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Garg, A., Piai, V., Takashima, A., McQueen, J. M., & Roelofs, A. (2019). Linking production and comprehension – Investigating the lexical interface. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
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Hintz, F., Jongman, S. R., Dijkhuis, M., Van 't Hoff, V., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2019). Assessing individual differences in language processing: A novel research tool. Talk presented at the 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019). Tenerife, Spain. 2019-09-25 - 2019-09-28.
Abstract
Individual differences in language processing are prevalent in our daily lives. However, for decades, psycholinguistic research has largely ignored variation in the normal range of abilities. Recently, scientists have begun to acknowledge the importance of inter-individual variability for a comprehensive characterization of the language system. In spite of this change of attitude, empirical research on individual differences is still sparse, which is in part due to the lack of a suitable research tool. Here, we present a novel battery of behavioral tests for assessing individual differences in language skills in younger adults. The Dutch prototype comprises 29 subtests and assesses many aspects of language knowledge (grammar and vocabulary), linguistic processing skills (word and sentence level) and general cognitive abilities involved in using language (e.g., WM, IQ). Using the battery, researchers can determine performance profiles for individuals and link them to neurobiological or genetic data. -
Jager, L., Witteman, J., McQueen, J. M., & Schiller, N. O. (2019). Can brain potentials reflect L2 learning potential?. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.
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Mickan, A., McQueen, J. M., & Lemhöfer, K. (2019). New in, old out? Does learning a new foreign language make you forget previously learned foreign languages?. Talk presented at the third Vocab@ conference. Leuven, Belgium. 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-03.
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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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