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2. Audiovisual perception of lexical stress: Beat gestures and articulatory cues
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Bujok, R., Meyer, A.S., Bosker, H.R., Bujok, R., Meyer, A.S., and Bosker, H.R.
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Contains fulltext : 307461.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Human communication is inherently multimodal. Auditory speech, but also visual cues can be used to understand another talker. Most studies of audiovisual speech perception have focused on the perception of speech segments (i.e., speech sounds). However, less is known about the influence of visual information on the perception of suprasegmental aspects of speech like lexical stress. In two experiments, we investigated the influence of different visual cues (e.g., facial articulatory cues and beat gestures) on the audiovisual perception of lexical stress. We presented auditory lexical stress continua of disyllabic Dutch stress pairs together with videos of a speaker producing stress on the first or second syllable (e.g., articulating VOORnaam or voorNAAM). Moreover, we combined and fully crossed the face of the speaker producing lexical stress on either syllable with a gesturing body producing a beat gesture on either the first or second syllable. Results showed that people successfully used visual articulatory cues to stress in muted videos. However, in audiovisual conditions, we were not able to find an effect of visual articulatory cues. In contrast, we found that the temporal alignment of beat gestures with speech robustly influenced participants’ perception of lexical stress. These results highlight the importance of considering suprasegmental aspects of language in multimodal contexts., 14 juni 2024, 23 p. more...
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- 2024
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3. The role of cations in regulating reaction pathways driven by Bacillus circulans β-galactosidase
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Karimi Alavijeh, M., Meyer, A.S., Gras, S., and Kentish, S.E.
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- 2020
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4. Theoretical bioreactor design to perform microbial mining activities on mars
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Volger, R., Timmer, M.J., Schleppi, J., Haenggi, C.N., Meyer, A.S., Picioreanu, C., Cowley, A., and Lehner, B.A.E.
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- 2020
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5. Simulation and economic assessment of large-scale enzymatic N-acetyllactosamine manufacture
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Karimi Alavijeh, M., Meyer, A.S., Gras, S.L., and Kentish, S.E.
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- 2020
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6. End-to-end mission design for microbial ISRU activities as preparation for a moon village
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Lehner, B.A.E., Schlechten, J., Filosa, A., Canals Pou, A., Mazzotta, D.G., Spina, F., Teeney, L., Snyder, J., Tjon, S.Y., Meyer, A.S., Brouns, S.J.J., Cowley, A., and Rothschild, L.J.
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- 2019
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7. The Next Food Revolution Is Here: Recombinant Microbial Production of Milk and Egg Proteins by Precision Fermentation
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Nielsen, M.B., primary, Meyer, A.S., additional, and Arnau, J., additional
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- 2023
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8. The Next Food Revolution Is Here: Recombinant Microbial Production of Milk and Egg Proteins by Precision Fermentation.
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Nielsen, M.B., Meyer, A.S., and Arnau, J.
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- 2024
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9. Repetita Iuvant? Studies on the role of repetition priming as a supporting mechanism during conversation
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Meyer, A.S., Jongman, S.R., Lewis, A.G., Bartolozzi, F., Meyer, A.S., Jongman, S.R., Lewis, A.G., and Bartolozzi, F.
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Radboud University, 24 januari 2023, Promotor : Meyer, A.S. Co-promotores : Jongman, S.R., Lewis, A.G., Contains fulltext : 286142.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Conversations involve a series of complex tasks that rapidly follow each other and sometimes overlap. Speakers need to retrieve words from memory and combine them into sentences; at the same time, listeners need to segment the incoming stream of sounds into individual words, reconstruct their meaning, and – sometimes – preparing a response and uttering it at the right time. Considering the complex set of processes at the basis of everyday conversations, why do they look so effortless? In her doctoral dissertation, Federica Bartolozzi carried out a series of behavioral and electrophysiological experiments to assess whether conversation demands can be eased by repetition priming, e.g., the tendency to repeat previously heard or produced words. While the results did not allow to provide a conclusive answer to this question, they highlighted the need to implement further studies in settings that closely resemble every-day conversations. more...
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10. Coordination of spoken language production and comprehension: How speech production is affected by irrelevant background speech
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Meyer, A.S., Brehm, L.E., Creemers, A.K., Frances, C., He, J., Meyer, A.S., Brehm, L.E., Creemers, A.K., Frances, C., and He, J.
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Radboud University, 07 juni 2023, Promotor : Meyer, A.S. Co-promotores : Brehm, L.E., Creemers, A.K., Frances, C., Contains fulltext : 292963.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access), This dissertation explored how irrelevant background speech influenced speech production and what strategies speakers would use to overcome this influence. Three chapters (Chapters 2, 4, & 5) were conducted using a continuous speaking-while-listening paradigm in which native Dutch speakers named sets of pictures with varied difficulties (indexed by high or low name agreement) while ignoring different types of irrelevant background speech. Naming accuracy, planning speed, and response chunking were measured. Results showed that various properties of irrelevant background speech (e.g., representational similarity, attention demand, intelligibility, interestingness, and contextual variation) have different disruptive potentials for speech production. The disruption is caused by both domain-specific interference-by-similarity and domain-general attention capture mechanisms. Moreover, the processing of irrelevant background speech is modulated by the difficulty of speech production. In addition, a web-based study (Chapter 2) replicated two effects previously obtained in lab-based studies, i.e., the name agreement effect and the semantic context effect, which supports the feasibility of conducting language production research in an online environment. Combined, the present dissertation provides important insights into how speakers plan and produce utterances in the presence of background speech, and contributes to our understanding of the coordination of speech production and comprehension. more...
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- 2023
11. Delta-band neural responses to individual words are modulated by sentence processing
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Slaats, S., Weissbart, H., Schoffelen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., Martin, A.E., Slaats, S., Weissbart, H., Schoffelen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., and Martin, A.E.
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23 mei 2023, Item does not contain fulltext, To understand language, we need to recognize words and combine them into phrases and sentences. During this process, responses to the words themselves are changed. In a step towards understanding how the brain builds sentence structure, the present study concerns the neural readout of this adaptation. We ask whether low-frequency neural readouts associated with words change as a function of being in a sentence. To this end, we analyzed an MEG dataset by Schoffelen et al. (2019) of 102 human participants (51 women) listening to sentences and word lists, the latter lacking any syntactic structure and combinatorial meaning. Using temporal response functions and a cumulative model-fitting approach, we disentangled delta- and theta-band responses to lexical information (word frequency), from responses to sensory- and distributional variables. The results suggest that delta-band responses to words are affected by sentence context in time and space, over and above entropy and surprisal. In both conditions, the word frequency response spanned left temporal and posterior frontal areas; however, the response appeared later in word lists than in sentences. In addition, sentence context determined whether inferior frontal areas were responsive to lexical information. In the theta band, the amplitude was larger in the word list condition around 100 milliseconds in right frontal areas. We conclude that low-frequency responses to words are changed by sentential context. The results of this study speak to how the neural representation of words is affected by structural context, and as such provide insight into how the brain instantiates compositionality in language.Significance statement:Human language is unprecedented in its combinatorial capacity: we are capable of producing and understanding sentences we have never heard before. Although the mechanisms underlying this capacity have been described in formal linguistics and cognitive science, how they are implemented in the brain more...
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12. Timing in conversation
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Meyer, A.S. and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 296319.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Turn-taking in everyday conversation is fast, with median latencies in corpora of conversational speech often reported to be under 300 ms. This seems like magic, given that experimental research on speech planning has shown that speakers need much more time to plan and produce even the shortest of utterances. This paper reviews how language scientists have combined linguistic analyses of conversations and experimental work to understand the skill of swift turn-taking and proposes a tentative solution to the riddle of fast turn-taking. more...
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- 2023
13. No evidence for convergence to sub-phonemic F2 shifts in shadowing
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Skarnitzl, R., Volín, J., Ulusahin, O., Bosker, H.R., McQueen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., Skarnitzl, R., Volín, J., Ulusahin, O., Bosker, H.R., McQueen, J.M., and Meyer, A.S.
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ICPhS 2023: 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 August, 2023), Contains fulltext : 296122.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access), Over the course of a conversation, interlocutors sound more and more like each other in a process called convergence. However, the automaticity and grainsize of convergence are not well established. This study therefore examined whether female native Dutch speakers converge to large yet sub-phonemic shifts in the F2 of the vowel/e/. Participants first performed a short reading task to establish baseline F2s for the vowel/e/, then shadowed 120 target words (alongside 360 fillers) which contained one instance of a manipulated vowel/e/where the F2 had been shifted down to that of the vowel/ø/. Consistent exposure to large (sub-phonemic) downward shifts in F2 did not result in convergence. The results raise issues for theories which view convergence as a product of automatic integration between perception and production. more...
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- 2023
14. IDLaS-NL: A platform for running customized studies on individual differences in Dutch language skills via the internet
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Hintz, F., Shkaravska, O., Dijkhuis, M., Hoff, V.C.A. van 't, Huijsmans, M.K., Dongen, R.C.A. van, Voeteé, L.A.B., Trilsbeek, P.J.T.M., McQueen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., Hintz, F., Shkaravska, O., Dijkhuis, M., Hoff, V.C.A. van 't, Huijsmans, M.K., Dongen, R.C.A. van, Voeteé, L.A.B., Trilsbeek, P.J.T.M., McQueen, J.M., and Meyer, A.S. more...
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25 september 2023, Contains fulltext : 296668.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), 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, previously validated in participants aged between 18 and 30 years. The platform provides an intuitive graphical interface for users to select the tests they wish to include in their research, to divide these tests into different sessions and to determine their order. Moreover, for standardized administration the platform provides an application (an emulated browser) wherein the tests are run. Results can be retrieved by mouse click in the graphical interface and are provided as CSV file output via e-mail. Similarly, the graphical interface enables researchers to modify and delete their study configurations. IDLaS-NL is intended for researchers, clinicians, educators and in general anyone conducting fundamental research into language and general cognitive skills; it is not intended for diagnostic purposes. All platform services are free of charge. Here, we provide a description of its workings as well as instructions for using the platform. The IDLaS-NL platform can be accessed at www.mpi.nl/idlas-nl. more...
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15. In conversation, answers are remembered better than the questions themselves
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Zormpa, E., Meyer, A.S., Brehm, L.E., Zormpa, E., Meyer, A.S., and Brehm, L.E.
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Item does not contain fulltext, Language is used in communicative contexts to identify and successfully transmit new information that should be later remembered. In three studies, we used question–answer pairs, a naturalistic device for focusing information, to examine how properties of conversations inform later item memory. In Experiment 1, participants viewed three pictures while listening to a recorded question–answer exchange between two people about the locations of two of the displayed pictures. In a memory recognition test conducted online a day later, participants recognized the names of pictures that served as answers more accurately than the names of pictures that appeared as questions. This suggests that this type of focus indeed boosts memory. In Experiment 2, participants listened to the same items embedded in declarative sentences. There was a reduced memory benefit for the second item, confirming the role of linguistic focus on later memory beyond a simple serial-position effect. In Experiment 3, two participants asked and answered the same questions about objects in a dialogue. Here, answers continued to receive a memory benefit, and this focus effect was accentuated by language production such that information-seekers remembered the answers to their questions better than information-givers remembered the questions they had been asked. Combined, these studies show how people’s memory for conversation is modulated by the referential status of the items mentioned and by the speaker’s roles of the conversation participants., 30 november 2023, 18 p. more...
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- 2023
16. Effects of picture naming and categorization on concurrent comprehension: Evidence from the N400
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Husta, C., Nieuwland, M.S., Meyer, A.S., Husta, C., Nieuwland, M.S., and Meyer, A.S.
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Item does not contain fulltext, In conversations, interlocutors concurrently perform two related processes: speech comprehension and speech planning. We investigated effects of speech planning on comprehension using EEG. Dutch speakers listened to sentences that ended with expected or unexpected target words. In addition, a picture was presented two seconds after target onset (Experiment 1) or 50 ms before target onset (Experiment 2). Participants' task was to name the picture or to stay quiet depending on the picture category. In Experiment 1, we found a strong N400 effect in response to unexpected compared to expected target words. Importantly, this N400 effect was reduced in Experiment 2 compared to Experiment 1. Unexpectedly, the N400 effect was not smaller in the naming compared to categorization condition. This indicates that conceptual preparation or the decision whether to speak (taking place in both task conditions of Experiment 2) rather than processes specific to word planning interfere with comprehension., 17 p. more...
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- 2023
17. Word frequency has similar effects in picture naming and gender decision: A failure to replicate Jescheniak and Levelt (1994)
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Corps, R.E., Meyer, A.S., Corps, R.E., and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 298078.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Word frequency plays a key role in theories of lexical access, which assume that the word frequency effect (WFE, faster access to high-frequency than low-frequency words) occurs as a result of differences in the representation and processing of the words. In a seminal paper, Jescheniak and Levelt (1994) proposed that the WFE arises during the retrieval of word forms, rather than the retrieval of their syntactic representations (their lemmas) or articulatory commands. An important part of Jescheniak and Levelt's argument was that they found a stable WFE in a picture naming task, which requires complete lexical access, but not in a gender decision task, which only requires access to the words' lemmas and not their word forms. We report two attempts to replicate this pattern, one with new materials, and one with Jescheniak and Levelt's orginal pictures. In both studies we found a strong WFE when the pictures were shown for the first time, but much weaker effects on their second and third presentation. Importantly these patterns were seen in both the picture naming and the gender decision tasks, suggesting that either word frequency does not exclusively affect word form retrieval, or that the gender decision task does not exclusively tap lemma access., 15 p. more...
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18. Pseudogymnoascus pannorum M36 protease without the propeptide
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Wilkens, C., primary, Qiu, J., additional, Meyer, A.S., additional, and Morth, J.P., additional
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- 2023
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19. Fusarium oxysporum M36 protease without the propeptide
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Wilkens, C., primary, Qiu, J., additional, Meyer, A.S., additional, and Morth, J.P., additional
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20. Multi-domain GH92 alpha-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis: mannoimidazole complex
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Kolaczkowski, B.M., primary, Moroz, O.V., additional, Blagova, E., additional, Davies, G.J., additional, Wilson, K.S., additional, Moeler, M.S., additional, Meyer, A.S., additional, Westh, P., additional, Jensen, K., additional, and Krogh, K.B.R.M., additional more...
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21. Unveiling the substrate specificity of sulfatases, another important group of carbohydrate active enzymes
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Dalgaard Mikkelsen, M., primary, Barbeyron, T., additional, Ficko-Blean, E., additional, Naretto, A., additional, Larocque, R., additional, Genicot, S., additional, Roret, T., additional, Czjzek, M., additional, Meyer, A.S., additional, and Michel, G., additional more...
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22. Visible lexical stress cues on the face do not influence audiovisual speech perception
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Bujok, R., Meyer, A.S., Bosker, H.R., Frota, S., Cruz, M., Vigário, M., Frota, S., Cruz, M., and Vigário, M.
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Item does not contain fulltext Producing lexical stress leads to visible changes on the face, such as longer duration and greater size of the opening of the mouth. Research suggests that these visual cues alone can inform participants about which syllable carries stress (i.e., lip-reading silent videos). This study aims to determine the influence of visual articulatory cues on lexical stress perception in more naturalistic audiovisual settings. Participants were presented with seven disyllabic, Dutch minimal stress pairs (e.g., VOORnaam [first name] & voorNAAM [respectable]) in audio-only (phonetic lexical stress continua without video), video-only (lip-reading silent videos), and audiovisual trials (e.g., phonetic lexical stress continua with video of talker saying VOORnaam or voorNAAM). Categorization data from video-only trials revealed that participants could distinguish the minimal pairs above chance from seeing the silent videos alone. However, responses in the audiovisual condition did not differ from the audio-only condition. We thus conclude that visual lexical stress information on the face, while clearly perceivable, does not play a major role in audiovisual speech perception. This study demonstrates that clear unimodal effects do not always generalize to more naturalistic multimodal communication, advocating that speech prosody is best considered in multimodal settings. Speech Prosody 2022: The Eleventh International Conference on Speech Prosody (Lisbon, Portugal, 23-26 May 2022) more...
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23. Overrated gaps: Inter-speaker gaps provide limited information about the timing of turns in conversation
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Corps, R.E., Knudsen, B., Meyer, A.S., Corps, R.E., Knudsen, B., and Meyer, A.S.
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Item does not contain fulltext, Corpus analyses have shown that turn-taking in conversation is much faster than laboratory studies of speech planning would predict. To explain fast turn-taking, Levinson and Torreira (2015) proposed that speakers are highly proactive: They begin to plan a response to their interlocutor's turn as soon as they have understood its gist, and launch this planned response when the turn-end is imminent. Thus, fast turn-taking is possible because speakers use the time while their partner is talking to plan their own utterance. In the present study, we asked how much time upcoming speakers actually have to plan their utterances. Following earlier psycholinguistic work, we used transcripts of spoken conversations in Dutch, German, and English. These transcripts consisted of segments, which are continuous stretches of speech by one speaker. In the psycholinguistic and phonetic literature, such segments have often been used as proxies for turns. We found that in all three corpora, large proportions of the segments comprised of only one or two words, which on our estimate does not give the next speaker enough time to fully plan a response. Further analyses showed that speakers indeed often did not respond to the immediately preceding segment of their partner, but continued an earlier segment of their own. More generally, our findings suggest that speech segments derived from transcribed corpora do not necessarily correspond to turns, and the gaps between speech segments therefore only provide limited information about the planning and timing of turns. more...
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24. Spoken and written word processing: Effects of presentation modality and individual differences in experience to written language
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Meyer, A.S., Rowland, C.F., Smith, A.C., Hintz, F., Wolf, M.C., Meyer, A.S., Rowland, C.F., Smith, A.C., Hintz, F., and Wolf, M.C.
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Radboud University, 14 februari 2022, Promotores : Meyer, A.S., Rowland, C.F. Co-promotores : Smith, A.C., Hintz, F., Contains fulltext : 246520.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Language can be encountered in multiple modalities, for example in the written modality while reading, and the spoken modality while listening to someone talking. The first question of this dissertation is: is there an effect of presentation modality on the efficiency with which words are processed? The second question of this dissertation was related to the observation that individuals differ with respect to their language processing abilities and their experience with written language. Do individuals who are more experienced with written language process words more efficiently than individuals who are less experienced with written language? With regard to the first question, Chapters 2 and 3 provided evidence that the speed, but not the accuracy with which known words are recognized is influenced by the modality in which words are presented. Easy, common words were recognized faster in the written compared to the spoken modality. Accuracy was not affected by presentation modality. Interestingly, Chapter 6 showed that recognition of newly learned words was not influenced by presentation modality. Thus, the initial creation of a new lexical representation seems to be unaffected by presentation modality, but when these words are fully integrated in the mental lexicon, presentation modality does affect the speed with which known words are recognized. With regard to the second question of this dissertation, Chapter 2, 3, 4 and 5 showed that individuals who are more experienced with written language are able to process, recognize and produce words more efficiently (i.e., faster and /or more accurately) than less experienced individuals. Chapter 4 also demonstrated that this influence of experience with written language exists independent of individual differences in general cognitive abilities. Taken together, the findings from the present dissertation highlights the extent to which the modality in which we encounter language has an influence on our language processing more...
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25. 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
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Fernandez, G., Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, A.M., Bartels, R.H.M.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Bevelander, K.E., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E.N., Boleij, A., Bralten, J.B., Cillessen, A.H.N., Claassen, J.A., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I.M.M., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., Faber, M., Figner, B., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S.C., Gayet, S., Gelder, M.M.H.J. van, Gerven, M.A.J. van, Geurts, S.A.E., Greven, C.U., Groefsema, M.M., Haak, K.V., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y.A.W., Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Hermans, E., Heuvelmans, V.R., Hintz, F., Hollander, J.W. den, Hulsman, A.M., Idesis, S.A., Jaeger, Martin, Janse, E., Janzing, J.G., Kessels, R.P.C., Kleijn, W.P.E. de, Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H.P.L.M., Krahmer, B., Lange, F.P. de, Leeuwen, J.M.C. van, Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J.P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J.M., Medendorp, W.P., Melis, R.J., Meyer, A.S., Oosterman, J.M., Overbeek, L.I.H., Peelen, M.V., Popma, J.A.M., Postma, G.J., Roelofs, K., Rossenberg, Y.G.T. van, Schaap, G.J., Scheepers, P.T., Selen, L.P.J., Starren, M.B.P., Swinkels, D.W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D.H.J., Timmerman, H., Toutounji, R.T., Tuladhar, A.M., Veling, H.P., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J.N., Vyrastekova, J., Wal, S.E.I. van der, Willems, R.M., Willemsen, A.E.C.A.B., Fernandez, G., Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, A.M., Bartels, R.H.M.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Bevelander, K.E., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E.N., Boleij, A., Bralten, J.B., Cillessen, A.H.N., Claassen, J.A., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I.M.M., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., Faber, M., Figner, B., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S.C., Gayet, S., Gelder, M.M.H.J. van, Gerven, M.A.J. van, Geurts, S.A.E., Greven, C.U., Groefsema, M.M., Haak, K.V., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y.A.W., Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Hermans, E., Heuvelmans, V.R., Hintz, F., Hollander, J.W. den, Hulsman, A.M., Idesis, S.A., Jaeger, Martin, Janse, E., Janzing, J.G., Kessels, R.P.C., Kleijn, W.P.E. de, Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H.P.L.M., Krahmer, B., Lange, F.P. de, Leeuwen, J.M.C. van, Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J.P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J.M., Medendorp, W.P., Melis, R.J., Meyer, A.S., Oosterman, J.M., Overbeek, L.I.H., Peelen, M.V., Popma, J.A.M., Postma, G.J., Roelofs, K., Rossenberg, Y.G.T. van, Schaap, G.J., Scheepers, P.T., Selen, L.P.J., Starren, M.B.P., Swinkels, D.W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D.H.J., Timmerman, H., Toutounji, R.T., Tuladhar, A.M., Veling, H.P., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J.N., Vyrastekova, J., Wal, S.E.I. van der, Willems, R.M., and Willemsen, A.E.C.A.B. more...
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26. Neural representation of speech segmentation and syntactic structure discrimination
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Meyer, A.S., Martin, A.E., Bai, F., Meyer, A.S., Martin, A.E., and Bai, F.
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Radboud University, 31 oktober 2022, Promotor : Meyer, A.S. Co-promotor : Martin, A.E., Item does not contain fulltext
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27. Neural dynamics differentially encode phrases and sentences during spoken language comprehension
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Bai, F., Meyer, A.S., Martin, A.E., Bai, F., Meyer, A.S., and Martin, A.E.
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Contains fulltext : 251957.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Human language stands out in the natural world as a biological signal that uses a structured system to combine the meanings of small linguistic units (e.g., words) into larger constituents (e.g., phrases and sentences). However, the physical dynamics of speech (or sign) do not stand in a one-to-one relationship with the meanings listeners perceive. Instead, listeners infer meaning based on their knowledge of the language. The neural readouts of the perceptual and cognitive processes underlying these inferences are still poorly understood. In the present study, we used scalp electroencephalography (EEG) to compare the neural response to phrases (e.g., the red vase) and sentences (e.g., the vase is red), which were close in semantic meaning and had been synthesized to be physically indistinguishable. Differences in structure were well captured in the reorganization of neural phase responses in delta (approximately <2 Hz) and theta bands (approximately 2 to 7 Hz),and in power and power connectivity changes in the alpha band (approximately 7.5 to 13.5 Hz). Consistent with predictions from a computational model, sentences showed more power, more power connectivity, and more phase synchronization than phrases did. Theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling occurred, but did not differ between the syntactic structures. Spectral–temporal response function (STRF) modeling revealed different encoding states for phrases and sentences, over and above the acoustically driven neural response. Our findings provide a comprehensive description of how the brain encodes and separates linguistic structures in the dynamics of neural responses. They imply that phase synchronization and strength of connectivity are readouts for the constituent structure of language. The results provide a novel basis for future neurophysiological research on linguistic structure representation in the brain, and, together with our simulations, support time-based binding as a mechanism of structure encoding in neu more...
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28. 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
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Healthy Brain Study consortium, ., Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, A.M., Bartels, R.H.M.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Bevelander, K.E., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E.N., Boleij, A., Bralten, J.B., Cillessen, A.H.N., Claassen, J.A., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I.M.M., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., Faber, M., Figner, B., Fernandez, G., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S.C., Gayet, S., Gelder, M.M.H.J. van, Gerven, M.A.J. van, Geurts, S.A.E., Greven, C.U., Groefsema, M.M., Haak, K.V., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y.A.W., Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Hermans, E.J., Heuvelmans, V.R., Hintz, F., Hollander, J.W. den, Hulsman, A.M., Idesis, S.A., Jaeger, Martin, Janse, E., Janzing, J.G., Kessels, R.P.C., Karremans, J.C.T.M., Kleijn, W.P.E. de, Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H.P.L.M., Krahmer, B., Lange, F.P. de, Leeuwen, J.M.C. van, Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J.P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J.M., Medendorp, W.P., Melis, R.J.F., Meyer, A.S., Oosterman, J.M., Overbeek, L.I.H., Peelen, M.V., Popma, J.A.M., Postma, G.J., Roelofs, K., Rossenberg, Y.G.T. van, Schaap, G.J., Scheepers, P.T., Selen, L.P.J., Starren, M.B.P., Swinkels, D.W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D.H.J., Timmerman, H., Toutounji, R.T., Tuladhar, A.M., Veling, H.P., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J.N., Vyrastekova, J., Wal, S.E.I. van der, Willems, R.M., Willemsen, A.E.C.A.B., Healthy Brain Study consortium, ., Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, A.M., Bartels, R.H.M.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Bevelander, K.E., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E.N., Boleij, A., Bralten, J.B., Cillessen, A.H.N., Claassen, J.A., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I.M.M., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., Faber, M., Figner, B., Fernandez, G., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S.C., Gayet, S., Gelder, M.M.H.J. van, Gerven, M.A.J. van, Geurts, S.A.E., Greven, C.U., Groefsema, M.M., Haak, K.V., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y.A.W., Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Hermans, E.J., Heuvelmans, V.R., Hintz, F., Hollander, J.W. den, Hulsman, A.M., Idesis, S.A., Jaeger, Martin, Janse, E., Janzing, J.G., Kessels, R.P.C., Karremans, J.C.T.M., Kleijn, W.P.E. de, Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H.P.L.M., Krahmer, B., Lange, F.P. de, Leeuwen, J.M.C. van, Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J.P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J.M., Medendorp, W.P., Melis, R.J.F., Meyer, A.S., Oosterman, J.M., Overbeek, L.I.H., Peelen, M.V., Popma, J.A.M., Postma, G.J., Roelofs, K., Rossenberg, Y.G.T. van, Schaap, G.J., Scheepers, P.T., Selen, L.P.J., Starren, M.B.P., Swinkels, D.W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D.H.J., Timmerman, H., Toutounji, R.T., Tuladhar, A.M., Veling, H.P., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J.N., Vyrastekova, J., Wal, S.E.I. van der, Willems, R.M., and Willemsen, A.E.C.A.B. more...
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29. Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills
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Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., Ramenzoni, V., Hintz, F., Voeten, C.C., McQueen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., Ramenzoni, V., Hintz, F., Voeten, C.C., McQueen, J.M., and Meyer, A.S. more...
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CogSci 2022: The 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Toronto, Canada, July 27-30, 2022), Item does not contain fulltext
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30. The processing of ambiguous pronominal reference is sensitive to depth of processing
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Creemers, A., Meyer, A.S., Creemers, A., and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 285332.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Previous studies on the processing of ambiguous pronominal reference have led to contradictory results: some suggested that ambiguity may hinder processing (Stewart, Holler, & Kidd, 2007), while others showed an ambiguity advantage (Grant, Sloggett, & Dillon, 2020) similar to what has been reported for structural ambiguities. This study provides a conceptual replication of Stewart et al. (2007, Experiment 1), to examine whether the discrepancy in earlier results is caused by the processing depth that participants engage in (cf. Swets, Desmet, Clifton, & Ferreira, 2008). We present the results from a word-by-word self-paced reading experiment with Dutch sentences that contained a personal pronoun in an embedded clause that was either ambiguous or disambiguated through gender features. Depth of processing of the embedded clause was manipulated through offline comprehension questions. The results showed that the difference in reading times for ambiguous versus unambiguous sentences depends on the processing depth: a significant ambiguity penalty was found under deep processing but not under shallow processing. No significant ambiguity advantage was found, regardless of processing depth. This replicates the results in Stewart et al. (2007) using a different methodology and a larger sample size for appropriate statistical power. These findings provide further evidence that ambiguous pronominal reference resolution is a flexible process, such that the way in which ambiguous sentences are processed depends on the depth of processing of the relevant information. Theoretical and methodological implications of these findings are discussed. more...
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31. Visible lexical stress cues on the face do not influence audiovisual speech perception
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Frota, S., Cruz, M., Vigário, M., Bujok, R., Meyer, A.S., Bosker, H.R., Frota, S., Cruz, M., Vigário, M., Bujok, R., Meyer, A.S., and Bosker, H.R.
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Speech Prosody 2022: The Eleventh International Conference on Speech Prosody (Lisbon, Portugal, 23-26 May 2022), Item does not contain fulltext, Producing lexical stress leads to visible changes on the face, such as longer duration and greater size of the opening of the mouth. Research suggests that these visual cues alone can inform participants about which syllable carries stress (i.e., lip-reading silent videos). This study aims to determine the influence of visual articulatory cues on lexical stress perception in more naturalistic audiovisual settings. Participants were presented with seven disyllabic, Dutch minimal stress pairs (e.g., VOORnaam [first name] & voorNAAM [respectable]) in audio-only (phonetic lexical stress continua without video), video-only (lip-reading silent videos), and audiovisual trials (e.g., phonetic lexical stress continua with video of talker saying VOORnaam or voorNAAM). Categorization data from video-only trials revealed that participants could distinguish the minimal pairs above chance from seeing the silent videos alone. However, responses in the audiovisual condition did not differ from the audio-only condition. We thus conclude that visual lexical stress information on the face, while clearly perceivable, does not play a major role in audiovisual speech perception. This study demonstrates that clear unimodal effects do not always generalize to more naturalistic multimodal communication, advocating that speech prosody is best considered in multimodal settings. more...
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32. Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills
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Hintz, F., Voeten, C.C., McQueen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., and Ramenzoni, V.
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33. Crystal structure of PsFucS1 sulfatase from Pseudoalteromonas sp.
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Roret, T., primary, Mikkelsen, M.D., additional, Czjzek, M., additional, and Meyer, A.S., additional
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34. Lattice determination of $I= 0$ and 2 $\pi\pi$ scattering phase shifts with a physical pion mass
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Blum, T., Boyle, P.A., Bruno, M., Christ, N.H., Hoying, D., Kelly, C., Lehner, C., Mawhinney, R.D., Meyer, A.S., Murphy, D.J., Sachrajda, C.T., Soni, A., and Wang, T.
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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Lattice ,nucl-th ,Nuclear Theory ,Nuclear Physics - Theory ,hep-lat ,hep-ph ,Particle Physics - Lattice ,Particle Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
Phase shifts for $s$-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering in both the $I=0$ and $I=2$ channels are determined from a lattice QCD calculation performed on 741 gauge configurations obeying G-parity boundary conditions with a physical pion mass and lattice size of $32^3\times 64$. These results support our recent study of direct CP violation in $K\to\pi\pi$ decay \cite{Abbott:2020hxn}, improving our earlier 2015 calculation \cite{Bai:2015nea}. The phase shifts are determined for both stationary and moving $\pi\pi$ systems, at three ($I=0$) and four ($I=2$) different total momenta. We implement several $\pi\pi$ interpolating operators including a scalar bilinear "$\sigma$" operator and paired single-pion bilinear operators with the constituent pions carrying various relative momenta. Several techniques, including correlated fitting and a bootstrap determination of p-values have been used to refine the results and a comparison with the generalized eigenvalue problem (GEVP) method is given. A detailed systematic error analysis is performed which allows phase shift results to be presented at a fixed energy., Comment: v3: Add a subsection "Higher partial wave correction", and correct the unit of scattering length. 88 pages and 14 figures v2: 1). Add reference 29 as an example of pipi scattering calculation above 4mpi threshold. 2). Modify the wording on page 3 for the footage. 3). Correct the \sigma operator on page 17 more...
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35. 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
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Fernandez, G., Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, A.M., Bartels, R.H.M.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Bevelander, K.E., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E.N., Boleij, A., Bralten, J.B., Cillessen, A.H.N., Claassen, J.A., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I.M.M., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., Faber, M., Figner, B., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S.C., Gayet, S., Gelder, M.M.H.J. van, Gerven, M.A.J. van, Geurts, S.A.E., Greven, C.U., Groefsema, M.M., Haak, K.V., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y.A.W., Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Hermans, E., Heuvelmans, V.R., Hintz, F., Hollander, J.W. den, Hulsman, A.M., Idesis, S.A., Jaeger, Martin, Janse, E., Janzing, J.G., Kessels, R.P.C., Kleijn, W.P.E. de, Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H.P.L.M., Krahmer, B., Lange, F.P. de, Leeuwen, J.M.C. van, Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J.P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J.M., Medendorp, W.P., Melis, R.J., Meyer, A.S., Oosterman, J.M., Overbeek, L.I.H., Peelen, M.V., Popma, J.A.M., Postma, G.J., Roelofs, K., Rossenberg, Y.G.T. van, Schaap, G.J., Scheepers, P.T., Selen, L.P.J., Starren, M.B.P., Swinkels, D.W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D.H.J., Timmerman, H., Toutounji, R.T., Tuladhar, A.M., Veling, H.P., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J.N., Vyrastekova, J., Wal, S.E.I. van der, Willems, R.M., Willemsen, A.E.C.A.B., Fernandez, G., Aarts, E., Akkerman, A., Altgassen, A.M., Bartels, R.H.M.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Bevelander, K.E., Bijleveld, E., Blaney Davidson, E.N., Boleij, A., Bralten, J.B., Cillessen, A.H.N., Claassen, J.A., Cools, R., Cornelissen, I.M.M., Dresler, M., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., Faber, M., Figner, B., Fritsche, M., Füllbrunn, S.C., Gayet, S., Gelder, M.M.H.J. van, Gerven, M.A.J. van, Geurts, S.A.E., Greven, C.U., Groefsema, M.M., Haak, K.V., Hagoort, P., Hartman, Y.A.W., Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Hermans, E., Heuvelmans, V.R., Hintz, F., Hollander, J.W. den, Hulsman, A.M., Idesis, S.A., Jaeger, Martin, Janse, E., Janzing, J.G., Kessels, R.P.C., Kleijn, W.P.E. de, Klein, M., Klumpers, F., Kohn, N., Korzilius, H.P.L.M., Krahmer, B., Lange, F.P. de, Leeuwen, J.M.C. van, Liu, H., Luijten, M., Manders, P., Manevska, K., Marques, J.P., Matthews, J., McQueen, J.M., Medendorp, W.P., Melis, R.J., Meyer, A.S., Oosterman, J.M., Overbeek, L.I.H., Peelen, M.V., Popma, J.A.M., Postma, G.J., Roelofs, K., Rossenberg, Y.G.T. van, Schaap, G.J., Scheepers, P.T., Selen, L.P.J., Starren, M.B.P., Swinkels, D.W., Tendolkar, I., Thijssen, D.H.J., Timmerman, H., Toutounji, R.T., Tuladhar, A.M., Veling, H.P., Verhagen, M., Verkroost, J., Vriezekolk, V., Vrijsen, J.N., Vyrastekova, J., Wal, S.E.I. van der, Willems, R.M., and Willemsen, A.E.C.A.B. more...
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Contains fulltext : 242453.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), 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 modulated by biological, social, and environmental factors is limited. To address this, we designed the Healthy Brain Study (HBS), an interdisciplinary, longitudinal, cohort study based on multidimensional, dynamic assessments in both the laboratory and the real world. Here, we describe the rationale and design of the currently ongoing HBS. The HBS is examining a population-based sample of 1,000 healthy participants (age 30-39) who are thoroughly studied across an entire year. Data are collected through cognitive, affective, behavioral, and physiological testing, neuroimaging, bio-sampling, questionnaires, ecological momentary assessment, and real-world assessments using wearable devices. These data will become an accessible resource for the scientific community enabling the next step in understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context. An access procedure to the collected data and bio-samples is in place and published on https://www.healthybrainstudy.nl/en/data-and-methods. https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/7955 more...
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36. Literacy can enhance syntactic prediction in spoken language processing
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Favier, S., Meyer, A.S., Huettig, F., Favier, S., Meyer, A.S., and Huettig, F.
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Item does not contain fulltext, Language comprehenders can use syntactic cues to generate predictions online about upcoming language. Previous research with reading-impaired adults and healthy, low-proficiency adult and child learners suggests that reading skills are related to prediction in spoken language comprehension. Here, we investigated whether differences in literacy are also related to predictive spoken language processing in non-reading-impaired proficient adult readers with varying levels of literacy experience. Using the visual world paradigm enabled us to measure prediction based on syntactic cues in the spoken sentence, prior to the (predicted) target word. Literacy experience was found to be the strongest predictor of target anticipation, independent of general cognitive abilities. These findings suggest that (a) experience with written language can enhance syntactic prediction of spoken language in normal adult language users and (b) processing skills can be transferred to related tasks (from reading to listening) if the domains involve similar processes (e.g., predictive dependencies) and representations (e.g., syntactic). more...
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37. Conducting language production research online: A web-based study of semantic context and name agreement effects in multi-word production
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He, J., Meyer, A.S., Creemers, A., Brehm, L.E., He, J., Meyer, A.S., Creemers, A., and Brehm, L.E.
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Contains fulltext : 241541.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Few web-based experiments have explored spoken language production, perhaps due to concerns of data quality, especially for measuring onset latencies. The present study highlights how speech production research can be done outside of the laboratory by measuring utterance durations and speech fluency in a multiple-object naming task when examining two effects related to lexical selection: semantic context and name agreement. A web-based modified blocked-cyclic naming paradigm was created, in which participants named a total of sixteen simultaneously presented pictures on each trial. The pictures were either four tokens from the same semantic category (homogeneous context), or four tokens from different semantic categories (heterogeneous context). Name agreement of the pictures was varied orthogonally (high, low). In addition to onset latency, five dependent variables were measured to index naming performance: accuracy, utterance duration, total pause time, the number of chunks (word groups pronounced without intervening pauses), and first chunk length. Bayesian analyses showed effects of semantic context and name agreement for some of the dependent measures, but no interaction. We discuss the methodological implications of the current study and make best practice recommendations for spoken language production research in an online environment. more...
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38. Individual differences in language ability: Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills
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Hintz, F., Voeten, C.C., Isakoglou, C., McQueen, J.M., Meyer, A.S., Hintz, F., Voeten, C.C., Isakoglou, C., McQueen, J.M., and Meyer, A.S.
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34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2021) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3-6 March 2021), Item does not contain fulltext
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39. Planning when to say: Dissociating cue use in utterance initiation using cross-validation
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Brehm, L.E., Meyer, A.S., Brehm, L.E., and Meyer, A.S.
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Item does not contain fulltext, In conversation, turns follow each other with minimal gaps. To achieve this, speakers must launch their utterances shortly before the predicted end of the partner's turn. We examined the relative importance of cues to partner utterance content and partner utterance length for launching coordinated speech. In three experiments, Dutch adult participants had to produce prepared utterances (e.g., vier, "four") immediately after a recording of a confederate's utterance (zeven, "seven"). To assess the role of corepresenting content versus attending to speech cues in launching coordinated utterances, we varied whether the participant could see the stimulus being named by the confederate, the confederate prompt's length, and whether within a block of trials, the confederate prompt's length was predictable. We measured how these factors affected the gap between turns and the participants' allocation of visual attention while preparing to speak. Using a machine-learning technique, model selection by k-fold cross-validation, we found that gaps were most strongly predicted by cues from the confederate speech signal, though some benefit was also conferred by seeing the confederate’s stimulus. This shows that, at least in a simple laboratory task, speakers rely more on cues in the partner’s speech than corepresentation of their utterance content. more...
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40. Investigating spoken language comprehension as perceptual inference
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Meyer, A.S., Martin, A.E., Bosker, H.R., Kaufeld, G., Meyer, A.S., Martin, A.E., Bosker, H.R., and Kaufeld, G.
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Radboud University, 19 januari 2021, Promotor : Meyer, A.S. Co-promotores : Martin, A.E., Bosker, H.R., Contains fulltext : 228260.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)
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41. The effects of input modality, word difficulty and reading experience on word recognition accuracy
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Wolf, M.C., Meyer, A.S., Rowland, C.F., Hintz, F., Wolf, M.C., Meyer, A.S., Rowland, C.F., and Hintz, F.
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Contains fulltext : 236048.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Language users encounter words in at least two different modalities. Arguably, the most frequent encounters are in spoken or written form. Previous research has shown that - compared to the spoken modality - written language features more difficult words. An important question is whether input modality has effects on word recognition accuracy. In the present study, we investigated whether input modality (spoken, written, or bimodal) affected word recognition accuracy and whether such a modality effect interacted with word difficulty. Moreover, we tested whether the participants' reading experience interacted with word difficulty and whether this interaction was influenced by modality. We re-analyzed data from 48 Dutch university students that were collected in the context of a vocabulary test development to assess in which modality test words should be presented. Participants carried out a word recognition task, where non-words and words of varying difficulty were presented in auditory, visual and audio-visual modalities. In addition, they completed a receptive vocabulary and an author recognition test to measure their exposure to literary texts. Our re-analyses showed that word difficulty interacted with reading experience in that frequent readers (i.e., with more exposure to written texts) were more accurate in recognizing difficult words than individuals who read less frequently. However, there was no evidence for an effect of input modality on word recognition accuracy, nor for interactions with word difficulty or reading experience. Thus, in our study, input modality did not influence word recognition accuracy. We discuss the implications of this finding and describe possibilities for future research involving other groups of participants and/or different languages. more...
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42. Competition reduces response times in multiparty conversation
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Holler, J.A.M., Alday, P.M., Decuyper, C.H., Geiger, M.C., Kendrick, K.H., Meyer, A.S., Holler, J.A.M., Alday, P.M., Decuyper, C.H., Geiger, M.C., Kendrick, K.H., and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 237215.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Natural conversations are characterized by short transition times between turns. This holds in particular for multi-party conversations. The short turn transitions in everyday conversations contrast sharply with the much longer speech onset latencies observed in laboratory studies where speakers respond to spoken utterances. There are many factors that facilitate speech production in conversational compared to laboratory settings. Here we highlight one of them, the impact of competition for turns. In multi-party conversations, speakers often compete for turns. In quantitative corpus analyses of multi-party conversation, the fastest response determines the recorded turn transition time. In contrast, in dyadic conversations such competition for turns is much less likely to arise, and in laboratory experiments with individual participants it does not arise at all. Therefore, all responses tend to be recorded. Thus, competition for turns may reduce the recorded mean turn transition times in multi-party conversations for a simple statistical reason: slow responses are not included in the means. We report two studies illustrating this point. We first report the results of simulations showing how much the response times in a laboratory experiment would be reduced if, for each trial, instead of recording all responses, only the fastest responses of several participants responding independently on the trial were recorded. We then present results from a quantitative corpus analysis comparing turn transition times in dyadic and triadic conversations. There was no significant group size effect in question-response transition times, where the present speaker often selects the next one, thus reducing competition between speakers. But, as predicted, triads showed shorter turn transition times than dyads for the remaining turn transitions, where competition for the floor was more likely to arise. Together, these data show that turn transition times in conversation should be interpr more...
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43. Concurrent speech planning does not eliminate repetition priming from spoken words: Evidence from linguistic dual-tasking
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Bartolozzi, F., Jongman, S.R., Meyer, A.S., Bartolozzi, F., Jongman, S.R., and Meyer, A.S.
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Item does not contain fulltext, In conversation, production and comprehension processes may overlap, causing interference. In 3 experiments, we investigated whether repetition priming can work as a supporting device, reducing costs associated with linguistic dual-tasking. Experiment 1 established the rate of decay of repetition priming from spoken words to picture naming for primes embedded in sentences. Experiments 2 and 3 investigated whether the rate of decay was faster when participants comprehended the prime while planning to name unrelated pictures. In all experiments, the primed picture followed the sentences featuring the prime on the same trial, or 10 or 50 trials later. The results of the 3 experiments were strikingly similar: robust repetition priming was observed when the primed picture followed the prime sentence. Thus, repetition priming was observed even when the primes were processed while the participants prepared an unrelated spoken utterance. Priming might, therefore, support utterance planning in conversation, where speakers routinely listen while planning their utterances. more...
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44. Concurrent listening affects speech planning and fluency: The roles of representational similarity and capacity limitation
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He, J., Meyer, A.S., Brehm, L.E., He, J., Meyer, A.S., and Brehm, L.E.
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Contains fulltext : 234333.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), In a novel continuous speaking-listening paradigm, we explored how speech planning was affected by concurrent listening. In Experiment 1, Dutch speakers named pictures with high versus low name agreement while ignoring Dutch speech, Chinese speech, or eight-talker babble. Both name agreement and type of auditory input influenced response timing and chunking, suggesting that representational similarity impacts lexical selection and the scope of advance planning in utterance generation. In Experiment 2, Dutch speakers named pictures with high or low name agreement while either ignoring Dutch words, or attending to them for a later memory test. Both name agreement and attention demand influenced response timing and chunking, suggesting that attention demand impacts lexical selection and the planned utterance units in each response. The study indicates that representational similarity and attention demand play important roles in linguistic dual-task interference, and the interference can be managed by adapting when and how to plan speech. more...
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45. Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging
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Reifegerste, J., Meyer, A.S., Zwitserlood, C.M.E., Ullman, M.T., Reifegerste, J., Meyer, A.S., Zwitserlood, C.M.E., and Ullman, M.T.
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Item does not contain fulltext, Lexical-processing declines are a hallmark of aging. However, the extent of these declines may vary as a function of different factors. Motivated by findings from neurodegenerative diseases and healthy aging, we tested whether 'motor-relatedness' (the degree to which words are associated with particular human body movements) might moderate such declines. We investigated this question by examining data from three experiments. The experiments were carried out in different languages (Dutch, German, English) using different tasks (lexical decision, picture naming), and probed verbs and nouns, in all cases controlling for potentially confounding variables (e.g., frequency, age-of-acquisition, imageability). Whereas 'non-motor words' (e.g., steak) showed age-related performance decreases in all three experiments, 'motor words' (e.g., knife) yielded either smaller decreases (in one experiment) or no decreases (in two experiments). The findings suggest that motor-relatedness can attenuate or even prevent age-related lexical declines, perhaps due to the relative sparing of neural circuitry underlying such words. more...
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46. What underlies the deficit in rapid automatized naming (RAN) in adults with dyslexia? Evidence from eye movements
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Araújo, S., Huettig, F., Meyer, A.S., Araújo, S., Huettig, F., and Meyer, A.S.
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Item does not contain fulltext, This eye-tracking study explored how phonological encoding and speech production planning for successive words are coordinated in adult readers with dyslexia (N = 22) and control readers (N = 25) during rapid automatized naming (RAN). Using an object-RAN task, we orthogonally manipulated the word-form frequency and phonological neighborhood density of the object names and assessed the effects on speech and eye movements and their temporal coordination. In both groups, there was a significant interaction between word frequency and neighborhood density: shorter fixations for dense than for sparse neighborhoods were observed for low- but not for high-frequency words. This finding does not suggest a specific difficulty in lexical phonological access in dyslexia. However, in readers with dyslexia only, these lexical effects percolated to the late processing stages, indicated by longer offset eye-speech lags. We close by discussing potential reasons for this finding, including suboptimal specification of phonological representations and deficits in attention control or in multi-item coordination. more...
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47. Modeling the distributional dynamics of attention and semantic interference in word production
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San José, A., Roelofs, A.P.A., Meyer, A.S., San José, A., Roelofs, A.P.A., and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 230735.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access), In recent years, it has become clear that attention plays an important role in spoken word production. Some of this evidence comes from distributional analyses of reaction time (RT) in regular picture naming and picture-word interference. Yet we lack a mechanistic account of how the properties of RT distributions come to reflect attentional processes and how these processes may in turn modulate the amount of conflict between lexical representations. Here, we present a computational account according to which attentional lapses allow for existing conflict to build up unsupervised on a subset of trials, thus modulating the shape of the resulting RT distribution. Our process model resolves discrepancies between outcomes of previous studies on semantic interference. Moreover, the model's predictions were confirmed in a new experiment where participants' motivation to remain attentive determined the size and distributional locus of semantic interference in picture naming. We conclude that process modeling of RT distributions importantly improves our understanding of the interplay between attention and conflict in word production. Our model thus provides a framework for interpreting distributional analyses of RT data in picture naming tasks. more...
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48. Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS): Dutch names for 1400 photographs
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Decuyper, C.H., Brysbaert, M., Brodeur, M.B., Meyer, A.S., Decuyper, C.H., Brysbaert, M., Brodeur, M.B., and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 236034.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), We present written naming norms from 153 young adult Dutch speakers for 1397 photographs (the BOSS set; see Brodeur, Dionne-Dostie, Montreuil, & Lepage, 2010; Brodeur, Guérard, & Bouras, 2014). From the norming study, we report the preferred (modal) name, alternative names, name agreement, and average object agreement. In addition, the data base includes Zipf frequency, word prevalence and Age of Acquisition for the modal picture names collected. Furthermore, we describe a subset of 359 photographs with very good name agreement and a subset of 35 photos with two common names. These sets may be particularly valuable for designing experiments. Though the participants typed the object names, comparisons with other datasets indicate that the collected norms are valuable for spoken naming studies as well. more...
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49. What makes a language easy to learn? A preregistered study on how systematic structure and community size affect language learnability
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Raviv, L., Heer Kloots, M. de, Meyer, A.S., Raviv, L., Heer Kloots, M. de, and Meyer, A.S.
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Contains fulltext : 246044.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Cross-linguistic differences in morphological complexity could have important consequences for language learning. Specifically, it is often assumed that languages with more regular, compositional, and transparent grammars are easier to learn by both children and adults. Moreover, it has been shown that such grammars are more likely to evolve in bigger communities. Together, this suggests that some languages are acquired faster than others, and that this advantage can be traced back to community size and to the degree of systematicity in the language. However, the causal relationship between systematic linguistic structure and language learnability has not been formally tested, despite its potential importance for theories on language evolution, second language learning, and the origin of linguistic diversity. In this pre-registered study, we experimentally tested the effects of community size and systematic structure on adult language learning. We compared the acquisition of different yet comparable artificial languages that were created by big or small groups in a previous communication experiment, which varied in their degree of systematic linguistic structure. We asked (a) whether more structured languages were easier to learn; and (b) whether languages created by the bigger groups were easier to learn. We found that highly systematic languages were learned faster and more accurately by adults, but that the relationship between language learnability and linguistic structure was typically non-linear: high systematicity was advantageous for learning, but learners did not benefit from partly or semi-structured languages. Community size did not affect learnability: languages that evolved in big and small groups were equally learnable, and there was no additional advantage for languages created by bigger groups beyond their degree of systematic structure. Furthermore, our results suggested that predictability is an important advantage of systematic structure: particip more...
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50. Speaking while listening: Language processing in speech shadowing and translation
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Meyer, A.S., Roelofs, A.P.A., Paridon, J.P. van, Meyer, A.S., Roelofs, A.P.A., and Paridon, J.P. van
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Radboud University, 25 mei 2021, Promotores : Meyer, A.S., Roelofs, A.P.A., Contains fulltext : 233349.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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