Mental Lexicon 2022 conference

The 12th Mental Lexicon conference was held in person October 11-14, 2022 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. The conference brought together psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and computational research on the representation and processing of words in the mind/brain.

We are so proud of all of our Reading Lab student presenters at Mental Lexicon 2022. Special congrats to MSc student Heather Wild, who won best talk, and PhD student Jordan Gallant, who won best poster!

Presentations:

[Awarded Best Talk] Valence effects in the wild: Analysing word learning in language learning apps

Heather Wild* and Victor Kuperman

When the root of ‘barking’ can access ‘tree’: Eye-tracking and maze evidence for the activation of ambiguous morphological roots in sentences

Jordan Gallant*, Roberto G de Almeida and Gary Libben

Posters:

[Awarded Best Poster] Motor Manifestations of Lexical and Semantic Properties When Typing Compounds

Jordan Gallant*, Gary Libben, Laurie Beth Feldman

The search for matching nouns: parafoveal processing of gender-specific German articles

Laura Schwalm* and Ralph Radach

Affective congruency in compound processing

Jordan Gallant*

Reading Lab alumni:

Gains in L2 vocabulary knowledge and reading speed predict future academic success: an investigation of EAL students following completion of an English bridging program

Daniel Schmidtke* and Anna Moro

Breeding hate in the lab: investigating lexical valence as a window into intergroup bias

Daniel Schmidtke* and Victor Kuperman

The English Lexicon Imputation Project

Bryor Snefjella* and Idan Blank

Investigating semantic transparency in compound words using the visual world paradigm

Kelly Nisbet*, Christina Gagne and Thomas Spalding

Read more at Mental Lexicon Conference Website.