P M Pexman

Summary

Affiliation: University of Calgary
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi The neural consequences of semantic richness: when more comes to mind, less activation is observed
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Psychol Sci 18:401-6. 2007
  2. ncbi Ambiguity and visual word recognition: can feedback explain both homophone and polysemy effects?
    P M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta
    Can J Exp Psychol 53:323-34. 1999
  3. ncbi There are many ways to be rich: effects of three measures of semantic richness on visual word recognition
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
    Psychon Bull Rev 15:161-7. 2008
  4. ncbi Neural correlates of concreteness in semantic categorization
    Penny M Pexman
    University of Calgary, Canada
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:1407-19. 2007
  5. ncbi Processing of ironic language in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
    J Autism Dev Disord 41:1097-112. 2011
  6. ncbi Semantic ambiguity and the process of generating meaning from print
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:1252-70. 2004
  7. ncbi Number-of-features effects and semantic processing
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Mem Cognit 31:842-55. 2003
  8. ncbi Phonological effects in visual word recognition: investigating the impact of feedback activation
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:572-84. 2002
  9. ncbi Homophone effects in lexical decision
    P M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 27:139-56. 2001
  10. ncbi The impact of feedback semantics in visual word recognition: number-of-features effects in lexical decision and naming tasks
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Psychon Bull Rev 9:542-9. 2002

Detail Information

Publications19

  1. ncbi The neural consequences of semantic richness: when more comes to mind, less activation is observed
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Psychol Sci 18:401-6. 2007
    ....
  2. ncbi Ambiguity and visual word recognition: can feedback explain both homophone and polysemy effects?
    P M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta
    Can J Exp Psychol 53:323-34. 1999
    ..g., BRANE) as foils in LDT. The results supported both predictions...
  3. ncbi There are many ways to be rich: effects of three measures of semantic richness on visual word recognition
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
    Psychon Bull Rev 15:161-7. 2008
    ..Our results provide new clues about how words are represented and suggest that word recognition models need to accommodate each of these influences...
  4. ncbi Neural correlates of concreteness in semantic categorization
    Penny M Pexman
    University of Calgary, Canada
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:1407-19. 2007
    ..W. Perceptual symbol systems. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 22, 577-660, 1999] perceptual symbol systems, whereby concrete and abstract concepts are represented by similar mechanisms but with differences in focal content...
  5. ncbi Processing of ironic language in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
    J Autism Dev Disord 41:1097-112. 2011
    ....
  6. ncbi Semantic ambiguity and the process of generating meaning from print
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:1252-70. 2004
    ..Results showed no ambiguity effect on unrelated trials (Experiments 2, 3c, and 5c) and an ambiguity disadvantage on related trials (Experiments 3a, 3b, 5a, and 5b)...
  7. ncbi Number-of-features effects and semantic processing
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Mem Cognit 31:842-55. 2003
    ..We argue that these results provide support for distributed representation of word meaning...
  8. ncbi Phonological effects in visual word recognition: investigating the impact of feedback activation
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:572-84. 2002
    ..Both predictions were confirmed. These results support the claim that feedback activation from phonology plays a significant role in visual word recognition...
  9. ncbi Homophone effects in lexical decision
    P M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 27:139-56. 2001
    ..The authors propose that homophone effects in lexical decision are due to the nature of feedback from phonology to orthography...
  10. ncbi The impact of feedback semantics in visual word recognition: number-of-features effects in lexical decision and naming tasks
    Penny M Pexman
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Psychon Bull Rev 9:542-9. 2002
    ..The predicted facilitory NOF effects were observed in both LDT and naming...
  11. ncbi An fMRI investigation of strategies for word recognition
    Jodi D Edwards
    Seaman Family MR Research Centre, University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 2T9
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 24:648-62. 2005
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  12. ncbi Priming the meaning of homographs in typically developing children and children with autism
    Suzanne Hala
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada
    J Autism Dev Disord 37:329-40. 2007
    ..Children with autism also showed semantic priming effects. We conclude that children with autism do not show an absolute deficit in ability to use contextual information...
  13. ncbi The impact of reader skill on phonological processing in visual word recognition
    Sara J Unsworth
    University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Q J Exp Psychol A 56:63-81. 2003
    ..We concluded that more skilled readers activate phonology in these tasks but do so more efficiently, with less spurious phonological activation...
  14. ncbi Tolerating ambiguity: ambiguous words recruit the left inferior frontal gyrus in absence of a behavioral effect
    Ian S Hargreaves
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada
    Exp Psychol 58:19-30. 2011
    ..g., left inferior frontal gyrus) when compared to unambiguous words. These results are interpreted as evidence that multiple meanings are activated for ambiguous words in SCT...
  15. ncbi Making things difficult in lexical decision: the impact of pseudohomophones and transposed-letter nonwords on frequency and semantic priming effects
    Stephen J Lupker
    Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:1267-89. 2010
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  16. ncbi The elusive nature of early phonological priming effects: are there individual differences?
    Gregory G Holyk
    Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alta, Canada T2N 1N4
    Brain Lang 90:353-67. 2004
    ..We conclude that these (and potentially other) variables may have been responsible for previous inconsistent findings of early phonological priming effects...
  17. ncbi Evidence for the activation of sensorimotor information during visual word recognition: the body-object interaction effect
    Paul D Siakaluk
    Department of Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9
    Cognition 106:433-43. 2008
    ..g., Barsalou's perceptual symbol systems theory), which proposes that semantic knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor interactions with the environment...
  18. ncbi Ambiguity and synonymy effects in lexical decision, naming, and semantic categorization tasks: interactions between orthography, phonology, and semantics
    Yasushi Hino
    Department of Psychology, Chukyo University, Toyota, Aichi, Japan
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 28:686-713. 2002
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  19. ncbi Homophone effects in visual word recognition depend on homophone type and task demands
    Linda Kerswell
    University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9
    Can J Exp Psychol 61:322-7. 2007
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