Matthew Mak
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Matthew Mak
@matthewmakpsy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Warwick University. Psycholinguist interested in language and memory. Everything word-related. Previously at York and Oxford.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AeqBP58AAAAJ&hl=en
August 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
August 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
August 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Key finding #4
AI policy requiring students to provide a voluntary AI declaration doesn't seem to work, despite clear guidelines and regular communication. We need alternatives!
August 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Key finding #3
Student writings are becoming more positive in tone. How does this affect critical engagement?
August 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Key finding #2
Writing style is increasingly formal and becoming GPT-like
August 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Key finding #1
ChatGPT-associated stylistic markers (e.g., delve, underscore) surged in prevalence shortly after ChatGPT's launch, but in 2025, we saw a rather consistent decline
August 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Great question! In priming, seeing X-Y makes processing X-Y easier next time. But in our final experiment, after reading X-Y, participants judged X in the absence of Y—yet X and Y became closer in the participant's mind . So I would say this goes beyond priming, although definitely related.
February 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thank you David! More to come as we are doing some follow-up!
February 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thank you! So glad to hear that I'm not the only one who finds this interesting! 😊
February 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thank you Jamie. As a fellow word nerd, I think Exp 5 will be of particular interest to you. We used Walsh and Rissman's (2023) innovative measure to index relatedness between two words *without* showing to participants the two words together.
February 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Results suggest involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension and highlight the flexibility of the mental lexicon. Results also provide a simple mechanism to how the lexicon acquires its associative structure.
February 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM