Browsing School of Psychology by subject "17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences"
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How do task demands and aging affect lexical prediction during reading of natural texts?
Published 2023Facilitated identification of predictable words during online reading has been attributed to the generation of predictions about upcoming words. But highly predictable words are relatively infrequent in natural texts, ...Open AccessArticle -
Impact of Gambling Supply Reduction During COVID-19 Shutdowns on Gambling Problems and Gambling Behaviour in Australia: A National Longitudinal Study
Published 2021Restricting access to gambling products is one possible harm reduction strategy. We examined whether land-based gambling product supply restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted gambling problems and gambling ...Article -
Morphological preview effects in English are restricted to suffixed words
Published 2021Much of the evidence for morphological decomposition accounts of complex word identification has relied on the masked-priming paradigm. However, morphologically complex words are typically encountered in sentence contexts ...Open AccessPreprint -
Predictability effects and parafoveal processing in older readers
Published 2021-10-27Normative aging is accompanied by visual and cognitive changes that impact the systems that are critical for fluent reading. The patterns of eye movements during reading displayed by older adults have been characterized ...Open AccessArticle -
Reading proficiency predicts the extent of the right, but not left, perceptual span in older readers
Published 2020-01-01The gaze-contingent moving-window paradigm was used to assess the size and symmetry of the perceptual span in older readers. The eye movements of 49 cognitively intact older adults (60-88 years) were recorded as they read ...Open AccessArticle -
To comply or not comply? A latent profile analysis of behaviours and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2021How and why do people comply with protective behaviours during COVID-19? The emerging literature employs a variable-centered approach, typically using a narrow selection of constructs within a study. This study is the first ...Article