Developing a cross-linguistic naming test has represented a challenge in language evaluation. In this paper, it is proposed that a cross-linguistic naming test should fulfill at least the following three criteria: (1) include only "universal" words found across different languages. The basic cross-linguistic core vocabulary is usually referred as the "Swadesh word list"; (2) include different s...

ERPs were acquired in the test phases of two memory tasks where three classes of word were presented: (i) words encountered in a study phase (studied words), (ii) words presented at test for the first time (new words), and (iii) new words repeated after a lag of 7-9 words (repeated test words). In Experiment 1, participants responded on one key to studied words (targets) and on a second to repe...

We examined the contributions of decision processes to the rejection of false memories. In two experiments, people studied lists of semantically related words and then completed a recognition test containing studied words, unrelated lure words, and related lure words. People who said words aloud at study were less likely to falsely recognize related lures on the test than were those who heard w...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were acquired during separate test phases of a verbal recognition memory exclusion task in order to contribute to current understanding of the functional significance of differences between ERPs elicited by new (unstudied) test words, which are assumed to index processes engaged in pursuit of task-relevant information. Participants were asked to endorse old words...

In this article, we present a test environment for a word analysis system that is used for reliable and sense-conveying hyphenation of German words. A crucial task is the hyphenation of compound words, a huge set of those can readily be formed from existing words. Due to this fact, testing and checking all existing words for correct hyphenation is infeasible. Therefore we have developed special...