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Verbal fluency difficulties in Chinese insomnia patients: insights from semantic and phonemic tasks (2025)
Journal Article
Lyu, Y., Lindsay, S., Wang, S., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Verbal fluency difficulties in Chinese insomnia patients: insights from semantic and phonemic tasks. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2025.2572088

Insomnia is a prevalent sleep disorder associated with cognitive difficulties, including reduced performance in executive control and semantic memory. This study explores the impact of insomnia on language retrieval processes using the Chinese Verbal... Read More about Verbal fluency difficulties in Chinese insomnia patients: insights from semantic and phonemic tasks.

The Influence of Breathing Pathway on Cognitive Processes (2025)
Thesis
Richards, B. (2025). The Influence of Breathing Pathway on Cognitive Processes [Doctorate thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5461944

Breathing, a fundamental rhythm of life, has traditionally been associated with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. However, recent research in both animals and humans has unveiled additional roles of breathing in modulating cortical neuronal... Read More about The Influence of Breathing Pathway on Cognitive Processes.

Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response (2025)
Journal Article
Mather, E., & Lindsay, S. (2025). Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response. Infant and Child Development, 34(3), e70019. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70019

There is widespread evidence that children display a mutual exclusivity response upon encountering new words. Children displaying this behaviour will select a novel, name-unknown object in response to a novel label, rather than a familiar, name-known... Read More about Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response.

Does oral breathing disrupt memory consolidation during waking rest? A registered report (2025)
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Richards, B., Holle, H., & Lindsay, S. (2025). Does oral breathing disrupt memory consolidation during waking rest? A registered report. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251328994

Studies of waking rest, whereby passive rest is compared with an active task, have shown a benefit for declarative memory during short waking rest periods, which has been argued to result from the active task disrupting slow oscillations that occur d... Read More about Does oral breathing disrupt memory consolidation during waking rest? A registered report.

Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, E., Fraser, H. S., Parker, T. H., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S. C., Vesk, P. A., Fidler, F., Hamilton, D. G., Abbott, J. K., Abbey-Lee, R. N., Aguirre, L. A., Abbott, J. K., Altschul, D., Aguirre, L. A., Atkins, J. W., Alcaraz, C., Atkinson, J., Aloni, I., Baker, C. M., …Gilles, M. (2025). Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC biology, 23(1), 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x

Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explanation for variation among results is differences a... Read More about Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum (2023)
Journal Article
Macinska, S., Lindsay, S., & Jellema, T. (2023). Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-05979-8

Using eye-tracking, we studied allocation of attention to faces where the emotional expression and eye-gaze dynamically changed in an ecologically-valid manner. We tested typically-developed (TD) adults low or high in autistic-like traits (Experiment... Read More about Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.

Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset) (2023)
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Terry, J., Ross, R. M., Nagy, T., Salgado, M., Garrido-Vásquez, P., Sarfo, J. O., Cooper, S., Buttner, A. C., Lima, T. J. S., Öztürk, İ., Akay, N., Santos, F. H., Artemenko, C., Copping, L. T., Elsherif, M. M., Milovanović, I., Cribbie, R. A., Drushlyak, M. G., Swainston, K., …Field, A. P. (2023). Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80

This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students from 100 universities in 35 countries, collected in 21 languages. We measured anxieties (statistics, mathematics, test, trait, social interaction, performance, creat... Read More about Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset).

Developmental psychologists should care about measurement precision (2022)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S., & Mather, E. (2022). Developmental psychologists should care about measurement precision. Infant and Child Development, e2321. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2321

In a wide ranging article in this journal, Byers-Heinlein et al. (2022) make a persuasive case for paying close attention to reliability in developmental research. They focus on measurement reliability, which indexes how well individuals can be ranke... Read More about Developmental psychologists should care about measurement precision.

Plasticity of categories in speech perception and production (2022)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S., Clayards, M., Gennari, S., & Gaskell, M. G. (2022). Plasticity of categories in speech perception and production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.2018471

While perceptual categories exhibit plasticity following recently heard speech, evidence of effects on production has been mixed. We tested the influences of perceptual plasticity on production with an implicit distributional learning paradigm. In Ex... Read More about Plasticity of categories in speech perception and production.

The nature of novel word representations : computer mouse tracking shows evidence of immediate lexical engagement effects in adults (2021)
Thesis
Lucas, A. P. (2021). The nature of novel word representations : computer mouse tracking shows evidence of immediate lexical engagement effects in adults [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223534

Simplistically, words are the mental bundling of a form and a referent. However, words also dynamically interact with one another in the cognitive system, and have other so-called ‘lexical properties’. For example, the word ‘dog’ will cue recognition... Read More about The nature of novel word representations : computer mouse tracking shows evidence of immediate lexical engagement effects in adults.

Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects (2019)
Journal Article
Tseng, H., Lindsay, S., & Davis, C. J. (2020). Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(6), 856-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819896766

Much of the recent masked nonword priming literature demonstrates no difference in priming between affixed and non-affixed nonword primes (e.g., maskity-MASK vs. maskond-MASK). A possible explanation for the absence of a difference is that studies ha... Read More about Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects.

Reasons to doubt the generalizability, reliability, and diagnosticity of fast mapping (FM) for rapid lexical integration (2019)
Journal Article
Gaskell, M. G., & Lindsay, S. (2019). Reasons to doubt the generalizability, reliability, and diagnosticity of fast mapping (FM) for rapid lexical integration. Cognitive neuroscience, 10(4), 234-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2019.1600487

The possibility of fast mapping (FM) promoting rapid lexical integration challenges complementary systems accounts of word learning. Here, we first question the diagnosticity of orthographic lexical competition prior to sleep as an indicator of lexic... Read More about Reasons to doubt the generalizability, reliability, and diagnosticity of fast mapping (FM) for rapid lexical integration.

Why would a special FM process exist in adults, when it does not appear to exist in children? (2019)
Journal Article
O’Connor, R. J., Lindsay, S., Mather, E., & Riggs, K. J. (2019). Why would a special FM process exist in adults, when it does not appear to exist in children?. Cognitive neuroscience, 10(4), 221-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2019.1574260

Cooper Greve, and Henson (this issue)  caution restraint before accepting that a fast mapping (FM) process exists in adults. We welcome this, but would also add that the original rationale for studying FM in adults is not currently supported by devel... Read More about Why would a special FM process exist in adults, when it does not appear to exist in children?.

Sleep preserves original and distorted memory traces (2017)
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Cairney, S. A., Lindsay, S., Paller, K. A., & Gaskell, M. G. (2018). Sleep preserves original and distorted memory traces. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 99, 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.005

Retrieval facilitates the long-term retention of memories, but may also enable stored representations to be updated with new information that is available at the time of retrieval. However, if information integrated during retrieval is erroneous, fut... Read More about Sleep preserves original and distorted memory traces.

Mechanisms of memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep : memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep (2017)
Journal Article
Cairney, S. A., Sobczak, J. M., Lindsay, S., & Gaskell, M. G. (2017). Mechanisms of memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep : memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep. SLEEP, 40(9), zsx114. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsx114

Study Objectives: Memories are strengthened during sleep. The benefits of sleep for memory can be enhanced by re-exposing the sleeping brain to auditory cues; a technique known as targeted memory reactivation (TMR). Prior studies have not assessed th... Read More about Mechanisms of memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep : memory retrieval in slow-wave sleep.

The benefits of targeted memory reactivation for consolidation in sleep are contingent on memory accuracy and direct cue-memory associations (2016)
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Cairney, S. A., Lindsay, S., Sobczak, J. M., Paller, K. A., & Gaskell, M. G. (2016). The benefits of targeted memory reactivation for consolidation in sleep are contingent on memory accuracy and direct cue-memory associations. SLEEP, 39(5), 1139-1150, PII sp-00533-15. https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.5772

Objectives: To investigate how the effects of targeted memory reactivation (TMR) are influenced by memory accuracy prior to sleep and the presence or absence of direct cue-memory associations. Methods: 30 participants associated each of 50 pictures w... Read More about The benefits of targeted memory reactivation for consolidation in sleep are contingent on memory accuracy and direct cue-memory associations.

Event processing in the visual world: Projected motion paths during spoken sentence comprehension (2016)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S., Kamide, Y., Kukona, A., & Scheepers, C. (2016). Event processing in the visual world: Projected motion paths during spoken sentence comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(5), 804-812. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000199

Motion events in language describe the movement of an entity to another location along a path. In two eye-tracking experiments we found that comprehension of motion events involves the online construction of a spatial mental model that integrates lan... Read More about Event processing in the visual world: Projected motion paths during spoken sentence comprehension.

Markers of automaticity in sleep-associated consolidation of novel words (2015)
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Tham, E. K. H., Lindsay, S., & Gaskell, M. G. (2015). Markers of automaticity in sleep-associated consolidation of novel words. Neuropsychologia, 71(May), 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.03.025

Two experiments investigated effects of sleep on consolidation and integration of novel form-meaning mappings using size congruity and semantic distance paradigms. Both paradigms have been used in previous studies to measure automatic access to word... Read More about Markers of automaticity in sleep-associated consolidation of novel words.

Can hyper-synchrony in meditation lead to seizures? Similarities in meditative and epileptic brain states (2014)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S. (2014). Can hyper-synchrony in meditation lead to seizures? Similarities in meditative and epileptic brain states. Medical hypotheses, 83(4), 465-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2014.07.015

Meditation is used worldwide by millions of people for relaxation and stress relief. Given sufficient practice, meditators may also experience a variety of altered states of consciousness. These states can lead to a variety of unusual experiences, in... Read More about Can hyper-synchrony in meditation lead to seizures? Similarities in meditative and epileptic brain states.