Biography
My primary interest is in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. I study the comprehension of spoken and written language in the mind/brain using interdisciplinary techniques aimed at identifying the neural processing mechanisms that support the interpretation of written text and spoken utterances. Specifically I study Arabic behavioural, neuro-psychological and neuroimaging data to determine the underlying general properties of language as a neuro-cognitive system.
Publications
Key publications:
- Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Morphological units in the Arabic mental lexicon, Cognition, 81, 65-92.
- Boudelaa, S. & Gaskell, G. M. (2002). A re-examination of the default system for Arabic plurals. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 321-343.
- Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Abstract morphemes and lexical representation: The CV-Skeleton in Arabic. Cognition, 92, 271-303.
- Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Allomorphic variation in Arabic: implications for lexical processing and representation. Brain and Language, 90, 106-116.
- Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2005). Discontinuous morphology in time: Incremental masked priming in Arabic. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 207-260.
- Boudelaa, S., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O. & Shtyrov, Y. (2010). Arabic morphology in the neural language system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22:5, 998-1010.
- Boudelaa, S., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2010). ARALEX: A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 481-487.
- Boudelaa, S., , & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2011). Productivity and priming: Morphemic decomposition in Arabic. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 624-652.