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Asaridou, S. S., Dediu, D., Takashima, A., Hagoort, P., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Learning Dutchinese: Functional, structural, and genetic correlates performance. Poster presented at the 3rd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Ilha de Comandatuba, Brazil.
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Lai, V. T., Kim, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Sentential context modulates early phases of visual word recognition: Evidence from a training manipulation. Talk presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing [CUNY 2013]. Columbia, SC. 2013-03-21 - 2013-03-23.
Abstract
How does sentential context influence visual word recognition? Recent neural models suggest that single words are recognized via a hierarchy of local combination detectors [1]. Low-level features are extracted first by neurons in V1 in the visual cortex, features are then combined and fed into the higher level of letter
fragments in V2, and then letter shapes in V4, and so on. A recent EEG study examining word recognition in context has shown that contextually-driven anticipation can influence this hierarchy of visual word recognition early on [2]. Specifically, a minor mismatch between the predicted visual word form and the actual input (cake
vs. ceke) can elicit brain responses ~130 ms after word onset [2]. -
Poellmann, K., McQueen, J. M., Baayen, R. H., & Mitterer, H. (2013). Adaptation to reductions: Challenges of regional variation. Talk presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [TeaP 2013]. Vienna, Austria. 2013-03-24 - 2013-03-27.
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Viebahn, M., Ernestus, M., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Syntactic predictability facilitates the recognition of words in connected speech. Talk presented at the 18th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Budapest (Hungary). 2013-08-29 - 2013-09-01.
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Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Lexical-stress information rapidly modulates spoken-word recognition. Talk presented at Dag van de Fonetiek. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2007-12-20 - 2007-12-20.
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Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Tracking over time how lexical stress information modulates spoken word recognition. Poster presented at 11th Winter Conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
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Sjerps, M. J., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Nonnative phonemes are open to native interpretation: A perceptual learning study. Poster presented at 154th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
Abstract
Four experiments examined whether Dutch listeners can learn to interpret a nonnative phoneme (English [\phontheta]) as an instance of a native category (Dutch [f] or [s]). During exposure in Experiment 1, two listener groups made lexical decisions to words and nonwords. Listeners heard [\phontheta] replacing [f] in 20 [f]-final words (Group 1), or [s] in 20 [s]-final words (Group 2). At test, participants heard e.g. [do\phontheta], based on the minimal pair doof/doos (deaf/box), and made visual lexical decisions to e.g. doof or doos. Group 1 were faster on doof decisions after [do\phontheta] than after an unrelated prime; Group 2 were faster on doos decisions. The groups had thus learned that [\phontheta] was, respectively, [f] or [s]. This learning was thorough: effects were just as large when the exposure sound was an ambiguous [fs]-mixture (Experiment 2) and when the test primes contained unambiguous [f] or [s] (Experiment 3). In Experiment 4, signal-correlated noise was used as the exposure sound. Listeners learned that the noise was an [f], irrespective of [f]- or [s]-biased exposure, showing that learning is determined by the new sound’s spectral characteristics. Perceptual learning in a native language is thorough, and can override years of second-language phonetic learning.
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