Selected Publications: Christopher Westbury

 

Westbury, C. (2016). Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain: Explaining semantics without semantics. The Mental Lexicon, 11(3), 350-374.

 

Hollis, G., & Westbury, C. (2016). The principals of meaning: Extracting semantic dimensions from co-occurrence models of semantics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6), 1744-1756.

 

Westbury, C., Shaoul, C., Moroschan, G., & Ramscar, M. (2016). Telling the world’s least funny jokes: On the quantification of humor as entropy. Journal of Memory and Language, 86, 141-156.

 

Westbury, C. F., Cribben, I., & Cummine, J. (2016). Imaging Imageability: Behavioral Effects and Neural Correlates of Its Interaction with Affect and Context. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10.

 

Westbury, C., Keith, J., Briesemeister, B. B., Hofmann, M. J., & Jacobs, A. M. (2015). Avoid violence, rioting, and outrage; approach celebration, delight, and strength: Using large text corpora to compute valence, arousal, and the basic emotions. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1599-1622.

 

Westbury, C. (2014). You can’t drink a word: Lexical and individual emotionality affect subjective familiarity judgments. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43(5), 631-649.