TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of partner-specific memory associations on language production
T2 - Evidence from picture naming
AU - Horton, William
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to William S. Horton, Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2710, USA. E-mail: whorton@northwestern.edu I would like to think Daniel Spieler and Zenzi Griffin for initial discussions about this project, and Imani Johnson, Monal Rajani, Nikhil Patil, and Christie Spence for serving as the experimental partners. Christie Spence deserves special thanks for her assistance with data coding and analysis. Richard Gerrig, Sarah Haywood, David Rapp, and two anonymous reviewers provided helpful feedback on previous versions of this paper. This material is based upon work supported by the National Institutes of Health under Grants No. T32 AG00175 and R03 MH073805.
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - In typical interactions, speakers frequently produce utterances that appear to reflect beliefs about the common ground shared with particular addressees. Horton and Gerrig (2005a) proposed that one important basis for audience design is the manner in which conversational partners serve as cues for the automatic retrieval of associated information from memory. This paper reports the results of two experiments demonstrating the influence of partner-specific memory associations on language production. Following an initial task designed to establish associations between specific words (Experiment 1) or object categories (Experiment 2) and each of two partners, participants named a series of pictures in the context of the same two individuals. Naming latencies were shortest for responses associated with the current partner, and were not significantly correlated with explicit recall of partner-item associations. Such partner-driven memory retrieval may constrain the information accessible to speakers as they produce utterances for particular addressees.
AB - In typical interactions, speakers frequently produce utterances that appear to reflect beliefs about the common ground shared with particular addressees. Horton and Gerrig (2005a) proposed that one important basis for audience design is the manner in which conversational partners serve as cues for the automatic retrieval of associated information from memory. This paper reports the results of two experiments demonstrating the influence of partner-specific memory associations on language production. Following an initial task designed to establish associations between specific words (Experiment 1) or object categories (Experiment 2) and each of two partners, participants named a series of pictures in the context of the same two individuals. Naming latencies were shortest for responses associated with the current partner, and were not significantly correlated with explicit recall of partner-item associations. Such partner-driven memory retrieval may constrain the information accessible to speakers as they produce utterances for particular addressees.
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U2 - 10.1080/01690960701402933
DO - 10.1080/01690960701402933
M3 - Article
C2 - 18584063
AN - SCOPUS:41149122599
SN - 0169-0965
VL - 22
SP - 1114
EP - 1139
JO - Language and Cognitive Processes
JF - Language and Cognitive Processes
IS - 7
ER -