Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Lim, L. C. L., & Goh, W. D.  (in press).  False recognition modality effects in short-term memory: Reversing the auditory advantage.  Cognition.  https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZHh42Hx2fPgv
• Kim, S. Y., Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D.  (in press).  The role of semantic transparency in visual word recognition of compound words: A megastudy approach.  Behavior Research Methods.
• Chng, K. Y. T., Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D.  (2019).  Cross-modal masked repetition and semantic priming in auditory lexical decision.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 599-608.
• Lau, M. C., Goh, W. D., & Yap, M. J.  (2018).  An item-level analysis of lexical-semantic effects in free recall and recognition memory using the megastudy approach.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 2207-2222.
• Ooi, S. H., Goh, W. D., Sorace, A., & Bak, T. H.  (2018).  From bilingualism to bilingualisms: Bilingual experience in Edinburgh and Singapore affects attentional control differently.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21, 867-879.
• Chee, Q. W., & Goh, W. D.  (2018).  What explains the von Restorff effect? Contrasting distinctive processing and retrieval cue efficacy.  Journal of Memory and Language, 99, 49-61.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X17300864
• Ng, M. M. R., Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Tse, C. S., & So, W. C.  (2017).  How we think about temporal words: A gestural priming study in English and Chinese.  Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 974.
• Singh, L., Lee, Q., & Goh, W. D.  (2016).  Processing dependencies of segmental and suprasegmental information: Effects of emotion, lexical tone and consonant variation.  Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 988-999.
• Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Lau, M. C., Ng, M. M. R., & Tan, L. C.  (2016).  Semantic richness effects in spoken word recognition: A lexical decision and semantic categorisation megastudy.  Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 976.
• Ching, T. H. W., Goh, W. D., & Tan, G. (2015).  Exploring dimensionality in the contamination-relevant semantic network with simulated obsessions and association splitting.  Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 6, 39-48.
• Lim, S. W. H., & Goh, W. D.  (2013).  Articulation effects in melody recognition memory.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1774-1792.
• Suárez, L., & Goh, W. D.  (2013).  Recognition memory for foreign language lexical stress.  Memory & Cognition, 41, 872-885.
• Lim, S. W. H., & Goh, W. D.  (2012).  Variability and recognition memory: Are there analogous indexical effects in music and speech?  Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 602-616.
• Goh, W. D., & Lu, S. H. X.  (2012).  Testing the myth of the encoding-retrieval match.  Memory & Cognition, 40, 28-39.
• Suárez, L., Tan, S. H., Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D.  (2011).  Observing neighbourhood effects without neighbours.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 605-611.
• Goh, W. D., Suárez, L., Yap, M. J., & Tan, S. H. (2009). Distributional analyses in auditory lexical decision: Neighbourhood density and word frequency effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 882-887.
• Goh, W. D., & Goh, C. K.  (2006).  The roles of semantic similarity and proactive interference in the word-length effect.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 978-984.
• Goh, W. D., & Tan, H.  (2006).  Proactive interference and cuing effects in short-term cued recall: Does foil context matter?  Memory & Cognition, 34, 1063-1079.
• Goh, W. D.  (2005).  Talker variability and recognition memory: Instance-specific and voice-specific effects.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 40-53.
• Goh, W. D., & Pisoni, D. B.  (2003).  Effects of lexical competition on immediate memory span for spoken words.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 56A, 929-954.
• Goh, W. D., Pisoni, D. B., Kirk, K. I., & Remez, R. E.  (2001).  Audio-visual perception of sinewave speech in an adult cochlear implant user: A case study.  Ear and Hearing, 22, 412-419.
• Remez, R. E., Fellowes, J. M., Pisoni, D. B., Goh, W. D., & Rubin, P. E.  (1998).  Multimodal perceptual organisation of speech: Evidence from tone analogs of spoken utterances.  Speech Communication, 26, 65-73.
• Loke, W. H., & Goh, W. D.  (1992).  The effect of caffeine use on a visual information processing task.  Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 7, 175-181.
• Goh, W., & Loke, W. H.  (1991).  The use of order of difficulty level as a subskill hierarchy method in training: A chess study.  Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 7, 111-119.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Goh, W. D., Suárez, L., & Yeo, K.  (2014).  Uncovering bilingual memory representations.  In H. Winskel, & P. Padakannaya (Eds.), South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics (pp. 305-314) .  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Suárez, L., & Goh, W. D.  (2007).  Phonological and visual short-term memory codification in English-Mandarin bilinguals.  In F. Mansouri (Ed.), Second language acquisition research: Theory-construction and testing (pp. 199-223).  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Goh, W. D., & Lim, K. H.  (2019, March).  False recognition in short- and long-term memory: Testing the modality-dependent distinctiveness explanation.  Poster session presented at the 3rd biennial international conference for psychological science, Paris, France.
• Chee, Q. W., & Goh, W. D.  (2017, March).  Contrasting distinctive processing and retrieval cue efficacy explanations of the von Restorff effect.  Poster session presented at the 2nd biennial international conference for psychological science, Vienna, Austria.
• Kim, S. Y., Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D.  (2016, November).  Visual word recognition of compound words: A megastudy approach.  Poster session presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA.
• Ng, M. M. R., Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Tse, C., & So, W. C.  (2016, July).  Using gestures to prime the mental timeline.  Paper presented at the 7th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Paris, France.
• Goh, W. D.  (2015, September).  Exploring trial-level reliability of short-term memory effects in immediate serial recall.  In G. Airenti, B. G. Bara, & G. Sandini (Eds.),  Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (pp. 140-145).  Torino: University of Torino.
• Lau, M. C., Goh, W. D., & Yap, M. J.  (2015, July).  Semantic richness effects in memory.  Poster session presented at the XXXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, USA.
• Ng, M. M. R., Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Tse, C., & So, W. C.  (2015, July).  The past and future are in your hands: How gestures affect our understanding of temporal concepts.  In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. C. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1715-1720).  Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
• Lau, M. C., Goh, W. D., & Yap, M. J.  (2015, March).  Semantic richness effects in memory.  Poster session presented at the national psychology graduate student conference, Singapore. [Best Poster winner]
• Ng, M. M. R., Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Tse, C., & So, W. C.  (2015, March).  The past and future are in your hands: How gestures affect our understanding of temporal concepts.  Paper presented at the national psychology graduate student conference, Singapore.
• Sim, J. J. M., & Goh, W. D.  (2014, November).  Cross-language phonological activation of meaning in English-Chinese bilinguals.  Poster session presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, USA.
• Ching, T. H. W., Goh, W. D., & Tan, G.  (2014, July).  Exploring dimensionality in the obsessive-compulsive-relevant semantic network with simulated obsessions and association splitting.  Poster session presented at the 21st Annual OCD Conference, Los Angeles, USA.
• Ng, M. M. R., Goh, W. D., Yap, M. J., Tse, C., & So, W. C.  (2014, July).  The past and future are in your hands: How gestures affect our understanding of temporal concepts.  Paper presented at the 6th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, San Diego, USA.
• Suárez, L., Goh, W. D., & Soh, E. S. M.  (2014, July).  The nature of verbal short-term memory codes in Chinese.  Poster session presented at the XXXVI Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.
• Lau, M. C., & Goh, W. D.  (2013, November).  Investigating the mechanism for the emotional-semantic effect in short-term memory.  Poster session presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
• Ching, T. H. W., Goh, W. D., & Tan, G.  (2013, August).  Rethinking the dimensional approach with simulated obsessions and association splitting in the obsessive-compulsive-relevant semantic network in Singaporean undergraduate students.  Poster session presented at the 4th Asian Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
• Salleh, S. R., & Goh, W. D.  (2013, August).  Investigating phonological false memory effects of prior recall and recognition using the remember-know paradigm.  Poster session presented at the XXXV Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
• Salleh, S. R., & Goh, W. D.  (2012, November).  The relationship between recall and recognition in phonological false memory.  Poster session presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, USA.
• Goh, W. D.  (2012, August).  Phonological neighbourhood clustering effects on verbal short-term memory.  Poster session presented at the XXXIV Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan.
• Siew, C. S. Q., Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D.  (2012).  Investigating the locus of the word frequency effect in spoken word recognition.  In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXXIV Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 983-988).  Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
• Singh, L., Lee, Q., & Goh, W. D.  (2011).  Processing dependencies between suprasegmental and segmental information: Effects of emotion and lexical tone on interference.  In W. Lee, & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the XVII international congress of phonetic sciences (pp. 1858-1861).  Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
• Goh, W. D., & Hu, W.  (2011).  Short-term memory for emotional words: Separating the effects of emotionality and semantic relatedness.  In B. Kokinov, A. Karmiloff-Smith, & N. J. Nersessian (Eds.), European perspectives on cognitive science: Proceedings of the European conference on cognitive science EuroCogSci 2011.  Sofia: New Bulgarian University Press.
• Lim, S. W. H., & Goh, W. D.  (2010).  Melody recognition: Effects of articulation format.  In S. Ohlsson, & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXXII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 423-428).  Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
• Suárez, L., Tan, S. H., Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D.  (2010, August).  Exploring phonological Levenshtein distance effects in auditory lexical decision.  Poster session presented at the XXXII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, USA.
• Yap, M. J., Lin, L. W., Tay, S. Z., Tan, S. H., & Goh, W. D.  (2010, May).  RT distributional analyses of priming and frequency effects in auditory lexical decision.  Poster session presented at the 22nd annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, USA.
• Lim, S. W. H., & Goh, W. D.  (2009, November).  The function of timbre similarity in traditional timbre effects.  Poster session presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA.
• Suárez, L., & Goh, W. D.  (2009, November).  Implicit learning in foreign language acquisition.  Poster session presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA.
• Lu, S. H. X., & Goh, W. D.  (2009).  Testing the myth of the encoding-retrieval match.  In N. A, Tatgen, & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of at the XXXI Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2523-2527).  Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
• Lim, S. W. H., & Goh, W. D.  (2009, July).  Timbre effects in melody recognition: Binding timbre characteristics and melody identity.  Poster session presented at the XXXI Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Suárez, L., & Goh, W. D.  (2009, July).  Lexical stress in foreign language acquisition.  Poster session presented at the XXXI Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Goh, W. D., Suárez, L., Yap, M. J., & Tan, S. H.  (2008, November).  Distributional analyses in auditory lexical decision: Neighbourhood density and word frequency effects.  Poster session presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA.
• Goh, W. D., & Khoo, B. H.  (2007).  Effects of inter-associate connectivity on the persistence of false recall.  In D. S. McNamara, & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXIX Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1031-1036).  New York: Erlbaum.
• Goh, W. D., & Chen, M.  (2007).  The bilingual phono-translation effect: Facilitation or inhibition depends on second-language proficiency.  In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of EuroCogSci07: The European cognitive science conference (pp. 173-178).  Hove: Erlbaum.
• Jia, L., & Goh, W. D.  (2007).  Are long words holistically processed? De-individuation effects of embedded CVC clusters.  In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of EuroCogSci07: The European cognitive science conference (pp. 262-267).  Hove: Erlbaum.
• Misra, R., & Goh, W. D.  (2006).  Phonological similarity effects in simple and complex word spans.  In R. Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1829-1834).  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Goh, W. D.  (2005, November).  Locus of talker variability effects in primary and secondary memory search for spoken words.  Poster session presented at the 46^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
• Goh, W. D., & Huang, W.  (2005).  Conceptual and perceptual processing fluency in false recognition.  In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2487).  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Remez, R. E., Fellowes, J. M., Pisoni, D. B., Goh, W. D., & Rubin, P. E.  (1997).  Audio-visual speech perception without traditional speech cues: A second report.  In C. Benoit & R. Campbell (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESCA workshop on audio-visual speech processing: Cognitive and computational approaches (pp. 73-76).  Grenoble: European Speech Communication Association.
• Goh, W. D.  (1996).  Expectations and aspirations of the younger generation: Undergraduate views on property and car ownership.  Paper presented at the inter-faculty conference on The Singapore Dream: Private Property, Social Expectations & Public Policy, School of Building & Estate Management, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  

PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• Goh, W. D., Suárez, L., Yap, M. J., & Tan, S. H. (2008, November).  Distributional analyses in auditory lexical decision: Neighbourhood density and word frequency effects.  Invited talk at Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA.

THESES/DISSERTATIONS

• Goh, W. D.  (2001).  Talker variability effects in short-term and long-term memory for spoken words.  Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.
• Goh, W. D.  (1995).  Cognitive processes in language comprehension: Morphological and orthographic processing of English compound words.  Master's thesis, National University of Singapore.
• Goh, W. D.  (1991).  Caffeine user-effect and automaticity.  Honours thesis, National University of Singapore.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Cleary, M., Goh, W. D., Brumfield, J., & Pisoni, D. B.  (1999).  The influence of lexical neighbourhoods and stimulus sampling procedures on children's immediate memory span for spoken words (Research on spoken language processing Progress Rep. No. 23, pp. 365-377).  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Department of Psychology, Speech Research Laboratory.
• Goh, W. D.  (1999).  Lexical neighbourhoods and release from proactive interference: A first report (Research on spoken language processing Progress Rep. No. 23, pp. 287-300).  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Department of Psychology, Speech Research Laboratory.
• Goh, W. D., Pisoni, D. B., Kirk, K. I., & Remez, R. E.  (1999).  Audio-visual perception of sinewave speech in an adult cochlear implant user: A case study (Research on spoken language processing Progress Rep. No. 23, pp. 201-210).  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Department of Psychology, Speech Research Laboratory.
• Lachs, L., Goh, W. D., & Pisoni, D. B.  (1999).  Effects of multimodal presentation and lexical density on immediate memory span for spoken words (Research on spoken language processing Progress Rep. No. 23, pp. 351-363).  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Department of Psychology, Speech Research Laboratory.
• Goh, W. D., & Pisoni, D. B.  (1998).  Effects of lexical neighbourhoods on immediate memory span for spoken words: A first report (Research on spoken language processing Progress Rep. No. 22, pp. 195-213).  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Department of Psychology, Speech Research Laboratory.
• Goh, W. D.  (1997).  Some observations on working memory tasks and issues in cognitive psychology (Research on spoken language processing Progress Rep. No. 21, pp. 179-199).  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Department of Psychology, Speech Research Laboratory.