Alexander Taikh

Academic Interests

My research examines how information about meaning influences the retrieval and production of language, and focuses on two main areas: psycholinguists and memory. My research in psycholinguistics examines the influence of contextual information on the processes involved in reading and typing words. My research in memory examines the effects of producing information about words at study on their subsequent retrieval, and on subjective experiences involved in their recognition. In addition to behavioral methodologies, my experiments have used pupillometry and event-related potentials.

Courses Taught

Language Processing – University of Alberta
Psychological Statistics Using Computers – Brescia University College

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Melvie, T., Taikh, A., Gagné, C. L., & Spalding, T. L. (in press). Constituent processing in compound and pseudo-compound words. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Taikh, A., & Bodner, G. (in press). Pupil dilation during recognition reflects the subjective recollection/familiarity experience at test rather than the level of processing at encoding. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Yang, H., Taikh, A., & Lupker, S. J. (in press). A re-examination of the impact of morphology on transposed character priming effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Gagne, C., Spalding, T. L., & Taikh, A. (in press). Impact of morphology on written word production: An overview of empirical evidence and theoretical implications. In D. Crepaldi (Eds.), Current Issues in the Psychology of Language.
• Bodner, G., Huff, M., & Taikh, A. (2020). Pure-list production generally improves item recognition but not memory for item details. Memory & Cognition, 48, 1281-1294.
• Taikh, A., & Lupker, S. J. (2020). Do visible semantic primes pre-activate lexical representations? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 1533-1569.
• Jouravlev, O., Taikh, A., & Jared, D. (2018). Effects of lexical ambiguity on perception: A test of the label feedback hypothesis using a visual oddball paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 1842-1855.
• Taikh, A., & Bodner, G. E. (2016). Evaluating the basis of the between-group production effect in recognition. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 186-194.
• Bodner, G. E., Lambert, A. M., & Taikh, A. (2016). The Production effect in long-list recall: In no particular order? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 165-176.
• Taikh, A., Hargreaves, I. S., Yap, M. J., & Pexman, P. M. (2015). Semantic classification of pictures and words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 1502-1518.
• Bodner, G. E., Taikh, A., Fawcett, J. M. (2014). Assessing the costs and benefits of production in recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 149-154.
• Bodner, G. E., & Taikh, A. (2012). Reassessing the basis of the production effect in memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 38, 1711-1719.

Selected National and International Conferences

• Taikh, A., Pelczarski, K. M., Tendera, A., & Loucks, T., (2022, September). Phonological encoding is delayed in stuttering: An eye-tracking study of real words. Poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Kansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Manhattan, KS.
• Taikh, A., Gagne, C., & Spalding, T. (2022, July). Role of the morphemic boundary in accessing compound constituents. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Halifax, NS. Canada.
• Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2021, November). Influence of morphological information on letter position coding. Poster presented at the Words in the World Conference 2021, virtual.
• Melvie, T., Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2021, November). The effects of masked pseudo-compound and compound words on constituent processing. Poster presented at the Words in the World Conference 2021, virtual.
• Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2021, November). Exploring the role of the morphemic boundary in the morphological decomposition of compounds. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, virtual.
• Taikh, A., Gagne, C., & Spalding, T. (2021, June). Transposed letter priming effects in morphological parsing of masked compound words. Poster presented at the 30th Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Montreal, QC, Canada, virtual.
• Melvie, T., Taikh, A., Gagne, C., & Spalding, T. (2021, June). Constituent semantic information in compound and pseudo-compound processing. Poster presented at the 30th Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Montreal, QC, Canada, virtual.
• Taikh, A., Pelczarski, K., Tendera, A., & Loucks, T. (2020, January). Phonological encoding is delayed in stuttering: An eye-tracking study of real words. Poster presentation at the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, virtual.
• Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2020, November). Accessing lexical representations of compound words while typing. Poster presented at the 61st Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, virtual.
• Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2019, November). The effect of semantic priming on morphological segmentation of compounds. Poster presented at the 60th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC. Canada.
• Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2019, June). Influence of semantic information on morphological parsing of masked compound words. Poster presented at the 29th Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Waterloo, ON. Canada.
• Taikh, A., Gagné, C., & Spalding, T. (2019, May) Reading and writing compound words: Do factors underlying lexical access also influence written production? Poster presented at the 38th annual meeting of the Banff Annual Seminar In Cognitive Science, Banff, AB.
• Taikh, A., Jouravlev, O., & Jared, D. (2017, November). Testing the limit of the Label-feedback hypothesis: The effect of shared verbal labels on perceptual warping. Poster presented at the 58^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
• Taikh, A., & Lupker, S. (2017, June). Semantic priming effects and lexical processing. Paper presented at the 27^th annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences, Regina, SK.
• Taikh, A., & Lupker, S. (2016, November). The effects of semantic priming on lexical activation/inhibition. Poster presented at the 57^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
• Taikh, A., & Lupker, S. (2016, June). Effects of semantic priming on lexical processing. Poster presented at the 26^th annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour and Cognition Science, Ottawa, ON.
• Pexman, P. M., Taikh, A., Hargreaves, I., & Yap, M. (2015, June). Semantic richness effects in word and picture classification. Paper presented at the 25^th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences, Ottawa, ON.
• Bodner, G. E., & Taikh, A. (2014, July). What produces the production effect? Tests of a distinctiveness-based strategy. Paper presented at the 24^th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Toronto, ON.
• Taikh, & Bodner, G. E. (2013, June). Evaluating the basis of the between-subjects production effect. Paper presented at the 23^rd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Calgary, AB.
• Bodner, G. E., Taikh, A., & Fawcett, J. M. (2012, June). The costs and benefits of production in recognition. Paper presented at the 22^nd annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Kingston, ON.
• Taikh, A., & Bodner, G. E. (2012, May). The production effect in recognition: increased distinctiveness vs. lazy reading. Poster presented at the 14^th annual Northwest Memory and Cognition Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• Bodner, G. E., & Taikh, A. (2011, November). An attributional account of the production effect in a list-discrimination task. Paper presented at the 52^nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
• Bodner, G. E., & Taikh, A. (2011, June). Reading words aloud makes them more… or less memorable. Paper presented at the 21^st annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Winnipeg, MB.