Sara C Sereno
Biographic Data
| ID | 4600875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara C Sereno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara C |
| FAMILY NAME | Sereno |
| SIGNATURE | SERENO S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7957-9542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parafoveal preview benefits magnified
This study investigated the impact of word-initial letters and contextual predictability on eye movements during reading. In two experiments, we manipulated the constraint of the target word's initial trigram (e.g., dwarf or clown) within contexts of varying predictability. Experiment 1 followed a normal-viewing reading paradigm, while Experiment 2 employed gaze-contingent magnification to enhance parafoveal text. We employed Bayesian ex-Gaussian…
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words
) target words appeared (separately) within contextually neutral, plausible sentences. Sixty-three participants each read all 132 experimental sentences while their eye movements were recorded. Analyses using Gamma generalised linear mixed models revealed significant effects of both Emotion and Concreteness on all fixation measures, indicating faster processing for emotional and concrete words. Additionally, there was a significant Emotion × Conc…
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing
Embodied cognition theories propose that abstract concepts are grounded in a variety of exogenous and endogenous experiences which may be flexibly activated across contexts and tasks. In three experiments, we explored how semantic size (i.e., the magnitude, dimension or extent of an object or a concept) of abstract (vs concrete) concepts is mentally represented. We show that abstract size is metaphorically associated with the physical size of con…
Celebrity abuse on Twitter
The Glasgow Norms
The Glasgow Norms are a set of normative ratings for 5,553 English words on nine psycholinguistic dimensions: arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, imageability, familiarity, age of acquisition, semantic size, and gender association. The Glasgow Norms are unique in several respects. First, the corpus itself is relatively large, while simultaneously providing norms across a substantial number of lexical dimensions. Second, for any given subse…
Participant and Word Gender in Age of Acquisition Effects
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words
) target words appeared (separately) within contextually neutral, plausible sentences. Sixty-three participants each read all 132 experimental sentences while their eye movements were recorded. Analyses using Gamma generalised linear mixed models revealed significant effects of both Emotion and Concreteness on all fixation measures, indicating faster processing for emotional and concrete words. Additionally, there was a significant Emotion × Conc…
Participant and Word Gender in Age of Acquisition Effects
Participant and Word Gender in Age of Acquisition Effects
The Glasgow Norms
The Glasgow Norms are a set of normative ratings for 5,553 English words on nine psycholinguistic dimensions: arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, imageability, familiarity, age of acquisition, semantic size, and gender association. The Glasgow Norms are unique in several respects. First, the corpus itself is relatively large, while simultaneously providing norms across a substantial number of lexical dimensions. Second, for any given subse…
Celebrity abuse on Twitter
What can size tell us about abstract conceptual processing
Embodied cognition theories propose that abstract concepts are grounded in a variety of exogenous and endogenous experiences which may be flexibly activated across contexts and tasks. In three experiments, we explored how semantic size (i.e., the magnitude, dimension or extent of an object or a concept) of abstract (vs concrete) concepts is mentally represented. We show that abstract size is metaphorically associated with the physical size of con…
Parafoveal preview benefits magnified
This study investigated the impact of word-initial letters and contextual predictability on eye movements during reading. In two experiments, we manipulated the constraint of the target word's initial trigram (e.g., dwarf or clown) within contexts of varying predictability. Experiment 1 followed a normal-viewing reading paradigm, while Experiment 2 employed gaze-contingent magnification to enhance parafoveal text. We employed Bayesian ex-Gaussian…
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words
) target words appeared (separately) within contextually neutral, plausible sentences. Sixty-three participants each read all 132 experimental sentences while their eye movements were recorded. Analyses using Gamma generalised linear mixed models revealed significant effects of both Emotion and Concreteness on all fixation measures, indicating faster processing for emotional and concrete words. Additionally, there was a significant Emotion × Conc…
Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Concreteness (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works)