Articles published in peer-reviewed journals
[1] Rey, A., Dufau, S., Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2009). Testing computational models of letter perception with item-level ERPs. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 7-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440802176300
[2] Massol, S., Grainger, J., Dufau, S., Holcomb, P. J. (2010). Masked priming from orthographic neighbors: An ERP Investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human, Perception and Performance, 36(1), 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017614
[3] Massol, S., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P. J., & Grainger, J. (2011). When less is more: Feedback, priming, and the pseudoword superiority effect. Brain Research, 1386, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2011.02.050
[4] Massol, S., Grainger, J., Midgley, K. J., & Holcomb, P. J. (2012). Masked repetition priming of letter-in-string identification: An ERP investigation. Brain Research, 1472, 74-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.07.018
[5] Massol, S. (2012). Effets d’amorçage masqué par voisinage orthographique : études électrophysiologiques. L'Année Psychologique, 112, 361-402. https://doi.org/10.4074/S000350331200303X
[6] Alario, F.-X., Ziegler, J.C., Massol, S. & De Cara, B. (2012). Probing the link between cognitive control and lexical selection in monolingual speakers. L'Année Psychologique, 112(4), 545-559. https://doi.org/10.3917/anpsy.124.0545
[7] Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J. A., Carreiras, M., & Grainger, J. (2013). Evidence for letter-specific position coding mechanisms. PLoS ONE 8 (7): e68460. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068460
[8] Massol, S., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Lexical inhibition of neighbors during visual word recognition: an unmasked priming investigation. Brain Research, 1604, 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2015.01.051
[9] Massol, S., Carreiras, M, & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2016). Consonantal overlap effects in a perceptual matching task. Experimental Brain Research, 234(11), 3157-3172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4713-6
[10] Dufour, S., Bolger, D., Massol, S., Holcomb, P., & Grainger, J. (2017). On the locus of talker-specificity effects in spoken word recognition: An ERP study with dichotic priming. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(10), 1273-1289. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1335421
[11] Cavalli, E., & Massol, S. (2019). Synthèse de l’ouvrage Ferrand, L., Lété, B., et Thevenot, C. (2018), Psychologie cognitive des apprentissages scolaires, Dunod, 332p. L'Année Psychologique, 119 (2), 283-288.
[12] Mancini, S., Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M., & Molinaro, N (2019). Agreement and illusion of disagreement: an ERP study on Basque. Cortex, 116, 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.036
[13] Massol, S. & Grainger, J. (2021). The sentence superiority effect in young readers. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13033
[14] Chainay, H., Joubert, C., & Massol, S. (2021). Behavioral and ERP effects of cognitive and cognitive and physical training on working memory and executive function in healthy elderly. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 17(1), 329-343. doi: 10.5709/acp-0317-y
[15] Mirault, J., Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2021). An algorithm for analyzing cloze test results. Methods in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100064
[16] Massol, S., Mirault, J., & Grainger, J. (2021). The contribution of Semantics to the sentence superiority effect. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99565-6
[17] Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2022). Effects of horizontal displacement and inter-character spacing on transposed-character effects in same-different matching. Plos One, 17(3), e0265442. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265442
[18] Brossette, B., Massol, S., & Lété, B. (2022). Searching beyond the looking glass with sandwich priming. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02405-y
[19] Mirault, J., Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2022). Effects on non-adjacent letter repetition in the same-different matching task. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2061022
[20] Labusch, M., Massol, S., Marcet, A., & Perea, M. (2023). Are goats chèvres, chévres, chēvres, and chevres? Unveiling the orthographic code of diacritical vowels. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001212
[21] Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2024). On the distinction between position and order information when processing strings of characters. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-024-02872-z
[22] Massol, S., Acha, J., Rondot, L., Vergara-Martinez, M., Favre, E., & Lété, B. (2025). Transposed-character effects during learning to read: when does letter and non-letter strings processing differ ? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106081
[23] Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2025). Word superiority and sentence superiority effects in post-cued letter-in-string identification. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03059-w
[24] Massol, S., Mirault, J., Dufau, S., & Grainger, J. (accepted). Does predictability modulate the sentence superiority effect? Perhaps – but not as one might predict! Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Proceedings
[1] Rey, A., Dufau, S., Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2008). Letter perception: from item-level ERPs to computational models. Proceedings of the second French conference on Computational Neurosciences, Marseille, France.
[2] Alario, X., De Cara, B., Massol, S., & Ziegler, J. C. (2010). Contrôle cognitif et sélection lexicale au cours du développement. 52e Congrès de la Société Française de Psychologie : Lille, France.
Invited talks
[1] Massol, S. (June 2013). Letter coding mechanisms: evidence from the perceptual matching task. Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive. Marseille, France.
[2] Massol, S. (November 2014). The time-course of visual word recognition: an ERP perspective. Department of Psychology, Binghamton, New York state, USA.
[3] Massol, S. (November 2014). Does the context modulate semantic access in bilinguals? Neurocognition Lab, San Diego, California, USA.
[4] Massol, S. (November 2014). The time-course of visual word recognition: an ERP perspective. Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[5] Massol, S. (January 2016). La reconnaissance des mots écrits: études chez des monolingues et des bilingues. SCALab (UMR 9193), Lille, France.
[6] Massol, S. (April 2017). Etudes électrophysiologiques des effets de répétition des mots et des pseudomots. Laboratoire d'Etudes des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de Lyon 2, France.
[7] Massol, S. (November 2020). Advantages of neuroimaging for assessing the underlying processes of reading comprehension, Programa de Internacionalización de la Facultat de Psicologia i Logopèdia, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
[8] Massol, S. (November 2021). Los ingredientes para un buen aprendizaje… y para el desarrollo del sistema de lectura, Jornada Lectura y Escritura en el Ámbito Educativo, Falcultat de Magisteri, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
[9] Massol, S. (Juin 2023). Is there something special about letter position coding? International workshop in honor of Jonathan Grainger. Aix-en-Provence, France.
[10] Massol, S. (Mars 2024). Un mécamisne spéficique pour le codage de l'ordre des lettres dans un mot qui expliqiue pouqruoi on peut lire ce tirte ! Séminaire Collectif Cognitif. France.
Oral presentations in international conferences
[1] Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (September 2012). Subjects that matter: Processing correlates of Basque subject-verb agreement. AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy.
[2] Massol, S., Carreiras, M., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (November 2013). Perceiving and overseeing consonantal overlap: what, when and how? Seventh Tucson Lexical Processing Workshop, London, Ontario, Canada.
[3] Massol, S., Carreiras, M., Grainger, J., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (November 2015). The locus of letter-specific position coding mechanisms. Lexical Processing Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[4] Massol, S., Carreiras, M., Grainger, J., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (May 2016). The locus of letter-specific position coding mechanisms. International meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Espagne.
[5] Dumay, N., & Massol, S. (November 2016). No lexical engagement without consolidation: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence in masked priming and Reicher-Wheeler. 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
[6] Massol, S. & Grainger, J. (November 2020). The sentence superiority effect in young readers. 61th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Virtual meeting).
[7] Massol, S., Mirault, J., & Grainger, J. (Août 2022). Does word predictability influence the sentence superiority effect? 22nd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2022). Lille, France.
[8] Massol, S., Mirault, J., & Grainger, J. (Septembre 2023). Effects of visual similarity and transposed-characters in the same-different matching task with strings of letters and symbols. 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2023). Porto, Portugal.
[9] Labusch, M., Massol, S., Civera, T., Vergara-Martinez, M., & Perea, M. (Avril 2025). Beyond words: the cultural and neural dynamics of visual modifications in logotypes. 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC 2025). Zurich, Suisse.
[10] Massol, S., Perea, M., & Grainger, J. (Septembre 2025). Testing two accounts of transposed-letter effects by varying the location of transpositions relative to fixation. 24th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2025). Sheffield, UK.
Posters in international conferences
[1] Massol, S., Grainger, J., Dufau, S., & Holcomb, P. (2008). Masked priming from orthographic neighbors: an ERP investigation. 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[2] Rey, A., Dufau, S., Massol, S., & Grainger, J. (2008). Letter perception: from item-level ERPs to computational models. 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[3] Massol, S., Grainger, J., Midgley, K. J., & Holcomb, P. (2009). Masked priming of pronounceable and unpronounceable nonwords: an ERP investigation. XVIth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2009), Krakow, Poland.
[4] Massol, S., Grainger, J., Midgley, K. J., & Holcomb, P. (2009). Masked priming of pronounceable and unpronounceable nonwords: an ERP investigation. Journée de l'IFR, Marseille, France.
[5] Massol, S., Grainger, J., Midgley, K. J., & Holcomb, P. (2009). Masked priming of pronounceable and unpronounceable nonwords: an ERP investigation. 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
[6] Alario, X., Ziegler, J., Massol, S., & De Cara, B. (2011). Cognitive control and lexical selection during monolingual development. 7th annual Bilingual Workshop. Aix-en-Provence, France.
[7] Massol, S., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P. J., & Grainger, J. (2011). When less is more: Feedback, priming, and the pseudoword superiority effect. XVIIth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2011), Donostia, Spain.
[8] Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2012). When the speaker is present: processing different person specifications in Basque subject-verb agreement. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2012). Chicago, USA.
[9] Massol, S., & Duñabeitia, J.A. (2012). Are door and deer completely unrelated words? ERP evidence from a perceptual matching task with overlapping consonants. AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy.
[10] Massol, S., Carreiras, M., & Duñabeitia, J.A. (2012). Forget about those consonants… if you can! Neurobiology of Language Conference, Donostia, Spain.
[11] Massol, S., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2012). Lexical access is not a bottle-neck to semantics. 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
[12] Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J. A., Carreiras, M., & Grainger, J. (2013). Effects of contiguous and non-contiguous character transpositions in perceptual matching. 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
[13] Massol, S., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P. J., & Grainger, J. (2013). Effects of size and case on masked repetition priming with nonwords: An ERP investigation. XVIIIth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2013), Budapest, Hungary.
[14] Massol, S., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P. J., & Grainger, J. (2013). Masked Repetition Priming With Nonwords: ERP Evidence for Case and Size Sensitivity. 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[15] Massol, S., Berdasco, E., Molinaro, N., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Cross-Language Effects in a Picture-Word Matching Task: An ERP Investigation. 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, California, USA.
[16] Massol, S., Molinaro, N., Duñabeitia, J. A., Carreiras, M. (2015). An ERP investigation of lexico-semantic access in bilinguals engaged in a language-specific context. 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Valencia, Spain.
[17] Massol, S., Molinaro, N., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Cross-Language Effects in a Picture-Word Matching Task: An ERP Investigation. XIXth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2015), Paphos, Cyprus.
[18] Mancini, S., Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M. & Molinaro, N. (2016). What verbs can do: An ERP study on Basque. Neurobiology of Language Conference, London, UK.
[19] Massol, S., Vergara-Martinez, M., Marcet, A., & Perea, M. (2017). Is Spatial Attention Modulated by Word Valence during Visual Word Processing? An ERP Investigation. 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, Bristish Columbia, Canada.
[20] Massol, S., Vergara-Martinez, M., Marcet, A., Gomez, P., & Perea, M. (2018). Exploring the time-course of the dissociation between the repetition effects of words and pseudowords in lexical decision. 3rd International meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
[21] Brossette, B., Massol, S., & Lété, B. (2021). Searching beyond the looking glass with sandwich priming. Association for Psychological Science, APS 2021 virtual convention.
[22] Massol, S., Mirault, J., & Grainger, J. (2021). The contribution of semantics to the sentence superiority effect. 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual meeting.
[23] Labusch, M., Massol, S., Marcet, A., & Perea, M. (2021). Are goats chèvres, chévres, chēvres, or chevres? - Cracking the orthographic codeof diatrical vowels. Words in the World International conference (WOW2021).
[24] Massol, S., Mirault, J., & Grainger, J. (2021). The contribution of semantics to the sentence superiority effect. 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual meeting.
[25] Rondot, L., Acha, J., Vergara-Martinez, M., Lété, B., Favre, E., & Massol, S. (2023). Transposed-character effects throughout reading acquisition: when do letter and non-letter strings processing become different? 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2023). Porto, Portugal.
[26] Labusch, M., Civera Barrachina, T., Vergara Martinez, M., Massol, S., & Perea, M. (2025). Challenging Abstract Models of Lexical Processing: ERP Evidence from Brand Names. XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP 2025). Barcelona, Espagne.
[27] Lété, B., Grainger, J., Fabrizi, H., Acha, J., Vergara-Martinez, M., & Massol, S. (2025). Revisiting the Word Superiority Effect in adults and in children during learning to read. 24th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2025). Sheffield, UK.