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Psychology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Automatic measurement of propositional idea density from part-of-speech tagging
(Springer, 2008-05)The Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater (CPIDR, pronounced “spider”) is a computer program that determines the propositional idea density (P-density) of an English text automatically on the basis of partof-speech ... -
The effects of aging and dual task performance on language production
(Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press), 2009-05)A digital pursuit rotor task was used to measure dual task costs of language production by young and older adults. After training on the pursuit rotor, participants were asked to track the moving target while providing a ... -
Aging and the vulnerability of speech to dual task demands
(American Psychological Association, 2010-12)Tracking a digital pursuit rotor task was used to measure dual task costs of language production by young and older adults. Tracking performance by both groups was affected by dual task demands: time on target declined and ... -
The Effects of Varying Task Priorities on Language Production by Young and Older Adults
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-02)The present study compared how varying task priorities affected young and older adults' language production. Both young and older adults responded to monetary incentives to vary their performance when simultaneously talking ... -
Tracking Talking: Dual Task Costs of Planning and Producing Speech for Young versus Older Adults
(Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press), 2011-05)A digital pursuit rotor was used to monitor speech planning and production costs by time-locking tracking performance to the auditory wave form produced as young and older adults were describing someone they admire. The ... -
Exploring Interventions to Reduce Cognitive Decline in Aging
(Slack, 2010-05)As the population ages, risks for cognitive decline threaten independence and quality of life for older adults and present challenges to the health care system. Nurses are in a unique position to advise older adults about ... -
Young and Older Adults’ Reading of Distracters
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008-05)Eye-tracking technology was employed to examine young and older adults' performance in the reading with distraction paradigm. Distracters of 1, 2, and 4 words that formed meaningful phrases were used. There were marked age ... -
The Age-Invariance of Working Memory Measures and Non-invariance of Producing Complex Syntax: A Reply to Caplan and Waters
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)In challenging current conceptions of the role of working memory in sentence processing, Caplan & Waters consider studies comparing young and older adults on sentence processing. This commentary raises two challenges to ... -
Life-span changes to adults' language: Effects of memory and genre
(Cambridge University Press, 1989)Three different language samples were collected from a group of young adults, 18 to 28 years of age, and a group of elderly adults, 60 to 92 years of age: an oral questionnaire eliciting information about the adults' ... -
Competing complexity metrics and adults' production of complex sentences
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)The adequacy of 11 metrics for measuring linguistic complexity was evaluated by applying each metric to language samples obtained from 30 different adult speakers, aged 60-90 years. The analysis then determined how well ... -
Imitation of complex grammatical constructions by elderly adults
(Cambridge University Press, 1986)Elderly adults (70 to 89 years) and young adults (30 to 49 years) were asked to imitate complex sentences involving embedded gerunds, w/z-clauses, r/ia/-clauses, and relative clauses. The young adults were able to imitate ... -
The effects of practicing speech accommodations to older adults
(Cambridge University Press, 1998)This study evaluated the effects of practice with a referential communication task on the form and effectiveness of elderspeak, a speech register targeted at older listeners. The task required the listener to reproduce a ... -
Representing the intellectual work in teaching through peer-reviewed course portfolios
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Diversity in Research Universities
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Potential Benefits and Costs of Concurrent Task Engagement to Maintain Vigilance: A Driving Simulator Investigation
(Sage Publications, 2011)Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the nature of concurrent task interference during a vigilance task and to determine whether a concurrent task improves performance with decreased vigilance. ... -
Effects of sadness and hostility on depressive attentional allocation processes
(UMI ETD Administrator, 2009-12)A large proportion of individuals with unipolar depression experience predominantly hostile as opposed to sad mood. The consideration of hostile mood states has been virtually ignored, however, in depression research. To ... -
The influence of neighborhood density (and neighborhood frequency) in Spanish speech production: A follow-up report
(2009-10-12)Vitevitch & Stamer (2006) observed that Spanish speakers in a picture-naming task named words with dense neighborhoods more slowly than words with sparse neighborhoods; a finding that contrasts with results typically ... -
Proportional structural effects of formative indicators
(2009-03-15)Formative constructs must influence two or more distinct outcome variables for meaningful tests of the formative conceptualization. Because the construct mediates the effects of its indicators, the indicators must have ... -
Addressing moderated mediation hypotheses: Theory, methods, and prescriptions
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007)This article provides researchers with a guide to properly construe and conduct analyses of conditional indirect effects, commonly known as moderated mediation effects. We disentangle conflicting definitions of moderated ... -
Alternatives to traditional model comparison strategies for covariance structure models
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007)