Capturing individual differences in sentence processing: How reliable is the self-paced reading task?
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 20. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02355-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAdvances in research on language processing have originally come from group-level comparisons, but there is now a growing interest in individual differences. To investigate individual differences, tasks that have shown robust group-level differences are often used with the implicit assumption that they will also be reliable when used as an individual differences measure. Here, we examined whether one of the primary tasks used in psycholinguistic research on language processing, the self-paced reading task, can reliably measure in...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Felicity F Frinsel Morten H Christiansen Source Type: research
Dimensionality assessment in the presence of wording effects: A network psychometric and factorial approach
This study proposes a procedure for substantive dimensionality estimation in the presence of wording effects, the inconsistent response to regular and reversed self-report items. The procedure developed consists of subtracting an approximate estimate of the wording effects variance from the sample correlation matrix and then estimating the substantive dimensionality on the residual correlation matrix. This is achieved by estimating a random intercept factor with unit loadings for all the regular and unrecoded reversed items. The accuracy of the procedure was evaluated through an extensive simulation study that manipulated ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alejandro Garcia-Pardina Francisco J Abad Alexander P Christensen Hudson Golino Luis Eduardo Garrido Source Type: research
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Think/No-Think task, but forgot to ask
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 20. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02349-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Think/No-Think (TNT) task has just celebrated 20 years since its inception, and its use has been growing as a tool to investigate the mechanisms underlying memory control and its neural underpinnings. Here, we present a theoretical and practical guide for designing, implementing, and running TNT studies. For this purpose, we provide a step-by-step description of the structure of the TNT task, methodological choices that can be made, parameters that can be chosen, instruments available, aspects to be aware of, systematic infor...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Davide Nardo Michael C Anderson Source Type: research
Standardizing norms for 1286 colored pictures in Cantonese
This study established psycholinguistic norms in Cantonese for a set of 1286 colored pictures sourced from several picture databases, including 750 colored line drawings from MultiPic (Duñabeitia et al., 2018) and 536 photographs selected for McRae et al. (2005) concepts. The pictures underwent rigorous normalization processes. We provided picture characteristics including name and concept agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, and frequency of modal responses. Through correlational analyses, we observed strong interrelationships among these variables. We also compared the current Cantonese norming to other languages ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jing Zhong Weike Huang Keyi Kang Jon Andoni Du ñabeitia Christos Pliatsikas Haoyun Zhang Source Type: research
Beyond alpha and omega: The accuracy of single-test reliability estimators in unidimensional continuous data
In conclusion, estimators have their advantageous data characteristics, and no estimator is the most accurate for all data characteristics.PMID:38383800 | DOI:10.3758/s13428-024-02361-z (Source: Behavior Research Methods)
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eunseong Cho Source Type: research
Multilevel modeling in single-case studies with zero-inflated and overdispersed count data
This study aimed to deal with zero-inflated and overdispersed count data within a multiple-baseline design (MBD) in single-case studies. It examined the performance of various GLMMs (Poisson, negative binomial [NB], zero-inflated Poisson [ZIP], and zero-inflated negative binomial [ZINB] models) in estimating treatment effects and generating inferential statistics. Additionally, a real example was used to demonstrate the analysis of zero-inflated and overdispersed count data. The simulation results indicated that the ZINB model provided accurate estimates for treatment effects, while the other three models yielded biased es...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Haoran Li Wen Luo Eunkyeng Baek Source Type: research
Capturing individual differences in sentence processing: How reliable is the self-paced reading task?
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 20. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02355-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAdvances in research on language processing have originally come from group-level comparisons, but there is now a growing interest in individual differences. To investigate individual differences, tasks that have shown robust group-level differences are often used with the implicit assumption that they will also be reliable when used as an individual differences measure. Here, we examined whether one of the primary tasks used in psycholinguistic research on language processing, the self-paced reading task, can reliably measure in...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Felicity F Frinsel Morten H Christiansen Source Type: research
Dimensionality assessment in the presence of wording effects: A network psychometric and factorial approach
This study proposes a procedure for substantive dimensionality estimation in the presence of wording effects, the inconsistent response to regular and reversed self-report items. The procedure developed consists of subtracting an approximate estimate of the wording effects variance from the sample correlation matrix and then estimating the substantive dimensionality on the residual correlation matrix. This is achieved by estimating a random intercept factor with unit loadings for all the regular and unrecoded reversed items. The accuracy of the procedure was evaluated through an extensive simulation study that manipulated ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alejandro Garcia-Pardina Francisco J Abad Alexander P Christensen Hudson Golino Luis Eduardo Garrido Source Type: research
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Think/No-Think task, but forgot to ask
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 20. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02349-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Think/No-Think (TNT) task has just celebrated 20 years since its inception, and its use has been growing as a tool to investigate the mechanisms underlying memory control and its neural underpinnings. Here, we present a theoretical and practical guide for designing, implementing, and running TNT studies. For this purpose, we provide a step-by-step description of the structure of the TNT task, methodological choices that can be made, parameters that can be chosen, instruments available, aspects to be aware of, systematic infor...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Davide Nardo Michael C Anderson Source Type: research
Standardizing norms for 1286 colored pictures in Cantonese
This study established psycholinguistic norms in Cantonese for a set of 1286 colored pictures sourced from several picture databases, including 750 colored line drawings from MultiPic (Duñabeitia et al., 2018) and 536 photographs selected for McRae et al. (2005) concepts. The pictures underwent rigorous normalization processes. We provided picture characteristics including name and concept agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, and frequency of modal responses. Through correlational analyses, we observed strong interrelationships among these variables. We also compared the current Cantonese norming to other languages ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jing Zhong Weike Huang Keyi Kang Jon Andoni Du ñabeitia Christos Pliatsikas Haoyun Zhang Source Type: research
Modality matters: Three auditory conflict tasks to measure individual differences in attention control
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02328-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEarly work on selective attention used auditory-based tasks, such as dichotic listening, to shed light on capacity limitations and individual differences in these limitations. Today, there is great interest in individual differences in attentional abilities, but the field has shifted towards visual-modality tasks. Furthermore, most conflict-based tests of attention control lack reliability due to low signal-to-noise ratios and the use of difference scores. Critically, it is unclear to what extent attention control generalizes acr...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexander P Burgoyne Dolly T Seeburger Randall W Engle Source Type: research
Modality matters: Three auditory conflict tasks to measure individual differences in attention control
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02328-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEarly work on selective attention used auditory-based tasks, such as dichotic listening, to shed light on capacity limitations and individual differences in these limitations. Today, there is great interest in individual differences in attentional abilities, but the field has shifted towards visual-modality tasks. Furthermore, most conflict-based tests of attention control lack reliability due to low signal-to-noise ratios and the use of difference scores. Critically, it is unclear to what extent attention control generalizes acr...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexander P Burgoyne Dolly T Seeburger Randall W Engle Source Type: research
Modality matters: Three auditory conflict tasks to measure individual differences in attention control
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02328-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEarly work on selective attention used auditory-based tasks, such as dichotic listening, to shed light on capacity limitations and individual differences in these limitations. Today, there is great interest in individual differences in attentional abilities, but the field has shifted towards visual-modality tasks. Furthermore, most conflict-based tests of attention control lack reliability due to low signal-to-noise ratios and the use of difference scores. Critically, it is unclear to what extent attention control generalizes acr...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexander P Burgoyne Dolly T Seeburger Randall W Engle Source Type: research
NSP-SCD: A corpus construction protocol for child-directed print in understudied languages
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02339-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChild-directed print corpora enable systematic psycholinguistic investigations, but this research infrastructure is not available in many understudied languages. Moreover, researchers of understudied languages are dependent on manual tagging because precise automatized parsers are not yet available. One plausible way forward is to limit the intensive work to a small-sized corpus. However, with little systematic enquiry about approaches to corpus construction, it is unclear how robust a small corpus can be made. The current study ...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sonali Nag Sunila John Aakash Agrawal Source Type: research
A Mixture Fluency model using responses and response times with cognitive diagnosis model framework
This study introduces a Mixture Fluency model designed to account for random guessing behaviors while utilizing valid response accuracy and response time to uncover students' latent attribute profiles. The model directly addresses a limitation present in the Fluency cognitive diagnostic model (Wang & Chen, Psychometrika, 85, 600-629, (2020), which assumes that test-takers consistently employ solution behaviors when answering questions. To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed Mixture Fluency model, we conducted a simulation study encompassing various simulation conditions. Results from this study not only confi...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zichu Liu Shiyu Wang Shumei Zhang Tao Qiu Source Type: research
