Below is some selected work from the lab.
Wang, T., Cooper Borkenhagen, M. J., Barker, M., & Seidenberg, M.S. (2022) Meanings within meanings: Skilled readers activate irrelevant meanings of radicals and phonetics in Chinese. Reading and Writing, 35(6), 1381-1399. [pdf] [osf] [code]
In this study we show that skilled Chinese readers are influenced during character reading by putatively irrelevant sub-word character units whose semantics are non-compositional to the overall meaning of the character they are reading.
Cooper Borkenhagen, M. J. (2023). A Time-varying computational model of learning to read printed words aloud (No. 30492737) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison]. ProQuest Dissertations. [pdf] [osf] [code]
My dissertation outlined a model for word reading that involves pronouncing printed words from time-varying perceptual processes underlying language processing (specifically vision and audition/ articulation). The model is implemented in simulations that demonstrate the viability of the theory, showing that simulations approximate important aspects of human reading behavior.
Wang, T., Cooper Borkenhagen, M. J., Barker, M., & Seidenberg, M.S. (2022) Meanings within meanings: Skilled readers activate irrelevant meanings of radicals and phonetics in Chinese. Reading and Writing, 35(6), 1381-1399. [pdf] [osf] [code]
In this study we show that skilled Chinese readers are influenced during character reading by putatively irrelevant sub-word character units whose semantics are non-compositional to the overall meaning of the character they are reading.
