Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Dumay, Nicolas"
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Auditory Selective Adaptation Moment by Moment, at Multiple Timescales
Samuel, Arthur G.; Dumay, Nicolas (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2021)Over the course of a lifetime, adults develop perceptual categories for the vowels and consonants in their native language, based on the distribution of those sounds in their environment. However, in any given listening ... -
Generalization From Newly Learned Words Reveals Structural Properties of the Human Reading System
Armstrong, Blair C.; Dumay, Nicolas; Kim, Woojae; Pitt, Mark A. (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2017)Connectionist accounts of quasiregular domains, such as spelling–sound correspondences in English, represent exception words (e.g., pint) amid regular words (e.g., mint) via a graded “warping” mechanism. Warping allows ... -
Improved memory for information learnt before alcohol use in social drinkers tested in a naturalistic setting
Carlyle, Molly; Dumay, Nicolas; Roberts, Karen; McAndrew, Amy; Tobias, Stevens; Lawn, Will; Morgan, Celia J. A. (Scientific Reports, 2017)Alcohol is known to facilitate memory if given after learning information in the laboratory; we aimed to investigate whether this effect can be found when alcohol is consumed in a naturalistic setting. Eighty-eight social ... -
Look more carefully: Even your data show sleep makes memories more accessible. A reply to Schreiner and Rasch (2018)
Dumay, Nicolas (Cortex, 2018)... -
Setting the alarm: Word emotional attributes require consolidation to be operational
Dumay, Nicolas; Sharma, Dinkar; Kellen, Nora; Abdelrahim, Sarah (Emotion, 2018)Demonstrations of emotional Stroop in conditioned made-up words are flawed because of the lack of task ensuring similar word encoding across conditions. Here, participants were trained on associations between made-up words ... -
Sleep not just protects memories against forgetting, it also makes them more accessible
Dumay, Nicolas (Cortex, 2016)Two published datasets (Dumay & Gaskell, 2007, Psychological Science; Tamminen, Payne, Stickgold, Wamsley, & Gaskell, 2010, Journal of Neuroscience) showing a positive influence of sleep on declarative memory were ...