The ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC) is crucial for recognizing visual patterns, and
previous evidence suggests that there may be different subregions within the vOTC involved …

Factors that modulate the influence of contextual information on semantic processing in
language comprehension have been thoroughly investigated with the N400 component of …

Ratings of body–object interaction (BOI) measure the ease with which the human body can
interact with a word's referent. Researchers have studied the effects of BOI in order to …

Numerous applications in psychological research require that a pool of elements is
partitioned into multiple parts. While many applications seek groups that are well-separated …

The analysis of speech onset times has a longstanding tradition in experimental psychology
as a measure of how a stimulus influences a spoken response. Yet the lack of accurate …

A major obstacle for the design of rigorous, reproducible studies in moral psychology is the
lack of suitable stimulus sets. Here, we present the Socio-Moral Image Database (SMID), the …

Recent findings indicate that measures derived from resting-state magnetoencephalography
(rsMEG) are sensitive to cortical dysfunction in post-stroke aphasia. Spectral power and …

Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview
of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and …

ABSTRACT A core challenge in the semantic ambiguity literature is understanding why the
number and relatedness among a word's interpretations are associated with different effects …

Lexical ambiguity—the phenomenon of a single word having multiple, distinguishable
senses—is pervasive in language. Both the degree of ambiguity of a word (roughly, its …