Figures often change their visual language as an analysis moves from exploration to reporting. This post uses depictr to examine a simulated lexical-decision experiment, plot its mixed-model estimates, audit a figure and correct the accessibility problems that the audit finds.
Languages lay time out along different spatial axes and build number words in different orders. Studies with speakers of Turkish, Aymara, Mandarin, German, English and other languages examine associations between these habits and temporal or numerical tasks. The review finds effects that are context-sensitive or developmental, and no evidence that language rigidly determines thought.
Selecting words is only the first step in preparing a psycholinguistic experiment. This post uses lexsync to match high- and low-frequency items, balance them across lists, and export timed PsychoPy and OpenSesame scripts that send electroencephalography (EEG) triggers, plus a jsPsych version that logs event markers.
A simulated semantic-priming study shows how precision, sign errors, magnitude errors and singular fits can be examined alongside power before choosing a design.
Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the sentence-picture verification task, wherein …
Unlike children acquiring their first language (L1), L2/Ln learners can draw on existing grammatical knowledge to ease the task, at least for those properties where the grammars align. This means that, in addition to statistical learning, there might …
The acquisition of a third language (L3) often involves the transfer of morphosyntactic structures from the first language and/or the second language to the developing L3 grammar, allowing the recycling of previously acquired knowledge (Rothman et …
To err is human, but when it comes to creating research materials, mistakes can be reduced by sharing more of our work and by using some helpful tools. For instance, we can make our research materials FAIRer—that is, more Findable, Accessible, …
Slideshare Labotka, D., Sabo, E., Bonais, R., Gelman, S. A., & Baptista, M. (2023). Testing the effects of congruence in adult multilingual acquisition with implications for creole genesis. Cognition, 235, 105387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105387
Slideshare Jost, E., Brill-Schuetz, K., Morgan-Short, K., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Input complexity affects long-term retention of statistically learned regularities in an artificial language learning task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 358. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00358
Research has suggested that conceptual processing depends on both language-based and vision-based information. We tested this interplay at three levels of the experimental structure: individuals, words and tasks. To this end, we drew on three …
Multilevel analyses investigating the interplay between language-based and vision-based information in conceptual processing across semantic priming, semantic decision and lexical decision paradigms, with power analyses revealing sample size requirements for examining perceptual simulation and individual differences.
Linguistic relativity is the influence of language on other realms of cognition. For instance, the way movement is expressed in a person’s native language may influence how they perceive movement. Motion event encoding (MEE) is usually framed as a …
Part of the toolkit of language researchers is formed of stimuli that have been rated on various dimensions. The current study presents modality exclusivity norms for 336 properties and 411 concepts in Dutch. Forty-two respondents rated the auditory, …
Review of the Landscape Model of reading comprehension, which bridges the memory-based and constructionist views by proposing that strategic reactivations are available but not always necessary, with a schematic representation of the dynamic processes.
Het menselijk brein begrijpt de wereld om ons heen op een taalkundige en zintuiglijke manier. Pablo Bernabeu (Language and Communication) onderzocht waarom dat zo is.
We tested whether conceptual processing is modality-specific by tracking the time course of the Conceptual Modality Switch effect. Forty-six participants verified the relation between property words and concept words. The conceptual modality of …
Event-related potential experiment investigating conceptual modality switching, finding early-onset negativity effects (160–750 ms) that increase over time, suggesting sensory regions have a functional role in conceptual processing and supporting the compatibility of distributional and embodied processing.
Shiny web application for exploring the event-related potentials (ERPs) from a conceptual modality switch experiment by group of participants, individual participant, brain area and electrode.