Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

This paper provides an overview of how analyses of linguistic features in writing samples
provide a greater understanding of predictions of both text quality and writer development …

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R is the first statistics textbook on linear models
for linguistics. The book covers simple uses of linear models through generalized models to …

The organization of human brain networks can be measured by capturing correlated brain
activity with fMRI. There is considerable interest in understanding how brain networks vary …

Human functional MRI (fMRI) research primarily focuses on analyzing data averaged across
groups, which limits the detail, specificity, and clinical utility of fMRI resting-state functional …

In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

Understanding the neural basis of speech perception requires that we study the human
brain both at the scale of the fundamental computational unit of neurons and in their …

Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in cognition. However, the existing
materials that measure the sensorimotor basis of word meanings and concepts have been …

Speech consists of a continuously-varying acoustic signal. Yet human listeners experience it
as sequences of discrete speech sounds, which are used to recognise discrete words. To …