A list of word megastudies with links to data (if available)

As the number of megastudies is growing, it becomes difficult to keep track of everything that is out there. For a paper I decided to make a table and then realized that it would be great to have the information on a website with links to the articles and the datasets.

You find the outcome here. The list contains all the megastudies and eye movement corpora that I am aware of. Originally I wanted to work with a cut-off criterion of minimally 1,000 words (as the lower limit of the definition of mega), but it rapidly became clear that this excluded several interesting datasets. So, for the sake of completeness I dropped the criterion, although it still feels odd to me that you can have a megastudy with less than 1,000 stimuli.

Enjoy! And please contact me if you know of more datasets.

 

References

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Aguasvivas, J., Carreiras, M., Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2018). SPALEX: A Spanish lexical decision database from a massive online data collection. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2156. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02156.

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Brysbaert, M., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., & Keuleers, E. (2016). The impact of word prevalence on lexical decision times: Evidence from the Dutch Lexicon Project 2. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 441-458.

Chang, Y. N., Hsu, C. H., Tsai, J. L., Chen, C. L., & Lee, C. Y. (2016). A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming. Behavior Research Methods, 48(1), 112-122.

Cohen-Shikora, E. R., Balota, D. A., Kapuria, A., & Yap, M. J. (2013). The past tense inflection project (PTIP): Speeded past tense inflections, imageability ratings, and past tense consistency measures for 2,200 verbs. Behavior research methods, 45(1), 151-159.

Cop, U., Dirix, N., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2017). Presenting GECO: An eyetracking corpus of monolingual and bilingual sentence reading. Behavior Research Methods, 49(2), 602-615.

Cortese, M.J., Hacker, S., Schock, J. & Santo, J.B. (2015a). Is reading aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 1711-1722. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2014.974624

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Cortese, M. J., Yates, M., Schock, J., & Vilks, L. (2018). Examining word processing via a megastudy of conditional reading aloud. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(11), 2295-2313.

Davies, R., Barbón, A., & Cuetos, F. (2013). Lexical and semantic age-of-acquisition effects on word naming in Spanish. Memory & Cognition, 41(2), 297-311.

Dufau, S., Grainger, J., Midgley, K. J., & Holcomb, P. J. (2015). A thousand words are worth a picture: Snapshots of printed-word processing in an event-related potential megastudy. Psychological Science, 26(12), 1887-1897.

Ernestus, M., & Cutler, A. (2015). BALDEY: A database of auditory lexical decisions. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1469-1488.

Ferrand, L., Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., New, B., Bonin, P., Meot, A., Augustinova, M., & Pallier, C. (2011). Comparing word processing times in naming, lexical decision, and progressive demasking: evidence from Chronolex. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:306. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00306.

Ferrand, L., Méot, A., Spinelli, E., New, B., Pallier, C., Bonin, P., … & Grainger, J. (2018). MEGALEX: A megastudy of visual and auditory word recognition. Behavior Research Methods, 50(3), 1285-1307.

Ferrand, L., New, B., Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E., Bonin, P., Meot, A., Augustinova, M., & Pallier, C. (2010). The French Lexicon Project: Lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and 38,840 pseudowords. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 488-496.

Frank, S. L., Monsalve, I. F., Thompson, R. L., & Vigliocco, G. (2013). Reading time data for evaluating broad-coverage models of English sentence processing. Behavior Research Methods, 45(4), 1182-1190.

Frank, S. L., Otten, L. J., Galli, G., & Vigliocco, G. (2015). The ERP response to the amount of information conveyed by words in sentences. Brain and language, 140, 1-11.

Futrell, R., Gibson, E., Tily, H. J., Blank, I., Vishnevetsky, A., Piantadosi, S. T., & Fedorenko, E. (2018) The Natural Stories Corpus. In Proceedings of LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 76—82). Miyazaki, Japan.

González-Nosti, M., Barbón, A., Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J., & Cuetos, F. (2014). Effects of the psycholinguistic variables on the lexical decision task in Spanish: A study with 2,765 words. Behavior Research Methods, 46(2), 517-525.

Heyman, T., Van Akeren, L., Hutchison, K. A., & Storms, G. (2016). Filling the gaps: A speeded word fragment completion megastudy. Behavior Research Methods, 48(4), 1508-1527.

Husain, S., Vasishth, S., and Srinivasan, N. (2014). Integration and prediction difficulty in Hindi sentence comprehension: Evidence from an eye-tracking corpus. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 8(2), 1-12.

Hutchison, K. A., Balota, D. A., Neely, J. H., Cortese, M. J., Cohen-Shikora, E. R., Tse, C. S., … & Buchanan, E. (2013). The semantic priming project. Behavior Research Methods, 45(4), 1099-1114.

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Keuleers, E., Diependaele, K. & Brysbaert, M. (2010). Practice effects in large-scale visual word recognition studies: A lexical decision study on 14,000 Dutch mono- and disyllabic words and nonwords. Frontiers in Psychology 1:174. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00174.

Keuleers, E., Lacey, P., Rastle, K., & Brysbaert, M. (2012). The British Lexicon Project: Lexical decision data for 28,730 monosyllabic and disyllabic English words. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 287-304.

Laurinavichyute, A. K., Sekerina, I. A., Alexeeva, S., Bagdasaryan, K., & Kliegl, R. (2019). Russian Sentence Corpus: Benchmark measures of eye movements in reading in Russian. Behavior Research Methods.

Lee, C. Y., Hsu, C. H., Chang, Y. N., Chen, W. F., & Chao, P. C. (2015). The feedback consistency effect in Chinese character recognition: Evidence from a psycholinguistic norm. Language and Linguistics, 16(4), 535-554.

Lemhöfer, K., Dijkstra, T., Schriefers, H., Baayen, R. H., Grainger, J., & Zwitserlood, P. (2008). Native language influences on word recognition in a second language: A megastudy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(1), 12-31.

Liu, Y., Shu, H., & Li, P. (2007). Word naming and psycholinguistic norms: Chinese. Behavior Research Methods, 39(2), 192-198.

Luke, S. G., & Christianson, K. (2018). The Provo Corpus: A large eye-tracking corpus with predictability norms. Behavior Research Methods, 50(2), 826-833.

Mousikou, P., Sadat, J., Lucas, R., & Rastle, K. (2017). Moving beyond the monosyllable in models of skilled reading: Mega-study of disyllabic nonword reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 169-192.

Pexman, P. M., Heard, A., Lloyd, E., & Yap, M. J. (2017). The Calgary semantic decision project: concrete/abstract decision data for 10,000 English words. Behavior Research Methods, 49(2), 407-417.

Pritchard, S. C., Coltheart, M., Palethorpe, S., & Castles, A. (2012). Nonword reading: Comparing dual-route cascaded and connectionist dual-process models with human data. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(5), 1268.

Pynte, J., & Kennedy, A. (2006). An influence over eye movements in reading exerted from beyond the level of the word: Evidence from reading English and French. Vision Research, 46(22), 3786-3801.

Schröter, P., & Schroeder, S. (2017). The Developmental Lexicon Project: A behavioral database to investigate visual word recognition across the lifespan. Behavior Research Methods, 49(6), 2183-2203.

Seidenberg, M.S., & Waters, G.S. (1989). Word recognition and naming: A mega study. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 489.

Spieler D. H., & Balota, D. A. (1997).  Bringing computational models of word naming down to the item level. Psychological Science, 8(6), 411-416.

Sze, W. P., Liow, S. J. R., & Yap, M. J. (2014). The Chinese Lexicon Project: A repository of lexical decision behavioral responses for 2,500 Chinese characters. Behavior Research Methods, 46(1), 263-273.

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Tsang, Y. K., Huang, J., Lui, M., Xue, M., Chan, Y. W. F., Wang, S., & Chen, H. C. (2018). MELD-SCH: A megastudy of lexical decision in simplified Chinese. Behavior Research Methods, 50(5), 1763-1777.

Tse, C. S., Yap, M. J., Chan, Y. L., Sze, W. P., Shaoul, C., & Lin, D. (2017). The Chinese Lexicon Project: A megastudy of lexical decision performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character compound words. Behavior Research Methods, 49(4), 1503-1519.

Tucker, B. V., Brenner, D., Danielson, D. K., Kelley, M. C., Nenadić, F., & Sims, M. (2019). The Massive Auditory Lexical Decision (MALD) database. Behavior Research Methods.

Winsler, K., Midgley, K. J., Grainger, J., & Holcomb, P. J. (2018). An electrophysiological megastudy of spoken word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-20.

Yap, M. J., Liow, S. J. R., Jalil, S. B., & Faizal, S. S. B. (2010). The Malay Lexicon Project: A database of lexical statistics for 9,592 words. Behavior Research Methods, 42(4), 992-1003.