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Marcus Taft is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology, with additional work in experimental and cognitive psychology, music, and statistics and probability.

The central themes of their work revolve around the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, second language acquisition and learning, language development and disorders, language, metaphor and cognition, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and the neuroscience of music perception.

Taft's recent papers include:

  • "Finding a "flower" in a "peanut" is as easy as in a "garden": towards a lemma-based model of bilingual word recognition" (2021) published in Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • "Morphological decomposition in Chinese compound word recognition: Electrophysiological evidence" (2023) published in Brain and Language
  • "A NEW TYPE OF MASKED FORM PRIMING" (2020) published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • "Morphological and syllabic analysis in word recognition" (2021) published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "Priming asymmetry persists in German-English-French trilinguals: the sense model modified for the trilingual mental lexicon" (2023) published in Language Cognition and Neuroscience

Marcus Taft has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Xin Wang, Junmin Li, Jie Wang, Say Young Kim, and Yanjun Wei.

Their works are often published in venues such as:

  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Brain and Language
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Journal of Second Language Studies
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Lexical storage and retrieval of prefixed words

    Marcus Taft;Kenneth I. Forster

  • Recognition of affixed words and the word frequency effect

    Marcus Taft

  • Lexical storage and retrieval of polymorphemic and polysyllabic words.

    Marcus Taft;Kenneth I. Forster

  • Morphological decomposition and the reverse base frequency effect.

    Marcus Taft

  • Interactive-activation as a framework for understanding morphological processing

    Marcus Taft

  • Reading and the Mental Lexicon

    Marcus Taft

  • Lexical access-via an orthographic code: The basic orthographic syllabic structure (BOSS)

    Marcus Taft

  • Submorphemic processing in reading Chinese.

    Marcus Taft;Xiaoping Zhu

  • Prefix Stripping Revisited.

    Marcus Taft

  • The efficiency of attentional networks in early and late bilinguals: the role of age of acquisition.

    Lily Tao;Anna Marzecová;Marcus Taft;Dariusz Asanowicz

  • Positional Specificity of Radicals in Chinese Character Recognition

    Marcus Taft;Xiaoping Zhu;Danling Peng

  • Morphology, Orthography, and Phonology in Reading Chinese Compound Words

    Xiaolin Zhou;William Marslen-Wilson;Marcus Taft;Hua Shu

  • The nature of the mental representation of radicals in Chinese: a priming study.

    Guosheng Ding;Danling Peng;Marcus Taft

  • Syllables and morphemes: contrasting frequency effects in Spanish.

    Carlos J. Alvarez;Manuel Carreiras;Marcus Taft

  • Submorphemic Processing in Reading Chinese

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  • The representation of bound morphemes in the lexicon: A Chinese study.

    Marcus Taft;Zhu Xiaoping

  • The influence of orthography on phonological representations in the lexicon

    Marcus Taft;Gail Hambly

  • Lack of Phonological Mediation in a Semantic Categorization Task

    Marcus Taft;Fiona van Graan

  • Morphological Representation as a Correlation Between form and Meaning

    Marcus Taft

  • Bodies, Antibodies, and Neighborhood-Density Effects in Masked Form Priming

    Kenneth I. Forster;Marcus Taft

  • An alternative to grapheme-phoneme conversion rules?

    Marcus Taft

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth I. Forster
Kenneth I. Forster University of Arizona
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Anne Castles
Anne Castles Macquarie University
Min Wang
Min Wang Qingdao University
Tamar H. Gollan
Tamar H. Gollan University of California, San Diego
Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
William D. Marslen-Wilson
William D. Marslen-Wilson University of Cambridge
Guosheng Ding
Guosheng Ding Beijing Normal University

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