Dr WALTER VAN HEUVEN's Outputs (3)

Assessing bilingual language proficiency with a yes/no vocabulary test: the role of form-meaning vocabulary knowledge (2025)
Journal Article
Lee, S. T., Van Heuven, W. J. B., Price, J. M., & Leong, C. X. R. (2025). Assessing bilingual language proficiency with a yes/no vocabulary test: the role of form-meaning vocabulary knowledge. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924001007

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.

The effect of common ground on sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from intercultural communications (2025)
Journal Article
Zhu, N., van Heuven, W. J., Wang, X., Luo, Y., & Filik, R. (in press). The effect of common ground on sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from intercultural communications. Metaphor and Symbol,

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.