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Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension (2022)
Journal Article

Emoji are often misinterpreted. This study investigated whether individual differences known to impact facial emotion recognition would also affect emoji recognition. Participants completed an online emoji classification task, and then completed ques... Read More about Autism, Attachment, and Alexithymia: Investigating Emoji Comprehension.

Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant (2022)
Journal Article

Controversy exists as to whether, compared to young adults, older adults are more, equally or less likely to make linguistic predictions while reading. While previous studies have examined age effects on the prediction of upcoming words, the predicti... Read More about Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant.

Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime (2022)
Journal Article

Victim emotionality is one of the most influential factors in sexual crime cases. Traditionally, the study of emotionality has been limited to behaviour-descriptors such as conveying panic or appearing shaken, however, such studies must also be exten... Read More about Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime.

Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study (2022)
Journal Article

We present a replication of Levy, Bicknell, Slattery, and Rayner (2009). In this prior study participants read sentences in which a perceptually confusable preposition (at; confusable with as) or non-confusable preposition (toward) was followed by a... Read More about Do readers maintain word-level uncertainty during reading? A pre-registered replication study.

Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls (2022)
Journal Article

We investigated ASD-diagnosed adults’ and neurotypical (NT) controls’ processing of emoji and emoji influence on the emotionality of otherwise-neutral sentences. Study 1 participants categorised emoji representing the six basic emotions using a fixed... Read More about Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls.