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Mark Torrance
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Cognitive and educational psychology of text production
There's a whole rant about the publication process for this paper, possibly also valuable comment about publishing cognitive papers on a topic that looks "educational", but mainly a rant, that may feature in a later post. Probably best avoided when it appears.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
...research and methods around tracking writers' eye movements within their ever-changing emerging text. Particularly github.com/chukharev/cy... and dating back to link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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GitHub - chukharev/cywrite: CyWrite
CyWrite. Contribute to chukharev/cywrite development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Understanding written composition as fluent, semi-parallel process with occasional hesitations - work led by @sentwrite.bsky.social. We might possibly have already mentioned doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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APA PsycNet
doi.apa.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
And to be clear, the multiple spelling errors in this thread are there for illustrative purposes, and to subliminally advertise our mail order ham side hustle.
November 26, 2024 at 5:41 PM
We don't have any new data to add just at the moment, though we do have an English written image naming dataset for difficult-to-spell words to write up. In the meantime, though, this is fun and potentially useful jens-roeser.shinyapps.io/multilangapp/. Short thread here bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 25, 2024 at 11:52 PM
So please pass jens-roeser.shinyapps.io/multilangapp/ on to anyone you think might find psycholinguistic joy in exploring these data.

I was reminded to post about this bsky.app/profile/jami... from @jamiereillycog.bsky.social. Our database features there alongside much, much more.
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Or compare typing speed in different countries / languages. These are English and Italian writers. Lots of scope for post-hock hypothesizing around effects of orthographic transparency. /6
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
jens-roeser.shinyapps.io/multilangapp/ will also help you find stimuli for you written picture naming experiment, or just feed you prejudice about which Europeans are the worst spellers. Below are the top 9 hardest-to-spell Snodgrass image names. Norway taking a surprise first place. /5
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Collected face-to-face. Oh how naive we were. The plot in the first post shows correlations among naming diversity, spelling diversity, mean time onset latency (RT) and mean interkey interval once output commenced. /4
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Data from samples of at least 60 adults naming all of the images from the colourised Snodgrass and Vaderwart picture set in their first language (Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish). /3
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
jens-roeser.shinyapps.io/multilangapp/ is a Shiny app produced by my colleague Jens Roeser that gives access to summary data and stimulus lists from the public dataset that we report here link.springer.com/article/10.3... /2
Timed written picture naming in 14 European languages - Behavior Research Methods
We describe the Multilanguage Written Picture Naming Dataset. This gives trial-level data and time and agreement norms for written naming of the 260 pictures of everyday objects that compose the color...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
And me. Cognitive and educational psychology of written production.
November 23, 2024 at 1:11 PM
...often experience “flow” when composing text. Ideas seem to emerge from the fingers as you type. Our findings suggest that this results from a fundamental parallelism in how the mind plans and executes text." (2/2)
November 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM