Research

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Rataj, K., Kakuba, P., Mandera, P., & van Heuven, W. J. B. (2023). Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish. Plos one, 18(4), e0284801.

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., & Mandera, P. (2021). Which words do English non-native speakers know? New supernational levels based on yes/no decision. Second Language Research, 37(2), 207-231.

Kyröläinen, A. J., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P., Brysbaert, M., & Kuperman, V. (2021). Affect across adulthood: Evidence from English, Dutch, and Spanish. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(4), 792.

Aguasvivas, J., Carreiras, M., Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., … (2020). How do Spanish speakers read words? Insights from a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy. Behavior research methods, 52, 1867-1882.

Wodniecka, Z., Szewczyk, J., Kałamała, P., Mandera, P., & Durlik, J. (2020). When a second language hits a native language. What ERPs (do and do not) tell us about language retrieval difficulty in bilingual language production. Neuropsychologia, 141, 107390.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2019). Recognition times for 62 thousand English words: Data from the English Crowdsourcing Project. Behavior Research Methods. doi

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., & Mandera, P. (2019). Recognition Times for 54 Thousand Dutch Words: Data from the Dutch Crowdsourcing Project. Psychologica Belgica, 59(1), 281–300. doi pdf

Brysbaert, M. Mandera, P, McCormick, S., & Keuleers, E. (2018). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51(2), 467-479. doi pdf

Aguasvivas, J., Carreiras, M., Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Dunabeitia, J. A. (2018). SPALEX: A Spanish lexical decision database from a massive online data collection. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2156. doi pdf

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. (2018). The word frequency effect in word processing: An updated review. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 45-50. doi pdf

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2017). Explaining human performance in psycholinguistic tasks with models of semantic similarity based on prediction and counting: A review and empirical validation. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 57-78. doi pdf

Brysbaert, M., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. (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. Frontiers in Psychology. doi

Brysbaert, M., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. (2016). The impact of word prevalence on lexical decision times: Evidence from the Dutch Lexicon Project 2. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(3), 441–458. doi pdf

Keuleers, E., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Brysbaert, M. (2015). Word knowledge in the crowd: Measuring vocabulary size and word prevalence in a massive online experiment. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1665–1692. doi pdf

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2015). How useful are corpus-based methods for extrapolating psycholinguistic variables? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1623-1642. doi pdf

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Wodniecka, Z., & Brysbaert, M. (2015). SUBTLEX-PL: subtitle-based word frequency estimates for Polish. Behavior Research Methods, 47(2), 471-483. doi, pdf and frequencies

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P. (2014). A plea for more interactions between psycholinguistics and natural language processing research. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 4, 209-222. pdf

Van Heuven, W. J. B., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2014). SUBTLEX-UK: A new and improved word frequency database for British English. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(6), 1176-1190. doi pdf

Books

Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P., & Stevens, M. (2014). Woordenkennis van Nederlanders en Vlamingen anno 2013. Gent: Academia Press.

Book chapters

Brysbaert, Marc, Mandera, Paweł, & Keuleers, E.A. (2017). Corpus Linguistics. In Annette de Groot & Peter Hagoort (Eds.), Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language: A Practical Guide (pp. 230-246).: Wiley & Sons. info

Tech conference presentations

Mandera, P., Teaching machines to teach people. North Star AI, Tallinn, Estonia, March 7, 2019.

Research conference presentations

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Changes in the word frequency effect as a function of language exposure, 10th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21, 2016.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Predicting item-level effects of relatedness with models based on prediction and counting, 45th Annual Meeting of Society for Computers in Psychology, 19th November, 2015.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Stevens, M., Brysbaert, M., Can reaction times from massive online experiments be used to study visual word recognition? 19th ESCOP Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-20, 2015.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., How useful are extrapolated measures of psycholinguistic norms? 9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, September 30 - October 2, 2014.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Continuous estimation of item difficulty in large-scale lexical decision studies. Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Oostende, Belgium, May 8-9, 2014.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Corpus-based extrapolation of age of acquisition norms. Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Leuven, Belgium, May 30-31, 2013.

Workshop presentations

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., A field guide to processing subtitle frequencies. SUBTIEL Workshop, Conference Language in Mind and Society, Nijmegen, December, 17, 2014.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Extrapolating subjective ratings with topical information from Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Seventh Tucson Lexical Processing Workshop. London, Ontario, November 13-14, 2013.

Poster presentations

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Snaut: Accessible Distributional Semantics, 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA, November 19-22, 2015.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Using Topic Models to Extrapolate Subjective Ratings for Psycholinguistic Variables, 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada, November 14-17, 2013.

Mandera, P., Wodniecka, Z., Keuleers, E., Subtlex-pl: Polish word frequency estimates based on film subtitles, 1st BAPS-SEPEX Joint Meeting (Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences and Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology), Liège, Belgium, May 10-11, 2012.