Word megastudy data available

If you are looking for word processing data, the following resources may be of use for various languages. If you know of more resources or have better links, feel free to contact marc dot brysbaert at ugent dot be. If you are looking for word features rather than word processing data, better have a look here.

Chinese

• Liu et al. (2007)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,423 single character words
  • Data (Word features and Naming latencies in txt or excl).
• Sze et al. (2014)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,500 single character words
  • Data
• Lee et al. (2015)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 3,423 single character words
• Chang et al. (2016)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 3,314 single character words
  • Data
• Tse et al. (2017)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 25,286 words
  • Data
• Tsang et al. (2018)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 12,578 words
  • Data
• Wang et al. (2019)
  • Writing spoken words
  • 1,600 characters
  • data

Dutch

• Keuleers et al. (2010)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 14,089 monosyllabic and disyllabic words
  • Data
• Ernestus & Cutler (2015)
  • Lexical decision
  • Auditory presentation
  • 2,780 words
  • Data
• Brysbaert et al. (2016)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 30,016 words (lemmas)
  • Data
• Heyman et al. (2016)
  • Speeded fragment completion
  • Visual presentation
  • 8,240 words (lemmas)
  • Data
• Cop et al. (2017)
  • Text reading (eye movement data)
  • Visual presentation
  • 5,575 words
  • Data and word reading times
• Brysbaert et al. (2019)
  • Word recognition times in Y/N vocabulary test (Dutch Crowdsourcing Project)
  • Visual presentation
  • 54,319 words
  • Data

English

• Seidenberg & Waters (1989)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,900 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Treiman et al. (1995)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,327 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Spieler & Balota (1997) + Balota & Spieler (1998)
  • Word naming (young and old people)
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,428 monosyllabic words
  • Data (Trial data or word means)
• Kessler et al. (2002)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 3,688 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Chateau & Jared (2003)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,000 disyllabic words
  • Data
• Balota et al. (2004)
  • Lexical decision (young and old people)
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,428 monosyllabic words
  • Data (Trial level or item means)
• Pynte & Kennedy (2007)
  • Text reading (eye movements, Dundee corpus)
  • Visual presentation
  • 9,776 words
• Balota et al. (2007)
  • Lexical decision and Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 40,481 words
  • Data
• Lemhöfer et al. (2008)
  • Progressive demasking (in L1 and L2)
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,025 words
  • Data
• Cortese et al. (2010)
  • Recognition memory
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,578 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Keuleers et al. (2010)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 28,730 monosyllabic and disyllabic words
  • Data
• Pritchard et al. (2012)
  • Non-word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,475 monosyllabic nonwords
  • Data
• Adelman et al. (2013)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,820 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Cohen-Shikora et al. (2013)
  • Past tense generation of verbs
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,200 verbs
  • Data
• Frank et al. (2013)
  • Sentence reading (eye movements and self-paced reading)
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,524 words
  • Data
• Hutchison et al. (2013)
  • Lexical decision and word naming
  • Visual presentation (with semantic primes)
  • 1,661 words
  • Data
• Adelman et al. (2014a)
  • Lexical decision (1,000 participants)
  • Visual presentation (with orthographic primes)
  • 420 words
  • Data
• Adelman et al. (2014b)
  • Word naming (100 participants)
  • Visual presentation
  • 592 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Cortese et al. (2015a)
  • Word naming (beginning v. end of block)
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,614 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Cortese et al. (2015b)
  • Recognition memory
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,897 disyllabic words
  • Data
• Dufau et al. (2015)
  • Go / no-go task (EEG measurement)
  • Visual presentation
  • 960 nouns
  • Data
• Frank et al. (2015)
  • Sentence reading (EEG measurement)
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,524 words
• Goh et al. (2016)
  • Lexical decision and semantic categorization
  • Auditory presentation
  • 468 words
  • Data
• Brysbaert et al. (2017)
  • Lexical decision (Dutch-English L2 participants)
  • Visual presentation
  • 420 words (same as Adelman et al., 2014a)
  • Data
• Cop et al. (2017)
  • Text reading (eye movements, L1 and L2)
  • Visual presentation
  • 5,012 words
  • Data and word reading times
• Cortese et al. (2017)
  • Word naming (manipulation of list difficulty)
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,500 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Dirix & Duyck (2017)
  • Lexical decision (Dutch-English L2 participants)
  • Visual presentation
  • 800 words
  • Data
• Mousikou et al. (2017)
  • Non-word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 915 disyllabic nonwords
  • Data
• Pexman et al. (2017)
  • Semantic decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 10,000 words (lemmas)
  • Data
• Futrell et al. (2018)
  • Self-paced text reading
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,332 words
  • Data
• Lau et al. (2018)
  • Free recall and word recognition
  • Visual presentation
  • 532 words
  • Data
• Luke & Christianson (2018)
  • Text reading (eye movements)
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,197 words
  • Data
• Cortese et al. (2018)
  • Word naming (conditional)
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,145 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Winsler et al. (2018)
  • Go / no-go (EEG measurement)
  • Auditory presentation
  • 960 words
• Tucker et al. (2019)
  • Lexical decision
  • Auditory presentation
  • 26,793 words
  • Data
• Liben-Nowell et al. (2019)
  • Perceptual identification
  • Auditory presentation
  • 1,081 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Hsu et al. (2019)
  • Sentence reading (eye movements and fMRI)
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,500 words (5 expository texts)
  • Data
• Mandera et al. (2020)
  • Word recognition times in Y/N vocabulary test (English Crowdsourcing Project)
  • Visual presentation
  • 61,851 words
  • Summary data and raw data
• Goh et al. (2020)
  • Lexical decision
  • Auditory presentation
  • 10,170 words
  • Data
• Schmidtke et al. (2020)
  • Eye movements in reading
  • Visual presentation
  • 931 compound words
  • Data

French

• Pynte & Kennedy (2007)
  • Text reading (eye movements, Dundee corpus)
  • Visual presentation
  • 11,321 words
• Ferrand et al. (2010)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 38,840 words
  • Data
• Ferrand et al. (2011)
  • Lexical decision, progressive demasking, and word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,482 monosyllabic words
  • Data
• Ferrand et al. (2018)
  • Lexical decision
  • Auditory and visual presentation
  • 17,876 or 28,466 words
  • Data

German

• Kliegl et al. (2006)
  • Sentence reading (eye movements)
  • Visual presentation
  • About 1,000 word types
  • Data
• Schröter & Schroeder (2017)
  • Lexical decision and word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,152 words
  • Data

Hindi

• Husain et al. (2015)
  • Sentence reading (eye movements)
  • Visual presentation
  • about 1,000 word types
  • Data

Malay

• Yap et al. (2010)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 9,592 words
  • Data

Portuguese

• Soares et al. (2019)
  • Word naming and lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 1,920 words

Russian

• Laurinavichyute et al. (2019)
  • Sentence reading (eye movements)
  • Visual presentation
  • About 1,000 word types
  • Data

Spanish

• Davies et al. (2013)
  • Word naming
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,764 words
  • Data
• González-Nosti et al. (2014)
  • Lexical decision
  • Visual presentation
  • 2,765 words
  • Data
• Aguasvivas et al. (2018)
  • Word recognition (crowdsourcing)
  • Visual presentation
  • 45,389 words
  • Data

 

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Adelman, J. S., Sabatos-DeVito, M. G., Marquis, S. J., & Estes, Z. (2014b). Individual differences in reading aloud: A mega-study, item effects, and some models. Cognitive psychology, 68, 113-160.

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.

Balota, D. A., Cortese, M. J., Sergent-Marshall, S. D., Spieler, D. H., & Yap, M. J. (2004). Visual word recognition of single-syllable words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133(2), 283-316.

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Balota, D. A., Yap, M. J., Hutchison, K. A., & Cortese, M. J. (2013). Megastudies: What do millions (or so) of trials tell us about lexical processing? In J. S. Adelman (Ed.), Visual Word Recognition Volume 1: Models and methods, orthography and phonology (pp. 90-115). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

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Brysbaert, M., Keuleers, E. and Mandera, P., 2019. Recognition Times for 54 Thousand Dutch Words: Data from the Dutch Crowdsourcing Project. Psychologica Belgica, 59(1), pp.281–300. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/pb.491

Brysbaert, M., Lagrou, E., & Stevens, M. (2017). Visual word recognition in a second language: A test of the lexical entrenchment hypothesis with lexical decision times. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 530-548.

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.

Chateau, D., & Jared, D. (2003). Spelling–sound consistency effects in disyllabic word naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 48(2), 255-280.

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

Cortese, M.J., Khanna, M.M., & Hacker, S. (2010) Recognition memory for 2,578 monosyllabic words. Memory, 18, 595-609. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.493892.

Cortese, M.J., Khanna, M.M., Kopp, R., Santo, J.B, Preston, K.S., & Van Zuiden, T. (2017). Participants shift response deadlines based on list difficulty during reading aloud megastudies, Memory & Cognition, 45, 589-599.

Cortese, M.J., McCarty D.P., & Schock, J. (2015b). A mega recognition memory study of 2,897 disyllabic words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 1489-1501. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2014.945096

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.

Dirix, N., & Duyck, W. (2017). The first-and second-language age of acquisition effect in first-and second-language book reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 103-120.

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.

Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Lau, M. C., Ng, M. M., & Tan, L. C. (2016). Semantic richness effects in spoken word recognition: A lexical decision and semantic categorization megastudy. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 976.

Goh, W.D., Yap, M.J., & Chee, Q.W. (2020). The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords. Behavior Resesearch Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01352-0

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.

Hsu, C.R., Clariana, R., Schloss, B., & Li, P. (2019). Neurocognitive Signatures of Naturalistic Reading of Scientific Texts: A Fixation-Related fMRI Study. Scientific Reports, 9, 10678.

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.

Kessler, B., Treiman, R., & Mullennix, J. (2002). Phonetic biases in voice key response time measurements. Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 145-171.

Keuleers, E & Balota, D.A. (2015) Megastudies, crowd-sourcing, and large datasets in psycholinguistics: An overview of recent developments, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 68, (8) 1457-1468.

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.

Lau, M. C., Goh, W. D., & Yap, M. J. (2018). An item-level analysis of lexical-semantic effects in free recall and recognition memory using the megastudy approach. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 2207-2222.

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.

Liben-Nowell, D., Strand, J., Sharp, A., Wexler, T., & Woods, K. (2019). The Danger of Testing by Selecting Controlled Subsets, with Applications to Spoken-Word Recognition. Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.51

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.

Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2020). Recognition times for 62 thousand English words: Data from the English Crowdsourcing Project. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 741–760. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01272-8

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.

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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.

Treiman, R., Mullennix, J., Bijeljac-Babic, R., & Richmond-Welty, E. D. (1995). The special role of rimes in the description, use, and acquisition of English orthography. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 107-136.

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.