The blue-collar brain

G Van Orden, G Hollis, S Wallot - Frontiers in physiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Much effort has gone into elucidating control of the body by the brain, less so the role of the
body in controlling the brain. This essay develops the idea that the brain does a great deal of …

Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English

A Bell, JM Brenier, M Gregory, C Girand… - Journal of Memory and …, 2009 - Elsevier
In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual
predictability, and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their …

" Time" and" Thyme" Are Not Homophones: The Effect of Lemma Frequency on Word Durations in Spontaneous Speech

S Gahl - Language, 2008 - JSTOR
Frequent words tend to shorten. But do homophone pairs, such as time and thyme, shorten
equally if one member of the pair is frequent? This study reports an analysis of roughly …

[图书][B] The science of reading: A handbook

MJ Snowling, C Hulme, K Nation - 2022 - books.google.com
Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Why reduce? Phonological neighborhood density and phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech

S Gahl, Y Yao, K Johnson - Journal of memory and language, 2012 - Elsevier
Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

Are non-semantic morphological effects incompatible with a distributed connectionist approach to lexical processing?

DC Plaut, LM Gonnerman - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
On a distributed connectionist approach, morphology reflects a learned sensitivity to the
systematic relationships among the surface forms of words and their meanings. Performance …

Individual and developmental differences in semantic priming: empirical and computational support for a single-mechanism account of lexical processing.

DC Plaut, JR Booth - Psychological review, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
Existing accounts of single-word semantic priming phenomena incorporate multiple
mechanisms, such as spreading activation, expectancy-based processes, and postlexical …

Learning from the body about the mind

MA Riley, K Shockley… - Topics in Cognitive …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In some areas of cognitive science we are confronted with ultrafast cognition, exquisite
context sensitivity, and scale‐free variation in measured cognitive activities. To move …

Eye movements and morphological segmentation of compound words: There is a mouse in mousetrap

S Andrews, B Miller, K Rayner - European Journal of Cognitive …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
In two experiments, readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences
containing compound words. In Experiment 1, the frequency of the first and second …

Word length effects in object naming: The role of a response criterion

AS Meyer, A Roelofs, WJM Levelt - Journal of Memory and Language, 2003 - Elsevier
According to Levelt, Roelofs, and Meyer (1999) speakers generate the phonological and
phonetic representations of successive syllables of a word in sequence and only begin to …