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View article: Effect of auditory cues to lexical stress on the visual perception of gestural timing
Effect of auditory cues to lexical stress on the visual perception of gestural timing Open
Speech is often accompanied by gestures. Since beat gestures—simple nonreferential up-and-down hand movements—frequently co-occur with prosodic prominence, they can indicate stress in a word and hence influence spoken-word recognition. How…
View article: Evaluating the factor structure of the Dutch individual differences in language skills (IDLaS-NL) test battery
Evaluating the factor structure of the Dutch individual differences in language skills (IDLaS-NL) test battery Open
Individual differences in using language are prevalent in our daily lives. Language skills are often assessed in vocational (predominantly written language) and diagnostic contexts. Not much is known, however, about individual differences …
View article: Effect of auditory cues to lexical stress on the visual perception of gestural timing
Effect of auditory cues to lexical stress on the visual perception of gestural timing Open
Speech is often accompanied by gestures. Since beat gestures frequently co-occur with prosodic prominence, they can indicate stress in a word and hence influence spoken-word recognition. However, little is known about the reverse influence…
View article: Evaluating the factor structure of the Dutch Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-NL) test battery
Evaluating the factor structure of the Dutch Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-NL) test battery Open
Individual differences in using language are prevalent in our daily lives. Language skills are often assessed in vocational (predominantly written language) and diagnostic contexts. Not much is known, however, about individual differences …
View article: The Case for a Quantitative Approach to the Study of Nonnative Accent Features
The Case for a Quantitative Approach to the Study of Nonnative Accent Features Open
Research with nonnative speech spans many different linguistic branches and topics. Most studies include one or a few well-known features of a particular accent. However, due to a lack of empirical studies, little is known about how common…
View article: Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch
Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch Open
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View article: Developmental changes in brain activation during novel grammar learning in 8-25-year-olds
Developmental changes in brain activation during novel grammar learning in 8-25-year-olds Open
While it is well established that grammar learning success varies with age, the cause of this developmental change is largely unknown. This study examined functional MRI activation across a broad developmental sample of 165 Dutch-speaking …
View article: Using Psychometric Network Analysis to Examine the Components of Spoken Word Recognition
Using Psychometric Network Analysis to Examine the Components of Spoken Word Recognition Open
Using language requires access to domain-specific linguistic representations, but also draws on domain-general cognitive skills. A key issue in current psycholinguistics is to situate linguistic processing in the network of human cognitive…
View article: Multiple Randomization Designs: Estimation and Inference with Interference
Multiple Randomization Designs: Estimation and Inference with Interference Open
Classical designs of randomized experiments, going back to Fisher and Neyman in the 1930s still dominate practice even in online experimentation. However, such designs are of limited value for answering standard questions in settings, comm…
View article: IDLaS-NL – A platform for running customized studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the Internet
IDLaS-NL – A platform for running customized studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the Internet Open
We introduce the Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-NL) web platform, which enables users to run studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the Internet. IDLaS-NL consists of 35 behavioral tests, previousl…
View article: Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation Still as Elusive as a White Christmash
Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation Still as Elusive as a White Christmash Open
Luthra, Peraza‐Santiago, Beeson, Saltzman, Crinnion, and Magnuson (2021) present data from the lexically mediated compensation for coarticulation paradigm that they claim provides conclusive evidence in favor of top‐down processing in spee…
View article: Estimating the Value of Evidence-Based Decision Making
Estimating the Value of Evidence-Based Decision Making Open
Business/policy decisions are often based on evidence from randomized experiments and observational studies. In this article we propose an empirical framework to estimate the value of evidence-based decision making (EBDM) and the return on…
View article: New in, old out: Does learning a new language make you forget previously learned foreign languages?
New in, old out: Does learning a new language make you forget previously learned foreign languages? Open
Anecdotal evidence suggests that learning a new foreign language (FL) makes you forget previously learned FLs. To seek empirical evidence for this claim, we tested whether learning words in a previously unknown L3 hampers subsequent retrie…
View article: Leveraging covariate adjustments at scale in online A/B testing
Leveraging covariate adjustments at scale in online A/B testing Open
Companies offering web services routinely run randomized online experiments to estimate the causal impact associated with the adoption of new features and policies on key performance metrics of interest. These experiments are used to estim…
View article: Experimentation Platforms Meet Reinforcement Learning: Bayesian Sequential Decision-Making for Continuous Monitoring
Experimentation Platforms Meet Reinforcement Learning: Bayesian Sequential Decision-Making for Continuous Monitoring Open
With the growing needs of online A/B testing to support the innovation in industry, the opportunity cost of running an experiment becomes non-negligible. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for an efficient continuous monitoring servi…
View article: IDLaS-NL – A platform for running customized studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the internet
IDLaS-NL – A platform for running customized studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the internet Open
We introduce the Individual Differences in Language Skills (IDLaS-NL) web platform, which enables users to run studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the internet. IDLaS-NL consists of 35 behavioral tests, previousl…
View article: Neural tracking of speech does not unequivocally reflect intelligibility
Neural tracking of speech does not unequivocally reflect intelligibility Open
During listening, brain activity tracks the rhythmic structures of speech signals. Here, we directly dissociated the contribution of neural tracking in the processing of speech acoustic cues from that related to linguistic processing. We e…
View article: Individual differences in foreign language attrition: a 6-month longitudinal investigation after a study abroad
Individual differences in foreign language attrition: a 6-month longitudinal investigation after a study abroad Open
While recent laboratory studies suggest that the use of competing languages is a driving force in foreign language (FL) attrition (i.e. forgetting), research on "real" attriters has failed to demonstrate such a relationship. We addressed t…
View article: Correction: Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context
Correction: Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260952.].
View article: Individual differences in foreign language attrition: a 6-month longitudinal investigation after a study abroad
Individual differences in foreign language attrition: a 6-month longitudinal investigation after a study abroad Open
While recent laboratory studies suggest that the use of competing languages is a driving force in foreign language (FL) attrition (i.e. forgetting), research on “real” attriters has failed to demonstrate such a relationship. We addressed t…
View article: Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context
Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context Open
The endeavor to understand the human brain has seen more progress in the last few decades than in the previous two millennia. Still, our understanding of how the human brain relates to behavior in the real world and how this link is modula…
View article: Multiple Randomization Designs: Estimation and Inference with Interference
Multiple Randomization Designs: Estimation and Inference with Interference Open
Completely randomized experiments, originally developed by Fisher and Neyman in the 1930s, are still widely used in practice, even in online experimentation. However, such designs are of limited value for answering standard questions in ma…
View article: A Bayesian Model for Online Activity Sample Sizes
A Bayesian Model for Online Activity Sample Sizes Open
In many contexts it is useful to predict the number of individuals in some population who will initiate a particular activity during a given period. For example, the number of users who will install a software update, the number of custome…
View article: Bayesian Sample Size Prediction for Online Activity
Bayesian Sample Size Prediction for Online Activity Open
In many contexts it is useful to predict the number of individuals in some population who will initiate a particular activity during a given period. For example, the number of users who will install a software update, the number of custome…