During speech comprehension, bilinguals co-activate both of their languages, resulting in
cross-linguistic interaction at various levels of processing. This interaction has important …

This article reports an eye-tracking experiment with 2,500 polymorphemic Dutch compounds
presented in isolation for visual lexical decision while readers' eye movements were …

The psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm is a dominant research tool in the
literature on dual-task performance. In this paradigm a first and second component task (ie …

Using the megastudy approach, we report a new database (MEGALEX) of visual and
auditory lexical decision times and accuracy rates for tens of thousands of words. We …

Most of what is known about the mental lexicon comes from studies of spoken language and
their written forms. Signs differ from spoken/written words in two important ways that may …

Under adverse listening conditions, speech comprehension profits from the expectancies
that listeners derive from the semantic context. However, the neurocognitive mechanisms of …

Although we often seem to successfully comprehend language in the face of distraction, few
studies have examined the role of sustained attention in critical components of sentence …

Understanding speech is effortless in ideal situations, and although adverse conditions,
such as caused by hearing impairment, often render it an effortful task, they do not …

Category‐specific brain activation distinguishing between semantic word types has imposed
challenges on theories of semantic representations and processes. However, existing …

Psycholinguistic research has documented a range of variables that influence visual word
recognition performance. Many of these variables are highly intercorrelated. Most previous …