Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Language Development

Language Development

Children master language quickly and with relative ease, supported by both biological predisposition and reinforcement. B. F. Skinner (1957) proposed that language is learned through reinforcement, while Noam Chomsky (1965) argued that language acquisition mechanisms are biologically determined.
The critical period for language acquisition suggests that the ability to acquire language is at its peak early in life. As people age, this proficiency decreases. Language development begins very...

Language and Cognition

Language and Cognition

Language serves as a bridge between ideas and communication, influencing how individuals perceive and interact with the world. Psychologists have long debated whether language shapes thought or vice versa. This discussion gained grip with Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s, who proposed that language determines thought, a concept known as linguistic determinism. They suggested that the vocabulary and structure of a language influence how its speakers think and perceive reality.

Higher Mental Functions of the Brain: Language

Higher Mental Functions of the Brain: Language

Language is a system of communication that allows the expression of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. The brain processes language in both hemispheres.
Language formation and comprehension take place in the dominant hemisphere. The dominant hemisphere is responsible for understanding the meaning of spoken, written, or sign language, as well as the ability to communicate. For most people, the left hemisphere is the dominant one. The right hemisphere, then, gives tone and emotional context to the...

First Impression

First Impression

First impressions play a crucial role in social perception, shaping how individuals assess others in professional, academic, and interpersonal contexts. Psychological research highlights the significance of cognitive biases, such as the primacy and recency effects, which influence how people interpret and recall information.The Primacy Effect and Cognitive AnchoringThe primacy effect describes the tendency for initial information to impact judgment disproportionately. When individuals encounter...

Lateralization

Lateralization

Brain lateralization refers to the division of mental processes and functions between the two hemispheres of the brain, a phenomenon that optimizes neural efficiency and underpins complex abilities in humans. This specialization allows each hemisphere to perform tasks where it has a comparative advantage, facilitating more refined cognitive capabilities across different domains.

Automatic Processing and Automatic Social Behavior

Automatic Processing and Automatic Social Behavior

Automatic processing refers to the cognitive operations that occur without conscious intent or awareness, playing a fundamental role in shaping social cognition and behavior. These processes enable individuals to navigate complex social environments efficiently by relying on mental shortcuts and pre-existing knowledge structures known as schemas. One of the most influential mechanisms underlying automatic processing is priming, which subtly activates mental representations through exposure to...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Early planning of response content and form when answering questions.

Psychonomic bulletin & review·2026

Same author

An investigation of the feeling that an inter-turn silence has lasted too long.

Psychonomic bulletin & review·2025

Same author

Hysteresis in reach planning and spatial demonstrative choice.

Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)·2025

Same author

Non-sentential responses to requests for information.

Memory & cognition·2024

Same author

Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information.

Language and speech·2023

Same author

A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE).

Psychonomic bulletin & review·2021

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jul 11, 2026

A Semantic Priming Event-related Potential (ERP) Task to Study Lexico-semantic and Visuo-semantic Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Semantic Priming Event-related Potential (ERP) Task to Study Lexico-semantic and Visuo-semantic Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Published on: April 12, 2018

Long-term structural priming affects subsequent patterns of language production.

Michael P Kaschak¹

¹Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA. kaschak@psy.fsu.edu

Memory & Cognition

|October 4, 2007

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Syntactic construction experience influences future production rates, impacting sentence generation across tasks. This study reveals how prior usage of double object (DO) and prepositional object (PO) constructions shapes language production.

More Related Videos

Dissociation of the Confounding Influences of Expectancy and Integrative Difficulty Residing in Anomalous Sentences in Event-related Potential Studies

Dissociation of the Confounding Influences of Expectancy and Integrative Difficulty Residing in Anomalous Sentences in Event-related Potential Studies

Published on: May 9, 2019

Examining Online Syntactic Processing of Spoken Complex Sentences in Chinese Using Dual-Modal Interference Tasks

Examining Online Syntactic Processing of Spoken Complex Sentences in Chinese Using Dual-Modal Interference Tasks

Published on: September 5, 2019

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jul 11, 2026

A Semantic Priming Event-related Potential (ERP) Task to Study Lexico-semantic and Visuo-semantic Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Semantic Priming Event-related Potential (ERP) Task to Study Lexico-semantic and Visuo-semantic Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Published on: April 12, 2018

Dissociation of the Confounding Influences of Expectancy and Integrative Difficulty Residing in Anomalous Sentences in Event-related Potential Studies

Dissociation of the Confounding Influences of Expectancy and Integrative Difficulty Residing in Anomalous Sentences in Event-related Potential Studies

Published on: May 9, 2019

Examining Online Syntactic Processing of Spoken Complex Sentences in Chinese Using Dual-Modal Interference Tasks

Examining Online Syntactic Processing of Spoken Complex Sentences in Chinese Using Dual-Modal Interference Tasks

Published on: September 5, 2019

Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Science
Computational Linguistics

Background:

Language production is influenced by prior linguistic experience.
The impact of experience on syntactic construction choice is a key area in psycholinguistics.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how experience producing specific syntactic constructions (double object and prepositional object) affects their future production rates.
To determine if experience patterns influence structural priming and sentence production across different task contexts.

Main Methods:

Three experiments manipulated participants' experience with double object (DO) and prepositional object (PO) constructions.
Participants produced sentences with varying proportions of DO and PO constructions.
Subsequent sentence production was analyzed to assess the effects of manipulated experience.

Main Results:

Experience patterns with DO and PO constructions significantly affected their base production rates.
Experience did not alter the strength of structural priming between specific prime and target sentences.
The influence of experience on production persisted even when the language production task changed.

Conclusions:

Prior production experience with syntactic constructions modulates their future usage frequency.
Structural priming effects are distinct from the base rate changes driven by production experience.
Language production is adaptable, with experience shaping choices even in varied contexts.