Education
- Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Reading, UK. Thesis title: An exploration into the production/identification distinction in implicit memory. (Supervisors: Professor Dianne C. Berry OBE & Professor Laurie T. Butler. Studentship: Medical Research Council, UK).
- B.Sc., Psychology (Hons), Department of Psychology, Middlesex University, UK.
Expertise
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
Research Interests
- Psycholinguistics
- L1 and L2 language processing
- Second language acquisition
- Lexical-conceptual processing in Thai and English
- Psycholinguistic norming
- Implicit and explicit memory
- Memory and language
- Cognitive ageing and language
- Reading and speaking proficiency
Publications
Clarke, A. J. B. (under review). Thai norms for imageability, body-object interaction, and subjective frequency: Effects on semantic categorisation. Behavior Research Methods.
Ludington, J. D., & Clarke, A. J. B. (2026). Mime initiation latency for object photographs: A behavioral motor norm. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 55(3), 44, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-026-10216-1
Singhapreecha, P., Clarke, A. J. B., Meechanyakul, N., & Hirose, Y. (2026). Primary location of difficulty in the processing of Thai and English relative clauses. LEARN Journal, 19(1), 597–623. https://doi.org/10.70730/JLDJ2047
Buchanan, E., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., van Berkel, N., Coles, N. A., Iyer, A., Peters, K., van't Veer, A. E., Montefinese, M., Maxwell, M. P., Taylor, J. E., Valentine, K.D., Arriaga, P., Barzykowski, K., Boucher, L., Collins, W. M., Vaidis, D. C., Balazs, A., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Ambrosini, E., Besson, T., Burin, D. I., Butt, M. M., Clarke, A. J. B., …, Lewis, S. C. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 10, 182–201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x
Clarke, A. J. B. (2025). Determinants of L2 English reading proficiency among Thai learners of English in tertiary education: A multicomponent perspective. LEARN Journal, 18(1), 640–672. https://doi.org/10.70730/QHPY7996
Siegelman, N., Elgort, I., Brysbaert, M., Agrawal, N., Amenta, S., Arsenijević Mijalković, J., Chang, C. S., Chernova, D., Chetail, F., Clarke, A. J. B., …, Kuperman, V. (2024). Rethinking first language–second language similarities and differences in English proficiency: Insights from the ENRO project. Language Learning, 74(1), 249–294. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12586
Clarke, A. J. B., & Ludington, J. D. (2018). Thai norms for name, image, and category agreement, object familiarity, visual complexity, manipulability, and age of acquisition for 480 colour photographic objects. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47(3), 607–626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9544-5
Clarke, A. J. B., & Butler, L. T. (2008). Dissociating word stem completion and cued recall as a function of divided attention during retrieval. Memory, 16(7), 763–772. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210802261116
Richardson-Klavehn, A., Clarke, A. J. B., & Gardiner, J. M. (1999). Conjoint dissociations reveal involuntary "perceptual" priming from generating at study. Consciousness & Cognition, 8(3), 271–284. https://doi.org/10.1006/ccog.1999.0382