Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning

T Yarkoni, J Westfall - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

Human-computer interaction: An empirical research perspective

IS MacKenzie - 2024 - books.google.com
Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to
empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics including an historical …

Tool use and language share syntactic processes and neural patterns in the basal ganglia

S Thibault, R Py, AM Gervasi, R Salemme, E Koun… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Tool use is a hallmark of human evolution. Beyond its sensorimotor
components, the complexity of which has been extensively investigated, tool use affects …

Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for …

M Brysbaert, B New - Behavior research methods, 2009 - Springer
Word frequency is the most important variable in research on word processing and memory.
Yet, the main criterion for selecting word frequency norms has been the availability of the …

EsPal: One-stop shopping for Spanish word properties

A Duchon, M Perea, N Sebastián-Gallés… - Behavior research …, 2013 - Springer
This article introduces EsPal: a Web-accessible repository containing a comprehensive set
of properties of Spanish words. EsPal is based on an extensible set of data sources …

Wuggy: A multilingual pseudoword generator

E Keuleers, M Brysbaert - Behavior research methods, 2010 - Springer
Pseudowords play an important role in psycholinguistic experiments, either because they
are required for performing tasks, such as lexical decision, or because they are the main …

CLEARPOND: Cross-linguistic easy-access resource for phonological and orthographic neighborhood densities

V Marian, J Bartolotti, S Chabal, A Shook - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Past research has demonstrated cross-linguistic, cross-modal, and task-dependent
differences in neighborhood density effects, indicating a need to control for neighborhood …

The Berlin affective word list reloaded (BAWL-R)

MLH Võ, M Conrad, L Kuchinke, K Urton… - Behavior research …, 2009 - Springer
The study presented here provides researchers with a revised list of affective German words,
the Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R). This work is an extension of the …

ASL-LEX: A lexical database of American Sign Language

NK Caselli, ZS Sehyr, AM Cohen-Goldberg… - Behavior research …, 2017 - Springer
ASL-LEX is a lexical database that catalogues information about nearly 1,000 signs in
American Sign Language (ASL). It includes the following information: subjective frequency …

A cross-language perspective on speech information rate

F Pellegrino, C Coupé, E Marsico - Language, 2011 - JSTOR
This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information
rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average …