Publications
Under review
- Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2024). Morphology in children’s books: What’s there and what’s useful for learning? [pre-print]
- Korochkina, M., & Rastle, K. (2024). The vocabulary barrier in the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in English Literature. [pre-print]
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02028-x [pre-print] [data and analysis code]
- 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]
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241229694 [The CYP-LEX database, supplemetary files, and analysis code]
- 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 analysis code]
- 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 [pe-registration, pre-print, data, and analysis code]
- 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]
Theses
- Korochkina, M. (2022). Learning of new words: Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of encoding and integration. PhD Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25949/23707128.v1
Research conference contributions
Talks
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What do children learn from books, and how to talk to teachers about it. Talk given at a departmental meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 23 October 2024. [slides]
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The nature of morphemic regularities in children’s literature: What do British children learn about derivational morphology when they read? Talk given at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-14 July 2024. [slides]
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What can children learn about English morphology through book reading? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, York, UK, 3-5 July 2024. [slides]
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Vocabulary and morphological complexity in books popular with British children. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), Reading, UK, 11 December 2023. [slides]
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Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning? Talk given at the Contextual Diversity Workshop organised by the Experimental Psychology Society, London, UK, 21-22 September 2023. [slides]
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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. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive and Developmental sections of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Bristol, UK, 12-14 September 2023. [slides]
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The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A lexical database of books directed at children and young adults. Talk given at the 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Porto, Portugal, 6-9 September 2023. [slides]
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The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): How does book language change as children transition into and through adolescence? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Swansea, UK, 12-14 July 2023. [slides]
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A novel large-scale lexical database of books for children and young people. Talk given at a departmental meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 31 May 2023. [slides]
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Behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration in novel word learning. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, London, UK, 4-6 January 2023. [slides]
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Behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration in novel word learning. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, online attendance, 5-8 October 2021. [slides for the Slide Slam Session] [supporting documentation]
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A behavioural and electrophysiological investigation of novel word learning. Talk given at the Words in the World, online attendance, 16-18 October 2020. [slides]
Posters
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Learning in the wild: What can children learn about morphemic statistical regularities through reading? Poster to be presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York City, USA.
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Neural correlates of encoding in learning of novel names for novel concepts. Poster presented at the Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, York, United Kingdom, 7-9 September 2022. [poster]
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Behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration in novel word learning. Poster presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, online attendance, 19-22 November 2020. [slides]
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Semantic integration of new vocabulary: Does learning context matter? Poster presented at the 21st meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Tenerife, Spain, 25-28 September 2019. [poster]
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The effect of the learning context on novel word learning. Poster presented at the Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing, Moscow, Russia, 6-8 September 2019. [poster]