Dr. Jeonghwa Cho successfully defended her dissertation on April 16th, titled Cross-linguistic Representation and Processing of Words,
Grammatical features, and Sentences. The committee was Julie Boland, Jonathan Brennan (chair), Shota Momma from UMass, and Savi Namboodiripad.
Shortly after the defense, Jeonghwa was on the road giving talks at the Central European University in Vienna, then on to HSP2024, LABPHON and COGSCI to share the latest on three different projects.
She also saw the publication of two new papers. First, in the proceedings of COGSCI2024 Jeonghwa reports the latest on neural decoding of lexical categories and grammatical features, both within and between languages:
Cho, J., & Brennan, J. R. (2024). Neural decoding of words and morphosyntactic features within and across languages. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46(0). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kb0m2zf
Second, just out in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, Jeonghwa reports the best-to-date estimates of the effect size for masked priming of lexical roots and grammatical affixes. These estimates come from a new experiment along with a meta-analysis drawing from over 70 experiments:
Cho, J., Pires, A., & Brennan, J. R. (n.d.). How large are root and affix priming effects in visual word recognition? Estimation from original data and a Bayesian meta-analysis. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 0(0), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2384051