Ruth Ann Atchley
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruth Ann Atchley is involved.
2025 The impact of walking and visual distraction on lexicality judgements The Mental Lexicon 20:1, pp. 93–121 | Article
Walking has been the focus of much of the existing work on multitasking given its complexity as a cognitive process and importance in daily life. This complexity is evidenced by gait variation observed in dual-task contexts. However, an open question concerns how walking effects concurrently… read more
2021 Processing lexicality in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease: P3 ERP amplitude as an index of lexical categorization The Mental Lexicon 16:2/3, pp. 204–239 | Article
To explore how processing lexicality may change with aging and in the presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), we conducted two experiments investigating lexicality judgements using an on-line behavioural psycholinguistic methodology and electrophysiological/event-related potential (ERP) methods;… read more
2015 Lexicality judgements in healthy aging and in individuals with Alzheimer's disease: Effect of neighbourhood density The Mental Lexicon 10:2, pp. 286–311 | Article
Neighbourhood density (N) has been shown to influence how lexical stimuli are accessed. In young adults, a large N is facilitatory for words but inhibitory for pseudowords in English. While there is a paucity of studies probing N as people age, results to date point towards changes in lexical… read more
2015 Electrifying the lexical decision: Examining a P3 ERP component reflecting early lexical categorization The Mental Lexicon 10:3, pp. 339–363 | Article
The current research utilizes lexical decision within an oddball ERP paradigm to study early lexical processing. Nineteen undergraduate students completed four blocks of the oddball lexical decision task (Nonword targets among Words, Word targets among Nonwords, Word targets among Pseudowords, and… read more