Journal articles & works in progress (peer reviewed)

* denotes a student co-author

Supplemental data and scripts for many of our recent publications are available by linking to data repositories maintained by the Open Science Framework (OSF). Where possible I have linked each work to its respective repository.

Preprints and Works in Progress

  1. Flurie M & Reilly J (in preparation) Distinct neural signatures of verbal and nonverbal symbolic representation of abstract concepts via the N400. [download preprint]

  2. Reilly J, Ulichney V, Sacks B, Duncan A, Weinstein S, Giovannetti T, Helion C, Cooney G (under review). Dynamics of language use and alignment in different-age conversations. <click for journal article> <link to PsyArXiv preprint>

  3. Cheng X, Popal H, Hu R, Zang Y, Wang H, Zang Y, Zhang M, Thornton M, HuaJian C, Bi Y, Reilly J, Olson I, & Wang Y (under review). Conceptual structure of human relationship knowledge across modern and historical cultures. Nature Human Behavior. <link to PsyArXiv preprint>.

Published and/or In-Press

  1. Reilly J (2024). Neuropsychology and politics collide in the 2024 US Presidential election: Pitfalls of weaponizing age, language, and memory. Journal of Neuropsychology. [download here]

  2. Reilly J, Shain C, Borghesani V, Kuhnke P, Vigliocco G, Peelle JE, Mahon B, Buxbaum L, Majid A, Brysbaert M, Borghi A, De Deyne S, Dove G, Papeo L, Pexman P, Poeppel D, Lupyan G,  Boggio P, Hickok G, Gwilliams L, Fernandino L, Mirman D, Chrysikou EG, Sandberg C, Crutch SJ, Pylkkänen L, Yee E, Jackson R, & Rodd J, Bedny M, Connell L, Kiefer M, Kemmerer D, Zubicaray G, Jefferies E, Lynott D, Siew C, Desai R, Cantlon J, McRae K, Diaz M, Bolognesi M, Fedorenko E, Kiran S, Montefinesse M, Binder JR, Yap M, Hartwigsen G, Bi Y, Hoffman, P, Garcea F, & Vinson D (2024). What we mean when we say semantic: A consensus statement on the nomenclature of semantic memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review [download here]

  3. Kelly A, Kennett YN, Medaglia J, Reilly J, & Chrysikou E (2024). Conceptual structure of emotions. Emotion. [download here]

  4. Reilly J, Finley, AM, Litovsky, CP, & Kenett, YN (2023). Bigram semantic distance as an index of continuous semantic flow in natural language: Theory, tools, and applications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [download here]

  5. Reilly J & Peelle JE (2023). Modality-specificity is not a necessary condition for grounded semantic cognition: A Commentary on Calzavarini (2023). Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience [download here].

  6. McLaughlin D, Zink M, Gaunt L, Reilly J, Sommers MS, Van Engen KJ, Peelle JE (2023). Give me a break! Unavoidable fatigue effects in cognitive pupillometry. Psychophysiology. [download here]

  7. Jobson K, Hoffman LJ, Metoki A, Popal H, Dick AS, Reilly J, & Olson, I (2023). The linguistic cerebellum: connectivity the eloquent brain. Neurobiology of Language. [download here]

  8. Litovsky C, *Finley AM, Zuckerman B, *Sayers M, *Schoenhard JA, Kennett Y, & Reilly J (2022). Semantic flow and its relation to controlled semantic retrieval deficits in aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 170(6). [download here]

  9. Flurie M, *Kelly A, Olson I, & Reilly J (2022). SymCog: An open-source toolkit for assessing human symbolic cognition. Behavior Research Methods. [download here]

  10. Sayers M, *Laval D, Reilly J, & Martin N. (2022). Integrity of input verbal short-term memory ability predicts naming accuracy in aphasia. Aphasiology. [download here]

  11. Reilly J, Finley AM, Zuckerman B, Kelly A, & *Flurie M (2021). The semantics of smell: A neuropsychological case-control study of lexical-semantic processing in total anosmia. Neurocase, 1-11, doi: 10.1080/13554794.2020.1871491 [download here] [OSF link to data]

  12. Flurie M, Ungrady M, & Reilly J (2020). Evaluating a maintenance-based treatment approach to preventing lexical dropout in progressive anomia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research [download here] [OSF link to data]

  13. Reilly J, & Ungrady M, & *Flurie M (2020). Eyetracking during picture naming as a predictor of future lexical dropout in progressive anomia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation [download here] [OSF link to data]

  14. Reilly J, Zuckerman B, Kelly A, *Flurie M, & *Rao S (2020). Neuromodulation of cursing in American English: A combined tDCS and pupillometry study. Brain & Language. [download here] [OSF link to data]

  15. Ungrady M, *Flurie M, Mirman D, Reilly J (2019). Naming vs. knowing revisited: An eyetracking analysis of visual confrontation naming in progressive aphasia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00354. [download here] [OSF link to data]

  16. Reilly J, Kelly A, Zuckerman B, *Twigg P, *Wells M, *Jobson K, & *Flurie M (2020). Building the perfect curse word: A psycholinguistic investigation of the form and meaning of taboo words. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [download here] [OSF link to data]

  17. *Seligman-Rycroft S, Giovannetti T, Shipley T, Hulsit J, Divers R, Reilly J (2018). Windows to functional decline: Exploration of naturalistic eye movements in older and younger adults. Psychology & Aging, 33(8):1215-1222. doi: 10.1037/pag0000320. [download here]

  18. Reilly J, Kelly A, *Jett S, *Kim S, & Zuckerman B (2018).  The human task-evoked pupillary response function is linear: Implications for baseline response scaling in pupillometry.  Behavior Research Methods. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1134-4 [download here]

  19. Binney RJ, Ashaie SA, Zuckerman BM, Hung J, & Reilly J (2018). A combined neurostimulation and eyetracking investigation of semantically-guided visual search in confrontation naming. Brain & Language, (180), 14-23. doi:10.1016/jbandl.2018.04.004  [download here]

  20. Binney RJ, Ashaie SA, Zuckerman BM, Hung J, & Reilly J (2018). Cathodal tDCS of the bilateral anterior temporal lobes facilitates semantically-driven verbal fluency. Neuropsychologia, 111, 62-71. [download here]

  21. Troche J, Crutch SJ, & Reilly J (2017). Defining a conceptual topography of word concreteness: Clustering properties of emotion, sensation, and magnitude among 750 English words. Frontiers in Language Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01787  [download here]

  22. Hung J, Bauer A, Grossman M, Coslett HB, Hamilton RH, & Reilly J (2017). Semantic feature training in combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for progressive anomia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi:  10.3389/fnhum.2017.00253  [download here]

  23. Binney RJ, *Zuckerman B, & Reilly J (2016). A neuropsychological perspective on abstract word representation: From theory to treatment of acquired language disorders. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. [download here]

  24. Hung J, Edmonds LM, & Reilly J (2016). Words speak louder than pictures for action concepts: An eyetracking investigation of the picture superiority effect in semantic categorization. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. [download here]

  25. Reilly J, *Garcia A, & Binney R (2016). Does the sound of a barking dog activate its corresponding visual form? An fmri investigation of modality-specific semantic access. Brain and Language. [download here]

  26. Reilly J, Peelle JE, Garcia A, & Crutch SJ (2016). Linking somatic and symbolic representation in semantic memory: The Dynamic Multilevel Reactivation Framework.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [download here]

  27. Reilly J, *Hung J, & Westbury C (2016). Non-arbitrariness in mapping word form to word meaning: Listener sensitivity to formal markers of word concreteness across seven natural languages. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12361.  [download here]

  28. Primativo S, Reilly J, & Crutch SJ (2016). Abstract conceptual feature ratings predict gaze within written word arrays: evidence from a visual wor(l)d paradigm. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12348. [download here]

  29. Reilly J (2015). How to constrain and maintain a lexicon for the treatment of progressive semantic naming deficits: Item selection principles for formal semantic therapy. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. doi:10.1080/09602011.2014.1003947 [download here]

  30. *Troche J., Crutch SJ, & Reilly J (2014). Hierarchical organization in the topography of English abstract and concrete words. Frontiers in Psychology. [download here]

  31. Benjamin ML, Towler S, *Garcia A, *Park H, Sudhyadhom A, Harnish S, McGregor KM, Reilly J,  Rosenbek JC, Gonzalez -Rothi LJ, Zlatar Z, & Crosson B (2014).  Intention manipulation creates rightward shift in lateral frontal activity for word production in aphasia treatment. Neural Regeneration and Neural Repair. [download here]

  32. Reilly J, Harnish S, Rodriguez A, *Paris A, *Garcia A, Edmonds L, & Crosson B (2014).  Lesion correlates of generative naming of manipulable objects in aphasia: Can a brain be both embodied and disembodied? Cognitive Neuropsychology.  [download here]

  33. Ramey CH, Chrysikou L, & Reilly J (2014).  Snapshots of children’s changing biases during language development: Differential weighting of perceptual and linguistic factors predicts noun age-of-acquisition.  Journal of Cognition and Development.  [download here]

  34. Crutch SJ, *Troche J, Reilly J, & Ridgway G (2013). Abstract conceptual feature ratings: the role of emotion, magnitude and other cognitive domains in the organization of abstract conceptual knowledge. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7:186. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00186.

  35. *Rodriguez A, McCabe M, Nocera J, & Reilly J (2012). Effects of word meaning on standing balance and finger tapping: Further evidence for language-motor interaction.  PLoS One, 7(5), 370-394. [download here]

  36. Reilly J, Westbury C, Kean J, & Peelle JE (2012).  Natural language arbitrary symbolism revisited: when word forms carry meaning.  PLoS One, 7(8): e42286, 1-15. [download here]

  37. *Troche J, Troche M, Berkowitz R, Grossman M, & Reilly J (2012).  Tone discrimination as a window into acoustic perceptual deficits in Parkinson’s Disease.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21, 258-265. [download here]

  38. Martin N & Reilly J (2012).  Short-term/working memory impairments in aphasia: Data, models, and their application to rehabilitation.  Aphasiology, 26(3-4), 253-257. [preface download here]

  39. Reilly J, *Troche J, *Paris A, *Park H, Kalinyak-Fliszar M, & Martin N (2012). Lexicality effects in word and nonword recall of semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia. Aphasiology, 26(4), 404-427. [download here]

  40. Reilly J & *Fisher J (2012). Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the missing attribution: A historical note on the Grandfather Passage. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 84-88. [download here]

  41. *Park H, Rogalski Y, Rodriguez A, *Benjamin M, *Zlatar Z, Bennett J, Harnish S, Rosenbek JC, Crosson B, & Reilly J (2011).  Discriminating fluent from nonfluent aphasia: Which perceptual features count? Aphasiology, 25(9), 998-1015. [download here]

  42. *Rogalski Y, Peelle JE, & Reilly J (2011). Effects of perceptual enrichment on visual confrontation naming in adult aging. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 1349-160.  [download here]

  43. Reilly J & Kean J (2011). Information content and word frequency: Word length matters.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.  [author reply] doi pnas.1103035108. [download here]

  44. Reilly J, Antonucci S, Peelle JE, & Grossman M (2011).  Anomia as a marker of distinctive semantic impairments in Alzheimer’s Disease and Semantic Dementia. Neuropsychology, 25(4), 413-426. [download here]

  45. Reilly J, *Rodriguez A, Peelle JE, & Grossman M (2011). Frontal lobe damage impairs process and content in semantic memory: Evidence from category specific effects in progressive nonfluent aphasia. Cortex, 47, 645-658.  [download here]

  46. Harnish S, Neils-Strunjas J, Eliassen J, Reilly J, Meinzer M, Clark J, & Joseph J (2010). Visual discrimination predicts naming and semantic association accuracy in Alzheimer’s disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 23(4), 231-239. [download here]

  47. Reilly J, *Rodriguez A, Lamy M, & Neils-Strunjas J (2010). Cognition, language, and clinical pathological course of non-Alzheimer’s dementias: An overview.  Journal of Communication Disorders, 43, 438–452. [download here]

  48. Antonucci S & Reilly J (2008). Semantic memory and language: A primer. Seminars in Speech and Language, 29(1), 1-17. [download here]

  49. Reilly J & Peelle JE (2008). Effects of semantic impairment on language processing in semantic dementia. Seminars in Speech and Language, 29(1), 32-43. [download here]

  50. Reilly J (2008). Semantic memory and language processing in dementia and aphasia: Preface. Seminars in Speech and Language, 29(1), 1-4. [download here]

  51. Reilly J, Chrysikou E, & Ramey CH (2007). Support for hybrid models of the age of acquisition of English nouns. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(7), 1164-1170. [download here]

  52. Reilly J, Troiani V, Grossman M, & Wingfield A (2007). An introduction to hearing loss and screening procedures for behavior research. Behavior Research Methods, 39(3), 667-672. [download here]

  53. Reilly J, *Cross K, Troiani V, & Grossman M (2007). Single word semantic judgments in semantic dementia: Do phonology and grammatical class count? Aphasiology, 21(6), 558-569. [download here]

  54. Reilly J & Kean J (2007). Formal distinctiveness of high- and low-imageability nouns: Analyses and theoretical implications. Cognitive Science, 31, 1-12. [download here]

  55. Reilly J, Martin N, & Grossman M (2005). Verbal learning in semantic dementia: Is repetition priming a useful strategy? Aphasiology, 19(3/4/5), 329-339. [download here]

  56. Reilly J & Donaher J (2005). Verbal working memory skill and strategy use of children who stutter: A preliminary investigation. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 32, 38-42. [download here] 

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries          

  1. Reilly J, Kelly A, & Zuckerman B (forthcoming, 2022).  A primer on design and data analysis for cognitive pupillometry. In S Goldinger & M Papesh (Eds.), Modern Pupillometry. Zurich, Switzerland. Springer Nature [download here].

  2. Kean J & Reilly J (2014).  Classical test theory.  In FM Hammond, JF Malec, T Nick, & R Buschbacher (Eds.) Handbook for Clinical Research: Design, Statistics and Implementation.  Springer Publishing. New York, NY. [download here]

  3. Kean J & Reilly J (2014).  Item response theory.  In FM Hammond, JF Malec, T Nick, & R Buschbacher (Eds.) Handbook for Clinical Research: Design, Statistics and Implementation.  Springer Publishing. New York, NY. [download here]

  4. Reilly J (2015). Language disorders.  In H Miller (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Press. [download here]

  5. *Garcia A & Reilly J (2014). Linguistic impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease and associated dementias.  In Bahr. R (Ed), Handbook of Communication Disorders. Routledge Press. London, UK. [download here]

  6. Reilly J & Martin N (forthcoming 2014). Transcortical sensory aphasia and semantic processing. In LJ Gonzalez- Rothi & AM Raymer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders. Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press. [download here]

  7. Reilly J & *Hung J (2013). Communication in the dementias. In L. Cummings (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders.  Cambridge, UK.  Cambridge University Press. [download here]

  8. Reilly J, *Troche J, & Grossman M. (2011). Language processing in dementia (pp 336-368). In A. Budson and N. Kowell (Eds.), The Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, Inc. [download here]

  9. Lamy M, Reilly J, & Neils-Strunjas J (2011).  The Dementias: An overview of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. In M. Kimbarow (Ed.), Cognitive Communication Disorders (pp 169-218). San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing. [download here]

Edited books

 Martin N & Reilly J (Eds). (2012). Short term and working memory impairments in aphasia.  London:  Routledge/Psychology Press.  ISBN-10: 184872764X.