Generated experiments

Every worked design in the lexsync repository ships as a browser experiment, written by the same pipeline that emits the PsychoPy and OpenSesame scripts and rendered from the same declarative event list. These are build artefacts rather than mock-ups. Each is a single HTML file carrying its own trial list, so it runs by being opened.

Factorial word contrast

Reproducing Andrews (1989): frequency x orthographic neighbourhood size (Coltheart's N), a 2x2 lexical-decision design with every cell matched on length.

Englishen_andrews_repro

Factorial word contrast

High versus low frequency English words, matched on length, neighbourhood density and OLD20, dealt into four counterbalancing lists that are themselves equated on those dimensions.

Englishen_balanced_lists

Categorisation

Cued semantic categorisation: concrete nouns judged against a narrow or a broad category cue, Latin-square counterbalanced over two lists so no target repeats within a list.

Englishen_categorisation

Continuous predictor

English words spanning the frequency range continuously, with length, neighbourhood density and OLD20 held near-constant, for regression / mixed-model analysis.

Englishen_freqcontinuous

Factorial word contrast

High versus low frequency English words, matched on length, neighbourhood density and OLD20.

Englishen_freqcontrast

Lexical decision

Lexical decision: real words versus length-matched, orthographically legal pseudowords (deterministically generated).

Englishen_lexdec

Lexical decision

English lexical decision with a feedback-bearing practice block and interleaved fillers, neither of which is analysed.

Englishen_lexdec_blocks

Lexical decision

Lexical decision with subsyllabic (Wuggy-style) pseudowords: real words versus length-matched pseudowords built by swapping whole onset/nucleus/coda constituents.

Englishen_lexdec_wuggy

Factorial word contrast

Dense versus sparse orthographic neighbourhoods (Coltheart's N) in English, matched on length and frequency.

Englishen_ndensity

Priming

Priming: related versus unrelated prime-target pairs, Latin-square counterbalanced so each target appears once per list.

Englishen_priming

Priming

Prime-target pairs selected to span target frequency continuously, with target length and prime-target orthographic overlap held near-constant; Latin-square counterbalanced over two lists.

Englishen_priming_continuous

Priming

Priming with a per-trial stimulus-onset asynchrony read from the items and a jittered inter-trial interval, both recorded as trial-level variables.

Englishen_priming_jitter

Priming

Reproducing Rastle, Davis & New (2004): masked priming contrasting transparent, opaque and orthographic (form) prime-target relationships, each against an unrelated baseline; Latin-square counterbalanced over two lists.

Englishen_rastle_repro

Factorial word contrast

High versus low frequency English words in three disjoint matched item sets (items as a random factor).

Englishen_resample

Factorial word contrast

High versus low frequency English words, matched on length, syllable count and bigram frequency (a phonotactic-probability proxy).

Englishen_richdim

Self-paced reading

Self-paced reading: grammatical versus ungrammatical sentences presented region by region, with a comprehension question.

Englishen_spr

Factorial word contrast

Concrete nouns from a supplied candidate pool, split by frequency and matched item by item on length, neighbourhood density and OLD20.

Englishen_supplied_pool

Factorial word contrast

High versus low frequency Spanish words, matched on length, neighbourhood density and OLD20.

Spanishes_freqcontrast

Factorial word contrast

Reproducing Gonzalez Alonso et al. (2025): feminine versus masculine Spanish words matched on word frequency and number of letters, the origin study's natural-language gender-assignment task.

Spanishes_gender_repro

Factorial word contrast

Dense versus sparse orthographic neighbourhoods (Coltheart's N) in Spanish, matched on length and frequency.

Spanishes_ndensity

Factorial word contrast

High versus low frequency Mandarin Chinese two-character words, matched on character-length and character-level neighbourhood (N, OLD20).

Chinesezh_freqcontrast