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    Exploring word recognition in a semi-alphabetic script: The case of Devanagari
    with Ashum Gupta
    Brain and Language 81 679-690. 2002.
    Unlike other writing systems that are readily classifiable as alphabetic or syllabic in their structure, the Indic Devanagari script (of which Hindi is an example) has properties of both syllabic and alphabetic writing systems. Whereas Devanagari consonants are written in a linear left-to-right order, vowel signs are positioned nonlinearly above, below, or to either side of the consonants. This fact results in certain words in Hindi for which, in a given syllable, the vowel precedes the consonan…Read more
  •  6
    Is an Ideal Sense of Humor Gendered? A Cross-National Study
    with Sümeyra Tosun and Nafiseh Faghihi
    Frontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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    Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes (edited book)
    with T. B. Ward and S. M. Smith
    American Psychological Association. 1997.
  •  131
    Of black sheep and wrhite crows: Extending the bilingual dual coding theory to memory for idioms
    with Lena Pritchett and Sumeyra Tosun
    Cogent Psychology 3 (1): 1-18. 2016.
    Are idioms stored in memory in ways that preserve their surface form or language or are they represented amodally? We examined this question using an inci- dental cued recall paradigm in which two word idiomatic expressions were presented to adult bilinguals proficient in Russian and English. Stimuli included phrases with idiomat- ic equivalents in both languages (e.g. “empty words/пycтыe cлoвa”) or in one language only (English—e.g. “empty suit/пycтoй кocтюм” or Russian—e.g. “empty sound/пycтoй…Read more
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    The experience of embarrassment was explored in two experiments comparing monolingual and bilingual speakers from cultures varying in the degree of elabo- ration of the embarrassment lexicon. In Experiment 1, narratives in English or Korean depicting three types of embarrassing predicaments were to be rated on their embarrassability and humorousness by Korean-English bilinguals, Korean monolinguals, and Euro-American monolinguals. All groups judged certain predicaments (involving social gaffes) …Read more
  •  113
    Making a story make sense: Does evidentiality matter in discourse coherence?
    with Sumeyra Tosun
    Applied Psycholinguistics 37 1337-1367. 2016.
    Evidentiality refers to the linguistic marking of the nature/directness of source of evidence of an asserted event. Some languages (e.g., Turkish) mark source obligatorily in their grammar, while other languages (e.g., English) provide only lexical options for conveying source. The present study examined whether or under what conditions firsthand source information is relied on more than nonfirsthand sources in establishing discourse coherence. Turkish- and English-speaking participants read a s…Read more
  • Graded category structure in Chinese-English bilinguals
    with Thomas B. Ward, Y. Kolomyts, and A. Chu
    International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solvingi 19 47-59. 2009.
  •  671
    What's so funny? Modelling incongruity in humour production
    with Rachel Hull and Sümeyra Tosun
    Cognition and Emotion 31 (3). 2017.
    Finding something humorous is intrinsically rewarding and may facilitate emotion regulation, but what creates humour has been underexplored. The present experimental study examined humour generated under controlled conditions with varying social, affective, and cognitive factors. Participants listed five ways in which a set of concept pairs (e.g. MONEY and CHOCOLATE) were similar or different in either a funny way (intentional humour elicitation) or a “catchy” way (incidental humour elicitation)…Read more
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    What affects facing direction in profile drawing? A meta-analytic inquiry.
    with Sumeyra Tosun
    Perception 43 (12): 1377-1392. 2014.
    Two meta-analyses were conducted to examine two potential sources of spatial orientation biases in human profile drawings by brain-intact individuals. The first examined profile facing direction as function of hand used to draw. The second examined profile facing direction in relation to directional scanning biases related to reading/writing habits. Results of the first meta-analysis, based on 27 study samples with 4171 participants, showed that leftward facing of profiles (from the viewer's per…Read more
  • Mental manipulation of numbers by bilinguals
    with C. Frenckmestre
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 29 (6): 509-509. 1991.
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    On the interpretation of alienable vs. inalienable possession: A psycholinguistic investigation
    with Frantisek Lichtenberk and Hsin-Chin Chen
    Cognitive Linguistics 22 (4): 659-689. 2011.
    Oceanic languages typically make a grammatical contrast between expres- sions of alienable and inalienable possession. Moreover, further distinctions are made in the alienable category but not in the inalienable category. The present research tests the hypothesis that there is a good motivation for such a development in the former case. As English does not have a grammaticalized distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, it provides a good testing ground. Three studies were c…Read more
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    An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology
    with Lisa Geraci
    Feminism and Psychology 26 (3): 292-319. 2016.
    Mainstream psychological research has been characterized as androcentric in its construction of males as the norm. Does an androcentric bias also characterize the professional visibility of psychologists? We examined this issue for cognitive psychology, where the gender distribution in doctoral degrees has been roughly equal for several decades. Our investigation revealed that, across all indicators surveyed, male cognitive psychologists are more visible than their female counterparts: they are …Read more