Publications
Articles
Paap, K. R., Anders-Jefferson, R., Zimiga, B., Mason, L., & Mikulinsky, R. (2020). Interference scores have inadequate concurrent and convergent validity: Should we stop using the flanker, Simon, and spatial Stroop tasks? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5. PDF
Mason, L. A., Zimiga, B. M., Anders-Jefferson, R., & Paap, K. R. (2020). Autism traits predict self-reported executive functioning deficits in everyday life and an aversion to exercise. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. PDF
Paap, K. R., Myuz, H., Anders-Jefferson, R., Mason, L., & Zimiga, B. (2019). On the ambiguity regarding the relationship between sequential congruency effects, bilingual advantages in cognitive control, and the disengagement of attention. AIMS neuroscience, 6(4), 282. PDF
Paap, K. R., Mason, L. A., Zimiga, B. M., Ayala-Silva, Y., Frost, M. M., Gonzalez, M., & Primero, L. (2019). Other Language Proficiency Predicts Unique Variance in Verbal Fluency Not Accounted for Directly by Target Language Proficiency: Cross-Language Interference?. Brain sciences, 9(8), 175. PDF
Paap, K. R., Anders-Jefferson, R., Mikulinsky, R., Masuda, S., & Mason, L. (2019). On the encapsulation of bilingual language control. Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 76-92. PDF
Paap, K., & Sawi, O. (2018). Corrigendum to" The role of test-retest reliability in measuring individual and group differences"[Journal of Neuroscience Methods 274 (2016) 81-93]. Journal of neuroscience methods, 307, 260-260. PDF
Paap, K. R., Anders-Jefferson, R., Mason, L., Alvarado, K., & Zimiga, B. (2018). Bilingual advantages in inhibition or selective attention: More challenges. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 1409. PDF
Paap, K. R., Myuz, H. A., Anders, R. T., Bockelman, M. F., Mikulinsky, R., & Sawi, O. M. (2017). No compelling evidence for a bilingual advantage in switching or that frequent language switching reduces switch cost. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29(2), 89-112. PDF
Paap, K., & Sawi, O. (2016). The role of test-retest reliability in measuring individual and group differences. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 274, 81-93. PDF
Paap, K. R., Johnson, H. A., & Sawi, O. (2016). Should the search for bilingual advantages in executive functioning continue? Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 74, 305–314. PDF
Paap, K. R. (2016). The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: will winds of change lift the fog?. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(3), 331-334. PDF
Paap, K. R., Johnson, H. A., & Sawi, O. (2015). Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances. Cortex, 69, 265-278. PDF
R. Paap, K., M. Sawi, O., Dalibar, C., Darrow, J., & A. Johnson, H. (2015). Beyond Panglossian Optimism: Larger N2 Amplitudes Probably Signal a Bilingual Disadvantage in Conflict Monitoring. AIMS Neuroscience, 2(1), 1–6. PDF
R. Paap, K., M. Sawi, O., Dalibar, C., Darrow, J., & A. Johnson, H. (2014). The Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism may be Extraordinarily Difficult to Discover. AIMS Neuroscience, 1(3), 245–256. PDF
Paap, K. R., & Sawi, O. (2014). Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: problems in convergent validity, discriminant validity, and the identification of the theoretical constructs. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 962. PDF
Paap, K. R., Johnson, H. A., & Sawi, O. (2014). Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences?. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(6), 615-639. PDF
Paap, K. R. (2014). The role of componential analysis, categorical hypothesising, replicability and confirmation bias in testing for bilingual advantages in executive functioning. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(3), 242-255. PDF
Paap, K. R., & Liu, Y. (2014). Conflict resolution in sentence processing is the same for bilinguals and monolinguals: The role of confirmation bias in testing for bilingual advantages. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 27(1), 50-74. PDF
Paap, K. R., & Partridge, D. (2014). Recursion isn’t necessary for human language processing: NEAR (Non-iterative Explicit Alternatives Rule) grammars are superior. Minds and Machines, 24(4), 389-414. PDF
Paap, K. R., Darrow, J., Dalibar, C., & Johnson, H. A. (2014). Effects of script similarity on bilingual advantages in executive control are likely to be negligible or null. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 1539. PDF
Paap, K. R. (2014). Do many hones dull the bilingual whetstone. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(01), 41-42. PDF
Paap, K. R., & Greenberg, Z. I. (2013). There is no coherent evidence for a bilingual advantage in executive processing. Cognitive psychology, 66(2), 232-258. PDF