Publications
Articles and chapters
Miklashevsky, A., Reifegerste, J., García, A. M., Pulvermüller, F., Balota, D. A., Veríssimo, J., & Ullman, M. T. (2024). Embodied cognition comes of age: A processing advantage for action words is modulated by aging and the task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 1725–1764. [doi]
van Doorn, J., Haaf, J. M., Stefan, A. M., Wagenmakers, E.-J., … Veríssimo, J., … & Aust, F. (2023). Bayes factors for mixed models: A discussion. Computational Brain & Behavior, 6, 140–158. [doi]
Veríssimo, J. (2023). When fixed and random effects mismatch: Another case of inflation of evidence in non-maximal models. Computational Brain & Behavior, 6, 84–101. [doi]
Lago, S., Stone, K., Oltrogge, E., & Veríssimo, J. (2023). Possessive processing in bilingual comprehension. Language Learning, 73, 904–941. [doi]
Ciaccio, L. A.*, & Veríssimo, J.* (2022). Investigating variability in morphological processing with Bayesian distributional models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 2264–2274. [*Equal contribution] [doi] [preprint]
Veríssimo, J., Verhaeghen, P., Goldman, N., Weinstein, M., & Ullman, M. T. (2022). Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 97–110. [doi]
Karatas, N. B., Özemir, O., Lovelett, J. T., Demir, B., Erkol, K., Veríssimo, J., Erçetin, G., & Ullman, M. T. (2021, online). Improving second language vocabulary learning and retention by leveraging memory enhancement techniques: A multidomain pedagogical approach. Language Teaching Research. [doi]
Marimon, M., Hofmann, A., Veríssimo, J., Männel, C., Friederici, A. D., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2021). Children's learning of non-adjacent dependencies using a web-based computer game setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:734877. [doi]
Veríssimo, J. (2021). Analysis of rating scales: A pervasive problem in bilingualism research and a solution with Bayesian ordinal models. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24, 842–848. [doi] [preprint]
Veríssimo, J. (2021). BLC mini-series: New statistical approaches and research practices for bilingualism research [Editorial]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24, 799–800. [doi] [preprint]
Stone, K., Veríssimo, J., Schad, D., Oltrogge, E., Vasishth, S., & Lago, S. (2021). The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36, 1159–1179. [doi] [preprint]
Reifegerste, J., Veríssimo, J., Rugg, M. D., Pullman, M. Y., Babcock, L., Glei, D. A., Weinstein, M., Goldman, N., & Ullman, M. T. (2021). Early-life education may help bolster declarative memory in old age, especially for women. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28, 218–252. [doi]
Reifegerste, J., Estabrooke, I. V., Russell, L. E., Veríssimo, J., Johari, K., Wilmarth, B., Pagan, F. L., Moussa, C., & Ullman, M. T. (2020). Can sex influence the neurocognition of language? Evidence from Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107633. [doi]
Pliatsikas, C., Meteyard ,L.*, Veríssimo, J.*, DeLuca, V., Shattuck, K., & Ullman, M. T. (2020). The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood. Brain Structure and Function, 225, 2131–2152. [*Equal contribution] [doi] [preprint]
Pañeda, C., Lago, S., Vares, E., Veríssimo, J., & Felser, C. (2020). Island effects in Spanish comprehension. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5, 21. [doi]
Ruberg, T., Rothweiler, M., Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2020). Childhood bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment: A study of the CP-domain in German SLI. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23, 668–680. [doi]
Wulff, D. U., De Deyne, S., Jones, M. N., . . . Veríssimo, J., & Mata, R. (2019). New perspectives on the aging lexicon. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 686–698. [doi]
Clahsen, H., & Veríssimo, J. (2019). Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming. In I. A. Sekerina, L. Spradlin & V. Valian (Eds.), Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: Questions and insights (pp. 117–130). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [From Clahsen & Veríssimo (2016) in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism] [doi]
Bosch, S., Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2019). Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing: An age-of-acquisition study. Language Acquisition, 26, 339–360. [doi]
Farhy, Y., & Veríssimo, J. (2019). Semantic effects in morphological priming: The case of Hebrew stems. Language and Speech, 62, 737–750. [doi]
Pliatsikas, C.*, Veríssimo, J.*, Babcock, L., Pullman, M. Y., Glei, D. A., Weinstein, M., Goldman, N., & Ullman, M. T. (2019). Working memory in older adults declines with age, but is modulated by sex and education. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 1308–1327. [*Equal contribution] [doi]
Jessen, A., Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Variability and consistency in late bilinguals' morphology: An ERP production study. The Mental Lexicon, 13, 186–214. [doi]
Farhy, Y., Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Do late bilinguals access pure morphology during word recognition? A masked priming study on Hebrew as a second language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21, 945–951. [doi]
Veríssimo, J. (2018). Sensitive periods in both L1 and L2: Some conceptual and methodological suggestions [Commentary on Mayberry & Kluender, 2018]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21, 932–933. [doi]
Veríssimo, J., Heyer, V., Jacob, G., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming: Evidence for a sensitive period. Language Acquisition, 25, 315–326. [doi]
Farhy, Y., Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Universal and particular in morphological processing: Evidence from Hebrew. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1125–1133. [doi]
Jacob, G., Heyer, V., & Veríssimo, J. (2018). Aiming at the same target: A masked priming study directly comparing derivation and inflection in the second language. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22, 619–637. [doi]
Clahsen, H., & Veríssimo, J. (2016). Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese. In P. Guijarro-Fuentes, M. Juan-Garau, & P. Larrañaga (Eds.), Acquisition of Romance languages: Old acquisition challenges and new explanations from a generative perspective (pp. 41–64). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [doi]
Clahsen, H., & Veríssimo, J. (2016). Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6, 685–698. [doi]
Veríssimo, J. (2016). Extending a Gradient Symbolic approach to the native versus non-native contrast: The case of plurals in compounds [Commentary on Goldrick, Putnam, & Schwarz, 2016]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 900–902. [doi]
Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2014). Variables and similarity in linguistic generalization: Evidence from inflectional classes in Portuguese. Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 61–79. [doi]
Hedenius, M., Persson, J., Tremblay, A., Adi-Japha, E., Veríssimo, J., Dye, C. D., Alm, P., Jennische, M., Tomblin, J. B., & Ullman, M.T. (2011). Grammar predicts procedural learning and consolidation deficits in children with Specific Language Impairment. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32, 2362–2375. [doi]
Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2009). Morphological priming by itself: A study of Portuguese conjugations. Cognition, 112, 187–194. [doi]
Schmitt, D. P., Allik, J., McCrae, R. R., Benet-Martínez, V., Alcalay, L., Ault, L., et al. (2007). The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38, 173–212.
Schmitt, D. P., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., et al. (2004). Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions: Are models of self and of other pancultural constructs? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 367–402.
Schmitt, D. P. & 121 Members of the International Sexuality Description Project (2004). Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations: The effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person's partner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 560–584.
Schmitt, D. P. & 118 Members of the International Sexuality Description Project (2003). Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 85–104.
Schmitt, D. P., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., et al. (2003). Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions. Personal Relationships, 10, 307–331.
Proceedings
Veríssimo, J., & Clahsen, H. (2005). Stem-formation processes in Portuguese: A dual-mechanism account. In B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 2570.
PhD thesis
Veríssimo, J. (2010). Stems and rules: A dual-mechanism account of verbal stem formation in Portuguese (Doctoral dissertation). University of Essex, Colchester, UK.