Derek Besner

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PhD Cognitive Psychology Stanford University
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Basic processes in reading : visual word recognition (1993) (950)
Reading pseudohomophones: Implications for models of pronunciation assembly and the locus of word-frequency effects in naming. (1987) (272)
The Stroop effect: why proportion congruent has nothing to do with congruency and everything to do with contingency. (2008) (268)
The stroop effect and the myth of automaticity (1997) (264)
A Resource-Control Account of Sustained Attention (2015) (244)
On the association between connectionism and data: Are a few words necessary? (1990) (236)
Ideographic and alphabetic processing in skilled reading of English (1979) (234)
Visual Word Recognition: Evidence for Strategic Control of Lexical and Nonlexical Routines in Oral Reading (1991) (231)
Phonological Encoding in the Lexical Decision Task (1979) (215)
Visual word recognition: a multistage activation model. (1993) (207)
Phonological recoding and lexical access (1978) (200)
Reading for Meaning: The Effects of Concurrent Articulation* (1981) (174)
Event perception and the word repetition effect (1988) (165)
Item-specific adaptation and the conflict-monitoring hypothesis: a computational model. (2007) (159)
Phonology, Lexical Access in Reading, and Articulatory Suppression: A Critical Review (1987) (155)
Contingency learning without awareness: Evidence for implicit control (2007) (154)
Basic processes in reading: Two phonological codes. (1982) (141)
Models of visual word recognition: When obscuring the stimulus yields a clearer view. (1992) (135)
Reading aloud is not automatic: processing capacity is required to generate a phonological code from print. (2006) (122)
Beyond the articulatory loop: A semantic contribution to serial order recall of subspan lists (1994) (115)
Word frequency and pattern distortion in visual word identification and production: An examination of four classes of models. (1987) (115)
Role of set in visual word recognition: Activation and activation blocking as nonautomatic processes. (1996) (110)
On the link between mind wandering and task performance over time (2014) (106)
Basic decoding components in reading: Two dissociable feature extraction processes. (1983) (104)
Word recognition and identification: Do word-frequency effects reflect lexical access? (1988) (104)
What kind of attention modulates the Stroop effect? (1999) (102)
Priming effects that span an intervening unrelated word: implications for models of memory representation and retrieval. (1992) (96)
On the additive effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decision: evidence for opposing interactive influences revealed by RT distributional analyses. (2008) (95)
Orthographic and phonological codes in the oral reading of Japanese Kana. (1987) (93)
Basic processes in reading: computation of abstract letter identities. (1984) (88)
The myth of ballistic processing: Evidence from Stroop’s paradigm (2001) (87)
On the Myth of Automatic Semantic Activation in Reading (1999) (81)
Is the right hemisphere literate (1984) (81)
On the locus of the word frequency effect in visual word recognition (1997) (77)
When banking on meaning is not (yet) money in the bank: Explorations in connectionist modeling. (1994) (76)
Unconsciously controlled processing: the stroop effect reconsidered (1999) (73)
Levels of representation in visual word recognition: a dissociation between morphological and semantic processing. (1998) (73)
Suedohomofoan effects in visual word recognition: evidence for phonological processing. (1983) (70)
Basic processes in reading : is the orthographic depth hypothesis sinking ? (1992) (70)
Implications of measures of reliability for theories of priming: Activity in semantic memory is inherently noisy and uncoordinated (2005) (68)
This and THAP — Constraints on the Pronunciation of New, Written Words (1981) (65)
A critical examination of the evidence for sensitivity loss in modern vigilance tasks. (2015) (64)
In pursuit of off-task thought: mind wandering-performance trade-offs while reading aloud and color naming (2013) (64)
New Limits to Automaticity: Context Modulates Semantic Priming (1994) (59)
Neighborhood effects in reading aloud: new findings and new challenges for computational models. (2006) (59)
Spatial attention as a necessary preliminary to early processes in reading. (2005) (58)
Models of Lexical Access in Visual Word Recognition (1982) (58)
Visual word recognition: A dissociation of lexical and semantic processing. (1990) (57)
Parallel distributed processing and lexical-semantic effects in visual word recognition: are a few stages necessary? (2006) (57)
Contingency learning and unlearning in the blink of an eye: A resource dependent process (2010) (57)
Reading aloud: qualitative differences in the relation between stimulus quality and word frequency as a function of context. (2008) (55)
Semantic priming in visual word recognition: Activation blocking and domains of processing (1996) (52)
Single letter coloring and spatial cuing eliminates a semantic contribution to the Stroop effect (2004) (52)
Filling a gap in the semantic gradient: Color associates and response set effects in the Stroop task (2006) (50)
Neighbourhood density, word frequency, and spelling-sound regularity effects in naming: similarities and differences between skilled readers and the Dual Route Cascaded Computational model. (2004) (50)
On a variant of Stroop’s paradigm: Which cognitions press your buttons? (2001) (48)
Processing in the stroop task : Mental set as a determinant of performance (1997) (47)
Visual word recognition across orthographies: On the interaction between context and degradation. (1991) (44)
Short Article: Tracking the Transition from Sublexical to Lexical Processing: On the Creation of Orthographic and Phonological Lexical Representations (2009) (44)
Mental size scaling examined (1976) (43)
Basic processes in reading: Is visual word recognition obligatory? (2005) (43)
When parallel processing in visual word recognition is not enough: New evidence from naming (2003) (42)
On the control of visual word recognition: Changing routes versus changing deadlines (2004) (42)
Qualitative differences between the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in reading aloud and lexical decision: extensions to Yap and Balota (2007). (2007) (42)
Reading Aloud: Evidence for the Use of a Whole Word Nonsemantic Pathway (1993) (41)
Basic processes in reading: A critical review of pseudohomophone effects in reading aloud and a new computational account (2005) (41)
On the Role of Outline Shape and Word-Specific Visual Pattern in the Identification of Function Words: None (1989) (40)
Additivity and interaction between size ratio and response category in the comparison of size-discrepant shapes. (1987) (40)
The assembly of phonology in oral reading: A new model. (1987) (40)
When do nonwords activate semantics? Implications for models of visual word recognition (1998) (40)
Stroop dilution revisited: evidence for domain-specific, limited-capacity processing. (2005) (37)
Basic processes in reading: Spatial attention as a necessary preliminary to orthographic and semantic processing (2011) (37)
Reverse stroop effects with untranslated responses. (2006) (36)
Ideogram reading and right hemisphere language (1982) (36)
The process of lexical decision: More words about a parallel distributed processing model. (1992) (34)
Reading nonwords aloud: Results requiring change in the dual route cascaded model (2003) (34)
On the asymmetric effects of mind-wandering on levels of processing at encoding and retrieval (2014) (33)
Semantic priming: On the role of awareness in visual word recognition in the absence of an expectancy (2002) (33)
Not all visual features are created equal: early processing in letter and word recognition (2009) (32)
Simon says: Reliability and the role of working memory and attentional control in the Simon task (2007) (31)
The cross-script length effect: further evidence challenging PDP models of reading aloud. (2009) (30)
Reading aloud: spelling-sound translation uses central attention. (2008) (30)
Basic processes in reading: semantics affects speeded naming of high-frequency words in an alphabetic script. (2001) (29)
When underadditivity of factor effects in the Psychological Refractory Period paradigm implies a bottleneck: Evidence from psycholinguistics (2009) (29)
Contextual control over lexical and sublexical routines when reading English aloud (2005) (29)
Visual Pattern Recognition: Size Preprocessing Re-Examined (1983) (28)
A paradigm for exploring what the mind does while deciding what it should do. (2003) (28)
Modulating semantic feedback in visual word recognition (2001) (28)
On the dominance of whole-word knowledge in reading aloud (2001) (28)
Word Identification: Imageability, Semantics, and the Content-Functor Distinction (1988) (28)
Semantic processing in visual word recognition: Activation blocking and domain specificity (2001) (27)
The First Letter Position Effect in Visual Word Recognition: The Role of Spatial Attention (2017) (27)
On the relationship between orthographies and phonologies in visual word recognition. (1987) (27)
Automaticity revisited: when print doesn't activate semantics (2015) (26)
Context dependency in Stroop's paradigm: when are words treated as nonlinguistic objects? (1999) (25)
Neighbourhood density effects in reading aloud: new insights from simulations with the DRC model. (2002) (25)
Wrestling with ambiguity--further reflections: Reply to Masson and Borowsky (1995) and Rueckl (1995). (1995) (24)
Contextual effects on reading aloud: evidence for pathway control. (2008) (23)
Constraints on computational models of basic processes in reading. (2008) (23)
A reverse Stroop effect without translation or reading difficulty (2007) (23)
Nonstrategic contributions to putatively strategic effects in selective attention tasks. (2008) (23)
Reducing the vigilance decrement: The effects of perceptual variability (2015) (22)
Basic processes in reading: the effect of interletter spacing. (2011) (21)
Visual word recognition : Effort after meaning but not (necessarily) meaning after effort (1997) (21)
Dissociative effects of stimulus quality on semantic and morphological contexts in visual word recognition. (2006) (20)
On the joint effects of stimulus quality, regularity, and lexicality when reading aloud: new challenges. (2010) (20)
The mind's eye and the comparative judgement of number (1979) (19)
Varieties of Attention (2016) (18)
Reading aloud: evidence for contextual control over lexical activation. (2009) (17)
On the role of set when reading aloud: A dissociation between prelexical and lexical processing (2009) (17)
Same-different judgments with words and nonwords: The differential effects of relative size (1975) (17)
On the interaction between linguistic and pictorial systems in the absence of semantic mediation: Evidence from a priming paradigm (2000) (17)
Unintentional Reading: Can Phonological Computation Be Controlled? (1998) (16)
The semantic Stroop effect: An ex-Gaussian analysis (2016) (16)
Spatial attention modulates feature crosstalk in visual word processing (2010) (16)
Orthography, phonology, short-term memory and the effects of concurrent articulation on rhyme and homophony judgements. (2011) (16)
Basic processes in reading: On the development of cross-case letter matching without reference to phonology (1987) (15)
Congruency proportion reveals asymmetric processing of irrelevant physical and numerical dimensions in the size congruity paradigm. (2011) (15)
Covert orienting: A compound-cue account of the proportion cued effect (2008) (15)
Postscript: Plaut and Booth's (2006) New Simulations--What Have We Learned?. (2006) (15)
Stimulus-response compatible orienting and the effect of an action not taken: Perception delayed is automaticity denied (2005) (15)
The more your mind wanders, the smaller your attentional blink: An individual differences study (2015) (14)
You can't Stroop a lexical decision: is semantic processing fundamentally facilitative? (2013) (13)
Reading from the left: A reply to Rabinowicz and Moscovitch and to Zaidel and Schweiger (1984) (13)
Reading aloud: when the effect of stimulus quality distinguishes between cascaded and thresholded components. (2007) (12)
Lexical access codes in visual word recognition: are the joint effects of context and stimulus quality diagnostic? (2000) (12)
Deep dyslexia and the right hemisphere hypothesis: evidence from the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. (1983) (12)
Reading Single Words Aloud With Monocular Presentation: The Effect of Word Frequency (2018) (11)
Visual word recognition: On the reliability of repetition priming (2010) (11)
Basic processes in reading: On the relation between spatial attention and familiarity (2011) (11)
Reading aloud: New evidence for contextual control over the breadth of lexical activation (2011) (10)
Same-different judgments with words and nonwords: A word superiority/inferiority effect (1975) (10)
Additivity of factor effects in reading tasks is still a challenge for computational models: Reply to Ziegler, Perry, and Zorzi (2009). (2009) (10)
Conflict resolved: On the role of spatial attention in reading and color naming tasks (2015) (10)
The locus of serial processing in reading aloud: orthography-to-phonology computation or speech planning? (2015) (9)
On the Strength of Connections Between Localist Mental Modules as a Source of Frequency-of-Occurrence Effects (2011) (9)
Thinking outside the box when reading aloud: Between (localist) module connection strength as a source of word frequency effects. (2016) (9)
Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect? (2020) (8)
Visual word recognition: evidence for global and local control over semantic feedback. (2010) (8)
Specialized processors subserving visual word recognition: evidence for local control (1984) (8)
A role for set in the control of automatic spatial response activation. (2008) (8)
Visual word identification: Special-purpose mechanisms for the identification of open and closed class items? (1988) (8)
The ties that keep us bound: Top-down influences on the persistence of shape-from-motion (2006) (8)
A role for set when naming Arabic numerals: How intentionality limits (putatively automatic) performance (2005) (8)
There goes the neighbourhood: Contextual control over the breadth of lexical activation when reading aloud (2011) (7)
Basic processes in reading: can functional phonological recoding be blocked? (2006) (6)
When benefits outweigh costs: reconsidering "automatic" phonological recoding when reading aloud. (2011) (6)
When are morphemic and semantic priming observed in visual word recognition? (2002) (6)
Logographic reading: is the right hemisphere special? (1986) (6)
On the joint effects of repetition and stimulus quality in lexical decision: Looking to the past for a new way forward (2011) (6)
Evidence against early selection: stimulus quality effects in previewed displays. (1994) (5)
Attentional constraints on semantic activation: Evidence from Stroop's paradigm. (2016) (5)
Is eye gaze direction always determined without intent? (2014) (5)
Reading aloud: does previous trial history modulate the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency? (2013) (5)
Semantics at a glance: is the right hemisphere special? (1994) (5)
Basic Processes in Reading Aloud and Colour Naming: Towards a Better Understanding of the Role of Spatial Attention (2014) (5)
Character classification: Levels of processing and the effects of stimulus probability (1977) (5)
Reading Nonwords Aloud: Evidence for dynamic control in skilled readers (2012) (5)
Lexical processing while deciding what task to perform: Reading aloud in the context of the task set paradigm (2011) (5)
Deep dyslexia and the right-hemisphere hypothesis: What’s left? (1981) (5)
Orthographies and their phonologies: A hypothesis (1990) (5)
Control over the strength of connections between modules: a double dissociation between stimulus format and task revealed by Granger causality mapping in fMRI (2015) (4)
When the visual format of the color carrier word does and does not modulate the Stroop effect (2005) (4)
Reading aloud and the question of intent (2012) (4)
WHEN IS A DIRECT TEST OF MEMORY MORE SENSITIVE THAN AN INDIRECT TEST (1996) (4)
Rolling the dice: A comment on Klein and McInnes “visual field differences in the processing of numerical stimuli” (1988) (3)
Repetition effects in iconic and verbal short-term memory (1974) (3)
In sight but out of mind: Do competing views test the limits of perception without awareness? (2004) (3)
Imageability and frequency effects on visual word recognition: evidence from a transparent orthography. (1997) (3)
Wholistic Reading of Alphabetic Print: Evidence from the FDM and the FBI (2017) (3)
Is semantic activation from print capacity limited? Evidence from the psychological refractory period paradigm (2017) (3)
Do eyes and arrows elicit automatic orienting? Three mutually exclusive hypotheses and a test (2021) (2)
How closely is the syllable stress effect tied to articulation? A commentary on Sulpizio, Spinelli, and Burani (2015). (2016) (1)
A critical test of the changing routes versus changing deadlines debate in print to sound translation. (2000) (1)
Evaluation of real-life use of Point-Of-Care Rapid Antigen TEsting for SARS-CoV-2 in schools for outbreak control (EPOCRATES) (2021) (1)
Reading Aloud: On the Determinants of the Joint Effects of Stimulus Quality and Word Frequency (2017) (1)
Visual Word Recognition: Control over Interactive Activation (2007) (1)
Ansorge, Ulrich, 528 Arnel Trevena, Judy, 162, 308 (2002) (0)
Reading aloud: interactive activation reconsidered (2013) (0)
Contingency Learning 1 Running head: CONTINGENCY LEARNING AND RESPONSE PRE DICTION The Stroop Effect: Why Proportion Congruent has Not hing to do with Congruency and Everything to do with Con tingency (2012) (0)
Attentional control: It is not where you think (2008) (0)
The semantic Stroop effect: An ex-Gaussian analysis (2016) (0)
Reading Aloud: Discrete Stage(s) Redux (2017) (0)
Is eye gaze direction always determined without intent? (2014) (0)
Conflict resolved: On the role of spatial attention in reading and color naming tasks (2015) (0)
"Reading Aloud: Evidence for the Use of a Whole Word Nonsemantic Pathway": Erratum. (1994) (0)
Is semantic activation from print capacity limited? Evidence from the psychological refractory period paradigm (2016) (0)
A Content Addressable Model of Recognition Memory: How well do Existing Data Fit? a Reply to Baddeley and Ecob (1975) (0)
Erratum (2012) (0)
Reading Aloud : Discrete Stage ( s ) (2017) (0)
On the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decision: Conditions that promote staged versus cascaded processing. (2022) (0)
Reaction time analysis of size, color and form invariance in visual perception (1973) (0)
Semantic Processing in the Context of the PRP Paradigm: Structurally or Strategically Bottlenecked? (2015) (0)
Reaction time and error rates in the effect of stimulus probability on character classification: Addendum (1978) (0)
Intention and performance when reading aloud: Context is everything (2021) (0)
Devriese, Stephan, 439 Dietrich, Arne, 746 Doan, Tieu, 501 Dryden, Donald, 254 (2004) (0)
Corrigendum: Reading Single Words Aloud With Monocular Presentation: The Effect of Word Frequency (2018) (0)
Jonathan Smallwood, Marc Obonsawin, and Derek Heim. Task Unrelated Thought: The Role of (2002) (0)
Visual word recognition: Attention, intention, context, and processing dynamics. (2022) (0)
Book Review: Psychological Process in Pattern Recognition (1975) (0)
On the asymmetric effects of mind-wandering on levels of processing at encoding and retrieval (2014) (0)
Cosmelli, Diego, 623 Costantini, Marcello, 229 Cressman, Erin K., 265 (2007) (0)
Non-Strategic Contributions to Putatively Strategic Effects in Selective Attention Tasks: Proportion Compatible Manipulations Reconsidered (2007) (0)
Reading Nonwords Aloud: Evidence for dynamic control in skilled readers (2012) (0)
On the determination of eye gaze and arrow direction: Automaticity reconsidered. (2021) (0)
Larry Cahill, Lukasz Gorski, Annabelle Belcher, and Quyen Huynh. The influence of sex versus sex-related traits on long-term (2004) (0)

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