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Overview

Dennis Norris is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their work spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Psychology, Computer Science, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, their main subfields of study include Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cultural Studies.

The research topics covered by Norris include Reading and Literacy Development, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Topic Modeling, Text Readability and Simplification, Categorization, Perception, and Language, Phonetics and Phonology Research, and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Norris has contributed scholarly articles to a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Cognition
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge)

Their recent papers demonstrate active research in memory, cognition, and related computational models. Notable publications include:

  • "Chunking and data compression in verbal short-term memory" (2020), published in Cognition
  • "More why, less how: What we need from models of cognition" (2021), published in Cognition

Additionally, Norris often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sachiko Kinoshita
  • Kristjan Kalm
  • Lili Yu
  • Rinus G. Verdonschot
  • Anne Cutler

Sachiko Kinoshita, in particular, has co-authored multiple papers closely related to topics of letter processing and memory with Norris.

Best Publications

  • The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access

    Anne Cutler;Dennis Norris

  • Shortlist: a connectionist model of continuous speech recognition

    Dennis Norris

  • Perceptual learning in speech.

    Dennis Norris;James M. McQueen;Anne Cutler

  • The primacy model : A new model of immediate serial recall

    Michael P. A. Page;Dennis Norris

  • The syllable’s differing role in the segmentation of French and English

    Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler;Dennis Norris;Juan Segui

  • Merging information in speech recognition: feedback is never necessary.

    Dennis Norris;James M. McQueen;Anne Cutler

  • Shortlist B: A Bayesian model of continuous speech recognition

    Dennis Norris;James M. McQueen

  • The special role of rimes in the description, use, and acquisition of English orthography.

    Rebecca Treiman;John Mullennix;Ranka Bijeljac-Babic;E. Daylene Richmond-Welty

  • The monolingual nature of speech segmentation by bilinguals.

    Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler;Dennis Norris;Juan Segui

  • The bayesian reader : Explaining word recognition as an optimal bayesian decision process

    Dennis Norris

  • The Possible-Word Constraint in the Segmentation of Continuous Speech

    Dennis Norris;James M. McQueen;Anne Cutler;Sally Butterfield

  • Competition and segmentation in spoken word recognition

    Dennis Norris;James M. McQueen;Anne Cutler

  • Phonological abstraction in the mental lexicon

    James M. McQueen;Anne Cutler;Dennis Norris

  • Competition in spoken word recognition: Spotting words in other words

    James M. McQueen;Dennis Norris;Anne Cutler

  • Unchained memory: Error patterns rule out chaining models of immediate serial recall.

    Richard N. A. Henson;Dennis G. Norris;Michael P. A. Page;Alan D. Baddeley

  • Word recognition: Context effects without priming.

    Dennis Norris

  • Short-term memory and long-term memory are still different.

    Dennis Norris

  • Locating the initial stages of speech-sound processing in human temporal cortex.

    Stefan Uppenkamp;Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Dennis Norris;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Phoneme identification and the lexicon

    Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler;Dennis Norris;Juan Segui

  • Working memory training involves learning new skills.

    Susan E. Gathercole;Darren L. Dunning;Joni Holmes;Dennis Norris

  • Perception as Evidence Accumulation and Bayesian Inference: Insights From Masked Priming

    Dennis Norris;Sachiko Kinoshita

  • The syllable's differing role in the segmentation of French and English

    Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler;Dennis Norris;J Sequi

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
James M. McQueen
James M. McQueen Radboud University
Susan E. Gathercole
Susan E. Gathercole University of Cambridge
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
William D. Marslen-Wilson
William D. Marslen-Wilson University of Cambridge
Alan D. Baddeley
Alan D. Baddeley University of York
Joni Holmes
Joni Holmes MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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