Lori Buchanan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lori Buchanan plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1871-1340 | E-ISSN 1871-1375
2025 A psycholinguistic analysis of clinical list-learning tests The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
Neuropsychological assessments depend on language-based measures of cognitive functioning and the proper diagnosis of certain disorders relies on patterns of impairment shown on these measures (Lezak et al., 2004). The current project was motivated by the relative lack of literature integrating… read more
The Bouba/Kiki (BK) effect is observed when a linguistic sound is associated with a shape. People usually associate the nonword bouba with a round shape, and kiki with a sharp shape (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001). In 2011, Nielsen and Rendall found that certain English letters (/k/, /p/, and… read more
2019 Quantifying subjective data using online Q-methodology software The Mental Lexicon 14:3, pp. 415–423 | Article
The Q-Sort methodology has been used to study participants’ subjective views on various topics (Brown, 1996). The task has historically been completed by manually sorting cards into categories that force responses into a normal distribution (Brown, 1996). Data collection using this method is… read more
2018 Semantic neighbourhoods: There’s an app for that The Mental Lexicon 13:3, pp. 388–393 | Article
The contributions of semantic processing have come under increasing attention in recent years (Yap, Pexman, Wellsby, Hargreaves, & Huff, 2012), and variables that measure the semantic content of words are a requirement of this increased experimental attention. The density and size of semantic… read more
2014 Word frequency of written Urdu Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing, pp. 131–140 | Article
Performance on word processing tasks is known to be influenced by the frequency with which words occur in a language. Large and robust effects of word frequency occur across languages and the processes thought to be sensitive to word frequency are considered fundamentally important characteristics… read more