Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Riemer, M., & Cai, Z. G. (in press). Space-time interference: The asymmetry we get out is the asymmetry we put in. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
  2. Duan, X., Li, S., & Cai, Z. G. (in press). MacBehaviour: An R package for behavioural experimentation on large language models. Behavior Research Methods.
  3. Zhou, X., Chen, D., Cahyawijaya, S., Duan, X., & Cai, Z. G. (2024). Linguistic Minimal Pairs Elicit Linguistic Similarity in Large Language Models. arXiv:2409.12435.
  4. Duan, X., & Cai, Z. G. (in press). Chinese character processing. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
  5. Cai, Z. G., Dunn, M. S., & Branigan. H. P. (acceptance in principle). How do speakers tailor lexical choices according to their interlocutor’s accent? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [LINK]
  6. Xu, Z., Mittal, P. S., Ahmed, M. M., Adak, C., & Cai, Z. G. (in press). Assessing penmanship of Chinese handwriting: A deep learning-based approach. Reading and Writing [LINK]
  7. Yang, T., Cai, Z.G., Lin, W., & Wang, R. (in press). Modality-general and modality-specific control mechanisms in bilingual spoken and written productions. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10506-3. [LINK]
  8. Langsford, S., Xu, Z., & Cai, Z.G. (in press). Constructing a 30-item test for character amnesia in Chinese. Reading and Writing. [LINK]
  9. Wu, H., Duan, X., & Cai, Z. G. (2024). Speaker demographics modulate listeners' neural correlates of spoken word processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(10), 2208–2226. [LINK]
  10. Gao, R., Lin, Y., Zhao, N., & Cai, Z. G. (2024). Machine translation of Chinese classical poetry: A comparison among ChatGPT, Google Translate and DeepL Translator. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, 835.[LINK]
  11. Thierfelder, P., Cai, Z. G., Huang, S., & Lin, H. (2024). The Chinese lexicon of deaf readers: A database of character decisions and a comparison between deaf and hearing readers. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 5732–5753. [LINK]
  12. Haslett, D. A., & Cai, Z. G. (2024). Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words. Journal of Memory and Language, 138, 104537. [LINK]
  13. Cai, Z.G., & Zhao, N. (2024). Structural priming: An experimental paradigm for mapping linguistic representations. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(2), e12507.[PDF]
  14. Haslett, D.A., & Cai, Z.G. (2024). Systematic mappings of sound to meaning: A theoretical review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(2), 627-648.[LINK]
  15. Zhao, N., Cai, Z. G., Dong, Y. (2023). Speech errors in consecutive interpreting: Effects of language proficiency, working memory, and anxiety. PLoS ONE, 18(10): e0292718. [LINK]
  16. Qiu, Z., Duan, X., & Cai, Z. G. (2023). Pragmatic Implicature Processing in ChatGPT. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qtbh9.
  17. Cai, Z. G., Haslett, D. A., Duan, X., Wang, S., & Pickering, M. J. (2023). Does ChatGPT resemble humans in language use?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08014.
  18. Haslett, D.A., & Cai, Z.G. (2023). Similar-sounding words flesh out fuzzy meanings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(8), 2359–2368.[PDF]
  19. Xu, Z., & Cai, Z. G. (2023). Chinese character handwriting: Lexical effects, individual differences, character amnesia, and developmental dysgraphia. In Ye, Y., Inoue, T., Maurer, U., & McBride, C. (Eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor Skills, Handwriting, and Spelling: Theory, Research, and Practice.[LINK]
  20. Cai, Z. G., Zhao, N., Lin, H., Xu, Z., & Thierfelder, P. (2023). Syntactic encoding in written language production by deaf writers: A structural priming study and a comparison with hearing writers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(6), 974–989. [PDF]
  21. Cai, Z.G., Zhao, N., & Pickering, M.J. (2022). How do people interpret implausible sentences? Cognition, 225, 105101.[PDF]
  22. Zhao, N., Chen, X., & Cai, Z.G. (2022). Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 588–602.[PDF]
  23. Cai, Z.G. (2022). Interlocutor modelling in comprehending speech from interleaved interlocutors of different dialectic backgrounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 1026-1034.[PDF]
  24. Haslett, D.A., & Cai, Z.G. (2022). New neighbours make bad fences: Form-based semantic shifts in word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 1017-1025.[PDF]
  25. Cai, Z.G., Wu, L., Liu, H., & Wang, R. (2022). Cross-dimensional magnitude interactions reflect statistical correlations among physical dimensions: Evidence from space-time interaction. Acta Psychologica, 227, 103608.[PDF]
  26. Morey, R.D., Kaschak, M.P., ... Cai, Z.G. et al. (2022). Pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 613–626.[PDF]
  27. Cai, Z.G., Huang, S., Xu, Z., & Zhao, N. (2022). Objective ages of acquisition for 3300+ simplified Chinese characters. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 311–323.[PDF]
  28. Cai, Z.G., & Wang, R. (2022). Cross-dimensional magnitude interaction is modulated by representational noise: Evidence from space-time interaction. Psychological Research, 86, 196-208. [PDF]
  29. Cai, Z.G., Sun, Z., & Zhao, N.(2021). Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence. Journal of Memory and Language, 121, 104278.[PDF]
  30. Huang, S., Lin, W., Xu, M., Wang, R., & Cai, Z.G. (2021). On the tip of the pen: Effects of character-level lexical variables and handwriter-level individual differences on orthographic retrieval difficulties in Chinese handwriting. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 1497-1511.[PDF]
  31. Huang, S., Zhou, Y., Du, M., Wang, R., & Cai, Z.G. (2021). Character amnesia in Chinese handwriting: A mega-study analysis. Language Sciences, 85, 101383.[PDF]
  32. Wang, M., Cai, Z.G., Wang, R., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. (2020). How do phonology and orthography feedback to influence syntactic encoding in language production? Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,73, 1807–1819. [PDF]
  33. Wang, R., Huang, S., Zhou, Y., Cai, Z. G. (2020). Chinese character handwriting: A large-scale behavioural study and a database. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 82–96. [PDF]
  34. Cai, Z. G., & Zhao, N. (2019). The sound of gender: Inferring the gender of names in a foreign language. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 3, 63-73. [PDF]
  35. Huang, J., Pickering, M. J., Chen, X., Cai, Z. G., Wang, S., & Branigan, H. P. (2019). Does language similarity affect representational integration? Cognition, 185, 83-90. [PDF]
  36. Wei, H., Boland, J. E., Cai, Z. G., Yuan, F., & Wang, M. (2019). Persistent structural priming during online second-language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(2), 349-359. [PDF]
  37. Cai, Z. G., & Vigliocco, V. (2018). Word processing. In J. T. Wixted & S. Thompson-Schill (Eds), The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 3: Language and Thought (4th edition) (pp.75-110). New York: Wiley. [PDF]
  38. Cai, Z. G., Wang, R., Shen, M. & Speekenbrink, M. (2018). Cross-dimensional magnitude interactions arise from memory interference. Cognitive Psychology, 106, 21-42. [PDF]
  39. Betts, H. N, Gilbert, R. A, Cai, Z. G., Okedara, Z. B, & Rodd, J. M. (2018). Retuning of lexical-semantic representations: Repetition and spacing effects in word-meaning priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 1130–1150. [PDF]
  40. Cai, Z. G., Gilbert, R. A., Davis, M. H., Gaskell, M. G., Farrar, L., Adler, S., & Rodd, J. M. (2017). Accent modulates access to word meaning: Evidence for a speaker-model account of spoken word recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 98, 73-101. [PDF]
  41. Cai, Z. G., & Liu, H. (2017). Microscopic and macroscopic approaches to the mental representations of second languages. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 40, 19-20. (commentary). [PDF]
  42. Xie J., Lu Z., Wang R., & Cai Z. G. (2016). Remember hard but think softly: Metaphorical effects of hardness/softness on cognitive functions. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1343. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01343. [PDF]
  43. Cai, Z. G., & Connell, L. (2016). On magnitudes in memory: An internal clock account of the effect of space on time. Acta Psychologica, 168, 1-11. [PDF]
  44. Rodd, J. M., Cai, Z. G., Betts, H. N., Hanby, B., Hutchinson, C., & Adler, A. (2016). The impact of recent and long-term experience on access to word meanings: Evidence from large-scale internet-based experiments. Journal of Memory and Language, 87, 16-37. [PDF]
  45. Wang, R., Fan, X., Liu, C., & Cai, Z. G. (2016). Cognitive control and word recognition speed influence the Stroop effect in bilinguals. International Journal of Psychology, 51, 93–101. [PDF]
  46. Cai, Z. G., & Connell, L. (2015). Space-time interdependence: Evidence against asymmetric mapping between time and space. Cognition, 136, 268-281. [PDF]
  47. Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M. J., Wang, R., & Branigan, H. P. (2015). It is there whether you hear it or not: Syntactic representations of missing arguments. Cognition, 136, 255-267. [PDF]
  48. Rafray, C. N., Pickering, M. J., Cai, Z. G., & Branigan, H. P. (2014). The production of coerced expressions: Evidence from priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 91-106. [PDF]
  49. Cai, Z. G., & Wang, R. (2014). Numerical magnitude affects temporal memories but not time encoding. PLoS ONE, 9(1): e83159. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083159. [PDF]
  50. Cai, Z. G., Connell, L., & Holler, J. (2013). Time does not flow without language: Spatial distance affects temporal duration regardless of movement or direction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 973–980. [PDF]
  51. Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M. J., & Sturt, P. (2013). Processing verb-phrase ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence against the syntactic account. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 810-828. [PDF]
  52. Connell, L., Cai, Z. G., Holler, J. (2013). Do you see what I'm singing? Visuospatial movement biases pitch perception. Brain and Cognition, 81, 124-130. [PDF]
  53. Cai, Z. G., Sturt, P., & Pickering, M. J. (2012). The effect of non-adopted analyses on sentence processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 1286-1311. [PDF]
  54. Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (2012). Mapping concepts to syntax: Evidence from structural priming in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 833-849. [PDF]
  55. Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M. J., Yan, H., & Branigan, H. P. (2011). Lexical and syntactic representations in closely related languages: Evidence from Mandarin and Cantonese. Journal of Memory and Language, 65, 431-445. [PDF]