Congress of the Experimental Psychology Society, UK
There is little contact between theories of individual word identification and sentence processing models. In this talk, I present a study, led by Katarina Marjanovic and carried out in collaboration with Yamil Vidal, where we tried to bridge this gap by assessing cross-word priming during natural reading. By combining eye tracking and EEG, we found that cross-word semantic priming (“…the cat and the dog…” vs. “…the table and the dog…”) is solid and strong, both in eye tracking metrics and in Fixated-Related Potentials (FRPs). This is not the case for morphological priming (“…the cat and the dog…” vs. “…the cats and the dog…”), which doesn’t seem to emerge in sentence context.
Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) Annual Meeting, virtual edition, October 21-24, 2020
Research on the neural underpinnings of linguistic representations has recently received a methodological boost with an approach that capitalises on the principle of neural entrainment by combining Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation (FPVS) and electrophysiological recordings (e.g., Lochy, Van Belle, & Rossion, 2015).
Words in the World (WoW) International Conference, 16-18 October 2020 (online)
This talk presents a preliminary analysis of the data from ReadLET, a project studying reading development in children. It is based on a new paradigm that our colleagues at CNR in Pisa are developing, based on finger tracking on a tablet as children read passages of text, aiming to evaluate children’s reading skills, how they change in development and what plays a role in the process.
Summer Neurolinguistics School 2020, Center for Language and Brain at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia - held online 22-24 June 2020
A highly ecological ability such as reading is often investigated through non-ecological experimental paradigms. The present work aims at providing the community with an ecological tool for future research, a developmental database of eye movement measures during natural reading. Eye movements were recorded from a large sample of Italian developing readers (N=140), aged 8–11, as they read 12 multiline passages taken from story-books for children (1566 tokens and 762 distinct types). Eye-tracking data were also recorded from a group of skilled adult readers (N=33), for comparison.
Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2020, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 7-8 2020 - POSTPONED due to Coronavirus emergency (to Fall 2020 or May 2021)
A highly ecological ability such as reading is often investigated through non-ecological experimental paradigms. The present work aims at complementing this approach by providing the community with a developmental database of eye movement measures during natural reading. Eye movements were recorded from a large sample of Italian developing readers (N=140), aged 8–11, as they read 12 multi-lined passages taken from story books for children (1566 tokens and 762 distinct types). Eye-tracking data were also recorded from a group of skilled adult readers (N=33), for comparison.
19th International Morphology Meeting - Vienna, Austria - 6-8 February 2020
On the one hand, inflectional morphology can encode semantic features, such as numerosity or sex; on the other, its has a functional role. The agreement of morphological features disambiguates the relations between constituents in sentence parsing, and reduces processing effort by favoring word predictions (Dye et al., 2017; Wicha et al., 2004). Ideally, those processes should be favored by consistency between form and features.
19th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 6-8 February 2020
Constituent morphemes within complex words are identified during visual word processing, and likewise the presence of real morphemes slows down pseudoword rejection. Previous studies suggest that the identification of constituents in compound words is, to a certain degree, position-independent, reflecting the fact that constituents can occur in any position within compounds across the language (e.g., boathouse - houseboat). However, some stems occur more often in the first position of a compound (e.g., doorstep, doorstop, doorknob, doorbell vs.