Publications

1992
Frost, R., & Lima.S.,. (1992). Orthography and Phonology: The Psychological Reality of Orthographic Depth. In M. Noonan & P. Downing (Ed.), The Linguistics of Literacy (pp. 255 - 274) . Benjamins. Publisher's Version
Frost, R., & Katz, L. (1992). Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, and Meaning. In R. Frost & L. Katz (Ed.), Advances in Psychology. . Elsevier. Publisher's Version
Frost, R., & Bentin, S. (1992). Processing phonological and semantic ambiguity: evidence from semantic priming at different SOAs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition , 18 (1), 58-68. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Disambiguation of heterophonic and homophonic homographs was investigated in Hebrew using semantic priming. Ambiguous primes were followed by unambiguous targets at 100 ms, 250 ms, and 750 ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA). Lexical decision for targets related to the dominant phonological alternatives of heterophonic homographs were facilitated at all SOAs. Targets related to subordinate alternatives were facilitated only at SOAs of 250 ms or longer. When the primes were homophonic homographs, semantic relationship facilitated lexical decision to targets at all SOAs regardless of the dominance of the meaning to which the targets were related. These data can be accounted for by assuming multiple lexical entries for heterophonic homographs, single lexical entries for homophonic homographs, and phonological mediation of accessing meanings. Language-specific factors probably account for the long-lasting activation of subordinate meanings.

Frost, R., & Dentin, S. (1992). Reading Consonants and Guessing Vowels: Visual Word Recognition in Hebrew Orthography. In R. Frost & L. Katz (Ed.), Orthography, phonology, Morphology and meaninig in Advances in Psychology (pp. 27-44) . Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Elsevier. Publisher's Version
1990
Frost, R., & Bentin, S. (1990). Processes of visual word perception in the Hebrew orthography (In Hebrew). In K. Binyaminy, A. Dolev, E. Cohen, M. Amir, & M. Schlesinger, I. (Ed.), Theories and Application in Psychology (In Hebrew) . Jerusalem, Magnes.
Frost, R. (1990). Orthographies and word perception. Psychologia , 1 4-11.
Frost, R., Feldman, L., B., & Katz, L. (1990). Phonological ambiguity and lexical ambiguity: effects of visual and auditory word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition , 16 (4), 569-580. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Three experiments in Serbo-Croatian were conducted on the effects of phonological ambiguity and lexical ambiguity on printed word recognition. subjects decided rapidly if a printed and a spoken word matched or not. Printed words were either phonologically ambiguous (two possible propronunciations) or unambiguous. IF phonologically ambiguous, either both pronunciations were real words or only one was, the other being a nonword. Spoken words were necessarily unambiguous. Half the spoken words were auditorily degraded. In addition, the relative onsets of speech andprint were varied. speed of matching print to speech was slowed by phonological ambiguity, and the effect was amplified when the stimulus was also lexically ambiguous. Auditory degradation did not interact with print ambiguity, suggesting that perception of the spoken word was independent of the printed word.

1988
Frost, R., Repp, B. H., & Katz, L. (1988). Can speech perception be influenced by simultaneous presentation of print? Journal of Memory and Language , 27 (6), 741-755. Publisher's Version
Goldblum, N., & Frost, R. (1988). The crossword puzzle paradigm: The effectiveness of different word fragments as cues for the retrieval of words. Memory & Cognition , 16 (2), 158-167. Publisher's Version
Repp, B., H., & Frost, R. (1988). Detectability of Words and Nonwords in Two Kinds of Noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 84 (5), 1929 - 1931. Publisher's Version
1987
Bentin, S., & Frost, R. (1987). Processing lexical ambiguity and visual word recognition in a deep orthography. Memory & Cognition , 15 (1), 13-23. Publisher's Version
Frost, R., Katz, L., & Bentin, S. (1987). Strategies for Visual Word Recognition and Orthographical Depth: A Multilingual Comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 13 (1), 104-115. Publisher's Version
Published
Elkana, O., Frost, R., Ben-Bashat, D., & Schweiger, A. (Published). Cerebral language reorganization in the chronic stage of recovery: A longitudinal fMRI study. CORTEX , 49 (1), 71 - 81. Publisher's VersionAbstract
The goal of the present study was to investigate whether spontaneous functional recovery following insult to the language-dominant hemisphere continues in the so-called "chronic stage," and if so, to examine its neuro-functional correlates. We used a longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) block design, where each young patient served as his/her own control. Specifically, we examined whether language functions differed significantly in two monitoring sessions conducted years apart, both in the chronic stage, where almost no functional changes are expected. We focused on a unique cohort of young brain damaged patients with aphasiogenic lesions occurring after normal language acquisition, in order to maximize the potential of plasticity for language reorganization following brain damage. The most striking finding was that the linguistic recovery of our patients was significant not just relative to their linguistic scores on initial testing (T1), but also in absolute te
Carreiras, M., and,, Frost, R., Grainger, J., & Carreiras, M. (Published). Advances in morphological processing: An introduction. LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES , 23 (7-8), 933 - 941. Publisher's Version

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