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2019-03-26

Nancy Azevedo, Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Kathleen Berkun, Alexandra Papathanasopoulos, Leen Yamani, Alexander Rokos, Eva Kehayia

A typical N400 event-related potential (ERP) component occurs when the brain detects a semantic contradiction and can be elicited by the canonical experiment where the final word of a sentence contradicts what a listener is expecting to hear. In the absence of an N400 elicitation paradigm in...

2019-01-21

Catherine Ford, Filip Nenadić, Daniel Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker

Contextually predictable, high frequency, competitor-dense words are often produced with less phonetically contrastive categories in spontaneous speech, often manifested with shorter durations. The present study investigates the role of temporal variation in the recognition of isolated words...

2019-03-26

Filip Nenadić, Benjamin V. Tucker

The TRACE model of spoken word recognition has been widely discussed and used, but was never implemented to simulate the auditory lexical decision task, particularly on a larger number of items. In this study, we attempt to model accuracy and latency estimates and compare the obtained values to...

2019-03-26

Grace C. Lin, Rachel N. Smith, Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, Masha R. Jones, Susanne M. Jaeggi

Previous research has shown that people are more likely to remember positive and negative words compared to neutral words. The present study investigates whether participants with varying language backgrounds would differentially remember words based on the words’ lexical feature of valence. In a...

2019-03-14

Skye J. Anderson, Jonathan A. Geary

We report on a visual masked priming study that tests whether English verbs are primed by their consonant graphemes in isolation (e.g. whether grw primes GROW) and whether priming for such prime-target pairs differs for regular versus irregular verbs (e.g. walk/ed vs. grow/grew, respectively). We...

2019-03-26

Graham Tomkins Feeny, Juhani Järvikivi, Benjamin V. Tucker

The present experiment investigated the role of vocal affect in spoken word recognition. Participants performed an auditory lexical decision task with stimuli articulated by a professional male actor with different acoustic realizations of vocal affect (Angry, Neutral, and Joyful). In addition,...

2019-03-25

Alma Luz Rodríguez-Lázaro, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Armando Q. Angulo-Chavira, Alina Signoret Dorcasberro

Lexical access has been suggested by Huettig and McQueen [4] to show cascade processing when auditory and visual information are presented to native speakers. The aim of this study was to determine whether cascade processing in Spanish-English bilinguals in a Mexican university is similar to that...

2019-03-14

Aleka Akoyunoglou Blackwell

This study illustrates how cluster analysis can be applied to vocabulary assessment to classify students into groups with similar profiles of vocabulary knowledge so that vocabulary instruction can be designed and targeted more precisely, especially in light of the multi-dimensional nature of the...

2019-03-26

Pearl Lorentzen, Filip Nenadić, Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

Although most auditory lexical decision experiments are performed in a laboratory setting, humans tend to communicate in uncontrolled and noisy environments. We investigated, indirectly, the impact of noise and other distractions on lexical processing. The present study used a subset of words...

2019-03-29

Karlina Denistia, Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, R. Harald Baayen

Indonesian has two prefixes which express a range of semantic functions (e.g. agent, instrument, patient). One prefix, PEN-, has six allomorphs (peng-, peny-, pe-, pen-, pem-, penge-). A second prefix, PE-, is described as having similar form and meaning as pe-. In this study, we used...