Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

The word frequency effect refers to the observation that high-frequency words are processed
more efficiently than low-frequency words. Although the effect was first described over 80 …

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R is the first statistics textbook on linear models
for linguistics. The book covers simple uses of linear models through generalized models to …

Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Word associations have been used widely in psychology, but the validity of their application
strongly depends on the number of cues included in the study and the extent to which they …

Background: Although memory impairment is the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), language impairment can be an important marker. Relatively few studies of language …

Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS; Schmahmann's syndrome) is characterized
by deficits in executive function, linguistic processing, spatial cognition, and affect regulation …

In the last few years thousands of scientific papers have investigated sentiment analysis,
several startups that measure opinions on real data have emerged and a number of …

Concreteness ratings are presented for 37,058 English words and 2,896 two-word
expressions (such as zebra crossing and zoom in), obtained from over 4,000 participants by …