The word frequency effect

M Brysbaert, M Buchmeier, M Conrad… - Experimental …, 2011 - econtent.hogrefe.com
We review recent evidence indicating that researchers in experimental psychology may
have used suboptimal estimates of word frequency. Word frequency measures should be …

[HTML][HTML] What did we learn from forty years of research on semantic interference? A Bayesian meta-analysis

A Bürki, S Elbuy, S Madec, S Vasishth - Journal of Memory and Language, 2020 - Elsevier
When participants in an experiment have to name pictures while ignoring distractor words
superimposed on the picture or presented auditorily (ie, picture-word interference …

SUBTLEX-UK: A new and improved word frequency database for British English

WJB Van Heuven, P Mandera… - Quarterly journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show
that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision …

EsPal: One-stop shopping for Spanish word properties

A Duchon, M Perea, N Sebastián-Gallés… - Behavior research …, 2013 - Springer
This article introduces EsPal: a Web-accessible repository containing a comprehensive set
of properties of Spanish words. EsPal is based on an extensible set of data sources …

Four not six: Revealing culturally common facial expressions of emotion.

RE Jack, W Sun, I Delis, OGB Garrod… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
As a highly social species, humans generate complex facial expressions to communicate a
diverse range of emotions. Since Darwin's work, identifying among these complex patterns …

Adding part-of-speech information to the SUBTLEX-US word frequencies

M Brysbaert, B New, E Keuleers - Behavior research methods, 2012 - Springer
The SUBTLEX-US corpus has been parsed with the CLAWS tagger, so that researchers
have information about the possible word classes (parts‐of‐speech, or PoSs) of the entries …

[PDF][PDF] SUBTLEX-ESP: Spanish word frequencies based on film subtitles

F Cuetos, M Glez-Nosti, A Barbón, M Brysbaert - Psicológica, 2012 - redalyc.org
Estudios recientes han mostrado que las estimaciones de frecuencia de las palabras
obtenidas de los subtítulos de películas y series de televisión predicen mejor los resultados …

Does the visual word form area split in bilingual readers? A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study

M Zhan, C Pallier, A Agrawal, S Dehaene, L Cohen - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
In expert readers, a brain region known as the visual word form area (VWFA) is highly
sensitive to written words, exhibiting a posterior-to-anterior gradient of increasing sensitivity …

Cross-language transfer of word reading accuracy and word reading fluency in Spanish-English and Chinese-English bilinguals: Script-universal and script-specific …

A Pasquarella, X Chen, A Gottardo… - Journal of Educational …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
This study examined cross-language transfer of word reading accuracy and word reading
fluency in Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilinguals. Participants included 51 …

Valence and arousal ratings for 11,310 simplified Chinese words

X Xu, J Li, H Chen - Behavior research methods, 2022 - Springer
This study reports valence and arousal ratings for 11,310 simplified Chinese words,
including 9774 two-character words, 949 three-character words, and 587 four-character …