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Direct linkFarrell, Meagan T.; Abrams, Lise – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Syllable frequency has been shown to facilitate production in some languages but has yielded inconsistent results in English and has never been examined in older adults. Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states represent a unique type of production failure where the phonology of a word is unable to be retrieved, suggesting that the frequency of phonological…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Barriers, Phonology, Syllables
White, Katherine K.; Abrams, Lise – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
In 2 experiments, the authors investigated phonologically mediated priming of preexisting and new associations in word retrieval. Young and older adults completed paired word stems with the first word that came to mind. Priming of preexisting associations occurred when word-stem pairs containing homophones (e.g., beech-s____) showed more…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes, Age Differences, Older Adults
