I Asked Gemini: What Is the Most Replicable Language Phenomenon?
I once chatted with colleagues who study word acquisition, and we generally agreed that the most replicable phenomenon in language research is the Word Frequency Effect. Out of …
Anna Yi Leung
Research Scientist in Psycholinguistics and Metascience
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
I am a doctoral researcher in psycholinguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, formerly trained and served as a Chinese language teacher in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools. My research revolves around the cognitive mechanisms underlying reading development and the methodology used to identify subtypes of developmental dyslexia. I also build infrastructures based on metascientific principles to help synthesise research findings in psychological sciences. I am committed to bridging the gap between scientific research and the actual practice in the educational and clinical settings. My goal is to translate cross-disciplinary knowledge for researchers, educators, pracitioners, and parents by connecting insights across fields.
Science Is Not a Golden Rule: A Teacher’s Journey into the Replicability Crisis
When I was studying education at university, I strongly believed in one thing: scientific research backed with empirical evidence was trustworthy. It must be. If a paper contained …
When ChatGPT Meets the Oxford Dictionary
Recently, I’ve been collaborating with an old friend (who is now a language teacher in Hong Kong) from my Bachelor’s programme in Chinese Language Education to produce a podcast …
Re-SearchTerms: A Shiny app for exploring terminology variations in psychology and metascience
The wording of definitions for terms in open scholarship and research practices may be inconsistent, making it difficult for researchers to understand and apply them accurately. …
A comment on Arechar et al.'s (2023)" Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents"
In this commentary, we report the results of our computational reproduction of the main claims from Arechar et al. (2023), which examined psychological and social predictors of …
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Dyslexia research and replicability: Should we be worried?
Replicability has become a heated issue in empirical science. In interdisciplinary fields, such as dyslexia research, replications are deemed challenging due to the linguistic, …
The multiverse of developmental dyslexia subtyping: The “Mapping Dyslexia Subtypes” (MAP-DyS) app for analytical decision-making
Biomedical researchers frequently use subtyping methods to classify individuals into subgroups based on shared attributes, aiming to design more precise and targeted interventions …
Measuring morphological awareness in English-speaking adults: How task format, item features, and reading comprehension affect test item difficulty
This study investigated how task format, reading comprehension ability, and linguistic item features influence item difficulty in morphological awareness (MA) assessments among …
Re-SearchTerms: A Shiny app for exploring terminology variations in psychology and metascience
The wording of definitions for terms in open scholarship and research practices may be inconsistent, making it difficult for researchers to understand and apply them accurately. …
Let’s talk about language—and its role for replicability
Science strives towards a credible and comprehensive understanding of the world around us. Across disciplines within the social and behavioural sciences (and beyond), limitations …
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