Semantic and Syntactic Associations During Word Search Modulate the Relationship Between Attention and Subsequent Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10122995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wei Zhou (0000-0002-0849-1524, Capital Normal University), Fei Mo (0000-0002-2184-4144, Capital Normal University), Yunhong Zhang (0000-0002-2899-5068, China National Institute of Standardization), Jinhong Ding (0000-0003-3574-9508, Capital Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 144 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-88 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.2016.1258389 |
| PMID | 28098521 |
| OpenAlex | W2575008995 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
Two experiments were conducted to investigate how linguistic information influences attention allocation in visual search and memory for words. In Experiment 1, participants searched for the synonym of a cue word among five words. The distractors included one antonym and three unrelated words. In Experiment 2, participants were asked to judge whether the five words presented on the screen comprise a valid sentence. The relationships among words were sentential, semantically related or unrelated. A memory recognition task followed. Results in both experiments showed that linguistically related words produced better memory performance. We also found that there were significant interactions between linguistic relation conditions and memorization on eye-movement measures, indicating that good memory for words relied on frequent and long fixations during search in the unrelated condition but to a much lesser extent in linguistically related conditions. We conclude that semantic and syntactic associations attenuate the link between overt attention allocation and subsequent memory performance, suggesting that linguistic relatedness can somewhat compensate for a relative lack of attention during word search
Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Memorization · Natural language processing · Sentence · Synonym (taxonomy · Task (project management · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |