Dr WALTER VAN HEUVEN's Outputs (38)

Overcoming expectations: Electrophysiological effects of inhibitory control demands in a non-linguistic task on subsequent semantic relatedness judgements (2025)
Journal Article
Rataj, K., Kakuba, P., & van Heuven, W. J. (2025). Overcoming expectations: Electrophysiological effects of inhibitory control demands in a non-linguistic task on subsequent semantic relatedness judgements. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2440909

This event-related potentials study focussed on whether extensive practice of inhibitory control in a conflict task affects semantic processing/decisions in a subsequent language task. Participants took part in two 40-min sessions of the Simon task w... Read More about Overcoming expectations: Electrophysiological effects of inhibitory control demands in a non-linguistic task on subsequent semantic relatedness judgements.

Assessing Bilingual Language Proficiency with a Yes/No Vocabulary Test: The Role of Form- Meaning Vocabulary Knowledge (2024)
Journal Article
Lee, S. T., Van Heuven, W. J. B., Price, J. M., & Leong, C. X. R. (in press). Assessing Bilingual Language Proficiency with a Yes/No Vocabulary Test: The Role of Form- Meaning Vocabulary Knowledge. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,

Validated yes/no vocabulary tests that measure bilinguals’ language proficiency based on vocabulary knowledge have been widely used in psycholinguistic research. However, it is unclear what aspects of test takers’ vocabulary knowledge is employed in... Read More about Assessing Bilingual Language Proficiency with a Yes/No Vocabulary Test: The Role of Form- Meaning Vocabulary Knowledge.

Distinct components of Stroop interference and facilitation: The role of phonology and response modality (2024)
Journal Article
Qiu, Y., & van Heuven, W. J. B. (2024). Distinct components of Stroop interference and facilitation: The role of phonology and response modality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241302490

Multi-stage accounts of Stroop effects suggest that Stroop effects result from different conflict and facilitation components. Consistent with these accounts, Augustinova et al. reported evidence for task, semantic, and response components in Stroop... Read More about Distinct components of Stroop interference and facilitation: The role of phonology and response modality.

Editorial: Second language learning and neuroplasticity: individual differences (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Cao, F., van Heuven, W. J. B., & Mei, L. (2024). Editorial: Second language learning and neuroplasticity: individual differences. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1417238. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1417238

The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements (2023)
Journal Article
Khanzhyn, D., van Heuven, W. J. B., & Rataj, K. (2024). The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 31, 781-789. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02323-0

Studies using a relatedness judgement task have found differences between prime-target word pairs that vary in the degree of semantic relatedness. However, the influence of working memory load on semantic processing in this task and the role of the t... Read More about The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements.

LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers (2023)
Journal Article
Lee, S. T., van Heuven, W. J. B., Price, J. M., & Leong, C. X. R. (2024). LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 4563–4581. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02202-5

Objective language proficiency measures have been found to provide better and more consistent estimates of bilinguals’ language processing than self-rated proficiency (e.g., Tomoschuk et al., 2019; Wen & van Heuven, 2017a). However, objectively measu... Read More about LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers.

SUBTLEX-CY: A new word frequency database for Welsh (2023)
Journal Article
van Heuven, W. J. B., Payne, J. S., & Jones, M. W. (2024). SUBTLEX-CY: A new word frequency database for Welsh. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(5), 1052-1067. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231190315

We present SUBTLEX-CY, a new word frequency database created from a 32-million-word corpus of Welsh television subtitles. An experiment comprising a lexical decision task examined SUBTLEX-CY frequency estimates against words with inconsistent frequen... Read More about SUBTLEX-CY: A new word frequency database for Welsh.

LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese (2023)
Journal Article
Wen, Y., Qiu, Y., Leong, C. X. R., & van Heuven, W. J. (2024). LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2333-2352. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02151-z

A prominent methodological issue in cognitive research on bilingualism is the lack of consistency in measuring second language (L2) proficiency. To reduce the inconsistency in L2 proficiency measurements, brief and valid vocabulary tests have been de... Read More about LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese.

Learning an additional language: Consequences for Language and Cognitive Processes. (2023)
Book Chapter
van Heuven, W. (2023). Learning an additional language: Consequences for Language and Cognitive Processes. In A. D. Smith (Ed.), Cognition in the real world. Oxford University Press

Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish (2023)
Journal Article
Rataj, K., Kakuba, P., Mandera, P., & van Heuven, W. J. (2023). Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish. PLoS ONE, 18(4), Article e0284801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284801

This study presents a Polish semantic priming dataset and semantic similarity ratings for word pairs obtained with native Polish speakers, as well as a range of semantic spaces. The word pairs include strongly related, weakly related, and semanticall... Read More about Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish.

Cross-language influences in L2 visual word processing: A localist connectionist modelling perspective (2023)
Book Chapter
van Heuven, W. J., & Dijkstra, T. (2023). Cross-language influences in L2 visual word processing: A localist connectionist modelling perspective. In I. Elgort, A. Siyanova-Chanturia, & M. Brysbaert (Eds.), Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition (102-125). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.16.05van

Over the last decades, a variety of verbal models have been proposed to account for empirical findings on bilingual word processing and second language (L2) acquisition. However, in these domains only a small number of computational models have seen... Read More about Cross-language influences in L2 visual word processing: A localist connectionist modelling perspective.

Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions” (2022)
Journal Article
Dijkstra, T., & van Heuven, W. J. (2023). Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”. Language Learning, 73(S2), 65-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12532

Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, S. T., van Heuven, W. J., Price, J. M., & Leong, C. X. R. (2023). Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation. Behavior Research Methods, 55, Article 3585-3601. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01977-3

Translation equivalents are widely used in bilingual research concerning word processing (e.g., Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013; Jouravlev & Jared, 2020) and second-language vocabulary learning (e.g., Bracken et al., 2017; Degani et al., 2014). Although t... Read More about Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation.

High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained (2018)
Journal Article
Leong, C. X. R., Price, J. M., Pitchford, N. J., & van Heuven, W. J. (2018). High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained. PLoS ONE, 13(10), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204888

This paper evaluates a novel high variability phonetic training paradigm that involves presenting spoken words in adverse conditions. The effectiveness, generalizability, and longevity of this high variability phonetic training in adverse conditions... Read More about High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained.

Revisiting the neighborhood: how L2 proficiency and neighborhood manipulation affect biliingual processing (2018)
Journal Article
Mulder, K., van Heuven, W. J., & Dijkstra, T. (2018). Revisiting the neighborhood: how L2 proficiency and neighborhood manipulation affect biliingual processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 1860. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01860

We conducted three neighborhood experiments with Dutch–English bilinguals to test effects of L2 proficiency and neighborhood characteristics within and between languages. In the past 20 years, the English (L2) proficiency of this population has consi... Read More about Revisiting the neighborhood: how L2 proficiency and neighborhood manipulation affect biliingual processing.

The need for a universal computational model of bilingual word recognition and word translation (2018)
Journal Article
van Heuven, W. J., & Wen, Y. (in press). The need for a universal computational model of bilingual word recognition and word translation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000688

Learning with multi-representational texts in a second language: An eye-tracking investigation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaafar, N. M., Ainsworth, S. E., & van Heuven, W. J. (2018, June). Learning with multi-representational texts in a second language: An eye-tracking investigation. Presented at International Conference of the Learning Sciences, London, UK

© ISLS. Integrating verbal and pictorial information is fundamental in learning multi-representational materials and is reported to correlate with various positive outcomes of learning. To investigate how non-native English readers engage with multi-... Read More about Learning with multi-representational texts in a second language: An eye-tracking investigation.

Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals (2018)
Journal Article
Wen, Y., Filik, R., & van Heuven, W. J. (in press). Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 6869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25072-w

Silent word reading leads to the activation of orthographic (spelling), meaning, as well as phonological (sound) information. For bilinguals, native language information can also be activated automatically when they read words in their second languag... Read More about Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals.

Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling (2018)
Journal Article
Wen, Y., & van Heuven, W. J. (2018). Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.03.004

Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence suggests that Chinese translations of English words are automatically activated when Chinese-English bilinguals read English words (e.g., Thierry & Wu, 2007; Wu & Thierry, 2010; Zhang, van Heuven, & Conkl... Read More about Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling.

Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain (2017)
Journal Article
Siyanova-Chanturia, A., Conklin, K., Caffarra, S., Kaan, E., & van Heuven, W. J. (2017). Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain. Brain and Language, 175, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.004

Language comprehension is sensitive to the predictability of the upcoming information. Prediction allows for smooth, expedient and successful communication. While general discourse-based constraints have been investigated in detail, more specific phr... Read More about Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain.