Reading and Language Group
www.lrdc.pitt.edu/ReadLab/
Summary
The Reading and Language Group is dedicated to understanding the cognitive and neural processes that mediate all aspects of language comprehension and production, including first and second language speaking, reading, and writing. Our research facilities are located in the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center, and include a suite of behavioral research labs, an ERP lab, two eye-tracking labs, and access to the fMRI center. The group also sponsors bi-weekly meetings to discuss research and issues related to reading and language.
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Project Publications
- Frishkoff, G. A., Perfetti, C. A., & Collins-Thompson, K. (in press). Lexical quality in the brain: ERP evidence for robust word learning from context. Developmental Neuropsychology.
- Patson, N.D.* & Warren, T. (in press). Eye movements when reading implausible sentences: Investigating potential structural influences on semantic integration. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
- Perfetti, C. A. (in press). Decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension: The golden triangle of reading skill. In M. G. McKeown & L. Kucan (Eds.), Bringing reading researchers to life: Essays in honor of Isabel Beck. New York: Guilford.
- Tokowicz, N., & Warren, T. (in press). Beginning adult L2 learners’ sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations: A self-paced reading study. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
- Frishkoff, G. A., White, G., & Perfetti, C. A. (2009). In vivo testing of learning and instructional principles: The design and implementation of school-based experimentation. In L. M. Dinella (Ed.), Conducting science-based psychology research in schools (pp. 153-173). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
- Wang, M., Koda, K., & Perfett, C.A. (in press). Language and writing systems are both important in learning to read: A reply to Yamada. Cognition.
- Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2005). Models of bilingual representation and processing: Looking back and to the future. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. De Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 531-553). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Gibson, E. & Warren, T. (2004). Evidence for intermediate linguistic structure in long-distance dependencies. Syntax, 7:1, 55-78 (Abstract-pdf)
- Wang, M., Liu, Y., & Perfetti, C.A. (2004). The implicit and explicit learning of Chinese orthographic structure and function by alphabetic readers. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8(4), 357-379.
- Warren, T. & Rayner, K. (2004). Top-down influences in the Interactive Alignment model: The power of the situation model. A commentary on Pickering & Garrod's Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27 (2), 211.
- Liu, Y., Perfetti, C. A., & Hart, L. (2003). ERP evidence for the time course of graphic, phonological, and semantic information in Chinese meaning and pronunciation decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(6), 1231-1247 (Abstract-html)
- Liu., & Perfetti, C. (2003). The time course of brain activity in reading English and Chinese: An ERP study of Chinese bilinguals. Journal of Human Brain Mapping, 18:167-175. (Abstract-html)
- Wang, M., Koda, K., &, Perfetti, C. A. (2003). Alphabetic and nonalphabetic L1 effects in English word identification: A comparison of Korean and Chinese English L2 learners. Cognition, 87, 129-149. (Abstract-html)
- Wang, M., Perfetti, C. A., & Liu, Y. (2003). Alphabetic readers quickly acquire orthographic structure in learning to read Chinese. Scientific Studies of Reading, 7(2), 183-208.
- Warren, T. (2003). The processing complexity of quantifiers. In L. Alonso-Ovalle (Ed.), UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics 27: On Semantic Processing 211 - 237. (Abstract-pdf)
- Kroll, J. F., Michael, E., Tokowicz, N., & Dufour, R. (2002). The development of lexical fluency in a second language. Second Language Research, 18, 137-171.
- Perfetti, C. A., Liu, Y., & Tan, L.H. (2002). How the mind can meet the brain in reading: A comparative writing systems approach. In H. S. R. Kao, C-K. Leong, & D-G. Gao (Eds.), Cognitive neuroscience studies of the Chinese language (pp. 36-60). Hong Kong University Press. (Abstract-html)
- Tokowicz, N., Kroll, J. F., De Groot, A. M. B., & Van Hell, J. G. (2002). Number-of-translation norms for Dutch-English translation pairs: A new tool for examining language production. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 435-451.
- Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2002). The influence of referential processing on sentence complexity. Cognition, 85, 79-11
- Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2001). The development of conceptual representation for words in a second language. In J. L. Nicol (Ed.), One mind, two languages: Bilingual language processing (pp. 49-71). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
- Spinks J.A., Liu, Y., Perfetti, C.A., & Tan, L.H. (2000). Reading Chinese characters for meaning: the role of phonological information, Cognition 76(1), B1-B11. (Abstract-html)
