Catherine L Caldwell-Harris
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3986032 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Catherine L Caldwell-Harris |
| NOMBRES | Catherine L |
| APELLIDO | Caldwell-Harris |
| FIRMA | CALDWELL-HARRIS C L |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9830-1156 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Autistic adults discuss their experience of additional language learning
Analyzing online discussion forums allowed us to compare how autistic and neurotypical adults experience second and foreign language learning. We focused on the hypothesis that autistic learners more frequently use analytical strategies, which is defined as treating language as an object of analysis to extract linguistic generalizations. Analytical learning can compensate for social challenges and difficulties in attending to speech in conversati…
Religion Is of Reduced Importance When Not Needed to Solve the Problems of Social Living
Purzycki and Sosis (2022) review six categories of how religious traditions solve problems of social living. We apply the six categories to the Pirahã, which the authors discuss as a religious small-scale society. We contend that the Pirahã are not religious, drawing on the six categories to explain why. All members of the Pirahã know each other. Supernatural punishment is thus not needed to curtail dishonesty and norm breaking. Food is sufficien…
How do we reconcile the seemingly contradictory theories of Gestalt language processing and weak central coherence
A long-standing characterization of autistic cognition is variously referred to as detail-oriented, local processing bias, bottom-up processing, and weak central coherence. A related construct, enhanced perceptual functioning, is a mechanism that could account for autistics' superiority at a variety of detail-oriented visual tasks. However, detail-focused and enhanced perceptual functioning appear the opposite of what is called Gestalt language p…
Expanding the emergentist Account
When autistic writing is superior to neurotypical writing
Research on autistic individuals’ writing has long focused on weaknesses in structural complexity, organisation, and perspective-taking skills. More recently, awareness has grown that writing can be a strength, as suggested by research on autistic memoirs. To learn more about how well autistic individuals write when they use language for their own purposes, we turned to autistic-authored blogs. Online word usage patterns were analysed for 30 self…
Passionate about languages, but listening and speaking – ¡Ay, Caramba! Autistic adults discuss foreign language learning
Little is known about how persons with autism spectrum conditions experience the process of learning foreign languages. To augment the research literature (reviewed here) with the experiences of autistic persons, online autism forums were scrutinised. Discussions pertinent to language learning were identified in English, Spanish, French and German, with 169 posts analysed. Thematic analysis revealed 8 themes. Three themes concerned ease and diffi…
The systems framework dispels causal illusions and organizes multi-causal models
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Age effects in second language acquisition
Autistic discussion forums
Classic autism myths were discussed with examples of when elements of myths may be valid. Posters described cases where parents or therapists believed myths. Experts may believe autism myths due to rapid changes in diagnostic practices and due to their lack of knowledge regarding the characteristics of autistic people who have typical intellectual abilities. We conclude that forums contain high-value information for clinicians because all concept…
Learning a second language via print
How Deaf children should be taught to read has long been debated. Severely or profoundly Deaf children, who face challenges in acquiring language from its spoken forms, must learn to read a language they do not speak. We refer to this as learning a language via print. How children can learn language via print is not a topic regularly studied by educators, psychologists, or language acquisition theorists. Nonetheless, Deaf children can do this. We…
The larger picture of engaged learning
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Frequency effects in reading are powerful – But is contextual diversity the more important variable
For decades word frequency has been one of the most important variables in psycholinguistics. Frequent words are more easily recognized and processed more efficiently than rare words. In the fields of word recognition and psycholinguistics, all researchers are reminded to statistically control for word frequency. But is that advice still correct? Are other variables which are correlated with word frequency more important for human language proces…
An Explanation for Repetitive Motor Behaviors in Autism
Published version
Deaf Children’s ASL Vocabulary and ASL Syntax Knowledge Supports English Knowledge
The current study contributes empirical data to our understanding of how knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) syntax aids reading print English for deaf children who are bilingual and bimodal in ASL and English print. The first analysis, a conceptual replication of Hoffmeister ( 2000), showed that performance on the American Sign Language Assessment Instrument correlated with the Sanford Achievement Test—Reading Comprehension (SAT-RC) and th…
Adult minority language learning
Adult minority language learning: motivation, identity and target variety." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology scale
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology (MRI) scale is a new 43-item measure that quantifies conservative versus liberal aspects of religious ideology. The MRI focuses on recurring features of ideology rooted in innate moral instincts while capturing salient differences in the ideological profiles of distinct groups and individuals. The MRI highlights how religious ideology differs from political ideology while maintaining a robust grounding in t…
Do Social Constraints Inhibit Analytical Atheism? Cognitive Style and Religiosity in Turkey
Recent studies claim that having an analytical cognitive style is correlated with reduced religiosity in western populations. However, in cultural contexts where social norms constrain behavior, such cognitive characteristics may have reduced influence on behaviors and beliefs. We labeled this the ‘constraining environments hypothesis.’ In a sample of 246 Muslims in Turkey, the hypothesis was supported for gender. Females face social pressure to …
Investigating the Declarative-Procedural Gap for the Indirect Speech Construction in L2 Learners
The Rhythms of Discontent
Synchrony — intentional, rhythmic motor entrainment in groups — is an important topic in social psychology and the cognitive science of religion. Synchrony has been found to increase trust and prosociality, to index interpersonal attention, and to induce perceptions of similarity and group cohesion. Causal explanations suggest that synchrony induces neurocognitive self-other blurring, leading participants to process one another as identical. In l…
Are jokes funnier in one’s native language
Appreciating the humor in jokes involves incongruity-detection and resolution, which requires good language skills. Foreign language comprehension is challenging, including interpreting words within their sentence context. An implication is that jokes in a foreign language will be more difficult to understand and therefore probably less humorous, compared to native language jokes. To study this question while preserving humor across translations,…
The Development of Sensitivity to Grammatical Violations in American Sign Language
Factors influencing native and nonnative signers' syntactic judgment ability in American Sign Language (ASL) were explored for 421 deaf students aged 7;6-18;5. Predictors for syntactic knowledge were chronological age, age of entering a school for the deaf, gender, and additional learning disabilities. Mixed-effects linear modeling analysis revealed main effects of each predictor and an interaction between signing status and learning disability. …
Familiarity, comprehension and use of Indian English only
Indian English only (IndE- only ), e.g. “I’ll meet you here only”, is rejected as poor English by many IndE speakers. In the present study, we used a mixed method to investigate familiarity, comprehension and use of IndE- only in 20 L1 IndE speakers in the US. Participants completed a psycholinguistic task comprising syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic judgments of IndE, standard English, and grammatically or semantically odd control sentences. L1…
Emotionality Differences Between a Native and Foreign Language
A growing literature examines how affective processing may be weaker in a foreign language than in a native language. This article reviews mechanisms that could underlie this effect and then delves into practical implications. The most common category of explanations is that emotional resonances in the discourse context accrue to utterances because human memory is inherently associative. One application concerns forensic investigations. Compared …
Does Attending an English-Language University Diminish Abilities in the Native Language? Data from Turkey
Does a native language suffer when students take all of their classes in a foreign language, even in their home country? Turkish students studying psychology, economics, or English literature with English as the language of instruction (N = 91) were studied across a three-year period. Test scores, word fluency measures, and self-ratings were broadly comparable with students enrolled in a standard Turkish curriculum (N = 74). However, differences …
Emotionality differences between a native and foreign language
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 23 September 2014Sec. Language Sciences Volume 5 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01055
When Personality and Culture Clash
Because humans need both autonomy and interdependence, persons with either an extreme collectivist orientation (allocentrics) or extreme individualist values (idiocentrics) may be at risk for possession of some features of psychopathology. Is an extreme personality style a risk factor primarily when it conflicts with the values of the surrounding society? Individualism-collectivism scenarios and a battery of clinical and personality scales were a…
The Development of Antonym Knowledge in American Sign Language (ASL) and Its Relationship to Reading Comprehension in English
It is unknown if the developmental path of antonym knowledge in deaf children increases continuously with age and correlates with reading comprehension, as it does in hearing children. In the current study we tested 564 students aged 4-18 on a receptive multiple-choice American Sign Language (ASL) antonym test. A subgroup of 138 students aged 7-18 took the Stanford Achievement Test reading comprehension test. The results showed that antonym knowl…
Do more, say less
Reticence to express emotions verbally has long been observed in Chinese culture, but quantitative comparisons with Western cultures are few. Explanations for emotional reticence have typically focused on the need in collectivist culture to promote group harmony, but this explanation is most applicable to negative emotions such as anger, not positive expressions such as Wo ai ni [ I love you ]. A survey on verbal usage of Wo ai ni was administere…
Individualism–collectivism among Americans, Turks and Turkish immigrants to the U.S
Are jokes funnier in one’s native language
Appreciating the humor in jokes involves incongruity-detection and resolution, which requires good language skills. Foreign language comprehension is challenging, including interpreting words within their sentence context. An implication is that jokes in a foreign language will be more difficult to understand and therefore probably less humorous, compared to native language jokes. To study this question while preserving humor across translations,…
Passionate about languages, but listening and speaking – ¡Ay, Caramba! Autistic adults discuss foreign language learning
Little is known about how persons with autism spectrum conditions experience the process of learning foreign languages. To augment the research literature (reviewed here) with the experiences of autistic persons, online autism forums were scrutinised. Discussions pertinent to language learning were identified in English, Spanish, French and German, with 169 posts analysed. Thematic analysis revealed 8 themes. Three themes concerned ease and diffi…
The Development of Sensitivity to Grammatical Violations in American Sign Language
Factors influencing native and nonnative signers' syntactic judgment ability in American Sign Language (ASL) were explored for 421 deaf students aged 7;6-18;5. Predictors for syntactic knowledge were chronological age, age of entering a school for the deaf, gender, and additional learning disabilities. Mixed-effects linear modeling analysis revealed main effects of each predictor and an interaction between signing status and learning disability. …
When Personality and Culture Clash
Because humans need both autonomy and interdependence, persons with either an extreme collectivist orientation (allocentrics) or extreme individualist values (idiocentrics) may be at risk for possession of some features of psychopathology. Is an extreme personality style a risk factor primarily when it conflicts with the values of the surrounding society? Individualism-collectivism scenarios and a battery of clinical and personality scales were a…
Fast Pairs
Emotion and lying in a non-native language
Orthography Shapes Semantic and Phonological Activation in Reading
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This study will investigate whether Chinese orthography differs from English orthography in terms of the relative activation of semantic versus phonological information. Do Chinese characters evoke greater activation of semantic information compared to phonological information? Do they trigger greater activation of semantic information than English orthography? Moreover, few studies have examined Ch…
Physiological reactivity to emotional phrases in Mandarin—English bilinguals
Chinese—English bilinguals residing in the US were interviewed about their experience of using emotional expressions. They judged L1-Mandarin expressions as feeling stronger than L2-English expressions. Respondents nonetheless preferred to express their emotions in English, citing more relaxed social constraints in English-speaking environments. Electrodermal monitoring was conducted on a similar sample of Chinese—English bilinguals in order to d…
Exploring the atheist personality
Atheists are America’s least trusted group, and stereotypes about them abound: Atheists are non-conformist, sceptical, cynical, and joyless, rarely experiencing awe. Atheists (N = 42) were recruited from the American atheist website and compared to Christians (N = 22) and Buddhists (N = 18). Groups were highly similar in their reported well-being, empathy, and other personality scales, but differed strongly on scales assessing Spirituality and Ma…
The Biology of Religious Behavior
Individualism–collectivism among Americans, Turks and Turkish immigrants to the U.S
Understanding atheism/non-belief as an expected individual-differences variable
A compelling body of scholarship exists which proposes that religious and spiritual beliefs exist in every human society because they reflect fundamental aspects of evolved human nature. This raises the question: why do atheists exist and are atheism and non-belief unnatural? A diverse and growing literature on irreligion reveals that distinct personality and cognitive styles are associated with atheists and non-believers. They are slightly less …
Atheism
Johnson's taxonomy of evolutionary hypotheses for atheism is comprehensive and informative, but his illustrations of what behaviors or traits may actually have been adaptive are skeletal. Johnson r
What theoretical frameworks do scholars need? What type of society do we all want
My target article had the goal of normalizing atheism or non-belief, characterizing it as emerging out of expected and even adaptive aspects of human nature, in contrast to the historical view of a
Do more, say less
Reticence to express emotions verbally has long been observed in Chinese culture, but quantitative comparisons with Western cultures are few. Explanations for emotional reticence have typically focused on the need in collectivist culture to promote group harmony, but this explanation is most applicable to negative emotions such as anger, not positive expressions such as Wo ai ni [ I love you ]. A survey on verbal usage of Wo ai ni was administere…
Emotionality differences between a native and foreign language
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 23 September 2014Sec. Language Sciences Volume 5 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01055
The Development of Antonym Knowledge in American Sign Language (ASL) and Its Relationship to Reading Comprehension in English
It is unknown if the developmental path of antonym knowledge in deaf children increases continuously with age and correlates with reading comprehension, as it does in hearing children. In the current study we tested 564 students aged 4-18 on a receptive multiple-choice American Sign Language (ASL) antonym test. A subgroup of 138 students aged 7-18 took the Stanford Achievement Test reading comprehension test. The results showed that antonym knowl…
Emotionality Differences Between a Native and Foreign Language
A growing literature examines how affective processing may be weaker in a foreign language than in a native language. This article reviews mechanisms that could underlie this effect and then delves into practical implications. The most common category of explanations is that emotional resonances in the discourse context accrue to utterances because human memory is inherently associative. One application concerns forensic investigations. Compared …
Does Attending an English-Language University Diminish Abilities in the Native Language? Data from Turkey
Does a native language suffer when students take all of their classes in a foreign language, even in their home country? Turkish students studying psychology, economics, or English literature with English as the language of instruction (N = 91) were studied across a three-year period. Test scores, word fluency measures, and self-ratings were broadly comparable with students enrolled in a standard Turkish curriculum (N = 74). However, differences …
Familiarity, comprehension and use of Indian English only
Indian English only (IndE- only ), e.g. “I’ll meet you here only”, is rejected as poor English by many IndE speakers. In the present study, we used a mixed method to investigate familiarity, comprehension and use of IndE- only in 20 L1 IndE speakers in the US. Participants completed a psycholinguistic task comprising syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic judgments of IndE, standard English, and grammatically or semantically odd control sentences. L1…
Are jokes funnier in one’s native language
Appreciating the humor in jokes involves incongruity-detection and resolution, which requires good language skills. Foreign language comprehension is challenging, including interpreting words within their sentence context. An implication is that jokes in a foreign language will be more difficult to understand and therefore probably less humorous, compared to native language jokes. To study this question while preserving humor across translations,…
The Development of Sensitivity to Grammatical Violations in American Sign Language
Factors influencing native and nonnative signers' syntactic judgment ability in American Sign Language (ASL) were explored for 421 deaf students aged 7;6-18;5. Predictors for syntactic knowledge were chronological age, age of entering a school for the deaf, gender, and additional learning disabilities. Mixed-effects linear modeling analysis revealed main effects of each predictor and an interaction between signing status and learning disability. …
The Rhythms of Discontent
Synchrony — intentional, rhythmic motor entrainment in groups — is an important topic in social psychology and the cognitive science of religion. Synchrony has been found to increase trust and prosociality, to index interpersonal attention, and to induce perceptions of similarity and group cohesion. Causal explanations suggest that synchrony induces neurocognitive self-other blurring, leading participants to process one another as identical. In l…
Investigating the Declarative-Procedural Gap for the Indirect Speech Construction in L2 Learners
Do Social Constraints Inhibit Analytical Atheism? Cognitive Style and Religiosity in Turkey
Recent studies claim that having an analytical cognitive style is correlated with reduced religiosity in western populations. However, in cultural contexts where social norms constrain behavior, such cognitive characteristics may have reduced influence on behaviors and beliefs. We labeled this the ‘constraining environments hypothesis.’ In a sample of 246 Muslims in Turkey, the hypothesis was supported for gender. Females face social pressure to …
Frequency effects in reading are powerful – But is contextual diversity the more important variable
For decades word frequency has been one of the most important variables in psycholinguistics. Frequent words are more easily recognized and processed more efficiently than rare words. In the fields of word recognition and psycholinguistics, all researchers are reminded to statistically control for word frequency. But is that advice still correct? Are other variables which are correlated with word frequency more important for human language proces…
An Explanation for Repetitive Motor Behaviors in Autism
Published version
Deaf Children’s ASL Vocabulary and ASL Syntax Knowledge Supports English Knowledge
The current study contributes empirical data to our understanding of how knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) syntax aids reading print English for deaf children who are bilingual and bimodal in ASL and English print. The first analysis, a conceptual replication of Hoffmeister ( 2000), showed that performance on the American Sign Language Assessment Instrument correlated with the Sanford Achievement Test—Reading Comprehension (SAT-RC) and th…
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