Frequency effects in reading are powerful–But is contextual diversity the more important variable?

CL Caldwell‐Harris - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades word frequency has been one of the most important variables in
psycholinguistics. Frequent words are more easily recognized and processed more …

Scalable cognitive modelling: Putting Simon's (1969) ant back on the beach.

BT Johns, RK Jamieson, MN Jones - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
L'objectif classique de la modélisation cognitive est l'intégration du processus et de la
représentation pour développer des théories complètes de la cognition humaine (Estes …

Divergent semantic integration (DSI): Extracting creativity from narratives with distributional semantic modeling

DR Johnson, JC Kaufman, BS Baker… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
We developed a novel conceptualization of one component of creativity in narratives by
integrating creativity theory and distributional semantics theory. We termed the new …

The Children and Young People's Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A large-scale lexical database of books read by children and young people in the United Kingdom

M Korochkina, M Marelli… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces the Children and Young People's Books-Lexicon (CYP-LEX), a large-
scale lexical database derived from books popular with children and young people in the …

The role of individual differences in emotional word recognition: Insights from a large-scale lexical decision study

J Haro, JA Hinojosa, P Ferré - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
This work presents a large lexical decision mega-study in Spanish, with 918 participants and
7500 words, focusing on emotional content and individual differences. The main objective …

Effects of age and word frequency on Korean visual word recognition: Evidence from a web-based large-scale lexical-decision task.

H Baek, PC Gordon, W Choi - Psychology and Aging, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study examined age differences in word-frequency effects in Korean visual
word recognition through a large-scale, web-based lexical-decision task. Four hundred …

Distributional social semantics: Inferring word meanings from communication patterns

BT Johns - Cognitive Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Distributional models of lexical semantics have proven to be powerful accounts of how word
meanings are acquired from the natural language environment (Günther, Rinaldi, & Marelli …

Content matters: Measures of contextual diversity must consider semantic content

BT Johns, MN Jones - Journal of Memory and Language, 2022 - Elsevier
Measures of contextual diversity seek to replace word frequency by counting the number of
different contexts that a word occurs in rather than the total raw number of occurrences …

The recognition effects of attribute ambiguity

M Chang, CJ Brainerd - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
When examining memory effects of semantic attributes, it is common practice to manipulate
normed mean (M) ratings of the attributes (ie, attribute intensity) in learning materials …

Determining the importance of frequency and contextual diversity in the lexical organization of multiword expressions.

MSG Senaldi, DA Titone, BT Johns - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Les modèles de force lexicale fondés sur le corpus remettent en question le rôle de la
fréquence des mots comme principe d'organisation du lexique. Ce qui transparait de ceci …