Papers


Journal articles (published)

 [NEW] Ferrer i Cancho, R. and Moscoso del Prado, F. (in press) Information content versus word length in random typing. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

[NEW] Moscoso del Prado, F. (in press) The universal 'shape' of human languages: spectral analysis beyond speech. PLoS One [preprint]

Moscoso del Prado, F. (in press) Hypothesis testing on the fractal structure of behavioral sequences: The Bayesian Assessment of Scaling methodology. Psychological Methods [preprint]

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) Causality, criticality, and reading words: Distinct sources of fractal scaling in behavioral sequences. Cognitive Science 35, 785-837 [extended article, preprint].

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) Macroscopic thermodynamics of human reaction times. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 55, 302-319 [preprint] (see also the highlight in MIT Technology Review)

Alario, F.-X. and Moscoso del Prado, F. (2010) On the origin of the "cumulative semantic inhibition effect'". Memory & Cognition 38,  57-66. [preprint]

Feldman, L. B., O'Connor, P. A. and Moscoso del Prado, F. (2009) Early morphological processing is morpho-semantic and not simply morpho-orthographic: A violation of form-then-meaning accounts of lexical recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 16, 684-691. [paper]

Milin, P., Filipović-Ɖurđević, D., and Moscoso del Prado, F. (2009) The simultaneous effects of inflectional paradigms and classes on lexical recognition: evidence from Serbian. Journal of Memory and Language 60, 50-64. [paper]

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2007) Co-occurrence and the effect of inflectional paradigms. Lingue e Linguaggio 2, 247-263 [paper]

Pulvermüller, F., Huss, M., Kherif, F., Moscoso del Prado, F., Hauk, O., and Shtyrov, Y. (2006) Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103, 7865-7870. [paper]

Moscoso del Prado, F., Hauk, O., and Pulvermüller, F. (2006) Category specificity in the processing of color-related and form-related words: an ERP study. NeuroImage 29, 29-37. [paper]

Moscoso del Prado, F., Deutsch, A., Frost, R., de Jong, N. H., Schreuder, R., and Baayen, R. H. (2005) Changing places: a cross-language perspective on frequency and family size in Hebrew and Dutch. Journal of Memory and Language 53, 496-512. [paper]

Baayen, R.H. and Moscoso del Prado, F. (2005) Semantic density and past-tense formation in three Germanic languages. Language 81, 666-698. [paper]

Dijkstra, A., Moscoso del Prado, F., Schulpen, B., Schreuder, R., and Baayen, R.H. (2005) A roommate in cream: Morphological family size effects in bilinguals. Language and Cognitive Processes 20, 7-41. [paper]

Moscoso del Prado, F., Bertram, R., Häikiö, T.,  Schreuder, R. and Baayen, R.H. (2004) Morphological family size in a morphologically rich language: The case of Finnish compared to Dutch and Hebrew. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 30, 1271-1278. [paper]

Moscoso del Prado, F., Kostić, A., and Baayen, R.H. (2004) Putting the bits together: An information theoretical perspective on morphological processing. Cognition 94, 1-18. [paper]

Moscoso del Prado, F., Ernestus, M., and Baayen, R.H. (2004) Do type and token effects reflect different mechanisms? Connectionist modeling of Dutch past-tense formation and final devoicing. Brain and Language 90, 287-298. [paper]
  
Moscoso del Prado, F. and Baayen, R.H. (2002) Unsupervised extraction of high-dimensional lexical representations from corpora using Simple Recurrent Networks. Linguistica Computazionale 12--13.

Journal articles (submitted or in preparation)

[NEW] Moscoso del Prado, F., Dale, R., & Feldman, L. B. (2012) Activation of Lexical assemblies is reflected in mouse movements [submitted]

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) The Effective Complexity of language: English requires at least an infinite grammar (submitted)

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) Cognitive implications of multifractal structure in language (revised manuscript submitted)

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) A phase diagram of behavioral responses: A phase transition with a critical point in human reaction times (revised manuscript submitted)

Feldman, L. B., Moscoso del Prado, F., and O'Connor, P. A. (2011) Must analysis of meaning follow analysis of form? A time course analysis. (submitted)

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2010) A theory of reaction time distributions  (submitted, an earlier version of this work is found at cogprints.org/6326/)

Feldman, L. B., Kostić, A., Gvozdenović, V., O'Connor, P. and Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) Early morpho-semantic processing in Serbian: A violation of form-then-meaning accounts of word recognition (submitted)

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2010) The baseline for response latency distributions (submitted, an earlier version of this work is found in arXiv:0908.3432v1 [q-bio.NC])

Moscoso del Prado, F. & Feldman, L. B. (in prep)  Who's the outlier? Meta-analysis of morpho-semantic effects in masked priming

Moscoso del Prado, F. and Robinson, S. (in prep) The complexity of creole languages: In objective terms, Tok Pisin is not that simple.

Moscoso del Prado, F. and Dunn, M. (in prep) How much do we really know about human languages? A computational model of language diversification and extinction [draft]

Other publications

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2011) The mirage of morphological complexity, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [in press]

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2009) Scale-invariance of human response latencies. In N. A. Taatgen, & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1270-1275). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [oral presentation]

Bernard, J. B., Moscoso del Prado, F., Montagnini, A., and Castet, E. (2009) A model of optimal oculo-motor strategies in reading for normal and damaged visual fields. Journal of Vision 9, 824 [abstract]

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2008) A fully analytical model of the lexical decision task (oral presentation). In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1035-1040). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society [oral presentation]

Bernard, J. B., Moscoso del Prado, F., Montagnini, A., and Castet, E. (2008) A model of optimal oculo-motor strategies in reading for normal and damaged visual fields. In L. U. Perrinet & E. Daucé (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd French Conference on Computational Neuroscience. (pp. 97--102). Marseille, France: Societé Française des Neurosciences [highlighted contribution]

Moscoso del Prado, F., Schreuder, R., and Baayen, R. H. (2004): Using the structure found in time: Building large-scale orthographic and phonetic representations by Accumulation of Expectations. In C. Labiouse & H. Bowman (Eds.), Connectionist models of cognition and emotion. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Neural Computation and Psychology. Singapore: World Scientific.

Baayen, R.H., Moscoso del Prado, F., Schreuder, R., and Wurm, L. (2003) Why word frequencies may NOT regress towards the mean, in R.H. Baayen & R. Schreuder (Eds.) Morphological Structure in Language Processing (pp. 463-484). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Moscoso del Prado, F. and Sahlgren, M. (2002) An integration of Vector-Space Semantic Analysis and Simple Recurrent Networks for the automatic acquisition of lexical representations from unlabeled corpora. In V. Pirrelli, S. Montemagni, & A. Lenci (Eds.) Proceedings of the LREC'2002 workshop on Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data. Paris: European Language Resources Association.

Moscoso del Prado, F. (2003) Paradigmatic Structures in Morphological Processing: Computational and Cross-Linguistic Experimental Studies. MPI Series in Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics [doctoral dissertation]