Melvin J. Yap, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Washington University, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 
Area:
Cognitive Aging, word recognition, priming, memory

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2024 Reilly J, Shain C, Borghesani V, Kuhnke P, Vigliocco G, Peelle JE, Mahon BZ, Buxbaum LJ, Majid A, Brysbaert M, Borghi AM, De Deyne S, Dove G, Papeo L, Pexman PM, ... ... Yap MJ, et al. What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 39231896 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7  0.362
2024 Tse CS, Yap MJ, Chan YL. Neighborhood in Chinese lexicon: A megastudy analysis of lexical decision and naming of two-character Chinese words. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. PMID 39052394 DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001357  0.677
2024 Sulpizio S, Günther F, Badan L, Basclain B, Brysbaert M, Chan YL, Ciaccio LA, Dudschig C, Duñabeitia JA, Fasoli F, Ferrand L, Filipović Đurđević D, Guerra E, Hollis G, Job R, ... ... Yap MJ, et al. Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 38724878 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-024-02376-6  0.595
2023 Tse CS, Chan YL, Yap MJ, Tsang HC. Correction to: The Chinese Lexicon Project II: A megastudy of speeded naming performance for 25,000 + traditional Chinese two-character compound words. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 38049577 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02309-9  0.542
2022 Tse CS, Chan YL, Yap MJ, Tsang HC. The Chinese Lexicon Project II: A megastudy of speeded naming performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character words. Behavior Research Methods. 1-21. PMID 36443581 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02022-z  0.639
2022 Maziyah Mohamed M, Yap MJ, Chee QW, Jared D. Malay Lexicon Project 2: Morphology in Malay word recognition. Memory & Cognition. PMID 35705853 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-022-01337-8  0.488
2022 Chee QW, Yap MJ. Are there task-specific effects in morphological processing? Examining semantic transparency effects in semantic categorisation and lexical decision. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 17470218221079269. PMID 35083947 DOI: 10.1177/17470218221079269  0.461
2020 Chee QW, Chow KJ, Yap MJ, Goh WD. Consistency norms for 37,677 english words. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 32472499 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-020-01391-7  0.554
2020 Goh WD, Yap MJ, Chee QW. The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 32291734 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-020-01352-0  0.51
2020 Lim RYH, Yap M, Tse CS. Author accepted manuscript: Individual Differences in Cantonese Chinese word recognition: Insights from the Chinese Lexicon Project. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1747021820906566. PMID 32019427 DOI: 10.1177/1747021820906566  0.735
2019 Aschenbrenner A, Yap M. Author accepted manuscript: The influence of relatedness proportion on the joint relationship among word frequency, stimulus quality and semantic priming in the lexical decision task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1747021819845317. PMID 30947626 DOI: 10.1177/1747021819845317  0.576
2018 Chng KYT, Yap MJ, Goh WD. Cross-modal masked repetition and semantic priming in auditory lexical decision. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 30511230 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-018-1540-8  0.532
2018 Pexman PM, Muraki E, Sidhu DM, Siakaluk PD, Yap MJ. Quantifying sensorimotor experience: Body-object interaction ratings for more than 9,000 English words. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 30484218 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-018-1171-Z  0.573
2018 Kim SY, Yap MJ, Goh WD. The role of semantic transparency in visual word recognition of compound words: A megastudy approach. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 30291593 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-018-1143-3  0.557
2018 Lau MC, Goh WD, Yap MJ. An item-level analysis of lexical-semantic effects in free recall and recognition memory using the megastudy approach. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 71: 2207-2222. PMID 30226433 DOI: 10.1177/1747021817739834  0.52
2018 Tse CS, Yap MJ. The role of lexical variables in the visual recognition of two-character Chinese compound words: A megastudy analysis. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 71: 2022-2038. PMID 30117382 DOI: 10.1177/1747021817738965  0.707
2018 Kang S, Eglington LG, Yap M. Forward vs. backward semantic priming: What movement dynamics during lexical decision reveal. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1747021818775051. PMID 29685097 DOI: 10.1177/1747021818775051  0.444
2018 Juhasz BJ, Yap MJ, Raoul A, Kaye M. A further examination of word frequency and age-of-acquisition effects in English lexical decision task performance: The role of frequency trajectory. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. PMID 29683706 DOI: 10.1037/Xlm0000564  0.554
2018 Pexman PM, Yap MJ. Individual differences in semantic processing: Insights from the Calgary semantic decision project. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. PMID 29481104 DOI: 10.1037/Xlm0000499  0.578
2017 Aschenbrenner AJ, Yap MJ, Balota DA. The Generality of Dynamic Adjustments in Decision Processes across Trials and Tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 28786020 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-017-1359-8  0.633
2017 Ng MMR, Goh WD, Yap MJ, Tse CS, So WC. How We Think about Temporal Words: A Gestural Priming Study in English and Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 974. PMID 28676770 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2017.00974  0.66
2016 Balota DA, Aschenbrenner AJ, Yap MJ. Dynamic adjustment of lexical processing in the lexical decision task: Cross-trial sequence effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1-10. PMID 27781567 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1240814  0.669
2016 Tse CS, Yap MJ, Chan YL, Sze WP, Shaoul C, Lin D. The Chinese Lexicon Project: A megastudy of lexical decision performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character compound words. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 27734329 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-016-0810-5  0.712
2016 Yap MJ, Pexman PM. Semantic Richness Effects in Syntactic Classification: The Role of Feedback. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1394. PMID 27695431 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2016.01394  0.541
2016 Siakaluk PD, Newcombe PI, Duffels B, Li E, Sidhu DM, Yap MJ, Pexman PM. Effects of Emotional Experience in Lexical Decision. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1157. PMID 27555827 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2016.01157  0.414
2016 Goh WD, Yap MJ, Lau MC, Ng MM, Tan LC. Semantic Richness Effects in Spoken Word Recognition: A Lexical Decision and Semantic Categorization Megastudy. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 976. PMID 27445936 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2016.00976  0.591
2016 Pexman PM, Heard A, Lloyd E, Yap MJ. The Calgary semantic decision project: concrete/abstract decision data for 10,000 English words. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 26944579 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-016-0720-6  0.582
2016 Tan LC, Yap MJ. Are individual differences in masked repetition and semantic priming reliable? Visual Cognition. 24: 182-200. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2016.1214201  0.518
2015 Yap MJ, Lim GY, Pexman PM. Semantic richness effects in lexical decision: The role of feedback. Memory & Cognition. PMID 26155967 DOI: 10.3758/S13421-015-0536-0  0.588
2015 Sze WP, Yap MJ, Rickard Liow SJ. The role of lexical variables in the visual recognition of Chinese characters: A megastudy analysis. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 68: 1541-70. PMID 25622522 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.985234  0.45
2015 Taikh A, Hargreaves IS, Yap MJ, Pexman PM. Semantic classification of pictures and words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 68: 1502-18. PMID 25403693 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.975728  0.553
2015 Yap MJ, Sibley DE, Balota DA, Ratcliff R, Rueckl J. Responding to nonwords in the lexical decision task: Insights from the English Lexicon Project. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 41: 597-613. PMID 25329078 DOI: 10.1037/Xlm0000064  0.73
2014 Adelman JS, Johnson RL, McCormick SF, McKague M, Kinoshita S, Bowers JS, Perry JR, Lupker SJ, Forster KI, Cortese MJ, Scaltritti M, Aschenbrenner AJ, Coane JH, White L, Yap MJ, et al. A behavioral database for masked form priming. Behavior Research Methods. 46: 1052-67. PMID 24488815 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-013-0442-Y  0.77
2014 Yap MJ, Seow CS. The influence of emotion on lexical processing: insights from RT distributional analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21: 526-33. PMID 24085511 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-013-0525-X  0.472
2014 Sze WP, Rickard Liow SJ, Yap MJ. The Chinese Lexicon Project: a repository of lexical decision behavioral responses for 2,500 Chinese characters. Behavior Research Methods. 46: 263-73. PMID 23813237 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-013-0355-9  0.495
2013 Pexman PM, Siakaluk PD, Yap MJ. Introduction to the research topic meaning in mind: semantic richness effects in language processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7: 723. PMID 24204336 DOI: 10.3389/Fnhum.2013.00723  0.533
2013 Balota DA, Aschenbrenner AJ, Yap MJ. Additive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality: the influence of trial history and data transformations. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 39: 1563-71. PMID 23565779 DOI: 10.1037/A0032186  0.685
2013 Hon N, Yap MJ, Jabar SB. The trajectory of the target probability effect. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 75: 661-6. PMID 23404522 DOI: 10.3758/S13414-013-0429-X  0.732
2013 Hutchison KA, Balota DA, Neely JH, Cortese MJ, Cohen-Shikora ER, Tse CS, Yap MJ, Bengson JJ, Niemeyer D, Buchanan E. The semantic priming project. Behavior Research Methods. 45: 1099-114. PMID 23344737 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-012-0304-Z  0.794
2013 Cohen-Shikora ER, Balota DA, Kapuria A, Yap MJ. The past tense inflection project (PTIP): speeded past tense inflections, imageability ratings, and past tense consistency measures for 2,200 verbs. Behavior Research Methods. 45: 151-9. PMID 22956393 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-012-0240-Y  0.618
2013 Juhasz BJ, Yap MJ. Sensory experience ratings for over 5,000 mono- and disyllabic words. Behavior Research Methods. 45: 160-8. PMID 22936106 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-012-0242-9  0.569
2013 Yap MJ, Balota DA, Tan SE. Additive and interactive effects in semantic priming: Isolating lexical and decision processes in the lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 39: 140-58. PMID 22612169 DOI: 10.1037/A0028520  0.694
2012 Yap MJ, Pexman PM, Wellsby M, Hargreaves IS, Huff MJ. An abundance of riches: cross-task comparisons of semantic richness effects in visual word recognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6: 72. PMID 22529787 DOI: 10.3389/Fnhum.2012.00072  0.585
2012 Yap MJ, Balota DA, Sibley DE, Ratcliff R. Individual differences in visual word recognition: insights from the English Lexicon Project. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance. 38: 53-79. PMID 21728459 DOI: 10.1037/A0024177  0.721
2011 Dufau S, Duñabeitia JA, Moret-Tatay C, McGonigal A, Peeters D, Alario FX, Balota DA, Brysbaert M, Carreiras M, Ferrand L, Ktori M, Perea M, Rastle K, Sasburg O, Yap MJ, et al. Smart phone, smart science: how the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science. Plos One. 6: e24974. PMID 21980370 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0024974  0.51
2011 Juhasz BJ, Yap MJ, Dicke J, Taylor SC, Gullick MM. Tangible words are recognized faster: the grounding of meaning in sensory and perceptual systems. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 64: 1683-91. PMID 21892884 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.605150  0.538
2011 Kang SH, Yap MJ, Tse CS, Kurby CA. Semantic size does not matter: "bigger" words are not recognized faster. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 64: 1041-7. PMID 21644189 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.575947  0.712
2011 Yap MJ, Tan SE, Pexman PM, Hargreaves IS. Is more always better? Effects of semantic richness on lexical decision, speeded pronunciation, and semantic classification. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 18: 742-50. PMID 21494916 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-011-0092-Y  0.581
2011 Suárez L, Tan SH, Yap MJ, Goh WD. Observing neighborhood effects without neighbors. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 18: 605-11. PMID 21380585 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-011-0078-9  0.574
2011 Balota DA, Yap MJ. Moving beyond the mean in studies of mental chronometry: The power of response time distributional analyses Current Directions in Psychological Science. 20: 160-166. DOI: 10.1177/0963721411408885  0.558
2010 Yap MJ, Liow SJ, Jalil SB, Faizal SS. The Malay Lexicon Project: a database of lexical statistics for 9,592 words. Behavior Research Methods. 42: 992-1003. PMID 21139166 DOI: 10.3758/Brm.42.4.992  0.56
2010 Tse CS, Balota DA, Yap MJ, Duchek JM, McCabe DP. Effects of healthy aging and early stage dementia of the Alzheimer's type on components of response time distributions in three attention tasks. Neuropsychology. 24: 300-15. PMID 20438208 DOI: 10.1037/A0018274  0.684
2009 Yap MJ, Tse CS, Balota DA. Individual differences in the joint effects of semantic priming and word frequency: The role of lexical integrity. Journal of Memory and Language. 61: 303. PMID 20161653 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2009.07.001  0.78
2009 Goh WD, Suárez L, Yap MJ, Tan SH. Distributional analyses in auditory lexical decision: neighborhood density and word-frequency effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 16: 882-7. PMID 19815793 DOI: 10.3758/Pbr.16.5.882  0.528
2009 Kang SH, Balota DA, Yap MJ. Pathway control in visual word processing: converging evidence from recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 16: 692-8. PMID 19648454 DOI: 10.3758/Pbr.16.4.692  0.671
2009 Yap MJ, Balota DA. Visual word recognition of multisyllabic words Journal of Memory and Language. 60: 502-529. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2009.02.001  0.723
2008 Yarkoni T, Balota D, Yap M. Moving beyond Coltheart's N: a new measure of orthographic similarity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 15: 971-9. PMID 18926991 DOI: 10.3758/Pbr.15.5.971  0.712
2008 Yap MJ, Balota DA, Tse CS, Besner D. On the additive effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decision: evidence for opposing interactive influences revealed by RT distributional analyses. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 34: 495-513. PMID 18444751 DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.3.495  0.772
2008 Balota DA, Yap MJ, Cortese MJ, Watson JM. Beyond mean response latency: Response time distributional analyses of semantic priming Journal of Memory and Language. 59: 495-523. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2007.10.004  0.735
2007 Balota DA, Yap MJ, Cortese MJ, Hutchison KA, Kessler B, Loftis B, Neely JH, Nelson DL, Simpson GB, Treiman R. The English Lexicon Project. Behavior Research Methods. 39: 445-59. PMID 17958156 DOI: 10.3758/Bf03193014  0.739
2007 Castel AD, Balota DA, Hutchison KA, Logan JM, Yap MJ. Spatial attention and response control in healthy younger and older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease: evidence for disproportionate selection impairments in the Simon task. Neuropsychology. 21: 170-82. PMID 17402817 DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.21.2.170  0.738
2007 Yap MJ, Balota DA. Additive and interactive effects on response time distributions in visual word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 33: 274-96. PMID 17352611 DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.274  0.72
2006 Yap MJ, Balota DA, Cortese MJ, Watson JM. Single- versus dual-process models of lexical decision performance: insights from response time distributional analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance. 32: 1324-44. PMID 17154775 DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.6.1324  0.765
2006 McAuley T, Yap M, Christ SE, White DA. Revisiting inhibitory control across the life span: insights from the ex-Gaussian distribution. Developmental Neuropsychology. 29: 447-58. PMID 16671861 DOI: 10.1207/S15326942Dn2903_4  0.314
2006 Balota DA, Yap MJ, Cortese MJ. Visual Word Recognition: The Journey From Features to Meaning (A Travel Update) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. 285-375. DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369374-7/50010-9  0.581
2004 Balota DA, Cortese MJ, Sergent-Marshall SD, Spieler DH, Yap M. Visual word recognition of single-syllable words. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 133: 283-316. PMID 15149254 DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.133.2.283  0.804
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