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Bad after bad is good: previous trial disfluency reduces interference promoted by incongruence
Conflict and perceptual disfluency have been shown to lead to adaptive, sequential, control adjustments. Here, we propose that these effects can be...
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Linguistic features of spontaneous speech predict conversational recall
Empirical studies of conversational recall show that the amount of conversation that can be recalled after a delay is limited and biased in favor of...
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Probing the effect of perceptual (dis)fluency on metacognitive judgments
Despite research showing that perceptually fluent stimuli (i.e., stimuli that are easier to process) are given higher judgment of learning (JOL)...
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Cooking through perceptual disfluencies: The effects of auditory and visual distortions on predicted and actual memory performance
The current study investigated the joint contribution of visual and auditory disfluencies, or distortions, to actual and predicted memory performance...
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The impact of auditory distraction on reading comprehension: An individual differences investigation
Background noise disrupts auditory selective attention and impairs performance on cognitive tasks, but the degree to which it is disruptive depends...
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Real-time social reasoning: the effect of disfluency on the meaning of some
The scalar quantifier some is locally ambiguous between pragmatic (some-but-not-all) and literal (some-and-possibly-all) meanings. Although...
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Intrinsic Motivation and Speech Production in Saudi EFL College Students
This study aims to introduce a conceptual model that evaluates six variables, and their indicators, on a sample of 148 Saudi EFL students in their...
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Would disfluency by any other name still be disfluent? Examining the disfluency effect with cursive handwriting
When exposed to words presented under perceptually disfluent conditions (e.g., words written in Haettenschweiler font), participants have difficulty...
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Distinctive Sans Forgetica font does not benefit memory accuracy in the DRM paradigm
A common method used by memory scholars to enhance retention is to make materials more challenging to learn—a benefit termed desirable difficulties....
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One fish, uh, two fish: Effects of fluency and bilingualism on adults’ novel word learning
Listeners utilize speech disfluencies to anticipate novelty in spoken language, but little is known about how speech disfluencies impact novel word...
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The process-disruption hypothesis: how spelling and typing skill affects written composition process and product
This study investigates the possibility that lack of fluency in spelling and/or typing disrupts writing processes in such a way as to cause damage to...
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Cognitive Processes and Translation Quality: Evidence from Keystroke-Logging Software
This study investigates the relationship between cognitive processes and translation quality in the context of English–Arabic translations of...
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Veritable Untruths: Autistic Traits and the Processing of Deception
How do we decide whether a statement is literally true? Here, we contrast participants’ eventual evaluations of a speaker’s meaning with the...
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“Um” and “Uh” Usage Patterns in Children with Autism: Associations with Measures of Structural and Pragmatic Language Ability
Pragmatic language difficulties, including unusual filler usage, are common among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This study...
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Will Using a Foreign Language Attenuate the Neophobia?
In two experiments, we tested whether using a foreign language attenuates neophobia at the lexical (Experiment 1) and discoursal (Experiment 2)...
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Delayed onset facilitates subsequent retrieval of words during language comprehension
Prior research has shown that during language comprehension, memory representations associated with premodified words (e.g., the injured and dangerous...
