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Victor Kuperman

Victor Kuperman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
10282
World Ranking
6592
National Ranking
396

Overview

Victor Kuperman is a researcher affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The core topics of Victor Kuperman's research work encompass:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Mental Health via Writing

Among Victor Kuperman's recent publications are:

  • "Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO)" (2022) published in Behavior Research Methods
  • "Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus" (2022) published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • "How representative are student convenience samples? A study of literacy and numeracy skills in 32 countries" (2022) published in PLoS ONE
  • "How emotion is learned: Semantic learning of novel words in emotional contexts" (2020) published in Journal of Memory and Language
  • "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury Among Ukrainian Civilians During the Ongoing War" (2023) published in Journal of Community Health

Victor Kuperman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
  • Marc Brysbaert
  • Denis Drieghe
  • Noam Siegelman
  • Sascha Schroeder

The venues where Victor Kuperman has most often published research are:

  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • PLoS ONE

In addition to journal articles, Victor Kuperman has contributed a book titled Words in the World, published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas

    Amy Beth Warriner;Victor Kuperman;Marc Brysbaert

  • Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas

    Marc Brysbaert;Amy Beth Warriner;Victor Kuperman

  • Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words

    Victor Kuperman;Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez;Marc Brysbaert

  • Emotion and language: valence and arousal affect word recognition.

    Victor Kuperman;Zachary Estes;Marc Brysbaert;Amy Beth Warriner

  • Reading polymorphemic Dutch compounds: toward a multiple route model of lexical processing.

    Victor Kuperman;Robert Schreuder;Raymond Bertram;R. Harald Baayen

  • Effects of individual differences in verbal skills on eye-movement patterns during sentence reading.

    Victor Kuperman;Julie A. Van Dyke

  • Morphological dynamics in compound processing

    Victor Kuperman;Raymond Bertram;R. Harald Baayen

  • Crowdsourcing and language studies: the new generation of linguistic data

    Robert Munro;Steven Bethard;Victor Kuperman;Vicky Tzuyin Lai

  • Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO)

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  • Processing trade-offs in the reading of Dutch derived words

    Victor Kuperman;Raymond Bertram;R. Harald Baayen

  • Reassessing word frequency as a determinant of word recognition for skilled and unskilled readers.

    Victor Kuperman;Julie A. Van Dyke

  • Concreteness and Psychological Distance in Natural Language Use

    Bryor Snefjella;Victor Kuperman

  • Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for linguistic research

    Tyler Schnoebelen;Victor Kuperman

  • Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus

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  • How strongly do word reading times and lexical decision times correlate? Combining data from eye movement corpora and megastudies

    Victor Kuperman;Denis Drieghe;Emmanuel Keuleers;Marc Brysbaert

  • The effect of word position on eye-movements in sentence and paragraph reading

    Victor Kuperman;Michael Dambacher;Antje Nuthmann;Reinhold Kliegl

  • Morphological predictability and acoustic duration of interfixes in Dutch compounds

    Victor Kuperman;Mark Pluymaekers;Mirjam Ernestus;R. Harald Baayen

  • Words and paradigms bit by bit: An information‐theoretic approach to the processing of inflection and derivation

    Petar Milin;Victor Kuperman;Aleksandar Kostić;Harald R. Baayen

  • The effects of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production

    Victor Kuperman;Joan Bresnan

  • The hyphen as a segmentation cue in triconstituent compound processing: it's getting better all the time.

    Raymond Bertram;Victor Kuperman;R. Harald Baayen;Jukka Hyönä

  • Virtual experiments in megastudies: A case study of language and emotion.

    Victor Kuperman

  • Surviving blind decomposition: A distributional analysis of the time-course of complex word recognition.

    Daniel Schmidtke;Kazunaga Matsuki;Victor Kuperman

  • Accentuate the positive: semantic access in english compounds.

    Victor Kuperman

  • Individual variability in the semantic processing of English compound words.

    Daniel Schmidtke;Julie A. Van Dyke;Victor Kuperman

  • Moving spaces: Spelling alternation in English noun-noun compounds

    Victor Kuperman;Raymond Bertram

  • When experience meets language statistics: Individual variability in processing English compound words.

    Kaitlin Falkauskas;Victor Kuperman

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Brysbaert
Marc Brysbaert Ghent University
R. Harald Baayen
R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen
Joan Bresnan
Joan Bresnan Stanford University
David I. Shore
David I. Shore McMaster University
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Antje Nuthmann
Antje Nuthmann Kiel University
Denis Drieghe
Denis Drieghe University of Southampton
Debra Titone
Debra Titone McGill University
Raymond A. Mar
Raymond A. Mar York University
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University

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