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On the effects of regional accents on memory and credibility
(Acta Psychologica, 2018)
The information we obtain from how speakers sound—for example their accent—affects how we interpret the
messages they convey. A clear example is foreign accented speech, where reduced intelligibility and speaker's
social ...
The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning
(PLOS ONE, 2020)
Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet,
there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not
native speakers of. For this reason, ...
The effects of contextual diversity on incidental vocabulary learning in the native and a foreign language
(Scientific Reports, 2020)
Vocabulary learning occurs throughout the lifespan, often implicitly. For foreign language learners, this is particularly challenging as they must acquire a large number of new words with little exposure. In the present ...
Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness
(Psicológica, 2020)
The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces ...
Inhibitory and facilitatory effects of phonological and orthographic similarity on L2 word recognition across modalities in bilinguals
(Scientific Reports, 2021)
Language perception studies on bilinguals often show that words that share form and meaning across languages (cognates) are easier to process than words that share only meaning. This facilitatory phenomenon is known as the ...
The Influence of Emotional and Foreign Language Context in Content Learning
(Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020)
Prior research has found reduced emotionality with foreign language use, especially with single
words, but what happens if emotionality is conveyed throughout a longer text? Does emotionality
affect how well we remember ...
Information‑seeking across auditory scenes by an echolocating dolphin
(SPRINGER, 2022)
Dolphins gain information through echolocation, a publicly accessible sensory system in which dolphins produce clicks
and process returning echoes, thereby both investigating and contributing to auditory scenes. How their ...
Speaker Accent Modulates the Effects of Orthographic and Phonological Similarity on Auditory Processing by Learners of English
(Frontiers, 2022)
The cognate effect refers to translation equivalents with similar form between
languages—i.e., cognates, such as “band” (English) and “banda” (Spanish)—being
processed faster than words with dissimilar forms—such as, ...