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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Beginner readers do not benefit from previewing upcoming words but are still negatively impacted by them. We found strong interference by adjacent words or unknown font strings in Grades 2 and 5. This can be a major factor in fluency development. doi.org/10.1016/j.co... @cognitionjournal.bsky.social

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Do you speak Norwegian? If yes, come join us as a doctoral student or postdoctoral researcher, to work on randomized controlled trials of math and writing interventions for upper elementary school children. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (predoc) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (postdoc)

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Printed words are slower to recognize when surrounded by other words, especially at short distance. Interference is greater from the right side, where the adjacent word is also simultaneously lexically activated: doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Are we witnessing the enshittification of ResearchGate? Started promising and useful, but hasn't really gotten over toddler-stage yet. Won't read pdfs correctly, won't parse metadata from doi correctly, won't identify known authors correctly, won't join endlessly proliferating preprints,... 1/2

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My first publication ever, 30 years ago, was in Nature (cognitive research on Mt. Everest is cool!), with serious limitations, severely underpowered and relentlessly p-hacked, edited from several thousand words down to 500. Still, a “not” was removed after proofs had been corrected and approved.

Scanned text reading "Fatigue also does explain the differential deficits we found."

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

When naming visual sequences, efficiency calls for parallel processing of successive items but this leads to interference that threatens performance. To manage the load, constant monitoring allows dynamic adjustment of parallelism, seen in eye-voice span and articulation. dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

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Athanassios Protopapas @protopap.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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