Publications

Publications by topic

Concepts

de Almeida, R. G. & Gleitman, L. (Eds.) (2018). On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at its Core. Oxford University Press. [link to Oxford]

Antal, C., de Almeida, R. G., & Johns, B. T. (2025, submitted). Semantic properties and categorization norms for the 260 Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) objects: A 45-year conceptual update to a classic set. [draft: request]

Antal., C., Johns, B. T., & de Almeida, R. G. (2025). The effect of contextual and semantic diversity in lexical and conceptual access: Evidence from a picture-word semantic congruency task, Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 40(2), 1-8. [.pdf] [link to article]

Antal., C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2024). Grasping the concept of an object at a glance: Category information accessed by brief dichoptic presentation. Cognitive Science, 48 (10), e70002 [link to article]

Antal., C., de Almeida, R. G., & Johns, B. T. (2022). Which semantic properties of a feature affect access to an object concept? In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2364-2371). Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society. [.pdf][link to article]

de Almeida, R. G., Mobayyen, F., Antal, C., Kehayia, E., Nair, V., & Schwartz, G. (2021). Category-specific verb-semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from static and dynamic action naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38 (1), 1-26. [.pdf] [link to journal]
de Almeida, R. G. (2018) A Fodor's guide to Cognitive Science. In de Almeida, R. G. & Gleitman, L. (Eds.) (2018). On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at its Core. Oxford University Press. [.pdf] [link to book]

de Almeida, R. G., & Antal, C. (2021). How can semantics avoid the troubles with the analytic/synthetic distinction? In S. Löbner et al. (Eds.) Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. New York: Springer. [.pdf] [link to book]
de Almeida, R. G. (2007). Cognitive science as paradigm of interdisciplinarity: The case of lexical concepts. In J. Audy & M. Morosini (Orgs.). Interdisciplinarity in Science and at the University, pp. 221-247. Porto Alegre: EdiPUCRS. [.pdf]

Mobayyen, F. & de Almeida, R. G. (2005). The influence of semantic and morphological complexity of verbs on sentence recall: Implications for the nature of conceptual representation and category-specific deficits. Brain and Cognition, 57, 168-175. [ .pdf]

Segalowitz, N. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Conceptual representation of verbs in bilinguals: Semantic field effects and a second language performance paradox. Brain and Language, 81, 517-531. [.pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (2001). Conceptual deficits without features: A view from atomism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(3): 482-483. [.pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (1999). What do category-specific semantic deficits tell us about the representation of lexical concepts? Brain and Language, 68, 241-248. [.pdf]

Indeterminate sentences (a.k.a. 'coercion' phenomenon)

Ungerer, T., Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2025, in press). Sneezing the napkin off the table: Understanding grammatically creative, coerced sentences in real time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [link soon]
Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Indeterminate and enriched propositions in context linger: Evidence from an eye-tracking false memory paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 4376(12), 1-9 [link to article]
Riven, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Context breeds false memories for indeterminate sentences. Frontiers in Psychology 12:616065. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616065 [link to article]
de Almeida, R. G., & Antal, C. (2021). How can semantics avoid the troubles with the analytic/synthetic distinction? In S. Löbner et al. (Eds.) Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. New York: Springer. [.pdf] [book]

de Almeida, R. G. & Lepore, E. (2018). Semantics for a module. [.pdf] [link to book]

de Almeida, R. G. (2018) Composing meaning and thinking. In G. Preyer (ed.) Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. [.pdf] [link to book]

de Almeida, R. G., Riven, L., Manouilidou, C., Lungu, O., Dwivedi, V., Jarema, G., & Gillon, B. (2016). The neuronal correlates of indeterminate sentence interpretation: an fMRI study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10:614. [link to article]

de Almeida, R. G. & Riven, L. (2012). Indeterminacy and coercion effects: Minimal representations with pragmatic enrichment. In DiSciullo, A.M. (Ed), Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar (pp. 277-301). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [.pdf]

de Almeida, R. G., Manouilidou, C., Roncero, C., & Riven, L. (2011). Three tales of semantic decomposition: Causatives, coercion, and metaphors. In A. I. França & M. Maia (Eds.) Papers in Psycholinguistics (pp. 172-190). Rio de Janeiro: Imprint. [uncorrected proofs | .pdf]

Leitão, M. M., Gadelha, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2011). Looking for coercion effects in Brazilian Portuguese. In A. I. França & M. Maia (Eds.) Papers in Psycholinguistics (pp. 151-156). Rio de Janeiro: Imprint. [uncorrected proofs | .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. & Dwivedi, V. D. (2008). Coercion without lexical decomposition: Type-shifting effects revisited. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 53, 301-326. [ .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (2004). The effect of context on the processing of type-shifting verbs. Brain and Language. 90, 249-261. [ .pdf ]

Verb structure and meaning

Ungerer, T., Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2025, submitted). Sneezing the napkin off the table: Understanding grammatically creative, coerced sentences in real time.
Ungerer, T. & de Almeida, R. G. (2024). Context affects the comprehension of implicit arguments. Evidence from the maze task. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam: Cognitive Science Society. [link to article]

de Almeida, R. G., Mobayyen, F., Antal, C., Kehayia, E., Nair, V., & Schwartz, G. (2021). Category-specific verb-semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from static and dynamic action naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38 (1), 1-26. [.pdf] [link to journal]

de Almeida, R. G., & Antal, C. (2021). How can semantics avoid the troubles with the analytic/synthetic distinction? In S. Löbner et al. (Eds.) Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. New York: Springer. [.pdf] [book]

de Almeida, R. G., Di Nardo, J., Antal, C., & von Grünau, M.W. (2019). Understanding events by eye and ear: Agent and verb drive non-anticipatory eye movements in dynamic scenes. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:2162 [link to article]
de Almeida, R. G. & Manouilidou, C. (Eds.) (2015). Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. New York: Springer. [link to Springer]
- Review in the journal Aphasiology

de Almeida, R. G. & Manouilidou, C. (2015). The study of verbs in cognitive science. In R. G. de Almeida & C. Manouilidou (Eds.), Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. New York: Springer. [.pdf] [link to article] [link to book]

de Almeida, R. G. & Antal, C. (2016). Category-specific verb deficits in Alzheimer's: Argument structure effects in naming and sentence production with dynamic scenes. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language annual conference. London, August. [poster][paper draft]

Ibaños, A. M. & de Almeida, R. G. (Eds.) (2016). Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Evidentiality. Special issue of the journal Letras de Hoje. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2016.3

Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2013). Processing correlates of verb typology: Investigating internal structure and argument realization. Linguistics, 51 (4), 767-792. [uncorrected proofs | .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G., Manouilidou, C., Roncero, C., & Riven, L. (2011). Three tales of semantic decomposition: Causatives, coercion, and metaphors. In A. I. França & M. Maia (Eds.) Papers in Psycholinguistics (pp. 172-190). Rio de Janeiro: Imprint. [uncorrected proofs | .pdf]

Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009) Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease. In S. Featherston & S. Winkler (eds.). The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics, vol. 1: Process. (pp. 123-150). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. [.pdf]

Manouilidou, C., de Almeida, R. G., Schwartz, G., & Nair, V. (2009). Thematic roles in Alzheimer’s disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 167-186. [.pdf]

Mobayyen, F. & de Almeida, R. G. (2005). The influence of semantic and morphological complexity of verbs on sentence recall: Implications for the nature of conceptual representation and category-specific deficits. Brain and Cognition, 57, 168-175. [ .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G., Madon, Z., van de Velde, C., Di Nardo, J., Godfrey, J., & von Grünau, M. W., (2004). Verb-driven shifts of attention during sentence comprehension and dynamic scene processing. Journal of Vision, 4 (8), 828a. [abstract]

de Almeida, R. G., van de Velde, C., von Grünau, M. W., & Galera, C. (2003). (Eye-)tracking the time course of visual and linguistic integration: the effect of verb-conceptual restrictions. Journal of Vision, 3 (9), 308a. [abstract]

Metaphors

Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2025, in press). Aptness, familiarity, concreteness, and linguistic variables for 300 two-word metaphor combinations in context and in isolation. Behavior Research Methods.
Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2023). Early birds can fly: Awakening the literal meaning of conventional metaphors further downstream. Metaphor and Symbol [link to article]
Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2022). Can you mend a broken heart? Awakening conventional metaphors in the maze. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [.pdf] [link to article]

Roncero, C., de Almeida, R. G., Pissani, L., & Patalas, I. (2021). A metaphor is not like a simile: reading-time evidence for distinct interpretations for negated tropes. Metaphor and Symbol, 36 (2), 85-98. [.pdf] [link to journal]

Patalas, I. & de Almeida, R. G. (2019). Interpreting metaphors in real-time: cross-modal evidence for exhaustive access. In In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2530-2536). Montreal, QC: Cognitive Science Society. [.pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (2018) Composing meaning and thinking. In G. Preyer (ed.) Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. [.pdf] [link to book]

Ashby, J., Roncero, C., de Almeida, R. G., & Agauas, S. (2018). The early processing of metaphors and similes: evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (1), 161-168. [.pdf] [link to article]

Roncero, C., de Almeida, R. G., Martin, D., & de Caro, M. (2016). Aptness predicts metaphor preference in the lab and on the Internet. Metaphor & Symbol, 31, 31-46. [.pdf] [link to article]

Roncero, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2015). Semantic properties, aptness, familiarity, conventionality, and interpretive diversity scores for 84 metaphors and similes. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 800-812 [.pdf] [link to journal]

Roncero, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2014). The importance of being apt: Metaphor comprehension in Alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 [link to article]

de Almeida, R. G., Manouilidou, C., Roncero, C., & Riven, L. (2011). Three tales of semantic decomposition: Causatives, coercion, and metaphors. In A. I. França & M. Maia (Eds.) Papers in Psycholinguistics (pp. 172-190). Rio de Janeiro: Imprint. [uncorrected proofs | .pdf]

Language-Vision Interface

de Almeida, R. G., Di Nardo, J., Antal, C., & von Grünau, M.W. (2019). Understanding events by eye and ear: Agent and verb drive non-anticipatory eye movements in dynamic scenes. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:2162 [link to article]
de Almeida, R. G., Madon, Z., van de Velde, C., Di Nardo, J., Godfrey, J., & von Grünau, M. W., (2004). Verb-driven shifts of attention during sentence comprehension and dynamic scene processing. Journal of Vision, 4 (8), 828a. [abstract]
de Almeida, R. G., van de Velde, C., von Grünau, M. W., & Galera, C. (2003). (Eye-)tracking the time course of visual and linguistic integration: the effect of verb-conceptual restrictions. Journal of Vision, 3 (9), 308a. [abstract]

Semantic Deficits (in Alzheimer's and Brain Damaged populations)

de Almeida, R. G., Mobayyen, F., Antal, C., Kehayia, E., Nair, V., & Schwartz, G. (2021). Category-specific verb-semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from static and dynamic action naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38 (1), 1-26. [.pdf] [link to journal]

de Almeida, R. G. & Antal, C. (2016). Category-specific verb deficits in Alzheimer's: Argument structure effects in naming and sentence production with dynamic scenes. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language annual conference. London, August. [poster]

Roncero, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2014). The importance of being apt: Metaphor comprehension in Alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 [link to article]

Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009) Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease. In S. Featherston & S. Winkler (eds.). Process and Product in Empirical Linguistics (pp. 123-150). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. [.pdf]

Manouilidou, C., de Almeida, R. G., Schwartz, G., & Nair, V. (2009). Thematic roles in Alzheimer’s disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 167-186. [.pdf]

Mobayyen, F. & de Almeida, R. G. (2005). The influence of semantic and morphological complexity of verbs on sentence recall: Implications for the nature of conceptual representation and category-specific deficits. Brain and Cognition, 57, 168-175. [ .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (2001). Conceptual deficits without features: A view from atomism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(3): 482-483. [.pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (1999). What do category-specific semantic deficits tell us about the representation of lexical concepts? Brain and Language, 68, 241-248. [.pdf]

Morphology in Word Recognition

Antal, C., Salehi, K., Rich, S. K., White, C. R. de A., & de Almeida, R. G. (2025, submitted). The effect of social usage on visual word recognition. [draft: request]
de Almeida, R. G., Antal, C., & Salehi, K. (2025). Early morpho-orthographic and semantic effects in word recognition: Evidence from a foveal-splitting dichoptic paradigm with anaglyphs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [link to article]
Salehi, K. & de Almeida, R. G. (2025, submitted). Form, then meaning, in visual word recognition: Evidence from a dichoptic word-picture relatedness task. [draft: request]
de Almeida, R. G., Gallant, J., Antal, C., & Libben, G. (2024). Semantic access of ambiguous word roots cannot be stopped by affixation — not even in sentence contexts: Evidence from eye tracking and the maze task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [link to article]
Antal, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2023). The units of gating and access to lexical representations during spoken word recognition. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney: Cognitive Science Society. [link to article]
Salehi, K. & de Almeida, R. G. (2023). Semantic access to constituents of compounds and pseudocompounds: Evidence from dichoptic presentation. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney: Cognitive Science Society. [link to article]
de Almeida, R. G., Dumassais, S., & Antal, C. (2020) Morphological parsing by foveal split: Evidence from Anaglyphs. In S. Deninson, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3055-3061). Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society. [.pdf ]

Pollatsek, A., Drieghe, D., Stockall, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2010). The interpretation of ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence context. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17, 88-94. [ .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (2005). Changing morphological structures: The effect of sentence context on the interpretation of structurally ambiguous English trimorphemic words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 373-394. [Reprinted in: R. Frost, J. Grainger & K. Rastle (Eds.) Current Issues in Morphological Processing. London: Psychology Press] [ .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (2002). Compound pre-access decomposition: Effects of constituent disruption. Folia Linguistica, 36, 97-115. [.pdf]

Libben, G. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Is there a morphological parser? In S. Bendjaballah, W. U. Dressler, O. E. Pfeiffer & M. D. Voeikova (eds.), Morphology 2000, pp. 213-225. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [.pdf]

Libben, G., Derwing, B. L., & de Almeida, R. G. (1999). Ambiguous novel compounds and models of morphological parsing. Brain and Language, 68, 378-386. [.pdf]

Other topics

Derwing, B. L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009). Non-chronometric experiments in Linguistics. In D. Eddington (Ed.). Experimental and Quantitative Linguistics (pp. 234-282), Munich: Lincom. [ .pdf]

de Almeida, R. G. (2006). On the status of “linguistic psychology” and the language faculty. In: G. Wiebe, G. Libben, T. Priestly, R. Smyth, & S. Wang (Eds.), Phonology, Morphology, and the Empirical Imperative: Papers in Honour of Bruce Derwing. Taipei: Crane Publishing. [ .pdf]

Derwing, B. L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2005). Métodos experimentais em lingüística. In M. Maia & I. Finger (Eds.). Processamento da Linguagem, pp. 401-442. Pelotas, Educat. [Reprinted in: I. Finger & C. Matzembauer (Eds.) Papers in Psycholinguistics. Pelotas: Educat, CD-ROM] [ .pdf]

Lacroix, G., L., Constantinescu, I., Cousineau, D., de Almeida, R. G., Segalowitz, N., & von Grunau, M. W. (2005). Attentional blink differences between adolescent dyslexic and normal readers. Brain and Cognition, 57, 115-119. [ .pdf]

Lacroix, G., Segalowitz, N., von Grünau, M. W., Gurnsey, R., G. de Almeida, R. G., Borokhovski, E., Wada, N., & Constantinescu, I. (2005). Sciences cognitives appliquées et habiletés langagières de base. In Pierre, S. (Ed.) Developpement, Integration et Evaluation des Technologies de Formation et D'apprentissage— D.I.V.A. Montreal, Presses Internationales Polytechnique. [.pdf]