Jessica Price

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

Validated yes/no vocabulary tests that measure bilinguals’ language proficiency based on vocabulary knowledge have been widely used in psycholinguistic research. However, it is unclear what aspects of test takers’ vocabulary knowledge are employed in these tests, which makes the interpretation of their scores problematic. The present study investig...

Objective language proficiency measures have been found to provide better and more consistent estimates of bilinguals’ language processing than self-rated proficiency (e.g., Tomoschuk et al., 2019; Wen & van Heuven, 2017a). However, objectively measuring language proficiency is often not possible because of a lack of quick and freely available lang...

Background: Mounting evidence suggests that knowledge-retrieval practice is associated with improvement in retention. Eye-tracking technology has recently gained a lot of interest in educational research. Hence, the objectives of the present study were: 1) to compare between two specially designed educational diagrams for pharmacology of Autonomic...

Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of testing techniques, logical terms, populations, and languages. However, a question that remains disputed in the literature is whether this observed processing cost is a...

Translation equivalents are widely used in bilingual research concerning word processing (e.g., Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013; Jouravlev & Jared, 2020) and second-language vocabulary learning (e.g., Bracken et al., 2017; Degani et al., 2014). Although translation norms exist in several languages, to date there are no Malay-English translation norms. T...

Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that ‘Some but not all cats meow’. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a speaker produces a weak linguistic expression instead of a stronger one. Several L2 studies claim that pragmatic inferences are generated by default and their comprehension...

Aim: A wide range of research has shown that knowledge retrieval practice results in improved retention. Does providing illustrations (containing an image and words) on a t-shirt enhance learning? And is this knowledge retained after a short(1 week) or long (1 year) delay?Method:A two-phase study was conducted, the initial phase used eye-tracking t...

When we say that Some people have lungs, we implicate that not all people have lungs. This scalar implicature arises when we produce a weaker expression instead of a stronger one. Studies on bilingual adults suggest that L2 learners, regardless of their proficiency level, are sensitive to under-informative sentences and they exhibit a superior prag...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological development disorder that affects communication and behavior. Most assistive technologies for children with autistic traits have been designed to support single, targeted activity function such as learning and communication. In this paper, we report the design and development of an assistive mobile a...

This paper evaluates a novel high variability phonetic training paradigm that involves presenting spoken words in adverse conditions. The effectiveness, generalizability, and longevity of this high variability phonetic training in adverse conditions was evaluated using English phoneme contrasts in three experiments with Malaysian multilinguals. Adv...

Stimuli. English minimal pairs used in the experiments. (DOCX)

Data. Participants' percentag of correct identifications for the conditions in each experiment. (XLSX)

Previous research has shown that there can be a substantial decay of knowledge among students over time. Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology (ANSP) is a core pharmacology topic, students need to apply in their clinical years. Mayer’s Multimedia Learning principle posits that people learn more deeply from pictures and words compared to words alone...

Previous research has shown that auditory recognition memory is poorer compared to visual and cross-modal (visual and auditory) recognition memory. The effect of repetition on memory has been robust in showing improved performance. It is not clear, however, how auditory recognition memory compares to visual and cross-modal recognition memory follow...

Background Previous research has shown that there can be a substantial decay of knowledge among students over time. Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology (ANSP) is a core pharmacology topic, students need to apply in their clinical years. Mayer’s Multimedia Learning principle posits that people learn more deeply from pictures and words compared to...

Previous research has shown that information referring to a named character or to information in the main clause of a sentence is more accessible and facilitates the processing of anaphoric references. We investigated whether the use of such cues are maintained in healthy aging. We present two experiments investigating whether information contained...

In three experiments, we investigated the cognitive effects of linguistic prominence to establish whether focus plays a similar or different role in modulating language processing in healthy ageing. Information structuring through the use of cleft sentences is known to increase the processing efficiency of anaphoric references to elements contained...

Medication errors commonly involve confusion between drugs with similar names. One possible method of reducing error is to emphasize differences between the names using 'Tall Man' (uppercase) letters (e.g. cefTAZidime vs cefUROxime). Previous studies investigating this issue have been conducted mainly on university students, and results have been m...

Background: In previous research we identified ERP and behavioural features associated with memory that produced good discrimination between mild AD and controls. Two prominent markers include a difference wave around 600ms, and memory performance (d' measures). In the current study, we explore whether these markers of brain and cognitive function...

Background: Medication errors commonly involve confusion between drugs with similar names. One possible method of reducing error is to emphasize differences between the names using 'Tall Man' (uppercase) letters (e.g. cef-TAZidime vs cefUROxime). Previous studies investigating this issue have been conducted mainly on university students, and result...

Information structuring through the use of cleft sentences increases the processing efficiency of references to elements within the scope of focus. Furthermore, there is evidence that putting certain types of emphasis on individual words not only enhances their subsequent processing, but also protects these words from becoming suppressed in the wak...

Clinically useful biomarkers are necessary to improve diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, and to aid in drug development. We report a new approach to identifying functional biomarkers that combines dense array EEG techniques with a cognitive probe task that targets brain functions and structures vulnerable in AD. EEG reflects the summation of many co...

Background: Differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) is challenging because early symptoms are similar despite different underlying neuropathology. In previous research, we found that a computerized associative memory task coupled with high resolution EEG measures differentiated mild AD from healthy controls (8...

It is known that general processing resources decline with age (Craik, 1983), yet language comprehension typically remains well preserved in normal aging (Wingfield & Grossman, 2006). It is well known that placing a concept within the scope of focus either with syntactic devices or prosody increases the salience of the text information (e.g., Birch...