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Papers by Dusica Filipovic Durdevic

Psychological Review, Jul 1, 2011

A two-layer symbolic network model based on the equilibrium equations of the Rescorla-Wagner mode... more A two-layer symbolic network model based on the equilibrium equations of the Rescorla-Wagner model (Danks, 2003) is proposed. The study starts by presenting two experiments in Serbian, which reveal for sentential reading the inflectional paradigmatic effects previously observed by Milin, Filipović Durdević, and Moscoso del Prado Martín (2009) for unprimed lexical decision. The empirical results are successfully modeled without having to assume separate representations for inflections or data structures such as inflectional paradigms. In the next step, the same naive discriminative learning approach is pitted against a wide range of effects documented in the morphological processing literature. Frequency effects for complex words as well as for phrases (Arnon & Snider, 2010) emerge in the model without the presence of whole-word or whole-phrase representations. Family size effects (Schreuder & Baayen, 1997; Moscoso del Prado Martín, Bertram, Häikiö, Schreuder, & Baayen, 2004) emerge in the simulations across simple words, derived words, and compounds, without derived words or compounds being represented as such. It is shown that for pseudo-derived words no special morpho-orthographic segmentation mechanism as posited by Rastle, Davis, and New (2004) is required. The model also replicates the finding of Plag and Baayen (2009), that, on average, words with more productive affixes elicit longer response latencies, while at the same time predicting that productive affixes afford faster response latencies for new words. English phrasal paradigmatic effects modulating isolated word reading are reported and modelled, showing that the paradigmatic effects characterizing Serbian case inflection have cross-linguistic scope.

Primenjena psihologija, Oct 1, 2019

Primenjena psihologija, Sep 18, 2017

Teme, Sep 2, 2022

Previous research with the visual lexical decision task demonstrated that polysemous words (multi... more Previous research with the visual lexical decision task demonstrated that polysemous words (multiple related senses) have a processing advantage when compared to unambiguous words, whereas homonymous words (multiple unrelated meanings) have a processing disadvantage. Although the same pattern of results was observed in Serbian, the two effects were investigated in separate studies. The aim of this study was to test whether the effects can be replicated when both types of ambiguity are presented within the same experimental list. To test this, we conducted three experiments. In the first one, the mixed presentation of unambiguous, homonymous, and polysemous words did not reveal any of the ambiguity effects, leading to the conclusion that the experimental context may affect the emergence of ambiguity effects. The other two experiments were conducted to explicitly control for the experimental context. In both experiments, we presented each ambiguity type within the same block and counterbalanced the order of the block presentation. These experiments revealed the presence of the polysemy advantage, but not the homonymy disadvantage, which is a common pattern in literature. Polysemy effects typically emerge relatively easily, whereas the homonymy disadvantage requires additional conditions. Finally, we conclude that experimental context does play a role in ambiguity processing, although the order of presentation does not affect the overall results.

Language Learning

This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English readi... more This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university‐level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary, spelling, and grammar, as well as rich demographic and language background data. We first demonstrate high reliability for ENRO tests and their convergent validity with existing meta‐analyses. We then provide a bird's‐eye view of first (L1) and second (L2) language comparisons and examine the relative role of various predictors of reading and listening comprehension and reading speed. Across analyses, we found substantially more overlap than differences between L1 and L2 speakers, suggesting that English reading proficiency is best considered across a continuum of skill, ability, and experiences spanning L1 and L2 speakers alike. We end by...

In this study, we collected affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian wo... more In this study, we collected affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian words and compared their values at three points in time: before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018), during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020) and after the government measures were abandoned (2022). Although valence ratings were more stable than arousal ratings, we did not observe a significant change in either valence or arousal ratings across the time points. A more detailed look into the data revealed the change in arousal that was different across the valence values. Our analyses demonstrated that, upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, emotionally negative words elicited higher arousal ratings, whereas emotionally positive words elicited lower arousal ratings. It revealed that our participants became more sensitive to the negative content and less sensitive to the positive content. We hypothesized that this pattern could be linked to reduced resilience and consequently could repres...

In behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences, reaction time measures are an important source of ... more In behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences, reaction time measures are an important source of information. However, analyses on reaction time data are affected by researchers’ analytical choices and the order in which these choices are applied. The results of a systematic literature review, presented in this paper, revealed that the justification for and order in which analytical choices are conducted are rarely reported, leading to difficulty in reproducing results and interpreting mixed findings. To address this methodological shortcoming, we created a checklist on reporting reaction time pre-processing to make these decisions more explicit, improve transparency, and thus, promote best practices within the field. The importance of the pre-processing checklist was additionally supported by an expert consensus survey and a multiverse analysis. Consequently, we appeal for maximal transparency on all methods applied and offer a checklist to improve replicability and reproducibility...

Primenjena psihologija

This research aimed to clarify the role of the perceptual richness of words (PR) in the recall ta... more This research aimed to clarify the role of the perceptual richness of words (PR) in the recall tasks. PR was operationalized as the number of sensory modalities through which an object can be perceived. Previously, we found that concepts experienced with many modalities (dog) were recalled more accurately in cued recall than those perceived with few modalities (rainbow) and abstract words. This finding fitted the Perceptual symbol system theory (PSST) and the Dual coding theory (DCT) predictions. We tested the PR effect in both cued (experiment 1- E1) and free recall tasks (experiment 2 – E2) in the present study. With careful stimuli manipulation of context availability and emotional valence and statistical control of arousal and relatedness, made to exclude their influence on recall, we tested alternative explanations of the concreteness effect offered by the relational-distinctiveness hypothesis. The additional perceptual codes improved recall accuracy in the cued recall task (E1...

Scientific Data

The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and ... more The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, which dominates the field. One type of such tools are picture datasets which provide naming norms for everyday objects. However, existing databases tend to be small in terms of the number of items they include, and have also been normed in a limited number of languages, despite the recent boom in multilingualism research. In this paper we present the Multilingual Picture (Multipic) database, containing naming norms and familiarity scores for 500 coloured pictures, in thirty-two languages or language varieties from around the world. The data was validated with standard methods that have been used for existing picture datasets. This is the first dataset to provide naming norms, and translation equivalents, for such a variety of languages; as such, it will be of partic...

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Language Science Press, Oct 26, 2021

Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders, 2019

In this chapter we will give a brief overview of the research that emphasized the importance of p... more In this chapter we will give a brief overview of the research that emphasized the importance of perceptual information in the structure and function of semantic knowledge. We will then describe a recently developed approach in operationalizing conceptual representations that relies on the relevance of perceptual information. The core of this approach builds upon word concreteness (the extent of perceptual experience with an object denoted by a word) and further elaborates it by estimating perceptual experience across separate sensory modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory). We will summarize the data collected in several languages that converge to show the structure of perceptual space within the semantic system. Finally, we will propose to use this approach as a novel way of obtaining insights into the structure of the semantic systems of special populations. Here, we will focus on language of individuals with schizophrenia, but we will suggest that it can be used in general.

Psihologija, 2018

We compared three statistical analyses over binary outcomes. As applying ANOVA over proportions v... more We compared three statistical analyses over binary outcomes. As applying ANOVA over proportions violates at least two classical assumptions of linear models, two alternatives are described: the binary logistic regression and the mixed logit model. Firstly, we compared the effects obtained by the three methods over the same data from a previous memory research. All three methods gave similar results: the effects of the tasks and the number of sensory modalities were observed, but not their interaction. Secondly, by using the bootstrap estimates of the parameters, the efficacy of each method was explored. As predicted, the bootstrap parameter estimates of the ANOVA had large bias and standard errors, and consequently wide confidence intervals. On the other hand, the bootstrap parameter estimates of the binary logistic regression and the mixed logit models were similar ? both had low bias and standard errors and narrow confidence intervals.

Primenjena psihologija, 1970

Memory & Cognition

Among the factors argued to contribute to a bilingual advantage in executive function (EF), the c... more Among the factors argued to contribute to a bilingual advantage in executive function (EF), the combination of languages spoken by the bilingual is often overlooked. In this study, we explored the role of language similarity on memory and EF task by comparing performance of three groups of young adults—Hungarian–Serbian and Slovak–Serbian early balanced bilinguals, and Serbian-speaking monolinguals. Slovak is typologically related to Serbian, which are both Slavic, in contrast to Hungarian, which is Finno–Ugric. On the computerized tasks from the CANTAB battery (CANTAB Cognition, 2016, www.cantab.com), differences between monolinguals and bilinguals emerged on the EF tasks: Stockings of Cambridge (SOC) and Attentional Set Shifting (AST), but not the memory tasks: Delayed Matching to Sample (DMS), Paired Associate Learning (PAL), Spatial Working Memory (SWM). Both Hungarian–Serbian and Slovak–Serbian bilinguals outperformed the monolinguals on the more difficult SOC tasks, solved usi...

Primenjena psihologija, 2015

Problem ovog istraživanja bio je ispitivanje uticaja broja čula kojima se može iskusiti neki poja... more Problem ovog istraživanja bio je ispitivanje uticaja broja čula kojima se može iskusiti neki pojam na uspešnost njegove reprodukcije. Pretpostavili smo da će se pojmovi koji se mogu iskusiti većim brojem čula tačnije reprodukovati u odnosu na one koji se mogu iskusiti manjim brojem čula, kao i u odnosu na apstraktne pojmove. U dva eksperimenta primenjeni su zadatak slobodne i zadatak navođene reprodukcije. U prvom eksperimentu dve grupe ispitanika učile su liste parova asocijativno povezanih reči. U svakoj listi varirani su stimulusi po konkretnosti, a pored toga, liste su se međusobno razlikovale po konkretnim rečima. Jedna lista sadržala je parove konkretnih pojmova koji se mogu iskusiti sa mnogo čula (čarapa‒patika), a druga lista sadržala je parove konkretnih pojmova koji se mogu iskusiti sa malo čula (plakat‒bilbord). U drugom eksperimentu ispitanici su učili jedinstvenu listu sa sve tri grupe parova reči. Pored standardnog efekta konkretnosti i vrste zadatka, kao i njihove int...

Psychological Review, Jul 1, 2011

Primenjena psihologija, Oct 1, 2019

Primenjena psihologija, Sep 18, 2017

Teme, Sep 2, 2022

Language Learning

Primenjena psihologija

Scientific Data

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Language Science Press, Oct 26, 2021

Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders, 2019

Psihologija, 2018

Primenjena psihologija, 1970

Memory & Cognition

Primenjena psihologija, 2015

Concreteness is traditionally defined as degree in which concept can be experienced by the senses... more Concreteness is traditionally defined as degree in which concept can be experienced by the senses. Numerous research demonstrated the advantage of concrete over abstract words (Paivio, 1969). In lexical decision task, Popović, Živanović and Filipović Đurđević (2009) demonstrated that concepts which can be experienced through many modalities („pig“) were processed more quickly than concepts which can be experienced through small number of modalities („moon“). This finding was discussed in terms of Perceptual Symbol Theory (Barsalou, 1999). In this research we wanted to show that the observed advantage of concepts that can be experienced through many modalities applies to memory tasks as well. In the light of modal theories, by extending the postulates of the Dual Coding Theory (Paivio, 1991; Barsalou, 1999), multiple modalities could be interpreted as additional memory codes. Following the methodology of Paivio, Walsh and Bons (1994), we instructed two groups of participants to learn a list of word pairs. Two lists were constructed. Both lists contained 11 pairs of abstract concepts („theory-science“) and 11 pairs of concrete concepts. The two lists differed with respect to concrete word pairs – one list contained concepts that can be experienced through large number of modalities („orange-peach“), and another list contained concepts that can be experienced through small number of modalities („puncture-needle“). Half of the participants were tested in a free recall task and half of them were tested in a cued recall task. We measured percent of correctly reproduced word pairs. Our findings confirmed concreteness effect in reproduction of Serbian noun pairs. Two separate ANOVAs showed the main effect of concreteness both for condition when participants learned concepts that can be experienced through small number of modalities and for condition when they learned concepts which can be experienced with many modalities. However, the interaction of concreteness and recall task was observed only when concrete words were those that can be experienced through small number of modalities. Our crucial prediction regarded the advantage of concepts that can be experienced through many modalities, compared with concepts that can be experienced through few modalities. This prediction was partly confirmed. Firstly, the difference between the two groups was manifested through the absence of task by concreteness interaction only in case of concepts that can be experienced through many modalities. Secondly, as predicted, some of the analysis showed that correct recall was higher for concepts that can be experienced through large number of modalities. Percent of correct cued recall was higher for concepts which can be experienced with many modalities compared to abstract words. At the same time, cued recall for abstract concepts did not differ from that of concepts which can be experienced through small number of modalities. However, the advantage of concepts that can be experienced through many modalities was not recorded in all of the analysis. This inconsistency in the observed results could be due to the fact that our main variable was manipulated between participants. Conducting similar design with number of modalities manipulated within participants is part of an ongoing study.

10.5281/zenodo.5792972, 2022

This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of c... more This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.