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Colin J. Davis

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Transposed-letter effects: Consonants, vowels and letter frequency

2008

There is now considerable evidence (e.g., Perea & Lupker, 2003a, 2003b) that transposed-letter nonword primes (e.g., jugde for JUDGE) are more effective primes than replacement-letter nonword primes (e.g., jupte for JUDGE). Recently, Perea and Lupker (2004) demonstrated that, in Spanish, this transposed-letter prime advantage exists only when the transposed letters are consonants (C-C transpositions) and not when they are vowels (V-V transpositions). This vowel-consonant difference causes problems even for models that can successfully explain transposed-letter effects (e.g., SOLAR, Davis, 1999). In Experiment 1 in the present paper, we demonstrated a parallel result in a language with a dif…

Linguistics and LanguagePrime (symbol)Speech recognitionLexical decision taskLetter frequencyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologySyllabic versePsychologyPriming (psychology)Language and LinguisticsLinguisticsEducationLanguage and Cognitive Processes
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BuscaPalabras: a program for deriving orthographic and phonological neighborhood statistics and other psycholinguistic indices in Spanish.

2005

This article describes a Windows program that enables users to obtain a broad range of statistics concerning the properties of word and nonword stimuli in Spanish, including word frequency, syllable frequency, bigram and biphone frequency, orthographic similarity, orthographic and phonological structure, concreteness, familiarity, imageability, valence, arousal, and age-of-acquisition measures. It is designed for use by researchers in psycholinguistics, particularly those concerned with recognition of isolated words. The program computes measures of orthographic similarity online, with respect to either a default vocabulary of 31,491 Spanish words or a vocabulary specified by the user. In a…

VocabularyBigramSpeech recognitionmedia_common.quotation_subjectExperimental and Cognitive Psychologycomputer.software_genreConcretenessVocabularyPsycholinguisticsArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)PhoneticsStatisticsDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyHumansGeneral Psychologymedia_commonLanguagePsycholinguisticsbusiness.industryOrthographic projectionCognitionPhoneticsWord lists by frequencySpainExploratory BehaviorPsychology (miscellaneous)Artificial intelligencebusinessPsychologycomputerNatural language processingBehavior research methods
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Unveiling the boost in the sandwich priming technique.

2021

The masked priming technique (which compares #####-house-HOUSE vs. #####-fight-HOUSE) is the gold-standard tool to examine the initial moments of word processing. Lupker and Davis showed that adding a pre-prime identical to the target produced greater priming effects in the sandwich technique (which compares #####-HOUSE-house-HOUSE vs #####-HOUSE-fight-HOUSE). While there is consensus that the sandwich technique magnifies the size of priming effects relative to the standard procedure, the mechanisms underlying this boost are not well understood (i.e., does it reflect quantitative or qualitative changes?). To fully characterise the sandwich technique, we compared the sandwich and standard t…

Visual word recognitionPhysiologyWord processingExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyGeneral MedicineMotor ActivitySocial and Behavioral SciencesStandard procedureCombinatoricsNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyPattern Recognition VisualReadingPhysiology (medical)#primingLexical decision taskReaction TimeHumansPriming (psychology)Perceptual MaskingGeneral PsychologyMathematicsQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
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E-Hitz: A word frequency list and a program for deriving psycholinguistic statistics in an agglutinative language (Basque)

2007

We describe a Windows program that enables users to obtain a broad range of statistics concerning the properties of word and nonword stimuli in an agglutinative language (Basque), including measures of word frequency (at the whole-word and lemma levels), bigram and biphone frequency, orthographic similarity, orthographic and phonological structure, and syllable-based measures. It is designed for use by researchers in psycholinguistics, particularly those concerned with recognition of isolated words and morphology. In addition to providing standard orthographic and phonological neighborhood measures, the program can be used to obtain information about other forms of orthographic similarity, …

Agglutinative languagePeriodicityVocabularyComputer scienceSpeech recognitionmedia_common.quotation_subjectBigramExperimental and Cognitive Psychologycomputer.software_genreVocabularyPsycholinguisticsLemma (psycholinguistics)Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)PhoneticsSimilarity (psychology)StatisticsDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyHumansGeneral PsychologyLanguagemedia_commonPsycholinguisticsbusiness.industryPhoneticsWord lists by frequencyPsychology (miscellaneous)Artificial intelligencebusinesscomputerSoftwareNatural language processingBehavior Research Methods
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