• Academic writing in the Baltic States: Introducing the Bwrite project 

      Jürine, Anni; Leijen, Djuddah; Hint, Helen; Laiveniece, Diana; Sinkuniene, Jolanta; Johansson, Christer; Groom, Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing ...
    • Anonymity and Inhibition in Newspaper Comments 

      Knustad, Magnus; Johansson, Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Newspaper comment sections allow readers to voice their opinion on a wide range of topics, provide feedback for journalists and editors and may enable public debate. Comment sections have been criticized as a medium for ...
    • Control in a Norwegian grammar maze 

      Larsen, Tori Nicole; Johansson, Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Coreference processing of Control constructions and their pronoun-containing counterparts can be studied experimentally using priming or interference paradigms. We replicate findings in a priming study on non-finite Control ...
    • A Face to Love or Trust 

      Johansson, Christer; Folgerø, Per Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article demonstrates the use of a card sorting game that is suitable for field studies. Subjective judgment in face perception is studied by sorting faces based on attractiveness or trustworthiness. Are beautiful ...
    • Is Reduced Visual Processing the Price of Language? 

      Johansson, Christer; Folgerø, Per Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We suggest a later timeline for full language capabilities in Homo sapiens, placing the emergence of language over 200,000 years after the emergence of our species. The late Paleolithic period saw several significant ...
    • Mångspråkighet: Möjligheter och undersökningar 

      Johansson, Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Artikeln sammanfattar en längre tids experimentell forskning vid Humlab kring olika effekter av mångspråkighet. Vi prövar intressanta hypoteser som är svåra att komma åt genom introspektion eller stora korpusundersökningar. ...
    • The process‑disruption hypothesis: how spelling and typing skill affects written composition process and product 

      Rønneberg, Vibeke; Torrance, Mark; Uppstad, Per Henning; Johansson, Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This study investigates the possibility that lack of fluency in spelling and/or typing disrupts writing processes in such a way as to cause damage to the substance (content and structure) of the resulting text. 101 children ...
    • The Superior Visual Perception Hypothesis: Neuroaesthetics of Cave Art 

      Folgerø, Per Olav; Johansson, Christer; Stokkedal, Linn Heidi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Cave Art in the Upper Paleolithic presents a boost of creativity and visual thinking. What can explain these savant-like paintings? The normal brain function in modern man rarely supports the creation of highly detailed ...