Recalling people we know is a key cognitive function, influencing studies of contagious disease, how we see our relative position in the world, and who we invite to our weddings. Whereas social memory has often been studied independently from other memory research (e.g., Bond et al., 1985; Brewer et al., 1995), we focus here on possible parallels with search in other domains—in particular the t...

We will attempt to show how human performance limitations on various types of syntactic embedding constructions in Germanic languages can be modelled in a relational network linguistic framework. After arguing against centralized data stores such as pushdown stacks and queues, we will demonstrate how interconnections among levels of linguistic structure can account for many of the psycholinguis...