Matti Laine
Biographic Data
| ID | 282831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matti Laine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matti |
| FAMILY NAME | Laine |
| SIGNATURE | LAINE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4529-4965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning Irony in School
Irony comprehension requires going beyond literal meaning of words and is challenging for children. In this pre-registered study, we investigated how teaching metapragmatic knowledge in classrooms impacts written irony comprehension in 10-year-old Finnish-speaking children ( n = 41, 21 girls) compared to a control group ( n = 34, 13 girls). At pre-test, children read ironic and literal sentences embedded in stories while their eye movements were …
Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension
Understanding verbal irony involves detecting that the speaker's intended meaning contrasts with the literal meaning. This is challenging for children as the underlying skills required to understand irony may not be fully developed. We investigated how 10-year-olds' working memory, empathy skills, and gender were related to their processing and comprehension of written irony. Data from two previous eye-tracking experiments with 97 children (46 gi…
Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning
This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English-speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within-task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object-pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed recall 2 days later. Participants (n = 210) were randomized to learn novel object-pseudoword associations (…
Epeli
A recently developed virtual reality task, EPELI (Executive Performance in Everyday LIving), quantifies goal-directed behavior in naturalistic conditions. Participants navigate a virtual apartment, performing household chores given by a virtual character. EPELI aims to tap attention, executive function, and prospective memory. To ensure its applicability to further research and clinical work and to study its relationship to relevant background fa…
Expressive recall and recognition as complementary measures to assess novel word learning ability in aphasia
Novel word learning ability has been associated with language treatment outcomes in people with aphasia (PWA), and its assessment could inform prognosis and rehabilitation. We used a brief experimental task to examine novel word learning in PWA, determine the value of phonological cueing in assessing learning outcomes, and identify factors that modulate learning ability. Twelve PWA and nineteen healthy controls completed the task, and recall and …
Does language switching behavior rely on general executive functions
The assumption that everyday language switching trains bilinguals’ executive functions (EF) presupposes that language switching engages domain-general EF. This study examined associations between three types of tasks in a group of Finnish-English late bilinguals: everyday language switching frequency assessed with Ecological Momentary Assessment, language switching performance on a cued bilingual naming task, and EF as measured with Simon, Flanke…
Spontaneous strategy use during a working memory updating task
Cognitive skill learning postulates strategy generation and implementation when people learn to perform new tasks. Here we followed self-reported strategy use and objective performance in a working memory (WM) updating task to reveal strategy development that should take place when faced with this novel task. In two pre-registered online experiments with healthy adults, we examined short-term strategy acquisition in a ca 20-30-minute adaptive n-b…
The role of strategy use in working memory training outcomes
Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates verbal learning and memory consolidation in young and older adults
Latent Structure of Executive Functioning/Learning Tasks in the CogState Computerized Battery
This study tested whether executive functioning (EF)/learning tasks from the CogState computerized test battery show a unitary latent structure. This information is important for the construction of composite measures on these tasks for applied research purposes. Based on earlier factor analytic research, we identified five CogState tasks that have been labeled as EF/learning tasks and examined their intercorrelations in a new sample of Finnish b…
More Than Words
Is There a Relationship between Language Switching and Executive Functions in Bilingualism? Introducing a within group Analysis Approach
Several studies have suggested a bilingual advantage in executive functions, presumably due to bilinguals' massive practice with language switching that requires executive resources, but the results are still somewhat controversial. Previous studies are also plagued by the inherent limitations of a natural groups design where the participant groups are bound to differ in many ways in addition to the variable used to classify them. In an attempt t…
Neurocognition of New Word Learning in the Native Tongue
Here we review behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropharmacological studies using a word learning task labeled as the Ancient Farming Equipment paradigm. This task has been used to explore the neural correlates of explicit learning and maintenance of new names for novel objects in the native tongue. The main conclusions drawn from these studies are as follows: (a) Retrieval of both the newly learned and familiar names is subserved by predominantly …
Recognition of Inflected Words in a Morphologically Limited Language
Images of shadowing and interpreting
We begin by noting that, in addition to the more or less established trends of cognitive modelling and neurolinguistic or behavioural experimentation, a more recent orientation in research on interpreting (IR) as a complex cognitive process is functional neuroimaging. We then describe current brain imaging methods — electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and near-infrar…
The Interplay of Word Formation Type, Affixal Homonymy, and Productivity in Lexical Processing
Brains and Languages
Neurolinguistics, the study of language representations and processes in the human brain, is at the crossroads of fields of science such as linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and neurology. The present survey starts with a historical outline and continues with a review of recent studies on mental lexicon and syntax in aphasia. Those studies support the psychological reality of certain linguistic distinctions. We finish by mentioning some f…
Introducing the NJL Special Issue on Neurolinguistics
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Theoretical Note on Reflection-Impulsivity
The Interplay of Word Formation Type, Affixal Homonymy, and Productivity in Lexical Processing
Recognition of Inflected Words in a Morphologically Limited Language
Neurocognition of New Word Learning in the Native Tongue
Here we review behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropharmacological studies using a word learning task labeled as the Ancient Farming Equipment paradigm. This task has been used to explore the neural correlates of explicit learning and maintenance of new names for novel objects in the native tongue. The main conclusions drawn from these studies are as follows: (a) Retrieval of both the newly learned and familiar names is subserved by predominantly …
Theoretical Note on Reflection-Impulsivity
Brains and Languages
Neurolinguistics, the study of language representations and processes in the human brain, is at the crossroads of fields of science such as linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and neurology. The present survey starts with a historical outline and continues with a review of recent studies on mental lexicon and syntax in aphasia. Those studies support the psychological reality of certain linguistic distinctions. We finish by mentioning some f…
Introducing the NJL Special Issue on Neurolinguistics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Interplay of Word Formation Type, Affixal Homonymy, and Productivity in Lexical Processing
Images of shadowing and interpreting
We begin by noting that, in addition to the more or less established trends of cognitive modelling and neurolinguistic or behavioural experimentation, a more recent orientation in research on interpreting (IR) as a complex cognitive process is functional neuroimaging. We then describe current brain imaging methods — electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and near-infrar…
Recognition of Inflected Words in a Morphologically Limited Language
Neurocognition of New Word Learning in the Native Tongue
Here we review behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropharmacological studies using a word learning task labeled as the Ancient Farming Equipment paradigm. This task has been used to explore the neural correlates of explicit learning and maintenance of new names for novel objects in the native tongue. The main conclusions drawn from these studies are as follows: (a) Retrieval of both the newly learned and familiar names is subserved by predominantly …
Is There a Relationship between Language Switching and Executive Functions in Bilingualism? Introducing a within group Analysis Approach
Several studies have suggested a bilingual advantage in executive functions, presumably due to bilinguals' massive practice with language switching that requires executive resources, but the results are still somewhat controversial. Previous studies are also plagued by the inherent limitations of a natural groups design where the participant groups are bound to differ in many ways in addition to the variable used to classify them. In an attempt t…
More Than Words
The role of strategy use in working memory training outcomes
Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates verbal learning and memory consolidation in young and older adults
Latent Structure of Executive Functioning/Learning Tasks in the CogState Computerized Battery
This study tested whether executive functioning (EF)/learning tasks from the CogState computerized test battery show a unitary latent structure. This information is important for the construction of composite measures on these tasks for applied research purposes. Based on earlier factor analytic research, we identified five CogState tasks that have been labeled as EF/learning tasks and examined their intercorrelations in a new sample of Finnish b…
Does language switching behavior rely on general executive functions
The assumption that everyday language switching trains bilinguals’ executive functions (EF) presupposes that language switching engages domain-general EF. This study examined associations between three types of tasks in a group of Finnish-English late bilinguals: everyday language switching frequency assessed with Ecological Momentary Assessment, language switching performance on a cued bilingual naming task, and EF as measured with Simon, Flanke…
Spontaneous strategy use during a working memory updating task
Cognitive skill learning postulates strategy generation and implementation when people learn to perform new tasks. Here we followed self-reported strategy use and objective performance in a working memory (WM) updating task to reveal strategy development that should take place when faced with this novel task. In two pre-registered online experiments with healthy adults, we examined short-term strategy acquisition in a ca 20-30-minute adaptive n-b…
Epeli
A recently developed virtual reality task, EPELI (Executive Performance in Everyday LIving), quantifies goal-directed behavior in naturalistic conditions. Participants navigate a virtual apartment, performing household chores given by a virtual character. EPELI aims to tap attention, executive function, and prospective memory. To ensure its applicability to further research and clinical work and to study its relationship to relevant background fa…
Expressive recall and recognition as complementary measures to assess novel word learning ability in aphasia
Novel word learning ability has been associated with language treatment outcomes in people with aphasia (PWA), and its assessment could inform prognosis and rehabilitation. We used a brief experimental task to examine novel word learning in PWA, determine the value of phonological cueing in assessing learning outcomes, and identify factors that modulate learning ability. Twelve PWA and nineteen healthy controls completed the task, and recall and …
Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension
Understanding verbal irony involves detecting that the speaker's intended meaning contrasts with the literal meaning. This is challenging for children as the underlying skills required to understand irony may not be fully developed. We investigated how 10-year-olds' working memory, empathy skills, and gender were related to their processing and comprehension of written irony. Data from two previous eye-tracking experiments with 97 children (46 gi…
Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning
This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English-speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within-task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object-pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed recall 2 days later. Participants (n = 210) were randomized to learn novel object-pseudoword associations (…
Learning Irony in School
Irony comprehension requires going beyond literal meaning of words and is challenging for children. In this pre-registered study, we investigated how teaching metapragmatic knowledge in classrooms impacts written irony comprehension in 10-year-old Finnish-speaking children ( n = 41, 21 girls) compared to a control group ( n = 34, 13 girls). At pre-test, children read ironic and literal sentences embedded in stories while their eye movements were …
Psychology (19 works) · Cognitive psychology (14 works) · Cognition (13 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 works) · Neuroscience (8 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (8 works) · Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Psycholinguistics (6 works)