The pathways to higher education: lexical availability in adult candidate students and in young first-year students

Barbeiro, Luís; João, Cláudia; Santos, Susana

doi:10.1080/02601370.2011.570870

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“…Moreover, they incorporate all kinds of populations and age groups. For example, there are studies on the role of lexical access during language acquisition in early childhood ( Dale and Fenson, 1996 ; Dromi, 1999 ) or studies on lexical availability in school and university students ( Barbeiro et al, 2011 ; Richter et al, 2013 ; Ludewig et al, 2022 ). Many studies also document word retrieval difficulties in old age ( Rojas et al, 2023 ) or verbal fluency difficulties in individuals with cognitive impairment or dementia ( Henderson et al, 2023 ).…”

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Applicability and usefulness of pupillometry in the study of lexical access. A scoping review of primary research

Rojas,

Vega-Rodríguez,

Lagos

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Pupil dilation has been associated with the effort required to perform various cognitive tasks. At the lexical level, some studies suggest that this neurophysiological measure would provide objective, real-time information during word processing and lexical access. However, due to the scarcity and incipient advancement of this line of research, its applicability, use, and sensitivity are not entirely clear. This scoping review aims to determine the applicability and usefulness of pupillometry in the study of lexical access by providing an up-to-date overview of research in this area. Following the PRISMA protocol, 16 articles were included in this review. The results show that pupillometry is a highly applicable, useful, and sensitive method for assessing lexical skills of word recognition, word retrieval, and semantic activation. Moreover, it easily fits into traditional research paradigms and methods in the field. Because it is a non-invasive, objective, and automated procedure, it can be applied to any population or age group. However, the emerging development of this specific area of research and the methodological diversity observed in the included studies do not yet allow for definitive conclusions in this area, which in turn does not allow for meta-analyses or fully conclusive statements about what the pupil response actually reflects when processing words. Standardized pupillary recording and analysis methods need to be defined to generate more accurate, replicable research designs with more reliable results to strengthen this line of research.

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