Ruth Ann Atchley

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Ann Atchley plays a role.

Articles

Azevedo, Nancy, Ruth Ann Atchley, N.P. Vasavan Nair and Eva Kehayia 2021 Processing lexicality in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease: P3 ERP amplitude as an index of lexical categorizationThe Mental Lexicon 16:2/3, pp. 204–239 | Article
To explore how processing lexicality may change with aging and in the presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), we conducted two experiments investigating lexicality judgements using an on-line behavioural psycholinguistic methodology and electrophysiological/event-related potential (ERP) methods;… read more
Azevedo, Nancy, Eva Kehayia, Ruth Ann Atchley and N.P. Vasavan Nair 2015 Lexicality judgements in healthy aging and in individuals with Alzheimer's disease: Effect of neighbourhood densityThe Mental Lexicon 10:2, pp. 286–311 | Article
Neighbourhood density (N) has been shown to influence how lexical stimuli are accessed. In young adults, a large N is facilitatory for words but inhibitory for pseudowords in English. While there is a paucity of studies probing N as people age, results to date point towards changes in lexical… read more
Azevedo, Nancy, Ruth Ann Atchley and Eva Kehayia 2015 Electrifying the lexical decision: Examining a P3 ERP component reflecting early lexical categorizationThe Mental Lexicon 10:3, pp. 339–363 | Article
The current research utilizes lexical decision within an oddball ERP paradigm to study early lexical processing. Nineteen undergraduate students completed four blocks of the oddball lexical decision task (Nonword targets among Words, Word targets among Nonwords, Word targets among Pseudowords, and… read more