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Maintenance cost in the processing of subject-verb dependencies
(APA American Psychological Association, 2022)Although research in sentence comprehension has suggested that processing long-distance dependencies involves maintenance between the elements that form the dependency, studies on maintenance of long-distance subject–verb ... -
Making It Harder to “See” Meaning: The More You See Something, the More Its Conceptual Representation Is Susceptible to Visual Interference
(Psychological Science, 2020)Does the perceptual system for looking at the world overlap with the conceptual system for thinking about it? We conducted two experiments (N = 403) to investigate this question. Experiment 1 showed that when people ... -
Making sense of social interaction: Emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials
(Neuropsychologia, 2019)We compared event-related potentials during sentence reading, using impression formation equations of a model of affective coherence, to investigate the role of affective content processing during meaning making. The model ... -
Maternal Depression Affects Infants’ Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life
(Brain sciences, 2020)Maternal depression and anxiety have been proposed to increase the risk of adverse outcomes of language development in the early years of life. This study investigated the e ects of maternal depression and anxiety on ... -
Matrices of the frequency and similarity of Arabic letters and allographs
(Behavior Research Methods, 2020)Indicators of letter frequency and similarity have long been available for Indo-European languages. They have not only been pivotal in controlling the design of experimental psycholinguistic studies seeking to determine ... -
Meaning-based attentional guidance as a function of foveal and task-related cognitive loads
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019)The depth of parafoveal word processing depends on the amount of cognitive resources available. Whether this principle applies to the parafoveal semantic processing of multiple words remains, however, controversial. This ... -
Measuring individual differences in statistical learning: Current pitfalls and possible solutions
(Behavior Research Methods, 2017)Most research in statistical learning (SL) has focused on the mean success rates of participants in detecting statistical contingencies at a group level. In recent years, however, researchers have shown increased interest ... -
Measuring the cortical tracking of speech with optically-pumped magnetometers
(NeuroImage, 2021)During continuous speech listening, brain activity tracks speech rhythmicity at frequencies matching with the repetition rate of phrases (0.2–1.5 Hz), words (2–4 Hz) and syllables (4–8 Hz). Here, we evaluated the applica- ... -
MEG Insight into the Spectral Dynamics Underlying Steady Isometric Muscle Contraction
(The Journal of Neuroscience, 2017)To gain fundamental knowledge on how the brain controls motor actions, we studied in detail the interplay between MEG signals from the primary sensorimotor (SM1) cortex and the contraction force of 17 healthy adult humans ... -
Mental Representation of Word Family Structure: The Case of German Infinitives, Conversion Nouns and Other Morphologically Related Forms
(Frontiers, 2022)This study investigates how two non-finite forms, infinitives and conversion nouns, are represented in the mind of L1 and L2 speakers and what is their relationship to other members of the corresponding word family. German ... -
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Metacognitive Processing in Language Learning Tasks Is Affected by Bilingualism
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Soto, David
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020)
We assessed the effect of bilingualism on metacognitive processing in the artificial language learning task, in 2 experiments varying in the difficulty to segment the language. Following a study phase in which participants ... -
Metacognitive scaffolding boosts cognitive and neural benefits following executive attention training in children
(Developmental Science, 2019)Interventions including social scaffolding and metacognitive strategies have been used in educational settings to promote cognition. In addition, increasing evidence shows that computerized process-based training enhances ... -
Metaphors We Learn By: Directed motor action improves word learning
(COGNITION, 2019)Can performing simple motor actions help people learn the meanings of words? Here we show that placing vocabulary flashcards in particular locations after studying them helps students learn the definitions of novel words ... -
Methods for cleaning the BOLD fMRI signal
(NeuroImage, 2017)Blood oxygen-level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD fMRI) has rapidly become a popular technique for the investigation of brain function in healthy individuals, patients as well as in animal studies. ... -
Mind the Orthography: Revisiting the Contribution of Prereading Phonological Awareness to Reading Acquisition
(APA, 2022)Reading acquisition is based on a set of preliteracy skills that lay the foundation for future reading abilities. Phonological awareness—the ability to identify and manipulate the sound units of oral language— has been ... -
Morphological processing in the brain: The good (inflection), the bad (derivation) and the ugly (compounding)
(Cortex, 2019)There is considerable behavioral evidence that morphologically complex words such as ‘tax-able’ and ‘kiss-es’ are processed and represented combinatorially. In other words, they are decomposed into their constituents ‘tax’ ... -
Morphological Variability in Second Language Learners: An Examination of Electrophysiological and Production Data
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017)We examined sources of morphological variability in second language (L2) learners of Spanish whose native language (L1) is English, with a focus on L1-L2 similarity, morphological markedness, and knowledge type (receptive ... -
Motivation and attention following hemispheric stroke
(Progress in Brain Research, 2016)Spatial neglect (SN) is an extremely common disorder of attention; it is most frequently a consequence of stroke, especially to the right cerebral hemisphere. The current view of SN is that it is not a unitary deficit ... -
Motor dexterity and strength depend upon integrity of the attention-control system
Rinne, Paul; Hassan, Mursyida; Fernandes, Cristina; Han, Erika; Hennessy, Emma; Waldman, Adam; Sharma, Pankaj; Soto, David; Leech, Robert; Malhotra, Paresh A.; Bentley, Paul (PNAS, 2018)
Attention control (or executive control) is a higher cognitive function involved in response selection and inhibition, through close interactions with the motor system. Here, we tested whether influences of attention control ...