Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

Object ownership changes how people perceive objects and self through psychological
ownership—the feeling that a thing is MINE. Psychological ownership usually tracks legal …

Word associations have been used widely in psychology, but the validity of their application
strongly depends on the number of cues included in the study and the extent to which they …

The book overviews a wide range of vocabulary research methodologies, and offers
practical advice on how to carry out valid and reliable research on first and second language …

Preexisting word knowledge is accessed in many cognitive tasks, and this article offers a
means for indexing this knowledge so that it can be manipulated or controlled. We offer free …

Processing language requires the retrieval of concepts from memory in response to an
ongoing stream of information. This retrieval is facilitated if one can infer the gist of a …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

Research on implicit cognition and addiction has expanded greatly during the past decade.
This research area provides new ways to understand why people engage in behaviors that …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …

The authors present a computational model that builds a holographic lexicon representing
both word meaning and word order from unsupervised experience with natural language …