Research output

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Cooper, H., Korochkina, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle, K. (2026). Assessing text experience in British primary school children: New validated title and author recognition tests. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, E-pub ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218261421104. Pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/gmv72.
Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (2026). Morphemes in the wild: Modelling affix learning from the noisy landscape of natural text. Journal of Memory and Language, 148, 104746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2026.104746. Pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/sf2bh.
Korochkina, M., Cooper, H., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle, K. (2026). Morpheme knowledge is shaped by information available through orthography. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33, 3. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02830-2. Pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/yq9h7/.
Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2025). Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning. npj Science of Learning, 10: 22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00313-6. Pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/vab95/.
Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2025). The vocabulary barrier in the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in English Literature. The Use of English, 76(2), 12–26. https://englishassociation.ac.uk/the-use-of-english/. Pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/hqvd3/.
Crawford, M., Raheel, N., Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2024). Inadequate foundational decoding skills constrain global literacy goals for pupils in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 74–83. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02028-x. Pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/2qxm9/, data and analysis code: https://osf.io/6s23f/.
Korochkina, M., Nickels, L., & Bürki, A. (2024). What can we learn about integration of novel words into semantic memory from automatic semantic priming? Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 39(4), 455–488. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2328586. Pre-registration, pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/ycukn/.
Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle, K. (2024). The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A large-scale lexical database of books read by children and young people in the United Kingdom. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(12), 2418–2438. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241229694. Code, supplementary information, and data files that constitute the database: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SQU49. The CYP-LEX interactive online tool: https://cyp-lex.rastlelab.com/.
Lombard, A., Ulicheva, A., Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2024). The regularity of polysemy patterns in the mind: Computational and experimental data. GLOSSA Psycholinguistics, 3(1): 3, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.5070/G60111327. Data and analyis code: https://osf.io/uhy75/.
Korochkina, M., Sowman, P. F., Nickels, L., & Bürki, A. (2023). Neural correlates of encoding in novel word learning. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1): 57525. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.57525. Pre-registration, pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/mg4kr/.
Korochkina, M., Bürki, A., & Nickels, L. (2021). Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning? Journal of Memory and Language, 120, 104246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104246. Pre-registration, pre-print, data, and analysis code: https://osf.io/g7ftz/.

Other

Korochkina, M. (2022). Learning of new words: Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of encoding and integration. PhD Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25949/23707128.v1

Invited talks

The challenges and opportunities of recreational reading: Insights from a 70-mln-word corpus of books popular with British children and young people. University of Birmingham, 5 June 2026. [slides]
Learning affixes through text experience: A new theoretical and computational framework. University of Cambridge, 9 October 2025. [slides]
Pre-registraion & Open Materials: The What, Why, and How. 31st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Denmark, 10 July 2024.

Regular talks

Modelling affix learning from reading: Insights from compositional distributional semantics. Symposium “Language models as tools for psycholinguistics” at the annual meeting of experimental psychologists TeaP in Tübingen, Germany, 17 March 2026. [slides]
Assessing text experience in British primary school children: New validated Title and Author Recognition Tests. Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), Reading, UK, 15 December 2025. [slides]
Morpheme knowledge is shaped by information available through orthography. The 24th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, UK, 1-6 September 2025. [slides]
What and how do we learn about morphemes through reading experience? Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Lancaster, UK, 2-4 April 2025. [slides]
The graded nature of morphological information in text, and what it means for morpheme learning. Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), Reading, UK, 12 December 2024 (with Holly Cooper). [slides]
What do children learn from books, and how to talk to teachers about it. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 23 October 2024. [slides]
The nature of morphemic regularities in children’s literature: What do British children learn about derivational morphology when they read? The 31st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-14 July 2024. [slides]
What can children learn about English morphology through book reading? Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, York, UK, 3-5 July 2024. [slides]
Vocabulary and morphological complexity in books popular with British children. Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), Reading, UK, 11 December 2023. [slides]
Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning? Contextual Diversity Workshop organised by the Experimental Psychology Society, London, UK, 21-22 September 2023. [slides]
What do children read as they transition into and through adolescence? Insights from CYP-LEX, a new large-scale lexicon of books for children and young people. Annual meeting of the Cognitive and Developmental sections of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Bristol, UK, 12-14 September 2023. [slides]
The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A lexical database of books directed at children and young adults. The 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Porto, Portugal, 6-9 September 2023. [slides]
The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): How does book language change as children transition into and through adolescence? Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Swansea, UK, 12-14 July 2023. [slides]
A novel large-scale lexical database of books for children and young people. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 31 May 2023. [slides]
Behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration in novel word learning. Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, London, UK, 4-6 January 2023. [slides]
Behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration in novel word learning. Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 5-8 October 2021. [slides] [supporting documentation]
A behavioural and electrophysiological investigation of novel word learning. Words in the World, 16-18 October 2020. [slides]

Posters

Learning in the wild: What can children learn about morphemic statistical regularities through reading? The 65th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York City, USA.
Neural correlates of encoding in learning of novel names for novel concepts. Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), York, UK, 7-9 September 2022. [poster]
Behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration in novel word learning. The 61st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 19-22 November 2020. [slides]
Semantic integration of new vocabulary: Does learning context matter? The 21st meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Tenerife, Spain, 25-28 September 2019. [poster]
The effect of the learning context on novel word learning. Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Moscow, Russia, 6-8 September 2019. [poster]