Chris Westbury - Publications

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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 

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Year Citation  Score
2022 Nemati F, Westbury C, Hollis G, Haghbin H. The Persian Lexicon Project: minimized orthographic neighbourhood effects in a dense language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. PMID 35366147 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-022-09863-x  0.458
2022 Westbury C, Harati P. Is theology more of a field than a father is a king? Modelling semantic relatedness in processing literal and metaphorical statements. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 35318579 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-022-02072-6  0.4
2021 Nicoladis E, Westbury C, Foursha-Stevenson C. English Speakers' Implicit Gender Concepts Influence Their Processing of French Grammatical Gender: Evidence for Semantically Mediated Cross-Linguistic Influence. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 740920. PMID 34721215 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.740920  0.381
2021 Sidhu DM, Westbury C, Hollis G, Pexman PM. Sound symbolism shapes the English language: The maluma/takete effect in English nouns. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 33821463 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01883-3  0.392
2021 Westbury C, Hollis G. A pompous snack: On the unreasonable complexity of the world's third-worst jokes. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale. PMID 33764099 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000234  0.301
2020 Westbury C. Prenominal adjective order is such a fat big deal because adjectives are ordered by likely need. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 32700119 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01769-w  0.421
2018 Westbury C, Hollis G. Wriggly, squiffy, lummox, and boobs: What makes some words funny? Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. PMID 30335445 DOI: 10.1037/Xge0000467  0.521
2018 Westbury C, Hollis G. Conceptualizing syntactic categories as semantic categories: Unifying part-of-speech identification and semantics using co-occurrence vector averaging. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 30215164 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-018-1118-4  0.431
2018 Hofmann MJ, Biemann C, Westbury C, Murusidze M, Conrad M, Jacobs AM. Simple Co-Occurrence Statistics Reproducibly Predict Association Ratings. Cognitive Science. PMID 30098213 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12662  0.443
2018 Hollis G, Westbury C. When is best-worst best? A comparison of best-worst scaling, numeric estimation, and rating scales for collection of semantic norms. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 29322399 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-017-1009-0  0.373
2017 Westbury C, Hollis G, Sidhu DM, Pexman PM. Weighing up the evidence for sound symbolism: Distributional properties predict cue strength Journal of Memory and Language. 99: 122-150. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2017.09.006  0.395
2016 Hollis G, Westbury C, Lefsrud L. Extrapolating Human Judgments from Skip-gram Vector Representations of Word Meaning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1-45. PMID 27251936 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1195417  0.454
2016 Hollis G, Westbury C. The principals of meaning: Extracting semantic dimensions from co-occurrence models of semantics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 27138012 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-016-1053-2  0.519
2016 Reilly J, Hung J, Westbury C. Non-Arbitrariness in Mapping Word Form to Meaning: Cross-Linguistic Formal Markers of Word Concreteness. Cognitive Science. PMID 26988464 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12361  0.536
2016 Westbury C. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain: Explaining semantics without semantics The Mental Lexicon. 11: 350-374. DOI: 10.1075/Ml.11.3.02Wes  0.466
2016 Radanović J, Westbury C, Milin P. Quantifying semantic animacy: How much are words alive? Applied Psycholinguistics. 37: 1477-1499. DOI: 10.1017/S0142716416000096  0.536
2016 Westbury C, Shaoul C, Moroschan G, Ramscar M. Telling the world's least funny jokes: On the quantification of humor as entropy Journal of Memory and Language. 86: 141-156. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2015.09.001  0.68
2015 Westbury C, Keith J, Briesemeister BB, Hofmann MJ, Jacobs AM. Avoid violence, rioting, and outrage; approach celebration, delight, and strength: Using large text corpora to compute valence, arousal, and the basic emotions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 68: 1599-622. PMID 26147614 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.970204  0.396
2015 Keith J, Westbury C, Goldman J. Performance impact of stop lists and morphological decomposition on word-word corpus-based semantic space models. Behavior Research Methods. 47: 666-84. PMID 26100766 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-015-0614-z  0.563
2014 Westbury C. You can't drink a word: lexical and individual emotionality affect subjective familiarity judgments. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 43: 631-49. PMID 24061785 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-013-9266-2  0.485
2014 Shaoul C, Baayen RH, Westbury CF. N-gram probability effects in a cloze task Mental Lexicon. 9: 437-472. DOI: 10.1075/Ml.9.3.04Sha  0.799
2013 Westbury CF, Shaoul C, Hollis G, Smithson L, Briesemeister BB, Hofmann MJ, Jacobs AM. Now you see it, now you don't: on emotion, context, and the algorithmic prediction of human imageability judgments. Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 991. PMID 24421777 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2013.00991  0.776
2013 Shaoul C, Westbury CF, Baayen RH. The subjective frequency of word n-grams Psihologija. 46: 497-537. DOI: 10.2298/Psi1304497S  0.76
2013 Murphy C, Westbury C. Expanding the Scope of Selective Exposure: An Objective Approach to Measurement of Media Ideology Communication Methods and Measures. 7: 145-168. DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2013.813921  0.366
2012 Reilly J, Westbury C, Kean J, Peelle JE. Arbitrary symbolism in natural language revisited: when word forms carry meaning. Plos One. 7: e42286. PMID 22879931 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042286  0.56
2011 Westbury C, Titone D. Idiom literality judgments in younger and older adults: age-related effects in resolving semantic interference. Psychology and Aging. 26: 467-74. PMID 21443345 DOI: 10.1037/A0022438  0.371
2011 Shaoul C, Westbury C. HiDEx: The high dimensional explorer Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation and Resolution. 230-246. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-741-8.ch013  0.716
2011 Tremblay A, Derwing B, Libben G, Westbury C. Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Sentence Recall Tasks Language Learning. 61: 569-613. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9922.2010.00622.X  0.502
2011 Shaoul C, Westbury C. Formulaic sequences: Do they exist and do they matter? Mental Lexicon. 6: 171-196. DOI: 10.1075/Ml.6.1.07Sha  0.793
2010 Shaoul C, Westbury C. Exploring lexical co-occurrence space using HiDEx. Behavior Research Methods. 42: 393-413. PMID 20479171 DOI: 10.3758/Brm.42.2.393  0.792
2010 Westbury C. Assessing language impairment in aphasia: Going beyond pencils and paper in the computer age Mental Lexicon. 5: 300-322. DOI: 10.1075/ml.5.3.03wes  0.439
2009 Frishkoff GA, Perfetti CA, Westbury C. ERP measures of partial semantic knowledge: left temporal indices of skill differences and lexical quality. Biological Psychology. 80: 130-47. PMID 18565637 DOI: 10.1016/J.Biopsycho.2008.04.017  0.561
2009 Westbury C, Moroschan G. Imageability x phonology interactions during lexical access: Effects of modality, phonological neighbourhood, and phonological processing efficiency Mental Lexicon. 4: 115-145. DOI: 10.1075/Ml.4.1.05Wes  0.745
2007 Westbury C, Hollis G, Shaoul C. LINGUA: The Language-Independent Neighbourhood Generator of the University of Alberta The Mental Lexicon. 2: 271-284. DOI: 10.1075/Ml.2.2.09Wes  0.772
2006 Shaoul C, Westbury C. Word frequency effects in high-dimensional co-occurrence models: A new approach. Behavior Research Methods. 38: 190-5. PMID 16956093 DOI: 10.3758/Bf03192768  0.815
2006 Westbury C, Buchanan L. Toward a frontal lobe disconnection model of deep dyslexia: The role of semantic feedback in phonological false memories Journal of Neurolinguistics. 19: 124-156. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jneuroling.2005.09.002  0.532
2006 Westbury C. The Alberta language function assessment battery Brain and Language. 99: 63-64. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bandl.2006.06.041  0.38
2005 Binder JR, Westbury CF, McKiernan KA, Possing ET, Medler DA. Distinct brain systems for processing concrete and abstract concepts. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17: 905-17. PMID 16021798 DOI: 10.1162/0898929054021102  0.361
2005 Westbury C. Implicit sound symbolism in lexical access: evidence from an interference task. Brain and Language. 93: 10-9. PMID 15766764 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.07.006  0.459
2004 Colangelo A, Buchanan L, Westbury C. Deep dyslexia and semantic errors: a test of the failure of inhibition hypothesis using a semantic blocking paradigm. Brain and Cognition. 54: 232-4. PMID 15050781 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bandc.2004.02.016  0.448
2003 Colangelo A, Stephenson K, Westbury C, Buchanan L. Word associations in deep dyslexia. Brain and Cognition. 53: 166-70. PMID 14607140 DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00102-7  0.486
2003 Binder JR, McKiernan KA, Parsons ME, Westbury CF, Possing ET, Kaufman JN, Buchanan L. Neural correlates of lexical access during visual word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 15: 372-93. PMID 12729490 DOI: 10.1162/089892903321593108  0.458
2003 Siakaluk PD, Buchanan L, Westbury C. The effect of semantic distance in yes/no and go/no-go semantic categorization tasks. Memory & Cognition. 31: 100-13. PMID 12699147 DOI: 10.3758/Bf03196086  0.474
2003 Buchanan L, McEwen S, Westbury C, Libben G. Semantics and semantic errors: implicit access to semantic information from words and nonwords in deep dyslexia. Brain and Language. 84: 65-83. PMID 12537952 DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00521-7  0.478
2002 Westbury C, Buchanan L. The probability of the least likely non-length-controlled bigram affects lexical decision reaction times. Brain and Language. 81: 66-78. PMID 12081382 DOI: 10.1006/Brln.2001.2507  0.495
2002 Westbury C, Buchanan L, Brown NR. Sounds of the neighborhood: False memories and the structure of the phonological lexicon Journal of Memory and Language. 46: 622-651. DOI: 10.1006/Jmla.2001.2821  0.465
2001 Westbury C, Nicoladis E. A multiplicity of constraints: How children learn word meaning. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 24: 1122-1123. PMID 18241415 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X01420139  0.359
2001 Buchanan L, Westbury C, Burgess C. Characterizing semantic space: neighborhood effects in word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 8: 531-44. PMID 11700905 DOI: 10.3758/Bf03196189  0.552
2001 McEwen S, Westbury C, Buchanan L, Libben G. Semantic information is used by a deep dyslexic to parse compounds. Brain and Cognition. 46: 201-5. PMID 11527330 DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(01)80066-X  0.47
1999 Westbury CF, Zatorre RJ, Evans AC. Quantifying variability in the planum temporale: a probability map. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 9: 392-405. PMID 10426418 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.4.392  0.408
1998 Paus T, Koski L, Caramanos Z, Westbury C. Regional differences in the effects of task difficulty and motor output on blood flow response in the human anterior cingulate cortex: a review of 107 PET activation studies. Neuroreport. 9: R37-47. PMID 9674567 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199806220-00001  0.314
1998 Zatorre RJ, Perry DW, Beckett CA, Westbury CF, Evans AC. Functional anatomy of musical processing in listeners with absolute pitch and relative pitch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95: 3172-7. PMID 9501235 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.6.3172  0.462
1998 Westbury C, Bub D. Aphasia diagrams: a new notational scheme for representing neurolinguistic deficits. Brain and Language. 61: 105-14. PMID 9448934 DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1853  0.353
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