Research

My academic work sits at the boundary of NLP, cognitive science, and methodology. I used large-scale behavioral experiments and computational models to build better instruments for studying how people process language.

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Peer-reviewed publications

2025

The Italian Crowdsourcing Project: Visual word recognition times for 130,495 Italian words

Amenta, S., de Varda, A. G., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., & Marelli, M. · Behavior Research Methods, 57(1), Article 26. DOI

2023

Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish

Rataj, K., Kakuba, P., Mandera, P., & van Heuven, W. J. B. · PLOS ONE, 18(4), e0284801. DOI

2021

Which words do English non-native speakers know? New supernational levels based on yes/no decision

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., & Mandera, P. · Second Language Research, 37(2), 207-231. DOI

Affect across adulthood: Evidence from English, Dutch, and Spanish

Kyröläinen, A. J., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P., Brysbaert, M., & Kuperman, V. · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(4), 792. DOI

2020

How do Spanish speakers read words? Insights from a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy

Aguasvivas, J., Carreiras, M., Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., et al. · Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1867-1882. DOI

When a second language hits a native language. What ERPs do and do not tell us about language retrieval difficulty in bilingual language production

Wodniecka, Z., Szewczyk, J., Kałamała, P., Mandera, P., & Durlik, J. · Neuropsychologia, 141, 107390. DOI

2019

Recognition times for 62 thousand English words: Data from the English Crowdsourcing Project

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. · Behavior Research Methods. DOI

Recognition times for 54 thousand Dutch words: Data from the Dutch Crowdsourcing Project

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., & Mandera, P. · Psychologica Belgica, 59(1), 281-300. DOIPDF

2018

Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S., & Keuleers, E. · Behavior Research Methods, 51(2), 467-479. DOI

SPALEX: A Spanish lexical decision database from a massive online data collection

Aguasvivas, J., Carreiras, M., Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Dunabeitia, J. A. · Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2156. DOIPDF

The word frequency effect in word processing: An updated review

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. · Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 45-50. DOI

2017

Explaining human performance in psycholinguistic tasks with models of semantic similarity based on prediction and counting

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. · Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 57-78. DOI

2016

How many words do we know? Practical estimates of vocabulary size dependent on word definition, the degree of language input and the participant's age

Brysbaert, M., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. · Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1116. DOI

The impact of word prevalence on lexical decision times: Evidence from the Dutch Lexicon Project 2

Brysbaert, M., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(3), 441-458. DOI

2015

Word knowledge in the crowd: Measuring vocabulary size and word prevalence in a massive online experiment

Keuleers, E., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Brysbaert, M. · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1665-1692. DOI

How useful are corpus-based methods for extrapolating psycholinguistic variables?

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1623-1642. DOI

SUBTLEX-PL: Subtitle-based word frequency estimates for Polish

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Wodniecka, Z., & Brysbaert, M. · Behavior Research Methods, 47(2), 471-483. DOI

2014

A plea for more interactions between psycholinguistics and natural language processing research

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P. · Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 4, 209-222. ArticlePDF

SUBTLEX-UK: A new and improved word frequency database for British English

Van Heuven, W. J. B., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(6), 1176-1190. DOI

Books and chapters

2017

Corpus Linguistics

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. A. · In A. de Groot & P. Hagoort (Eds.), Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language: A Practical Guide, pp. 230-246. Wiley & Sons. DOIInfo

2014

Woordenkennis van Nederlanders en Vlamingen anno 2013

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P., & Stevens, M. · Gent: Academia Press.

Talks, workshops, and posters

2019

Teaching machines to teach people

Mandera, P. · North Star AI, Tallinn, Estonia, March 7.

2016

Changes in the word frequency effect as a function of language exposure

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · 10th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21.

2015

Predicting item-level effects of relatedness with models based on prediction and counting

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · 45th Annual Meeting of Society for Computers in Psychology, November 19.

Can reaction times from massive online experiments be used to study visual word recognition?

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Stevens, M., Brysbaert, M. · 19th ESCOP Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-20.

Snaut: Accessible Distributional Semantics

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA, November 19-22.

2014

How useful are extrapolated measures of psycholinguistic norms?

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · 9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, September 30-October 2.

Continuous estimation of item difficulty in large-scale lexical decision studies

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Oostende, Belgium, May 8-9.

A field guide to processing subtitle frequencies

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · SUBTIEL Workshop, Conference Language in Mind and Society, Nijmegen, December 17.

2013

Corpus-based extrapolation of age of acquisition norms

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Leuven, Belgium, May 30-31.

Extrapolating subjective ratings with topical information from Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · Seventh Tucson Lexical Processing Workshop, London, Ontario, November 13-14.

Using Topic Models to Extrapolate Subjective Ratings for Psycholinguistic Variables

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. · 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada, November 14-17.

2012

Subtlex-pl: Polish word frequency estimates based on film subtitles

Mandera, P., Wodniecka, Z., Keuleers, E. · 1st BAPS-SEPEX Joint Meeting, Liège, Belgium, May 10-11.