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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. (2023). The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 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. (2023). LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers. Behavior Research Methods, 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.