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Editor's preface

East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2015
PREFACE In today’s rapidly changing society, psycholinguistics tends to be more proactive, since it does not simply respond to new realities of life by designing models or theories. Currently psycholinguistics has full potential not only to survive or
Serhii Zasiekin
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Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The core niche for language use is in verbal interaction, involving the rapid exchange of turns at talking. This paper reviews the extensive literature about this system, adding new statistical analyses of behavioural data where they have been missing ...
Stephen C. Levinson, Francisco eTorreira
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Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Style During Literary Reading: Insights from Eye-Tracking

Collabra: Psychology, 2016
Style is an important aspect of literature, and stylistic deviations are sometimes labeled foregrounded, since their manner of expression deviates from the stylistic default. Russian Formalists have claimed that foregrounding increases processing demands
Emiel van den Hoven, Franziska Hartung, Michael Burke, Roel M. Willems   +3 more
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Exome-wide analysis implicates rare protein-altering variants in human handedness

Nature Communications
Handedness is a manifestation of brain hemispheric specialization. Left-handedness occurs at increased rates in neurodevelopmental disorders. Genome-wide association studies have identified common genetic effects on handedness or brain asymmetry, which ...
Dick Schijven, Sourena Soheili-Nezhad, Simon E. Fisher, Clyde Francks   +3 more
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Use what you can: Storage, abstraction processes and perceptual adjustments help listeners recognize reduced forms

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Three eye-tracking experiments tested whether native listeners recognized reduced Dutch words better after having heard the same reduced words, or different reduced words of the same reduction type and whether familiarization with one reduction type ...
Katja ePoellmann, Katja ePoellmann, Holger eMitterer, James eMcQueen, James eMcQueen, James eMcQueen   +5 more
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Conversational facial signals combine into compositional meanings that change the interpretation of speaker intentions

Scientific Reports
Human language is extremely versatile, combining a limited set of signals in an unlimited number of ways. However, it is unknown whether conversational visual signals feed into the composite utterances with which speakers communicate their intentions. We
James P. Trujillo, Judith Holler
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Retinoic acid signaling: a new piece in the spoken language puzzle

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Speech requires precise motor control and rapid sequencing of highly complex vocal musculature. Despite its complexity, most people produce spoken language effortlessly.
Jon-Ruben eVan Rhijn, Jon-Ruben eVan Rhijn, Sonja Catherine Vernes, Sonja Catherine Vernes   +3 more
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Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
The left and right sides of the human brain are specialized for different kinds of information processing, and much of our cognition is lateralized to an extent towards one side or the other.
Tulio eGuadalupe, Roel M Willems, Roel M Willems, Marcel P Zwiers, Alejandro eArias Vasquez, Alejandro eArias Vasquez, Alejandro eArias Vasquez, Martine eHoogman, Martine eHoogman, Peter eHagoort, Peter eHagoort, Guillén eFernández, Guillén eFernández, Jan eBuitelaar, Jan eBuitelaar, Barbara eFranke, Barbara eFranke, Barbara eFranke, Simon Edward Fisher, Simon Edward Fisher, Clyde eFrancks, Clyde eFrancks   +21 more
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Spatialization of time in Mian

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
We examine representations of time among the Mianmin of Papua New Guinea. We begin by describing the patterns of spatial and temporal reference in Mian. Mian uses a system of spatial terms that derive from the orientation and direction of the Hak and Sek
Sebastian eFedden, Sebastian eFedden, Lera eBoroditsky, Lera eBoroditsky   +3 more
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How Does L1 and L2 Exposure Impact L1 Performance in Bilingual Children? Evidence from Polish-English Migrants to the United Kingdom

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Most studies on bilingual language development focus on children’s second language (L2). Here, we investigated first language (L1) development of Polish-English early migrant bilinguals in four domains: vocabulary, grammar, phonological processing, and ...
Ewa Haman, Zofia Wodniecka, Marta Marecka, Jakub Szewczyk, Marta Białecka-Pikul, Agnieszka Otwinowska, Karolina Mieszkowska, Magdalena Łuniewska, Joanna Kołak, Aneta Miękisz, Agnieszka Kacprzak, Natalia Banasik, Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala   +12 more
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