November 21, 2025 (Friday), 11 am–12 pm
Iaia, C., Choksi, B., Wiebers, E., Roig, G., & Fiebach, C. J. (2025). The Representational Alignment between Humans and Language Models is Implicitly Driven by a Concreteness Effect. arXiv preprint.
October 20, 2025 (Monday), 11 am–12 pm
Guest Talk by Cheng-Yu Hsieh (Royal Holloway, University of London), "Making Sense from the Parts: What Chinese Compounds Tell Us About Reading".
June 5, 2025 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Binz, M., Akata, E., Bethge, M., Brändle, F., Callaway, F., Coda-Forno, J., ... & Schulz, E. (2024). Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition. arXiv Preprint arXiv:2410.20268. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268
March 20, 2025 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Aczel, B. (2024). Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research. Nature, 635(8040), 788. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03826-z
January 23, 2025 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Born, J., Nikolov, N. I., Rosenkranz, A., Schabmann, A., & Schmidt, B. M. (2022). A computational investigation of inventive spelling and the “Lesen durch Schreiben” method. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 3, 100063.
December 4, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Crawford, M., Raheel, N., Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2024). Inadequate foundational decoding skills constrain global literacy goals for pupils in low-and middle-income countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–10.
October 24, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Changizi, M. A., Zhang, Q., Ye, H., & Shimojo, S. (2006). The structures of letters and symbols throughout human history are selected to match those found in objects in natural scenes. The American Naturalist, 167(5), E117–E139.
September 26, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Guest talk by Prof. Matthew HC Mak (University of Warwick), "The Contribution of Episodic Memory and Subsequent Sleep-Related Consolidation to the Updating of Lexical Knowledge". See Abstract HERE.
July 2, 2024 (Tuesday), 11 am–12 pm
Chang, Y. N. (2023). The influence of oral vocabulary knowledge on individual differences in a computational model of reading. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1680. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28559-3
May 16, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Taylor, J. E., Rousselet, G. A., & Sereno, S. C. (2024). Can prediction error explain predictability effects on the N1 during picture-word verification? Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_0013
April 18, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Ferrer, E., Shaywitz, B. A., Holahan, J. M., & Shaywitz, S. E. (2023). Early reading at first grade predicts adult reading at age 42 in typical and dyslexic readers. npj Science of Learning, 8(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00205-7
March 7, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Viganò, S., Bayramova, R., Doeller, C. F., & Bottini, R. (2023). Spontaneous eye movements reflect the representational geometries of conceptual spaces. OSF Preprint https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/p9q7x
January 18, 2024 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Guest lecture by Prof. Dušica Filipović Đurđević: Introduction to Semantic Models
December 14, 2023 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Günther, F., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2019). Vector-Space Models of Semantic Representation From a Cognitive Perspective: A Discussion of Common Misconceptions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(6), 1006-1033.
November 16, 2023 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Heitmeier, M., Chuang, Y. Y., & Baayen, R. H. (2022). How trial-to-trial learning shapes mappings in the mental lexicon: Modelling Lexical Decision with Linear Discriminative Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.00430.
October 19, 2023 (Thursday), 11 am–12 pm
Furnes, B., Elwér, Å., Samuelsson, S., Treiman, R., & Olson, R. K. (2023). The stability and developmental interplay of word reading and spelling: a cross-linguistic longitudinal study from kindergarten to grade 4. Reading and Writing, 1-18.
July 17, 2023 (Monday), 4 pm–5 pm
Lev-Ari, S., & McKay, R. (2023). The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(3), 1103-1114.
June 19, 2023 (Monday), 4 pm–5 pm
Carr, J., Fantini, M., & Crepaldi, D. (2023). Efficient eye movements in visual word recognition: Sensitivity to the structure of the lexicon. https://osf.io/r5n3g
May 15, 2023 (Monday), 4 pm–5 pm
Winter, B., Fischer, M. H., Scheepers, C., & Myachykov, A. (2023). More is Better: English Language Statistics are Biased Toward Addition. Cognitive Science, 47(4), e13254-e13254.
February 8, 2023 (Wednesday), 10 am–11 am
Hendrix, P., & Sun, C. C. (2021). A word or two about nonwords: Frequency, semantic neighborhood density, and orthography-to-semantics consistency effects for nonwords in the lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(1), 157-183.
January 11, 2023 (Wednesday), 10 am–11 am
Huettig, F., & Ferreira, F. (2022). The Myth of Normal Reading. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916221127226.
November 30, 2022 (Wednesday), 10 am–11 am
Blasi, D. E., Henrich, J., Adamou, E., Kemmerer, D., & Majid, A. (2022). Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(12), 1153-1170.
November 9, 2022 (Wednesday), 3 pm–4 pm
Miton, H., & Morin, O. (2021). Graphic complexity in writing systems. Cognition, 214, 104771.
October 6, 2022 (Thursday), 9 am-10 am
Discussion on ERC Grant applications
September 7, 2022 (Wednesday), 10 am-11 am
Ginestet, E., Valdois, S., & Diard, J. (2022). Probabilistic modeling of orthographic learning based on visuo-attentional dynamics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(5), 1649-1672.
July 6, 2022 (Wednesday), 10 am-11 am
Meixner, J. M., Nixon, J. S., & Laubrock, J. (2022). The perceptual span is dynamically adjusted in response to foveal load by beginning readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(6), 1219-1232.
June 15, 2022 (Wednesday), 10 am-11 am
Rastle, K., Lally, C., Davis, M. H., & Taylor, J. S. H. (2021). The dramatic impact of explicit instruction on learning to read in a new writing system. Psychological Science, 32(4), 471-484.
May 4, 2022 (Wednesday), 11 am-12 pm
Jevtović, M., Antzaka, A., & Martin, C. D. (2022). Gepo with a G, or Jepo with a J? Skilled readers generate orthographic expectations for novel spoken words even when spelling is uncertain. Cognitive Science, 46(3), e13118.
April 6, 2022 (Wednesday), 2 pm-3 pm
Lelonkiewicz, J. R., Ullman, M. T., & Crepaldi, D. (2022). Knowledge of statistics or statistical learning? Readers prioritize the statistics of their native language over the learning of local regularities. Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 18.
March 9, 2022 (Wednesday), 2 pm-3 pm
Siegelman, N., Rueckl, J. G., Lo, J. C. M., Kearns, D. M., Morris, R. D., & Compton, D. L. (2022). Quantifying the regularities between orthography and semantics and their impact on group- and individual-level behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(6), 839-855.
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