TY - JOUR
T1 - Negative sentences exhibit a sustained effect in delayed verification tasks
AU - Agmon, Galit
AU - Loewenstein, Yonatan
AU - Grodzinsky, Yosef
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Negated sentences are known to be more cognitively taxing than positive ones (i.e., polarity effect). We present evidence that two factors contribute to the polarity effect in verification tasks: processing the sentence and verifying its truth value. To quantify the relative contribution of each, we used a delayed verification task. The results show that even when participants are given a considerable amount of time for processing the sentence prior to verification, the polarity effect is not entirely eliminated. We suggest that this sustained effect stems from a retained negation-containing representation in working memory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
AB - Negated sentences are known to be more cognitively taxing than positive ones (i.e., polarity effect). We present evidence that two factors contribute to the polarity effect in verification tasks: processing the sentence and verifying its truth value. To quantify the relative contribution of each, we used a delayed verification task. The results show that even when participants are given a considerable amount of time for processing the sentence prior to verification, the polarity effect is not entirely eliminated. We suggest that this sustained effect stems from a retained negation-containing representation in working memory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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U2 - 10.1037/xlm0001059
DO - 10.1037/xlm0001059
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C2 - 35254842
AN - SCOPUS:85125980223
SN - 0278-7393
VL - 48
SP - 122
EP - 141
JO - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
IS - 1
ER -