Michael J Spivey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Spivey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Spivey |
| SIGNATURE | SPIVEY M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6914-1181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Spanish–English bilingual heritage speakers processing of inanimate sentences
This study investigated how heritage Spanish–English bilinguals integrate their cue hierarchies to process simple sentences in both Spanish and English. Sentence interpretation is achieved by weighing the various cues that are present in the sentence against that language's cue hierarchy. The Unified Competition Model (UCM) suggests that bilinguals show a variety of patterns in sentence interpretation strategies depending on language proficiency.…
Darkness and the Imagination
Darkness has profound effects on human behaviour and the ability to perform everyday activities. It can influence our ability to function, our moods, emotions, and cognition. Here we examine the relationship between darkness and supernatural beliefs. This work is informed by cross-cultural cave research, which suggests that cave dark zones are used as the settings for rituals from the advent of modern humans to the present. How can this phenomeno…
Bridgemanian space constancy as a precursor to extended cognition
Interactivity of language
In previous decades, the language sciences made important advances by dividing language into its different information formats, such as phonetics, semantics, and syntax. Such division generally implied that language processing is divorced from context. In more recent decades, however, important advances in the language sciences have been made in understanding how linguistic information interacts with context. These contextual influences stem from…
An inclusive account of mind across spatiotemporal scales of cognition
The Emergence of Intentionality
In Van Orden and Holden's (2002) article, “Intentional Contents and Self-Control,” they provide an outline for how a research program can preserve the notion of intentionality in goal-directed behavior without reifying it or treating it as a singular efficient cause all its own. In a conventional theoretical framework where intention is treated as something that spawns de novo from an individual cognizer every time he or she makes a freely willed…
Efficacy of daily and monthly high-dose calciferol in vitamin D–deficient nulliparous and lactating women
Oral vitamin D2 supplementation with 2000 IU/d or 60,000 IU/mo for 3 mo was safe, and it increased serum 25(OH)D concentrations significantly; however, only a small proportion of the women studied achieved concentrations of >or=50 nmol/L. This suggests that, when sunlight exposure is limited, doses of vitamin D2 higher than those currently studied may be needed. Monthly dosing appears to be a safe and effective alternative to daily dosing.
Unraveling the Dyad
Recurrence analysis is introduced as a means to investigate syntactic coordination between child and caregiver. Three CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000) corpora are analyzed and demonstrate coordination between children and their caregivers in terms of word-class n-gram sequences. Results further indicate that trade-offs in leading or following this coordination reflect individual differences between children at varying levels of development. Further ana…
Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors
Certain models of spoken-language processing, like those for many other perceptual and cognitive processes, posit continuous uptake of sensory input and dynamic competition between simultaneously active representations. Here, we provide compelling evidence for this continuity assumption by using a continuous response, hand movements, to track the temporal dynamics of lexical activations during real-time spoken-word recognition in a visual context…
Bilingual and monolingual processing of competing lexical items
Performance of bilingual Russian–English speakers and monolingual English speakers during auditory processing of competing lexical items was examined using eye tracking. Results revealed that both bilinguals and monolinguals experienced competition from English lexical items overlapping phonetically with an English target item (e.g., spear and speaker ). However, only bilingual speakers experienced competition from Russian competitor items overla…
Competing activation in bilingual language processing
Two eye-tracking experiments examined spoken language processing in Russian-English bilinguals. The proportion of looks to objects whose names were phonologically similar to the name of a target object in either the same language (within-language competition), the other language (between-language competition), or both languages at the same time (simultaneous competition) was compared to the proportion of looks in a control condition in which no o…
Probabilistic Constraint Satisfaction at the Lexical/Phonetic Interface
Eye movements and spoken language comprehension
Cross Talk Between Native and Second Languages
Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human brain encodes language. For example, the “input switch” theory states that bilinguals can deactivate one language module while using the other. A new measure of spoken language comprehension, headband-mounted eyetracking, allows a firm test of this theory. When given spoken instructions to pick up an object, in a monolingual session, late bilinguals looked bri…
Eye movements and spoken language comprehension
Unraveling the Dyad
Recurrence analysis is introduced as a means to investigate syntactic coordination between child and caregiver. Three CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000) corpora are analyzed and demonstrate coordination between children and their caregivers in terms of word-class n-gram sequences. Results further indicate that trade-offs in leading or following this coordination reflect individual differences between children at varying levels of development. Further ana…
Probabilistic Constraint Satisfaction at the Lexical/Phonetic Interface
An inclusive account of mind across spatiotemporal scales of cognition
Cross Talk Between Native and Second Languages
Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human brain encodes language. For example, the “input switch” theory states that bilinguals can deactivate one language module while using the other. A new measure of spoken language comprehension, headband-mounted eyetracking, allows a firm test of this theory. When given spoken instructions to pick up an object, in a monolingual session, late bilinguals looked bri…
Eye movements and spoken language comprehension
Bilingual and monolingual processing of competing lexical items
Performance of bilingual Russian–English speakers and monolingual English speakers during auditory processing of competing lexical items was examined using eye tracking. Results revealed that both bilinguals and monolinguals experienced competition from English lexical items overlapping phonetically with an English target item (e.g., spear and speaker ). However, only bilingual speakers experienced competition from Russian competitor items overla…
Competing activation in bilingual language processing
Two eye-tracking experiments examined spoken language processing in Russian-English bilinguals. The proportion of looks to objects whose names were phonologically similar to the name of a target object in either the same language (within-language competition), the other language (between-language competition), or both languages at the same time (simultaneous competition) was compared to the proportion of looks in a control condition in which no o…
Probabilistic Constraint Satisfaction at the Lexical/Phonetic Interface
Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors
Certain models of spoken-language processing, like those for many other perceptual and cognitive processes, posit continuous uptake of sensory input and dynamic competition between simultaneously active representations. Here, we provide compelling evidence for this continuity assumption by using a continuous response, hand movements, to track the temporal dynamics of lexical activations during real-time spoken-word recognition in a visual context…
Unraveling the Dyad
Recurrence analysis is introduced as a means to investigate syntactic coordination between child and caregiver. Three CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000) corpora are analyzed and demonstrate coordination between children and their caregivers in terms of word-class n-gram sequences. Results further indicate that trade-offs in leading or following this coordination reflect individual differences between children at varying levels of development. Further ana…
Efficacy of daily and monthly high-dose calciferol in vitamin D–deficient nulliparous and lactating women
Oral vitamin D2 supplementation with 2000 IU/d or 60,000 IU/mo for 3 mo was safe, and it increased serum 25(OH)D concentrations significantly; however, only a small proportion of the women studied achieved concentrations of >or=50 nmol/L. This suggests that, when sunlight exposure is limited, doses of vitamin D2 higher than those currently studied may be needed. Monthly dosing appears to be a safe and effective alternative to daily dosing.
The Emergence of Intentionality
In Van Orden and Holden's (2002) article, “Intentional Contents and Self-Control,” they provide an outline for how a research program can preserve the notion of intentionality in goal-directed behavior without reifying it or treating it as a singular efficient cause all its own. In a conventional theoretical framework where intention is treated as something that spawns de novo from an individual cognizer every time he or she makes a freely willed…
An inclusive account of mind across spatiotemporal scales of cognition
Bridgemanian space constancy as a precursor to extended cognition
Interactivity of language
In previous decades, the language sciences made important advances by dividing language into its different information formats, such as phonetics, semantics, and syntax. Such division generally implied that language processing is divorced from context. In more recent decades, however, important advances in the language sciences have been made in understanding how linguistic information interacts with context. These contextual influences stem from…
Darkness and the Imagination
Darkness has profound effects on human behaviour and the ability to perform everyday activities. It can influence our ability to function, our moods, emotions, and cognition. Here we examine the relationship between darkness and supernatural beliefs. This work is informed by cross-cultural cave research, which suggests that cave dark zones are used as the settings for rituals from the advent of modern humans to the present. How can this phenomeno…
Spanish–English bilingual heritage speakers processing of inanimate sentences
This study investigated how heritage Spanish–English bilinguals integrate their cue hierarchies to process simple sentences in both Spanish and English. Sentence interpretation is achieved by weighing the various cues that are present in the sentence against that language's cue hierarchy. The Unified Competition Model (UCM) suggests that bilinguals show a variety of patterns in sentence interpretation strategies depending on language proficiency.…
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (3 works)