Alice F Healy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1123680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice F Healy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice F |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1312-9757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is the Missing Letter Effect Due Primarily to Lexical Factors or to the Global Semantic Context
A letter detection task, in which readers mark target letters in prose passages, has revealed the missing letter effect, in which letter detection accuracy is especially low on frequent function words. Healy et al. (2023) explored whether the missing letter effect is due to lexical factors or to semantic factors. In a passage including unrelated sentences that were either intact or randomly rearranged, test words differed in word frequency but we…
Following Navigation Instructions
This study examined 3 theoretical issues involving working memory (WM) processes, movement dimensions, and serial positions. This examination was made in the context of investigating the ability to follow navigation instructions in a situation that mimicked communication between air traffic controllers and flight crews. Subjects heard navigation instructions describing movement within a 2-dimensional (2-D) computer display of a 3-D space consisti…
Is the Missing Letter Effect Due Primarily to the Test Word Containing the Target Letter or to the Surrounding Words
A simple letter detection task, in which subjects mark instances of a target letter in prose passages, has elucidated numerous cognitive processes involved in reading by examining the “missing letter” effect, in which readers’ detection accuracy is especially low on frequent function words. Two experiments explore the fundamental but novel issue of whether the missing letter effect is due to the test word containing the target letter or to the wo…
The bat-and-ball problem
Three experiments explored the effects of word problem cueing on debiasing versions of the bat-and-ball problem. In the experimental condition order, participants solved a simpler isomorphic version of the problem prior to solving a standard version that, critically, had the same item-and-dollar amounts. Conversely, in the control condition order, participants solved the standard version prior to solving the isomorph. Across the first 2 experimen…
Intention to Respond in a Special Way Protects against Forgetting Associations Even When Working Memory Is Occupied
In 2 experiments, subjects engaged in 6 or 7 124-trial blocks of a continuous memory-updating paradigm with study and test trials intermixed. They studied name–location associations and were tested for the location most recently associated with a given name. On study trials, all responses were to be made on a right-hand map. On default test trials, responses were also to be made on the right-hand map, but on special test trials, designated as suc…
Cumulative context effects and variant lexical representations
Word production variability is widespread in speech, and rates of variant production correlate with many factors. Recent research suggests mental representation of both canonical word forms and distinct reduced variants, and that production and processing are sensitive to variant frequency. What factors lead to frequency-weighted variant representations? An experiment manipulated following context and word repetition for final t/d words in read, …
A Comparison of Rereading Benefits in First and Second Language Reading
Text comprehension models in first and second language reading research posit that slow word recognition inhibits reading speed and decreases comprehension. To investigate the role of word recognition in reading, 2 experiments examined rereading benefits in participants' first and second languages using scrambled and normal versions of English and Spanish texts. Native English speakers with intermediate (Experiment 1) or advanced (Experiment 2) S…
Pairing Words with Syntactic Frames
Zero Anaphora
Terrorists and Democrats
Three experiments conducted in 1997 and 1998 explored individual responses to reported fictitious international conflict involving the United States and other nations. Participants escalated the conflictual level of their responses to repeated attacks. In Experiment 1, escalation of conflict was greater in response to terrorist attacks than to military ones. In Experiment 2, after the initial attacks, men were more conflictual in responding to te…
Peace and gender
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the influence of an existing peace treaty between two hostile nations on decisions about whether and how to retaliate against one nation's transgression. Two fictitious neighboring countries, Ashland and Bagumba, were described to research participants as having been locked in an historical struggle of tension and hostility. Participants were asked to choose a course of action by the United States…
Cognitive strategies in discourse processing
Peace Agreement, Intractable Conflict, Escalation Trajectory
Psychological theory suggests that international events influence foreign policy action choices through differential cognitive schemata held by political actors. The actions and schemata are, in turn, affected by underlying actor attributes. In this tradition, the present study administered a mixture of peaceful and conflictual priming cues, testing for a “peace treaty” effect. A sample of laboratory subjects was primed with a vignette describing…
APF Gold Medal Awards and Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award
APF Gold Medal Awards and Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award
Ranking international cooperation and conflict events
A set of psychological laboratory experiments were conducted to refine a scale that could be used to study cognition and decision‐making in international cooperation and conflict events. The COPDAB scale, ranking international conflict and cooperation, was expanded and reanalyzed. The original 15 point scale was augmented to include four actors and three new categories for nuclear conflict. The new 18 point scale was used as a template to generat…
Syllable-internal structure and the sonority hierarchy
War Cues and Foreign Policy Acts
Cognitive psychological theory and research suggest that specific actions are primed or potentiated by prior related cues. Thus violent cues should influence subsequent conflictual action choices. Laboratory subjects were given one of two written vignettes recalling either the slaughter of World War I or Allied weakness before World War II. A control group received no vignette. Subjects were then asked to specify foreign-policy choices from an in…
Accessibility of Place and Manner Features and the Place/Manner Dissimilation Principle in a Learning Task
Alveolar, labial, fricative, and stop features were not readily accessible to adult subjects in a concept-formation task that involved learning a linguistic suffixing rule, even though the alveolar stop category triggers an alternate form of the English past tense suffix. However, the place/manner dissimilation principle was accessed toward the end of the testing session, suggesting that subjects encountered it as an articulatory constraint, as a…
Deep-Structure Syntactic Relations
The saliency of deep-structure syntactic relations in the memory representation of sentences was investigated using two measures of saliency: accessibility as to-be-recalled information and ability to access other sentence information. A cued-recall task employed sentences in which the semantic, deep-structure syntactic, and surface-structure syntactic relations were varied orthogonally across target nouns. In one condition, the target noun serve…
Can Chimpanzees Learn a Phonemic Language?
Poor communication in psycholinguistics
Criterion shifts in recall
Can chimpanzees learn a phonemic language
War Cues and Foreign Policy Acts
Cognitive psychological theory and research suggest that specific actions are primed or potentiated by prior related cues. Thus violent cues should influence subsequent conflictual action choices. Laboratory subjects were given one of two written vignettes recalling either the slaughter of World War I or Allied weakness before World War II. A control group received no vignette. Subjects were then asked to specify foreign-policy choices from an in…
Peace Agreement, Intractable Conflict, Escalation Trajectory
Psychological theory suggests that international events influence foreign policy action choices through differential cognitive schemata held by political actors. The actions and schemata are, in turn, affected by underlying actor attributes. In this tradition, the present study administered a mixture of peaceful and conflictual priming cues, testing for a “peace treaty” effect. A sample of laboratory subjects was primed with a vignette describing…
Terrorists and Democrats
Three experiments conducted in 1997 and 1998 explored individual responses to reported fictitious international conflict involving the United States and other nations. Participants escalated the conflictual level of their responses to repeated attacks. In Experiment 1, escalation of conflict was greater in response to terrorist attacks than to military ones. In Experiment 2, after the initial attacks, men were more conflictual in responding to te…
Cumulative context effects and variant lexical representations
Word production variability is widespread in speech, and rates of variant production correlate with many factors. Recent research suggests mental representation of both canonical word forms and distinct reduced variants, and that production and processing are sensitive to variant frequency. What factors lead to frequency-weighted variant representations? An experiment manipulated following context and word repetition for final t/d words in read, …
Ranking international cooperation and conflict events
A set of psychological laboratory experiments were conducted to refine a scale that could be used to study cognition and decision‐making in international cooperation and conflict events. The COPDAB scale, ranking international conflict and cooperation, was expanded and reanalyzed. The original 15 point scale was augmented to include four actors and three new categories for nuclear conflict. The new 18 point scale was used as a template to generat…
Peace and gender
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the influence of an existing peace treaty between two hostile nations on decisions about whether and how to retaliate against one nation's transgression. Two fictitious neighboring countries, Ashland and Bagumba, were described to research participants as having been locked in an historical struggle of tension and hostility. Participants were asked to choose a course of action by the United States…
Cognitive strategies in discourse processing
Syllable-internal structure and the sonority hierarchy
A Comparison of Rereading Benefits in First and Second Language Reading
Text comprehension models in first and second language reading research posit that slow word recognition inhibits reading speed and decreases comprehension. To investigate the role of word recognition in reading, 2 experiments examined rereading benefits in participants' first and second languages using scrambled and normal versions of English and Spanish texts. Native English speakers with intermediate (Experiment 1) or advanced (Experiment 2) S…
Criterion shifts in recall
Can chimpanzees learn a phonemic language
Poor communication in psycholinguistics
Can Chimpanzees Learn a Phonemic Language?
Deep-Structure Syntactic Relations
The saliency of deep-structure syntactic relations in the memory representation of sentences was investigated using two measures of saliency: accessibility as to-be-recalled information and ability to access other sentence information. A cued-recall task employed sentences in which the semantic, deep-structure syntactic, and surface-structure syntactic relations were varied orthogonally across target nouns. In one condition, the target noun serve…
Accessibility of Place and Manner Features and the Place/Manner Dissimilation Principle in a Learning Task
Alveolar, labial, fricative, and stop features were not readily accessible to adult subjects in a concept-formation task that involved learning a linguistic suffixing rule, even though the alveolar stop category triggers an alternate form of the English past tense suffix. However, the place/manner dissimilation principle was accessed toward the end of the testing session, suggesting that subjects encountered it as an articulatory constraint, as a…
War Cues and Foreign Policy Acts
Cognitive psychological theory and research suggest that specific actions are primed or potentiated by prior related cues. Thus violent cues should influence subsequent conflictual action choices. Laboratory subjects were given one of two written vignettes recalling either the slaughter of World War I or Allied weakness before World War II. A control group received no vignette. Subjects were then asked to specify foreign-policy choices from an in…
Syllable-internal structure and the sonority hierarchy
APF Gold Medal Awards and Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award
APF Gold Medal Awards and Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award
Ranking international cooperation and conflict events
A set of psychological laboratory experiments were conducted to refine a scale that could be used to study cognition and decision‐making in international cooperation and conflict events. The COPDAB scale, ranking international conflict and cooperation, was expanded and reanalyzed. The original 15 point scale was augmented to include four actors and three new categories for nuclear conflict. The new 18 point scale was used as a template to generat…
Peace Agreement, Intractable Conflict, Escalation Trajectory
Psychological theory suggests that international events influence foreign policy action choices through differential cognitive schemata held by political actors. The actions and schemata are, in turn, affected by underlying actor attributes. In this tradition, the present study administered a mixture of peaceful and conflictual priming cues, testing for a “peace treaty” effect. A sample of laboratory subjects was primed with a vignette describing…
Peace and gender
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the influence of an existing peace treaty between two hostile nations on decisions about whether and how to retaliate against one nation's transgression. Two fictitious neighboring countries, Ashland and Bagumba, were described to research participants as having been locked in an historical struggle of tension and hostility. Participants were asked to choose a course of action by the United States…
Cognitive strategies in discourse processing
Terrorists and Democrats
Three experiments conducted in 1997 and 1998 explored individual responses to reported fictitious international conflict involving the United States and other nations. Participants escalated the conflictual level of their responses to repeated attacks. In Experiment 1, escalation of conflict was greater in response to terrorist attacks than to military ones. In Experiment 2, after the initial attacks, men were more conflictual in responding to te…
Zero Anaphora
Pairing Words with Syntactic Frames
A Comparison of Rereading Benefits in First and Second Language Reading
Text comprehension models in first and second language reading research posit that slow word recognition inhibits reading speed and decreases comprehension. To investigate the role of word recognition in reading, 2 experiments examined rereading benefits in participants' first and second languages using scrambled and normal versions of English and Spanish texts. Native English speakers with intermediate (Experiment 1) or advanced (Experiment 2) S…
Cumulative context effects and variant lexical representations
Word production variability is widespread in speech, and rates of variant production correlate with many factors. Recent research suggests mental representation of both canonical word forms and distinct reduced variants, and that production and processing are sensitive to variant frequency. What factors lead to frequency-weighted variant representations? An experiment manipulated following context and word repetition for final t/d words in read, …
Intention to Respond in a Special Way Protects against Forgetting Associations Even When Working Memory Is Occupied
In 2 experiments, subjects engaged in 6 or 7 124-trial blocks of a continuous memory-updating paradigm with study and test trials intermixed. They studied name–location associations and were tested for the location most recently associated with a given name. On study trials, all responses were to be made on a right-hand map. On default test trials, responses were also to be made on the right-hand map, but on special test trials, designated as suc…
The bat-and-ball problem
Three experiments explored the effects of word problem cueing on debiasing versions of the bat-and-ball problem. In the experimental condition order, participants solved a simpler isomorphic version of the problem prior to solving a standard version that, critically, had the same item-and-dollar amounts. Conversely, in the control condition order, participants solved the standard version prior to solving the isomorph. Across the first 2 experimen…
Following Navigation Instructions
This study examined 3 theoretical issues involving working memory (WM) processes, movement dimensions, and serial positions. This examination was made in the context of investigating the ability to follow navigation instructions in a situation that mimicked communication between air traffic controllers and flight crews. Subjects heard navigation instructions describing movement within a 2-dimensional (2-D) computer display of a 3-D space consisti…
Is the Missing Letter Effect Due Primarily to the Test Word Containing the Target Letter or to the Surrounding Words
A simple letter detection task, in which subjects mark instances of a target letter in prose passages, has elucidated numerous cognitive processes involved in reading by examining the “missing letter” effect, in which readers’ detection accuracy is especially low on frequent function words. Two experiments explore the fundamental but novel issue of whether the missing letter effect is due to the test word containing the target letter or to the wo…
Is the Missing Letter Effect Due Primarily to Lexical Factors or to the Global Semantic Context
A letter detection task, in which readers mark target letters in prose passages, has revealed the missing letter effect, in which letter detection accuracy is especially low on frequent function words. Healy et al. (2023) explored whether the missing letter effect is due to lexical factors or to semantic factors. In a passage including unrelated sentences that were either intact or randomly rearranged, test words differed in word frequency but we…
Psychology (23 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Natural language processing (6 works)