Developmental dyslexia is often characterized by a dual deficit in both word recognition accuracy and general processing speed. While previous research into dyslexic word recognition may have suffered from speed-accuracy trade-off, the present study employed a novel eye-tracking task that is less prone to such confounds. Participants (10 dyslexics and 12 controls) were asked to look at real wor...

Approaches to spoken word recognition differ in the importance they assign to word onsets during lexical access. This research contrasted the hypothesis that lexical access is strongly directional with the hypothesis that word onsets are less important than the overall goodness of fit between input and lexical form. A cross-modal priming technique was used to investigate the extent to which a r...

In this paper, we discuss the interactive visualization project “How Does ‘Hamilton,’ the Non Stop, Hip-hop Broadway Sensation Tap Rap’s Master Rhymes to Blur Musical Lines?” and the rhyme-pattern analysis algorithm that made the piece possible. This interactive extracts and describes the rhyme patterns interlaced throughout Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit “Hamilton,” analyzing their higher-o...

The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) is important in visual word recognition. Studies have shown that the left vOT is generally observed to be involved in spoken language processing in skilled readers, suggesting automatic access to corresponding orthographic information. However, little is known about where and how the left vOT is involved in the spoken language processing of young c...

This study investigates the timing of stød, a type phonological nonmodal phonation related to creaky voice in Danish, relative syllable. Stød-bearing syllables are characterized by high fundamental frequency (F0) and modal at beginning syllable followed nonmodal, often low F0 towards end (the stød phase proper). However, these two phases each other has been debated. To investigate this, through...

Previous studies have shown that self-generated information is better remembered than information that has been read passively. To further examine this subsequent memory effect, we investigated the effect of five different linguistic relationships on memory encoding. Ninety subjects were administered 60 paired associates during an encoding condition: 30 of the second words from each pair were t...

Continuous mapping models of spoken word recognition such as TRACE (McClelland and Elman, 1986) make robust predictions about a wide variety of phenomena. However, most of these models are interactive activation models with preset weights, and do not provide an account of learning. Simple recurrent networks (SRNs, e.g., Elman, 1990) are continuous mapping models that can process sequential patt...