Fast and slow errors: What naming latencies of errors reveal about the interplay of attentional control and word planning in speeded picture naming. Final version by Christina Papoutsi & al. with Elli Tourtouri, @vipiai.bsky.social , Antje Meyer
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001472
The first publication of the #ERC project ‘LaDy’ is a fact and it’s an important one I think:
We show that word processing and meaning prediction is fundamentally different during social interaction compared to using language individually!
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Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Researchers aim to provide clinicians with information related to discourse collection methods, outcome measures (including psychometric properties), and key factors to consider when providing aphasia clinical services.
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@mdutta.bsky.social
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🗣️ New paper alert! Ever wonder how strangers navigate the messy world of casual conversation? We analyzed 200+ video calls to uncover the hidden structure behind "idle talk" – and found it's way more systematic than you'd think!
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🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PV4EH...
New paper out with former @emcl.bsky.social student Yiting Chen and @apistono.bsky.social
Interested in um disfluencies in speech? Come to Lisbon this September for the 12th Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech Workshop!
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Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
6/ Yet, they also highlight the importance of viewing communication as a continuum rather than a binary distinction.
5/ Our results align with prior work (Finlayson & Corley, 2012), reinforcing the idea that filled pauses are largely a byproduct of language production difficulties rather than deliberate communicative signals.
4/ We also examined whether autistic traits (AQ score) or stress levels were related to the proportion of filled pauses, but found no significant correlations.
3/ Our results showed that participants produced significantly more words per tangram when speaking to an interlocutor, suggesting they adapted their communication. However, filled pauses were not part of this adjustment.
2/ We compared self-directed and social speech: Participants described tangrams (thinking they were doing a memory test). If filled pauses are used as a communicative signal, we would expect more of them in social speech.
🚨 New paper alert!
Kasper Van Craeyenest, Bram De keersmaecker, @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social, and I empirically tested whether filled pauses like um and uh serve a communicative function. 🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0163...
Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.
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5/ These findings contribute to the development of computational models of disfluency and point to future research using neural networks to refine our understanding of competition and accumulation mechanisms in language production
4/ Key findings:
Disfluent answers had lower drift rates, meaning they reflect competition between response options, not a stalling strategy.
Despite time pressure, we found individual differences in how participants handled semantic interference, suggesting variation in speed–accuracy trade-offs.
3/ The use of a DDM approach allowed to determine the underlying nature of disfluencies: related to lexical-semantic processes (drift rate), postlexical processes (non-decision time) or related to speakers’ adaptation to task demand (decision threshold).
2/ DDM helps break down response processes into key components:
⚡ Drift rate = how fast information accumulates
🎯 Decision threshold = amount of evidence required/strategies of decision making
⏳ Non-decision time = time spent on other processes (e.g., motor prep)
Where do disfluencies come from? Our new study (with @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social and @cogsenoussi.bsky.social) uses Drift Diffusion Modelling (DDM) to investigate semantic interference and disfluency in a Picture-Word Interference task.👇👇👇
🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
This is figure 1, which shows models of word production.
Word production has typically been studied using two distinct approaches. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology draws from both approaches to discuss how speakers assess whether production is going smoothly, adjust to difficulties and fix errors. https://go.nature.com/40Oc0sS 🔒