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Spieler & Balota, Word Naming Corpus. 2870 Single Syllable words and associated naming latencies.

Balota, Cortese, & Pilotti, Lexical Decision Corpora.  2905 words and associated lexical decision latencies.

English Lexicon Project Homepage – The English Lexicon Project Link provides lexical decision and naming latencies for over 40,000 words (and 40,000 nonwords) along with a search engine for descriptive characteristics

2022

2021

2020

  • Remote cognitive assessment approaches in the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) Using digital technology to drive clinical innovation in brain‐behavior …  J Hassenstab, AJ Aschenbrenner, DA Balota, E McDade, YY Lim, … Alzheimer’s & Dementia 16, e038144
  • Distant connectivity and multiple-step priming in large-scale semantic networks. AA Kumar, DA Balota, M Steyvers Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 46 (12 …
  • Association between personality and tau-PET binding in cognitively normal older adults SA Schultz, BA Gordon, S Mishra, Y Su, JC Morris, BM Ances, JM Duchek, … Brain imaging and behavior 14, 2122-2131
  • Mindfulness, Education, and Exercise for age-related cognitive decline: Study protocol, pilot study results, and description of the baseline sample JL Wetherell, HS Ripperger, M Voegtle, BM Ances, D Balota, ES Bower, … Clinical Trials 17 (5), 581-594
  • Age differences in cross-task bleeding.  J Nicosia, D Balota Psychology and aging 35 (6), 881

  • Evaluating resting-state BOLD variability in relation to biomarkers of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease PR Millar, BM Ances, BA Gordon, TLS Benzinger, AM Fagan, JC Morris, … Neurobiology of Aging 96, 233-245

  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., Petros, J., McDade, E., Wang, G., Balota, D. A., Benzinger, T. L., Cruchaga, C. Goate, A., Xiong, C.,  Perrin, P.,  Fagan, A.M., Graff-Radford, N., Ghetti, B., Levin, J., Weidinger, E., Schofield, P., Gräber, S., Lee, J., Chhatwal, J.P., Morris, J.C., Bateman, R., & Hassenstab, J, for the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. (2020). Relationships between big‐five personality factors and Alzheimer’s disease pathology in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 12(1), e12038. (PDF)
  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., Gordon, B. A., Fagan, A. M., Schindler, S. E., Balota, D. A., Morris, J. C., & Hassenstab, J. J. (2020). Neurofilament Light Predicts Decline in Attention but Not Episodic Memory in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, (Preprint), 1-11. (PDF)
  • Kumar, A. A. (2020). Semantic memory: A review of methods, models, and current challenges. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-41.
  • Kumar, A. A., & Balota, D. A. (2020, March 5). Attempted Prime Retrieval Is a Double-Edged Sword: Facilitation and Disruption in Repeated Lexical Retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. (PDF)
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  • Mill, R. D., Gordon, B. A., Balota, D. A., & Cole, M. W. (2020). Predicting dysfunctional age-related task activations from resting-state network alterations. NeuroImage, 221, 117167. (PDF)
  • Millar, P. R., Petersen, S. E., Ances, B. M., Gordon, B. A., Benzinger, T. L., Morris, J. C., & Balota, D. A. (2020). Evaluating the Sensitivity of Resting-State BOLD Variability to Age and Cognition after Controlling for Motion and Cardiovascular Influences: A Network-Based Approach. Cerebral Cortex, 30 (11), 5686–5701 (PDF)
  • Nicosia, J., & Balota, D. (2020). The consequences of processing goal-irrelevant information during the Stroop task. Psychology and Aging, 35(5), 663. (PDF)
  • Wetherell, J. L., Ripperger, H. S., Voegtle, M., Ances, B. M., Balota, D., Bower, E. S., Depp, C., Eyler, L., Foster, E.R., Head, D., Hershey, T., Hickman, S., Kamantigue, N., Klein, S., Miller, J.P., Yingling, M.D., Nichols, J., Nicol, G.E., Patterson, B.W., Rodebaugh, T.L., Shimony, J.S., Snyder, A.S., Stephens, M., Tate, S., Uhrich, M.L., Wing, D., Wu, G.F., & Lenze, E.J., On Behalf of the MEDEX Research Group* (2020). Mindfulness, Education, and Exercise for age-related cognitive decline: Study protocol, pilot study results, and description of the baseline sample. Clinical Trials, 1740774520931864. (PDF)

2019

  • Kumar, A.A., Balota, D.A., Habbert, J., Scaltritti, M., Maddox, G.B. (2019). Converging Semantic and Phonological Information in Lexical Retrieval and Selection in Young and Older Adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000699 (PDF)
  • Maddox, G.B., Balota, D.A., Kumar, A.A., Millar, P., Churchill, L. (2019). The Immediate Benefits and Long-Term Consequences of Briefly Presented Masked Primes on Episodic Recollection. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 77-94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.003. (PDF)
  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., & Balota, D. A. (2019). Additive effects of item-specific and congruency sequence effects in the vocal Stroop task. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 860. (PDF)
  • Duchek, J. M., Aschenbrenner, A. J., Fagan, A. M., Benzinger, T. L., Morris, J. C., & Balota, D. A. (2020). The relation between personality and biomarkers in sensitivity and conversion to Alzheimer-type dementia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 26(6), 596-606. (PDF)
  • Kumar, A. A., Balota, D. A., & Steyvers, M. (2019, December 2). Distant Connectivity and Multiple-Step Priming in Large-Scale Semantic Networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000793   (PDF)
  • Schultz, S. A., Gordon, B. A., Mishra, S., Su, Y., Morris, J. C., Ances, B. M., Duchek, J., Balota, D.A., & Benzinger, T. L. (2019). Association between personality and tau-PET binding in cognitively normal older adults. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1-10. (PDF)
  • Wulff, D. U., De Deyne, S., Jones, M. N., Mata, R., & Aging Lexicon Consortium. (2019). New perspectives on the aging lexicon. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(8), 686-698. (PDF)

2018

  • Millar, P. R., Balota, D. A., Bishara, A. J., & Jacoby, L. L. (2018). Multinomial models reveal deficits of two distinct controlled retrieval processes in aging and very mild Alzheimer disease. Memory & Cognition, 46(7), 1058-1075. (PDF)
  • Balota, D. A., Aschenbrenner, A. J., Yap, M. J. (2018). Dynamic adjustments of lexical processing in the lexical decision task:  Cross-trial sequence effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 37-45. Download PDF
  • Gyurkovics, M., Balota, D. A., Jackson, J. D. (2018). Mind-wandering in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 32, 89-101. Download PDF
  • Huff, M. J., Yates, T. J., Balota, D. A. (2018). Evaluating the contributions of task expectancy in the testing and guessing benefits on recognition memory. Memory, 26, 1065-1083. Download PDF

2017

  •  Millar, P.R., Balota, D.A., Maddox, G.B., Duchek, H.M., Aschenbrenner, A.J., Fagan, A.M., Benzinger, T.L.S., & Morris, J.C.  (2017).  Process dissociation analyses of memory changes in healthy aging, preclinical, and very mild Alzheimer disease:  Evidence for isolated recollection deficits.  Neuropsychology, 31, 708-723. Download PDF
  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., Balota, D. A. (2017). Dynamic adjustments of attentional control in healthy aging. Psychology & Aging, 32, 1-15. Download PDF
  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., Balota, D. A., Weigand, A. J., Scaltritti, M., Besner, D. (2017). The first letter position effect when identifying a printed word:  The role of spatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 43, 700-718. Download PDF
  • Finley, J. S., Sungkhasettee, V. W., Roediger, H. L., Balota, D. A. (2017). Relative contributions of semantic and phonological associates to over-additive false recall in hybrid DRM lists. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 154-168. Download PDF
  • Mishra, S., Gordon, B. A., Su, Y., Christensen, J., Friedrichsen, K., Jackson, K., Hornbeck, R., Balota, D. A., Cairns, H. J., Morris, J. C., Ances, B. M., Benzinger, T. L. S. (2017). AV-145 PET imaging of tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer disease:  Defining a summary measure. Neuroimage, 161, 171-178. Download PDF

 2016

  • Szekely, A., Kotyuk, E., Bircher, J., Vereczkei, A., Balota, D.A., Sasvari-Szekely, M., Ronai, Z. (2016). Association between Age and the 7 Repeat Allele of the Dopamine D4 Receptor Gene, PloS One, 11, Article number e016753. Download PDF
  • Huff, M. J., Hutchison, K. A., & Balota, D. A. (in press). The costs and benefits of testing and guessing on recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Download PDF
  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., Balota, D. A., Gordon, B. A., Ratcliff, R. & Morris, J. C. (2016). A diffusion model analysis of episodic recognition in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer disease: The Adult Children Study. Neuropsychology, 30, 225-238. Download PDF
  • Balota, D.A.  (2016). Speed reading:  You can’t always get what you want, but can you sometimes get what you need?  Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 17, 1-3. Download PDF
  • Cohen-Shikora, E. & Balota, D.A.  (2016).   An examination of age-related changes in the control of lexical and sublexical pathways in mapping spelling to sound.  Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 23, 218-233. Download PDF
  • Cohen-Shikora, E. & Balota, D.A.  (2016).  Visual word recognition across the adult lifespan.  Psychology and Aging, 31, 488-502. Download PDF
  • Nelson, S.M., Savalia, N.K., Fishell, A.K., Gilmore, A.W., Zou, F., Balota, D.A., McDermott, K.B.  (2016).  Default mode network activity predicts early memory decline in healthy young adults aged 18-31.  Cerebral Cortex, 26, 3379-3389. Download PDF
  • Szekely, A., Kotyuk, E., Bircher, J., Vereczkei, A., Balota, D.A., Sasvari-Szekely, M., & Ronai, Z.  (2016).  Association between age and the 7 repeat allele of the Dopamine D4 receptor gene.  PLoS ONE, 11(12), e0167753. Download PDF
  • Balota, D.A., Aschenbrenner, A.J., Yap, M.J.  Dynamic adjustments of lexical processing in the lexical decision task:  Cross-trial sequence effects.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Download PDF

 2015

  • Huff, M.J., Balota, D.A., Minear, Meredith, Aschenbrenner, A.J, & Duchek, J.M. (2015). Dissociative global and local task-switching costs across younger adults, middle-aged adults, older adults, and very mild Alzheimer’s disease individuals. Psychology and Aging. 30, (4) 727-739. Download PDF
  • Tse, C.S., Chang, J.F., Fung, A.W.T., Lam, L.C.W., Hau, K.T., Leung, G.T.Y., & Balota, D.A. (2015). The utility of a non-verbal prospective memory measure as a sensitive marker for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in Hong Kong.  International Psychogerictrics. 27, (2) 231-242. Download PDF
  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., Balota, D. A., Fagan, A. M., Duchek, J. M., Benzinger, T. L. S. & Morris, J. C. (2015). Alzheimer disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers moderate baseline differences and predict longitudinal change in attentional control and episodic memory composites in the Adult Children Study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21, 573-583. doi:10.1017/S1355617715000776 Download PDF
  • Yap, M., & Balota, D. (2015). Visual Word Recognition. In A. Pollastsek & R. Treiman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Reading (pp. 26-43). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Download PDF
  • Yap, M.J., Sibley, D.E., Balota, D.A., Ratcliff, R., & Rueckl, J. (2015) Responding to Nonwords in the Lexical Decision Task: Insight from the English Lexicon Project. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning and Memory and Cognition. 41, (3) 597-613. Download PDF
  • Maddox, G.B., & Balota, D.A. (2015). Retrieval practice and spacing effects in and young and older adults: An examination of the benefits of desirable difficulty. Memory & Cognition. 45, (5) 760-774. Download PDF
  • Chetail, F., Balota, D., Treiman, R., & Content, A. (2015). What can megastudies tell us about the orthographic structure of English words? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 68, (8) 1519-1540. Download PDF
  • Keuleers, E & Balota, D.A. (2015) Megastudies, crowd-sourcing, and large datasets in psycholinguistics: An overview of recent developments, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 68, (8) 1457-1468. Download PDF

  • Aschenbrenner, A. J., & Balota, D. A. (2015). Interactive effects of working memory and trial history on Stroop interference in cognitively healthy aging. Psychology and Aging. 30, 1-8. Download PDF

  • Aschenbrenner, A.J., Balota, D.A., Tse, C.S., Fagan, A.M., Holtzman, D.M., Benzinger, T.L.S, & Morris, J.C. (2015). Alzheimer disease biomarkers, attentional control and semantic memory retrieval: Synergistic and mediational effects of biomarkers on a sensitive cognitive measure in non-demented older adults. Neuropsychology. 29, 368-381. Downlaod PDF

  • Gordon, B.A., Zacks, J.M., Blazey, T., Benzinger, T.L.S., Morris, J.C., Fagan, A.M., Holtzman, & D.M., Balota, D.A. (2015). Task-evoked fMRI Changes in Attention Networks are Associated with Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers. Neurobiology of Aging. 36, 1771-1779. Download PDF
  • Kotyuk, E., Duchek, J.M., Head, D., Szekely, A., Goate, A.M., Balota, D.A. (2015). A genetic variant (COMT) coding dopaminergic activity predicts personality traits in healthy elderly. Personality and Individual Differences. 82, 61-66. Download PDF
  • Balota, D. A., & Duchek, J.M. (2015). Attention, Variability, and Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease. In Remembering: Attributions, Processes, and Control in Human Memory (pp. 285-303). New York: Psychology Press. Download PDF 

 2014

  • Pyc, M. A., Balota, D. A., McDermott, K. B., Tully, T. & Roediger, H. L. III. (2014). Between-list lag effects in recall depend on retention interval.  Memory & Cognition. Download PDF

  • Monti, J.M., Balota, D.A., Warren, D.E. & Cohen, N.J. (2014). Very mild Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by increased sensitivity to mnemonic interference. Neuropsychologia, 59, 47-56. Download PDF

  • Storandt, M., Balota, D. A., Aschenbrenner, A. J., & Morris, J. C. (2014). Clinical and psychological characteristics of initial cohort of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN). Neuropsychology. 1, 19-29. Download PDF

 2013

  • Balota, D. A., Yap, M. J., Hutchison, K. A., & Cortese, M. J. (2013). Megastudies: What do millions (or so) of trials tell us about lexical processing? In J. S. Adelman (Ed.), Visual Word Recognition Volume 1: Models and methods, orthography and phonology (pp. 90-115). New York, NY: Psychology Press. Download PDF

  • Yap, M. J., Balota, D. A., & Tan, S. E. (2013). Additive and interactive effects in semantic priming: Isolating lexical and decision processes in the lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 140-158. Download PDF

  • Thomas, A. K., Lee, M., & Balota, D. A. (2013). Metacognitive monitoring and dementia: How intrinsic and extrinsic cues influence judgments of learning in people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 27, 452-463. Download PDF

  • Scaltritti, M., & Balota, D. A. (2013). Are all letters really processed equally and in parallel? Further evidence of a robust first letter advantage. Acta Psychologica, 144, 397-410. Download PDF

  • Jackson, J. D., Weinstein, Y., & Balota, D. A. (2013). Can mind-wandering be timeless? Atemporal focus and aging in mind-wandering paradigms. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1-16. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00742 Download PDF

  • Hutchison, K.A., Balota, D.A., Neely, J.H., Cortese, M.J., Cohen-Shikora, E.R., Tse, C.-S., Yap, M.J., Bengson, J.J., Niemeyer, D., Buchanan, E. (2013). The Semantic Priming Project. Behavior Research Methods, 45 (4), 1099-1114.. Download PDF

  • Cohen-Shikora, E. R., Balota, D. A., Kapuria, A., & Yap, M. J. (2013). The past tense inflection project (PTIP): Speeded past tense inflection, imageability ratings, and past tense consistency measures for 2,200 verbs. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 151-159. Download PDF

  • Bui, D. C., Maddox, G. B., & Balota, D. A. (2013). The roles of working memory and intervening task difficulty in determining the benefits of repetition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 341-347. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J. M., Balota, D. A., Thomas, J. B., Snyder, A. Z., Rich, P., Benzinger, T. L., Ances, B. M. (2013). Relationship between stroop performance and resting state functional connectivity in cognitively normal older adults. Neuropsychology, 27,  516-528. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., Aschenbrenner, A. J., & Yap, M. J. (2013). Additive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality: The influence of trial history and data transformations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1563-1571. Download PDF

  • Cohen-Shikora, E. R., & Balota, D. A. (2013). Paste tense route priming. Cognition, 126, 397-404. Download PDF

  • Jackson, J. D., & Balota, D. A. (2013). Age-related changes in attentional selection: Quality of task set or degradation of task set across time? Psychology and Aging, 28, 744-753. Download PDF

  • Cortese, M. J., &Balota, D. A. (2013). Visual word recognition in skilled adult readers. In M. J. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. F. Joanisse (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholingustics (pp. 159-185). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Download PDF

  • Scaltritti, M., Balota, D. A., & Peressotti, F. (2013). Exploring the additive effects of stimulus quality and word frequency: The influence of local and list-wide prime relatedness. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 91-107. Download PDF 

2012

  • Bangert, A.S., Abrams, R.A., & Balota, D.A. (2012). Reaching for words and nonwords: Interactive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality on the characteristics of reaching movements. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 513-520. Download PDF

  • Yap, M.J., Balota, D.A., Sibley, D.E.,&  Ratcliff, R. (2012). Individual differences in visual word recognition: Insights from the English Lexicon Project. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 53-79. Download PDF

  • Jackson, J.D., Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Head, D. (2012). White matter integrity and reaction time intraindividual variability in healthy aging and early-stage Alzheimer disease. Neuropsychologia, 50, 357-366. Download PDF

  • Jackson, J.D., & Balota, D.A. (2012). Mind-wandering in younger and older adults: Converging evidence from the sustained attention to response task and reading for comprehension. Psychology and Aging, 27, 106-119. Download PDF

  • Bangert, A.S., & Balota, D.A. (2012). Keep up the Pace: Declines in simple repetitive timing differentiates healthy aging from the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18, 1052-1063. Download PDF

  • Jackson, J. D., Balota, D. A., Duchek, J. M., & Head, D. (2012). White matter integrity and reaction time intraindividual variability in healthy aging and early-stage Alzheimer disease. Neuropsychologia, 50, 357-366. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.024 Download PDF

  • Geoffrey B. Maddox & David A. Balota (2012): Self control of when and how much to test face–name pairs in a novel spaced retrieval paradigm: An examination of age-related differences, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19, (5), 620-643. DOI:10.1080/13825585.2011.640658 Download PDF

2011

  • Maddox, G. B., Balota, D. A., Coane, J. H., & Duchek, J. M. (2011). The role of forgetting rate in producing a benefit of expanded over equal spaced retrieval in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 661-670.  Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Yap, M.J. (2011). Moving beyond the mean in studies of mental chronometry: The power of response time distributional analyses. Psychological Science, 20, 160-166. Download PDF

  • Castel, A.D., Humphreys, K.L., Lee, S.S., Galvan, A., Balota, D.A., McCabe, D.P. (2011).  The development of memory efficiency and value-directed remembering across the lifespan: A cross-sectional study of memory and selectivity. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1553-1564. Download PDF 

  • Dufau, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., Moret-Tatay, C., McGonigal, A., Peeters, D., Alario, F.-X., Balota, D.A., Brysbaert, M., Carreiras, M., Ferrand, L., Ktori, M., Perea, M., Rastle, K., Sasburg, O., Yap, M.J., Ziegler, J.C., & Grainger, J. (2011). Smart phone, smart science: How the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science. PLoS ONE, 6, e24974. Download PDF 

  • Coane, J.H., & Balota, D.A., Dolan, P.O., & Jacoby, L.L. (2011). Not all sources of familiarity are created equal:  The case of word frequency and repetition in episodic recognition. Memory & Cognition, 39, 791-805. Download PDF 

  • Church, J.A., Balota, D.A., Petersen, S.E., Schlaggar, B.L. (2011). Manipulation of length and lexicality localizes the functional neuroanatomy of phonological processing in adult readers.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1475-1493. Download PDF

  • Anderson, B.A., Jacoby, L.L., Thomas, R.C., & Balota, D.A.  (2011). The effects of age and divided attention on spontaneous recognition.  Memory & Cognition, 39, 725-735. Download PDF 

  • Xiong, C, Roe, C.M., Buckles, V., Faga, A., Holtzman, D., Balota, D., Duchek, J., Storandt, M., Mintun, M., Grant, E., Snyder, A.Z., Head, D., Benzinger, T.L.S., Mettenburg, J., Csernanasky, J., & Morris, J.C. (2011).  Role of family history for Alzheimer biomarker abnormalities in the Adult Child Study.  Archives of Neurology, 68, 1313-1319.  Download PDF 

  • McDaniel, M.A., Shelton, J.T., Breneiser, J.E., Moynan, S., Balota, D.A.  (2011). Focal and non-focal prospective memory performance in very mild dementia: A signature decline.  Neuropsychology, 25, 387-396. Download PDF 

  • Jackson, J., Balota, D.A., Head, D. (2011). Exploring the relationship between personality and regional brain volume in healthy aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 32, 2162-2171. Download PDF

  • Coane, J.H., & Balota, D.A. (2011). Face (and nose) priming for book:  The malleability of semantic memory. Experimental Psychology, 58, 62-70.  Download PDF

  • Szekely, A., Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., Nemoda, Z, Vereczkei, A, Sasvari-Szekely, M. (2011). Genetic factors of reaction time performance:  DRD4 7-repeat allele associated with slower responses. Genes, Brain & Behavior, 10, 129-136. Download PDF

  • Holtzman, N.S., Schott, J.P., Jones, M.N, Balota, D.A., Yarkoni, T. (2011). Exploring media bias with semantic analysis tools:  Validation of the contrast analysis of semantic similarity (CASS). Behavior Research Methods, 43, 193-200.  Download PDF

  • Silverberg, N.B., Ryan R.L., Carillo, M.C. et al. (2011).  Assessment of cognition in early dementia.  Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 7, 60-76. Download PDF

2010

  • Tse, C.S., Balota, D.A., Roediger, H.L. (2010). The benefits and costs of repeated testing on the learning of face-name pairs in healthy older adults. Psychology and Aging, 25, 833-845. Download PDF

  • Hutchison, K.A., Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M. (2010). The utility of Stroop task switching as a marker for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.  Psychology and Aging, 25, 545-559. Download PDF

  • Coane, J.H., & Balota, D.A. (2010). Repetition priming across distinct contexts: Effects of lexical status, word frequency, and retrieval test. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2376-2398. Download PDF

  • Tse, C. S., Balota, D. A., Yap, M. J., Duchek, J. M., McCabe, D. P.(2010). Effects of Healthy Aging and Early Stage Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type on Components of Response Time Distributions in Three Attentional Tasks. Neuropsychology, 24, 300-315. Download PDF

  • McCabe, D. P., Roediger, H. L., McDaniel, M. A., Balota, D. A., Hambrick, D. Z. (2010). The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Executive Functioning: Evidence for a Common Executive Attention Construct. Neuropsychology, 24, 222-243. Download PDF

  • Tse, C. S., Balota, D. A., Moynan, S. C., Duchek, J. M., Jacoby, L. L. The Utility of Placing Recollection in Opposition to Familarity in Early Discrimination of Healthy Aging and Very Mild Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type. Neuropsychology, 49-67. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., Tse, C. S., Hutchinson, K. A., Spieler, D. H., Duchek, J. M., Morris, J. C. (2010). Predicting Conversion to Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type in a Healthy Control Sample: The Power of Errors in Stroop Color Naming. Psychology & Aging, 25, 208-218. Download PDF

2009

  • Yap, M.J., Tse, C.S., & Balota, D.A. (2009). Individual differences in the joint effects of semantic priming and word frequency revealed by RT distributional analyses: The role of lexical integrity. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 303-325. Download PDF 

  • Yap, M.J., & Balota, D.A. (2009). Visual word recognition of multisyllabic words. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 502-529. Download PDF 

  • Coane, J. H., Balota, D. A. (2009). Priming the Holiday Spirit: Persistent Activation Due to Extra Experimental Experiences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 1124-1128. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J. M., Balota, D. A., Tse, C. S., Holtzman, D. M., Fagan, A. M., Goate, A. M.(2009). The Utility of Intraindividual Variability in Selective Attention Tasks as an Early Marker for Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuropsychology, 23, 746-758. Download PDF

  • McCabe, D.D., Roediger, H.L., McDaniel, M.A., Balota, D.A. (2009). Aging Reduces Verdical Remembering but Increases False Remembering: Neuropsychological Test Correlates of Remember-Know Judgments, Neuropschologia, 47, 2164-2173. Download PDF

  • Castel, A. D., Balota, D. A., & McCabe, D. P.(2009). Memory efficiency and the strategic control of attention at encoding: Impairments of value-directed remembering in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 23, 297-306. Download PDF

  • Kang, S.H., Balota, D.A., Yap, M.J. (2009). Pathway Control in Visual Word Processing: Converging Evidence from Recognition Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 692-698. Download PDF

  2008

  • Hutchison, K.A., Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., & Watson, J.M. (2008). Predicting semantic priming at the item level. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1036-1066. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., & Coane, J. H. (2008). Semantic memory. To appear in J. H. Byrne, H. Eichenbaum, R. Menzel, H. L. Roediger III, & D. Sweatt (Eds.), Handbook of learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 512-531. Download PDF

  • Logan, J.M. & Balota, D.A.  (2008).  Expanded vs equal spaced retrieval practice in healthy young and older adults. Aging, Cognition, and Neuropsychology, 15, 257-280 Download PDF.

  • Yap, M.J., Balota, D.A., Tse, C.S., Besner, D.  (2008).  On the additive effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decisions:  Evidence for opposing additive influences revealed by RT distributional analyses.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory & Cognition, 34, 495-513. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Yap, M.J., Cortese, M.I, Watson, J.M.  (2008). Beyond response latency:  An RT distributional analysis of semantic priming.  Journal of Memory & Language, 59, 495-523. Download PDF

  • Larsen, R. J., Mercer, K. A., Balota, D. A. & Strube, M. J. (2008). Not all negative words slow down lexical decision and naming speed: Importance of word arousal. Emotion, 8, 445-452. Download PDF

  • Yarkoni, T., Balota, D.A., & Yap, M.J.  (2008). Moving Beyond Coltheart’s N: A new measure of orthographic similarity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 971-979. Download PDF

  • Yarkoni, T., Speer, N.K., Balota, D.A., McAvoy, M.P., & Zacks, J.M. (2008). Pictures of a thousand words:  Investigating the neural mechanisms of reading with extremely rapid event-related fMRI. NeuroImage, 42, 973-987. Download PDF

2007

  • McCabe, D.D., Balota, D.A. (2007). Context Effects on Remembering and Knowing: The Expectany of Heuristic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 536-549. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., Logan , J.M. (2007). Is expanded retrieval practice a superior form of spaced retrieval? A critical review of the extent literature. To appear in Nairne, J.S. (Ed.), The foundations of remembering: Essays in honor of Henry L. Roediger III. Chapter 6, 83-105 . Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., Yap, M. J., Cortese, M. J., Hutchison, K. I., Kessler, B., Loftis, B., Neely, J. H., Nelson, D. L., Simpson, G. B., & Treiman, R.(2007). The English Lexicon Project. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 445-459. Download PDF

  • Castel, A.D., Balota, D.A., Hutchison, K.A., Logan, J.M., & Yap, M.J. (2007).  Spatial attention and response control in healthy younger and older adults and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence for disproportionate selection breakdowns in the simon task.  Neuropsychology, 21, 170-182. Download PDF

  • Faust, M.E., & Balota, D.A. (2007). Inhibition, Facilitation, and Attention Control in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type: The role of unifying principles in cognitive theory development.  In D. S. Gorfein & C. McLeod’s (Eds.) The place of inhibition in Cognition. Chapter 11, 213-238. Download PDF

  • Meade, M. L., Watson, J. M., Balota, D. A., & Roediger, H. L. (2007).  The roles of spreading activation and retrieval mode in producing false recognition in the DRM paradigm.  Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 305-320.  Download PDF

  • Yap, M. J., & Balota, D. A. (2007).  Additive and interactive effects on response time distributions in visual word recognition.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 274-296. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J.M., Balota, D.A., Storandt, M., Larsen, R.J. (2007). The Power of Personality in Discriminating Between Healthy Aging and Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62, 353-361. Download PDF

2006

  • Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., Sergent-Marshall, S.D., & Roediger III, H.L. (2006).   Does expanded retrieval produce benefits over equal-interval spacing? Explorations of spacing effects in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer’s disease.   Psychology and Aging, 21, 19-31. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., & Yap, M. J.  (2006). Attentional control and flexible lexical processing: Explorations of the magic moment of word recognition.  In S. Andrews (Ed.), From inkmarks to ideas: Current issues in lexical processing, 229-258. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., Yap, M. J., & Cortese, M. J.  (2006). Visual word recognition: The journey from features to meaning (A travel update).  In M. Traxler & M. A. Gernsbacher Handbook of psycholinguistics (2nd edition). Download PDF

  • Bulevich, J. B., Roediger, H.L., III, Balota, D.A., & Butler , A. B. (2006). Failures to find suppression of episodic memories in the think/no-think paradigm. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1569-1577. Download PDF

  • Colombo, L., Pasini, M., & Balota, D.A. (2006).  Dissociating the influence of familiarity and meaningfulness from word frequency in naming and lexical decision performance.  Memory & Cognition, 34, 1312-1324. Download PDF

  • Cortese, M.J., Balota, D.A., Sergent-Marshall, S.D., Buckner, R.L., & Gold, B.T.  (2006).  Consistency and regularity in past-tense verb generation in healthy ageing, Alzheimer’s disease, and semantic dementia.  Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 856-876. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J.M., Balota, D.A., & Cortese, M. (2006).  Prospective memory and apolipoprotein E in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer’s disease.  Neuropsychology, 20, 633-644.  Download PDF

  • Gold, B. T., Balota, D. A., Jones, S. J., Powell, D. K., Smith, C. D., & Andersen, A. H. (2006).  Dissociation of automatic and strategic lexical semantics: fMRI evidence for differing roles of multiple frontotemporal regions.  Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 6523-6532. Download PDF

  • Larsen, R.J., Mercer, K.A., & Balota, D.A. (2006).   Lexical characteristics of words used in emotional Stroop experiments. Emotion, 6, 62-72. Download PDF

  • Yap, M. J., Balota, D. A., Cortese, M. J., & Watson, J. M. (2006).  Single versus dual process models of lexical decision performance: Insights from RT distributional analysis.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32, 1324-1344. Download PDF

2005

  • Balota, D. A., & Yap, M. J. (2005).  Visual Word Recognition.  In K. Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition). 649-654.  Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

  • Duchek, J.M., & Balota, D.A. (2005).   Failure to control prepotent pathways in early stage dementia of the Alzheimer’s type: Evidence from dichotic listening. Neuropsychology, 19, 687-695. Download PDF

  • Gold, B.T., Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., Sergent-Marshall, S.D., Snyder, A.Z., Salat, D.G., et al. (2005).   Differing neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of abnormal reading in early-stage semantic dementia and dementia of the Alzheimer type.   Neuropsychologia, 43, 833-846. Download PDF

  • Gold, B.T., Balota, D.A., Kirchhoff, B.A., & Buckner, R.L. (2005).   Common and dissociable activation patterns associated with controlled semantic and phonological processing: Evidence from fMRI adaptation.   Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1438-1450. Download PDF

  • Hutchison, K.A., & Balota, D.A. (2005).   Decoupling semantic and associative information in false memories: Explorations with semantically ambiguous and unambiguous critical lures.   Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 1-28. Download PDF

  • Marsh, E.J., Balota, D.A., Roediger III, H.L. (2005).   Learning facts from fiction: Effects of healthy aging and early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type.   Neuropsychology, 19, 115-129. Download PDF

2004

  • Balota, D. A., Cortese, M. J., Sergent-Marshall, S., Spieler, D. H., & Yap, M. J. (2004).  Visual word recognition of single-syllable words, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133(2), 283-316. Download PDF

  • Faust, M.E., Balota, D. A., & Multhaup, K. S.  (2004) Phonological blocking during picture naming in dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Neuropsychology, 18(3), 526-536 Download PDF

  • Marsh, E.J., Dolan, P.O., Balota, D.A., & Roediger III, H.L. (2004).   Part-set cuing effects in younger and older adults.   Psychology and Aging, 19, 134-144. Download PDF

  • Watson, J. M., McDermott, K. B., & Balota, D. A.  (2004).  Attempting to avoid false memories in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm: Assessing the combined influence of practice and warnings in young and old adults. Memory & Cognition, 32(1), 135-141.  Download PDF

 2003

  • Cortese, M. J., Balota, D.A., Sergent-Marshall, S., & Buckner, R.L. (2003).  Spelling via semantics and phonology: exploring the effects of age, Alzheimer’s disease, and primary semantic impairment. Neuropsychologia, 41, 952-967. Download PDF 

  • Hutchison, K., Balota, D.A. (2003).  Structure vs. Processing Deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Matter of Degree (A Comment on Storms, Dirikx, Saerens, Verstraeten, & De Devn, 2003). Neuropsychology, 17(2) 306-309, discussion 323-329. Download PDF

  • Johnson, D. K., Storandt, M. & Balota, D.A. (2003).  Discourse analysis of logical memory recall in normal aging and in dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type. Neuropsychologia., 17, 82-92. Download PDF

  • Logan, J.M., & Balota, D.A. (2003).  Conscious and Unconscious Lexical Retrieval Blocking in younger and Older Adults. Psychology & Aging, 18, 537-550. Download PDF

  • •Multhaup, K.S., Balota, D.A., & Faust, M.E. (2003).   Exploring semantic memory by investigating buildup and release of proactive interference in healthy older adults and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type.   Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 830-838. Download PDF

  • Watson, J.M., Balota, D.A., Roediger, H.L. (2003).  Creating False Memories with Hybrid Lists of Semantic and Phonological Associates:  Remembering Words not Presented in Lists. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 95-118.  Download PDF

 

2002

  • Balota, D.A., Burgess, G.C., Cortese, M.J., & Adams, D.R. (2002).  Word-frequency mirror effect in young, old, & early stage Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence for two processes in episodic recognition performance. Journal of Memory & Language, 46, 199-226. Download PDF

2001

  • Balota, D.A, & Faust, M. (2001).  Attention in Dementia of the Alzheimers Type.  In F. Boller & S. Cappa (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, 2ndEdition, Vol. # 6, Elsevier Science, 51-80. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Pilotti, M., & Cortese, M.J. (2001).  Subjective frequency estimates for 2,938 monosyllabic words. Memory & Cognition, 29, 639-647. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., & Wenke, D. (2001).  Ambiguity resolution as a function of reading skill, age, dementia, and Schizophrenia:  The role of attentional control.  In D. Gorfein (Ed.), On the Consequences of Meaning Selection.  Psychology Press, 87-102. Dowload PDF

  • Faust, M.E., Balota, D.A., & Spieler, D.H. (2001).  Building Episodic Connections:  Changes in Episodic Priming with Age and Dementia. Neuropsychology, 15(4), 626-637. Download PDF

  • Morris, J.C., & Balota, D.A. (2001).  Editorial:  Semantic dementia versus Alzheimer’s Disease:  A matter of semantics?  Neurology, 57, 173-174.Download PDF

  • Roskies, A.L., Fiez, J.A., Balota, D.A., Raichle, M.E., & Petersen, S.E. (2001).  Task-dependent modulation of regions in left inferior frontal cortex during semantic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 139(6), 829-843.Download PDF

  • Watson, J.M., Balota, D.A., & Sergent-Marshall, S.D. (2001).  Semantic, phonological, & hybrid veridical & false memories in healthy older adults & in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type. Neuropsychology, 15, 254-267. Download PDF

  • Roediger, H.L., Balota, D.A., & Watson, J.M. (2001).  Spreading activation and the arousal of false memories.  In Roedinger, H.L., Nairne, J.S., Neath, I., & Surprenant, A.M. (Eds.), The Nature of Remembering:  Essays in Honor of Robert G. Crowder, (pp. 95-115).  Washington D.C.:  American Psychological Association Press. Download PDF

2000

  • Balota, D.A. (2000).  Cognition.  In A. Kazdin (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology, Vol. # 2, (pp. 131-132). Oxford University Press. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Dolan, P.O., & Duchek, J.M.  (2000).  Memory changes in healthy young and older adults.  In E. Tulving & F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), Handbook of Memory, (pp. 395-410).  Oxford University Press. Dowload PDF

  • Balota, D.A. & Cortese, M.J. (2000).  Theories in cognitive psychology.  In A. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology,  Vol. # 2, (pp.153-158).  Oxford University Press. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Law, M.B., & Zevin, J.D.  (2000).  The attentional control of lexical processing pathways:  Reversing the word-frequency effect. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1081-1089.Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Watson, J.W. (2000).  Methods in cognitive psychology, in A. Kazdin (Ed.),  Encyclopedia of Psychology, Vol. # 2, (pp.158-162).  Oxford University Press. Download PDF

  • Pilotti, M., Balota, D.A., Sommers, M., & Khurshid, A.  (2000).  Auditory habituation in young and older adults: The verbal transformation effect.  Psychology & Aging, 15, 313-322. Download PDF

  • Spieler, D.H., & Balota, D.A.  (2000).  Factors influencing word naming in younger and older adults.  Psychology and Aging, 15, 225-231. Download PDF

  • Spieler, D.H., Balota, D.A., & Faust, M.E. (2000).  Levels of selective attention revealed through analyses of reaction time distributions. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 26, 506-526. Download PDF

  • Zevin, J.D. & Balota, D.A. (2000). Priming and attentional control of lexical and sublexical pathways during naming.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 121-135. Download PDF

1999

  • Balota, D.A., Cortese, M.J., Duchek, J.M., Adams, D., Roediger, H.L., McDermott, K.B., and Yerys, B.E. (1999).  Veridical and false memory in healthy older adults and in Dementia of the Alzheimers Type. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 361-384. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Watson, J.M., Duchek, J.M., & Ferraro, F.R. (1999).   Cross-modal semantic and homograph priming in healthy young, healthy old, and in Alzheimer’s disease individuals.   Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 5, 626-640. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., Paul, S., & Spieler, D. H.  (1999). Attentional control of lexical processing pathways during word recognition and reading.  In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.), Language Processing, (pp. 15-57).  East Sussex, UK:  Psychology Press Ltd. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., & Spieler, D. H. (1999). Word frequency, repetition, and lexicality effects in word recognition tasks: Beyond measures of central tendency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 32-55. Download PDF

  • Faust, M.E., Balota, D.A., Spieler, D.H., & Ferraro, F.R.  (1999).  Individual differences in information processing rate and amount:  Implications for group differences in response latency.  Psychological Bulletin, 125, 777-799. Download PDF

  • Ferraro, F.R., & Balota, D.A. (1999).   Memory scanning performance in healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type.   Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 6, 260-272. Download PDF

  • Fiez, J. A., Balota, D. A., Raichle, M. E., & Petersen, S. E. (1999).  Effects of lexicality, frequency, & spelling-to-sound consistency on the functional anatomy of reading. Neuron, 24, 205-218. Download PDF

1998

  • Balota, D. A. & Spieler, D. H. (1998) The utility of item-level analysis in model evaluation: A reply to Seidenberg and Plaut. Psychological Science, 9, 238-241. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J.M., Balota, D.A., & Thessing, V.C.  (1998).  Inhibition of visual and conceptual information during reading in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s Disease.  Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 5, 169-181. Download PDF

  • Kanne, S. M., Balota, D. A., Spieler, D. H., & Faust, M. E. (1998) Explorations of the Cohen, Dunbar, and McClelland (1990, Psychological Review) Connectionist model of StroopTask. Psychological Review, 105, 174-187. Download PDF

  • Kanne, S.M., Balota, D. A., McKeel, D., Storandt, M., & Morris, J. (1998). Relating anatomy to function in Alzheimer’s disease: Neuropsychological profiles predict regional neuropathology five years later. American Academy of Neurology, 50, 979-985. Download PDF

1997

  • Balota, D. A., & Black, S. (1997). Semantic satiation in healthy young and older adults. Memory and Cognition, 25, 190-202. Dowload PDF

  • Faust, M. E., Balota, D. A., Duchek, J. M., Gernsbacher, M. A., & Smith, S. (1997). Inhibitory control during sentence comprehension in individuals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type. Brain and Language, 57, 225-253. Download PDF

  • Faust, M. E., & Balota, D. A. (1997). Inhibition of return and visual-spatial attention in healthy older adults and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Neuropsychology, 11, 13-29. Download PDF

  • Multhaup, K. S., & Balota, D. A. (1997). Generation effects and source memory in healthy older adults and in individuals with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type. Neuropsychology, 11, 382-391. Download PDF

  • Spieler D. H., & Balota, D. A. (1997). Bringing computational models of word naming down to the item level. Psychological Science, 8, 411-416. Download PDF

 

 1996

  • Balota, D. A., & Ferraro, F. R. (1996). Lexical, sublexical, and implicit memory processes in healthy young, healthy older adults, and in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Neuropsychology, 10, 82-95. Download PDF

  • Balota, D. A., & Paul, S. T. (1996). Summation of activation: Evidence from multiple primes that converge and diverge within semantic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 827-845. Download PDF

  • Fiez, J. A., Raichle, M. E., Balota, D. A., Tallal, P., & Petersen, S. E. (1996). PET activation of posterior temporal regions during auditory word presentation and verb generation. Cerebral Cortex, 6, 1-10. Download PDF

  • Fiez, J. A., Raife, E. A., Balota, D. A., Schwartz, J. P., Raichle, M. E., & Petersen, S. E. (1996). A positron emission tomography study of the short-term maintenance of verbal information. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 808-822. Download PDF

  • Multhaup, K. S., & Balota, D. A., & Cowan, N. (1996). Implications of aging, lexicality, and item length for the mechanisms underlying memory span. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 112-120. Download PDF

  • Spieler, D. H., & Balota, D. A. (1996). Characteristics of associative learning in younger and older adults: Evidence from an episodic priming paradigm. Psychology & Aging, 11, 607-620. Download PDF

  • Spieler, D. H., Balota, D. A., & Faust, M. E. (1996). Stroop performance in healthy younger and older adults and in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 461-479. Download PDF

1995

  • Balota, D. A., & Abrams, R. A. (1995). Mental chronometry: Beyond onset latencies in the lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1289-1302. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J. M., Balota, D. A., Faust, M. E., & Ferraro, F. R. (1995). Inhibitory processes in young and old adults in a picture-word task. Aging and Cognition, 2, 1-11. Download PDF

  • Sullivan, M. P., Faust, M. E., & Balota, D. A. (1995). Identity negative priming in older adults and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Neuropsychology, 9, 537-555. Download PDF

 1994

  • Balota, D. A. (1994). Visual word recognition: The journey from features to meaning.  M. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Academic Press, 303-358. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J. M., Balota, D. A., & Ferraro, F. R. (1994) Component analysis of a rhythmic finger tapping task in individuals with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type and in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 8, 218-226. Download PDF 

  • Verdolini-Marston, K., & Balota, D. A. (1994). Role of elaborative and perceptual integrative processes in perceptual-motor performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 739-749. Download PDF

 1993

  • Balota, D. A., & Ferraro, F. R. (1993). A dissociation of frequency and regularity effects in pronunciation performance across young adults, older adults, and individuals with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 573-592. Download PDF

  • Duchek, J. M. & Balota, D. A. (1993). Sparing activation processes in older adults.  In J. Cerella, J. Rybash, W. Hoyer, & M.L. Commons (Eds), Adult Information Processing:  Limits on Loss, Academic Press, Inc., 384-403. Download PDF

  • Ferraro, F. R., Balota, D. A., & Connor, L. T. (1993). Implicit memory and the formation of new associations in nondemented Parkinson’s disease individuals and individuals with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type: A serial reaction time (SRT) investigation. Brain and Cognition, 21, 163-180. Download PDF

 1992

  • Balota, D. A., Black, S. R., & Cheney, M. (1992). Automatic and attentional priming in young and older adults: A reevaluation of the two process model of semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 485-502. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M.  (1992).  Age-related changes in spreading activation:  Implications for connectionist models of cognitive aging.  In J. E. Morley, R. M. Coe, R. Strong, and G.T. Grossberg (Eds).  Memory Functions in Aging and Aging-Related Disorders, Springer Publishing Company, 75 – 96. Download PDF

  • Connor, L. T., Balota, D. A., & Neely, J. H. (1992). On the relation between feeling of knowing and lexical decision: Persistant subthreshold activation or topic familiarity? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 544-554. Download PDF

  • LaBarge, E. Balota, D. A., Storandt, M., & Smith, D. S. (1992). An analysis of confrontation naming errors in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychology, 6, 77-95. Download PDF

 1991

  • Abrams, R.A., & Balota, D.A.  (1991).  Mental chronometry:  Beyond reaction time.  Psychological Science, 2, 153-157. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M.  (1991).  Semantic priming effects, lexical repetition effects, and contextual disambiguation effects in healthy aged individuals and individuals with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Brain and Language, 40, 181-201. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Ferraro, R.F., & Connor, L.T.  (1991).  On the early influence of meaning in word recognition:  A review of the literature.  I  P. Schwanenflugel (Ed.), The Psychology of Word Meaning (pp 187-222). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Rayner, K.  (1991).  Word recognition processes in foveal and parafoveal vision.  In D. Besner & G. Humphreys (Eds.), Basic Processes in Reading:  Visual Word Recognition.  (pp 198-232). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. Download PDF

  • Shields, L. W., & Balota, D.A.  (1991).  Repetition and associative context effects in speech production.  Language and Speech, 34, 47-55. Download PDF

1990

  • Balota, D.A.  (1990).  The role of meaning in word recognition.  In D.A. Balota, G. Flores D’Arcais, & K. Rayner (Eds.), Comprehension Processes in Reading. (pp. 9-32) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Chumbley, J.I.  (1990).  Where are the effects of frequency in visual word recognition tasks?  Right where we said they were!  Comment on S. Monsell, M.C. Doyle, and P.N. Haggard (1989). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 119, 231-237. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Cowan, N., Engle, R.W.  (1990).  Suffix interference in the recall of linguistically coherent speech.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 16, 446-456. Download PDF

1989

  • Balota, D.A., Boland, J., & Shields, L.  (1989).  Priming in pronunciation:  Beyond pattern recognition and onset latency.  Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 14-36. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M.  (1989).  Spreading activation in episodic memory:  Further evidence for age-independence.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 849-876. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Paullin, R.  (1989).  Age-related differences in the impact of spacing, lag and retention interval.  Psychology and Aging, 4, 3-9. Download PDF

  • Rayner, K., & Balota, D.A.  (1989).  Parafoveal preview effects and lexical access during eye fixations in reading.  In W. Marslen-Wilson (Ed.), Lexical representation and process (pp. 261-290). MIT press. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Duchek, J.M., & Paullin, R.  (1989).  Age-related differences in the impact of spacing, lag and retention interval.  Psychology and Aging, 4, 3-9. Download PDF

1988

  • Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M.  (1988).  Age related differences in lexical access, spreading activation, and simple pronunciation.  Psychology and Aging, 3, 84-93. Download PDF

1986

  • Balota, D.A., & Duchek, J.M.  (1986).  Voice-specific information and the 20-second delayed-suffix effect.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory & Cognition, 12, 509-516. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Lorch, R.F., Jr.  (1986).  Depth of automatic spreading activation:  Mediated priming effects in pronunciation but not in lexical decision.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory and Cognition, 12, 336-345. Download PDF

  • Lorch, R.F., Jr., Balota, D.A., & Stamm, E.G.  (1986).  Locus of inhibition effects in the priming of lexical decisions:  Pre- or post-lexical access?  Memory & Cognition, 14, 95-103. Download PDF

  • Pollatsek, A., Rayner, K., & Balota, D.A.  (1986).  Inferences about eye-movement control from the perceptual span in reading.  Perception and Psychophysics, 40, 123-130. Download PDF
  • Rayner, K., Balota, D.A., & Pollatsek, A.  (1986).  Against parafoveal semantic preprocessing during eye fixations in reading.  Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473-483. Download PDF

1985

  • Balota, D.A., & Chumbley, J.I.  (1985).  The locus of word-frequency effects in the pronunciation task:  Access and/or production? Journal of Memory and Language, 24, 89-106. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., Pollatsek, S., & Rayner, K.  (1985).  The interaction of contextual constraints and parafoveal visual information in reading. Cognitive Psychology, 17, 364-390. Download PDF

1984

  • Balota, D.A., & Chumbley, J.I.  (1984).  Are lexical decisions a good measure of lexical access?  The role of the neglected decision stage.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 3, 340-357. Download PDF

  • Chumbley, J.I., & Balota, D.A.  (1984).  A word’s meaning affects the decision in lexical decision.  Memory & Cognition, 12, 590-606. Download PDF

  • Myers, J.L., O’Brien, E.J., Balota, D.A., & Toyofuku, M.L.  (1984).  Memory search without interference:  The role of integration.  Cognitive Psychology, 16, 217-242. Download PDF

1983

  • Balota, D.A.  (1983).  Automatic semantic activation and episodic memory encoding.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 88-104. Download PDF

  • Balota, D.A., & Rayner, K.  (1983).  Parafoveal visual information and semantic contextual constraints.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 9, 726-738. Download PDF 

1981

  • Balota, D.A., & Engle, R.W.  (1981).  Structural and strategic factors in the stimulus suffix effect.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 346-357. Download PDF

  • Neely, J.H., & Balota, D.A.  (1981).  Test-expectancy and semantic organization effects in recall and recognition.  Memory & Cognition, 9, 283-300. Download PDF

1980

  • Balota, D.A., & Neely, J.H.  (1980).  Test-expectancy and word-frequency effects in recall and recognition.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:Human Learning and Memory, 6, 576-587. Download PDF

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