, implies that information presented earlier in the text must be accessed. We present a view of that access process as one in which concepts and propositions in the discourse representation resonate in response to related elements in the current sentence, initiating a process that makes …
Semantic and Episodic Effects on Bridging Inferences
In 3 experiments, participants read pairs of sentences requiring a bridging inference between a category in 1 sentence and a typical or atypical exemplar of that category in the following sentence. In Experiments 2 and 3, the critical pair of sentences was preceded by several lines of text in which the exemplar was introduced and then backgrounded by a shift in topic. Accessibility of the earlier mentioned exemplar was manipulated by varying the …
Syntactic Focusing Structures Influence Discourse Processing
In 5 experiments, we investigated how syntactic focusing structures such as "There was this . . ." and "It was the . . ." influence discourse processing during reading. In Experiment 1, participants read brief stories and continued them by writing sentences of their own. Constituents introduced with a focusing structure were more likely to be referred to in story continuations than were concepts introduced with a neutral determiner (a, an, or the…
Availability and Accessibility of Information and Causal Inferences From Scientific Text
In these experiments, we examine inferences from simple scientific passages that provided all inference-relevant information for the reader. In Experiment 1, we use a contradiction paradigm to test whether readers compute causal bridging inferences from scientific text. In Experiments 2 and 3, we use the same methodology but vary the availability of the critical information by manipulating the distance between critical pieces of information. The …
Processing an Anaphor When There Is No Antecedent
In 5 experiments, participants read passages with sentences containing a categorical anaphoric reference. The exemplar referred to was either present in the passage, present but negated, or absent from the passage. Reading times were at least as fast when the exemplar was absent as when it was present, and reading times were slowest when the exemplar was negated. Naming and recognition probe data from several experiments demonstrated that the exe…
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