Lise Abrams

Recent Publications

With Shafto, M. A, James, L. E., & Cam-CAN. (2019). “Age-related changes in word retrieval vary by self-reported anxiety but not depression symptoms.” Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26, 767-780. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2018.1527284

With Leon, S. A., Altmann, L. J. P., Gonzalez Rothi, L. J., & Heilman, K. M. (2019). “Novel associative processing and aging: Effect on creative production.” Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26, 807-822. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2018.1532067

With White, K. K., Hsi, L. R., & Watkins, E. C. (2018). “Are precues effective in proactively controlling taboo interference during speech production?” Cognition and Emotion, 32, 1625-1636. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1433637

With Davis, D. K. (2017). “Competitors or teammates: How proper names influence each other,” Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 87-93. doi: 10.1177/0963721416677804

With Shafto, M. A, James, L. E., Tyler, L. K., & Cam-CAN. (2017). “Age-related increases in verbal knowledge are not associated with word finding problems in the Cam-CAN cohort: What you know won't hurt you.” Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 72, 100-106. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw074

With White, K. K., Koehler, S. M., & Collins, R. J. (2017). “Lions, tigers, and bears, oh sh!t: Semantics versus tabooness in speech production,” Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 489-495. doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1084-8

With Davis, D. K. (2016). “Here's looking at you: Visual similarity exacerbates the Moses illusion for semantically similar celebrities,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 75-90. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000144

With Davis, D. K. (2016). “The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: Who, what, and why,” In H. H. Wright (Ed.), Cognition, Language, and Aging (pp. 13-53). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/z.200.02abr

With White, K. K., LaBat, L. R., & Rhynes, A. M. (2016). “Competing influences of emotion and phonology during picture-word interference,” Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 31, 265-283. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1101144

With Farrell, M. T. (2014). “Picture-word interference reveals inhibitory effects of syllable frequency on lexical selection,” The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 525-541. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.820763

With Pelham, S. D. (2014). “Cognitive advantages and disadvantages in early and late bilinguals,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 313-325. doi: 10.1037/a0035224

Media Coverage

Why are names so hard to remember? NRC News, November, 2019

Why do you sometimes keep the words on "the tip of your tongue" and how to prevent it? BBC News Mundo, January, 2019

The New York Times, Smarter Living: “Why you can't think of the word that's on the tip of your tongue.” October 2017

Quartz: “The best way to remember a word that's on the tip of your tongue.” June 2017

Association for Psychological Science, APS Observer: “Why it's so hard to remember people's names.” March 2017