@article{alemanBanon201249, title = "The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish: An event-related potential investigation of the effects of structural distance ", journal = "Brain Research ", volume = 1456, number = 0, pages = "49 - 63", year = 2012, issn = "0006-8993", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.03.057", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006899312005914", author = "José Alemán Bañón and Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele", keywords = "\{ERP\}", keywords = "\{P600\} amplitude", keywords = "Structural distance", keywords = "Linear distance", keywords = "Agreement", keywords = "Spanish ", abstract = "Previous research suggests that the processing of agreement is affected by the distance between the agreeing elements. However, the unique contribution of structural distance (number of intervening syntactic phrases) to the processing of agreement remains an open question, since previous investigations do not tease apart structural and linear distance (number of intervening words). We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the extent to which structural distance impacts the processing of Spanish number and gender agreement. Violations were realized both within the phrase and across the phrase. Across both levels of structural distance, linear distance was kept constant, as was the syntactic category of the agreeing elements. Number and gender agreement violations elicited a robust \{P600\} between 400 and 900ms, a component associated with morphosyntactic processing. No amplitude differences were observed between number and gender violations, suggesting that the two features are processed similarly at the brain level. Within-phrase agreement yielded more positive waveforms than across-phrase agreement, both for agreement violations and for grammatical sentences (no agreement by distance interaction). These effects can be interpreted as evidence that structural distance impacts the establishment of agreement overall, consistent with sentence processing models which predict that hierarchical structure impacts the processing of syntactic dependencies. However, due to the lack of an agreement by distance interaction, the possibility cannot be ruled out that these effects are driven by differences in syntactic predictability between the within-phrase and across-phrase configurations, notably the fact that the syntactic category of the critical word was more predictable in the within-phrase conditions. " } @Article{almor1999noun, pages = {748--765}, number = {4}, volume = {106}, year = {1999}, journaltitle = {Psychological Review}, subtitle = {The information load hypothesis}, title = {Noun-phrase anaphora and focus}, author = {Almor, Amit} } @article{almor2008focus, title = {Focus and noun phrase anaphors in spoken language comprehension}, author = {Almor, Amit and Eimas, Peter D}, journal = {Language and cognitive processes}, volume = 23, number = 2, pages = {201--225}, year = 2008, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis} } @article{barber2005grammatical, title = {Grammatical gender and number agreement in Spanish: An ERP comparison}, author = {Barber, Horacio and Carreiras, Manuel}, journal = {Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience}, volume = 17, number = 1, pages = {137--153}, year = 2005, publisher = {MIT Press} } @article{biran20121103, title = "The representation of lexical-syntactic information: Evidence from syntactic and lexical retrieval impairments in aphasia", journal = "Cortex ", volume = 48, number = 9, pages = "1103 - 1127", year = 2012, issn = "0010-9452", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.05.024", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945211001687", author = "Michal Biran and Naama Friedmann", keywords = "Aphasia", keywords = "Predicate argument structure (PAS)", keywords = "Grammatical gender", keywords = "Hebrew", keywords = "Syntactic lexicon ", abstract = {This study explored lexical-syntactic information – syntactic information that is stored in the lexicon – and its relation to syntactic and lexical impairments in aphasia. We focused on two types of lexical-syntactic information: predicate argument structure (PAS) of verbs (the number and types of arguments the verb selects) and grammatical gender of nouns. The participants were 17 Hebrew-speaking individuals with aphasia who had a syntactic deficit (agrammatism) or a lexical retrieval deficit (anomia) located at the semantic lexicon, the phonological output lexicon, or the phonological output buffer. After testing the participants’ syntactic and lexical retrieval abilities and establishing the functional loci of their deficits, we assessed their \{PAS\} and grammatical gender knowledge. This assessment included sentence completion, sentence production, sentence repetition, and grammaticality judgment tasks. The participants’ performance on these tests yielded several important dissociations. Three agrammatic participants had impaired syntax but unimpaired \{PAS\} knowledge. Three agrammatic participants had impaired syntax but unimpaired grammatical gender knowledge. This indicates that lexical-syntactic information is represented separately from syntax, and can be spared even when syntax at the sentence level, such as embedding and movement are impaired. All 5 individuals with phonological output buffer impairment and all 3 individuals with phonological output lexicon impairment had preserved lexical-syntactic knowledge. These selective impairments indicate that lexical-syntactic information is represented at a lexical stage prior to the phonological lexicon and the phonological buffer. Three participants with impaired \{PAS\} (aPASia) and impaired grammatical gender who showed intact lexical-semantic knowledge indicate that the lexical-syntactic information is represented separately from the semantic lexicon. This led us to conclude that lexical-syntactic information is stored in a separate syntactic lexicon. A double dissociation between \{PAS\} and grammatical gender impairments indicated that different types of lexical-syntactic information are represented separately in this syntactic lexicon.} } @Article{botvinick2004doing, doi = {10.1037/0033-295X.111.2.395}, pages = {395--429}, number = {2}, volume = {111}, year = {2004}, journal = {Psychological Review}, subtitle = {A Recurrent Connectionist Approach to Normal and Impaired Routine Sequential Action}, title = {Doing Without Schema Hierarchies}, author = {Botvinick, Matthew and Plaut, David C} } @Article{braitenberg1997detection, keywords = {finite automata}, file = {Documents/reading/psycholinguistics/braitenberg1997detection.pdf}, pages = {229-277}, volume = {20}, year = {1997}, journaltitle = {Behavioral and Brain Sciences}, title = {The detection and generation of sequeunces as a key to cerebellar function: Experiments and theory}, author = {Braitenberg, Valentino and Heck, Detlef and Sultan, Fahad} } @Book{braitenberg2013anatomy, keywords = {finite automata}, publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media}, number = {18}, series = {Studies of Brain Function}, year = {2013}, title = {Anatomy of the Cortex: Statistics and Geometry}, author = {Braitenberg, Valentino and Schüz, Almut} } @Article{caramazza1998domain, pages = {1--34}, number = {1}, volume = {10}, year = {1998}, subtitle = {The animate-inanimate distinction}, journaltitle = {Journal of cognitive neuroscience}, title = {Domain-specific knowledge systems in the brain}, author = {Caramazza, Alfonso and Shelton, Jennifer R.} } @article{chan2011decoding, title = {Decoding word and category-specific spatiotemporal representations from MEG and EEG}, author = {Chan, Alexander M and Halgren, Eric and Marinkovic, Ksenija and Cash, Sydney S}, journal = {Neuroimage}, volume = 54, number = 4, pages = {3028--3039}, year = 2011, publisher = {Elsevier} } @article{chan2011first, title = {First-pass selectivity for semantic categories in human anteroventral temporal lobe}, author = {Chan, Alexander M and Baker, Janet M and Eskandar, Emad and Schomer, Donald and Ulbert, Istvan and Marinkovic, Ksenija and Cash, Sydney S and Halgren, Eric}, journal = {The Journal of Neuroscience}, volume = 31, number = 49, pages = {18119--18129}, year = 2011, publisher = {Soc Neuroscience} } @article{chen2013task, title = {Task modulation of brain responses in visual word recognition as studied using EEG/MEG and fMRI}, author = {Chen, Yuanyuan and Davis, Matthew H and Pulverm{\"u}ller, Friedemann and Hauk, Olaf}, journal = {Frontiers in human neuroscience}, volume = 7, year = 2013, publisher = {Frontiers Media SA} } @article{cooper2006hierarchical, title = {Hierarchical schemas and goals in the control of sequential behavior.}, journal = {Psychological Review}, volume = 113, number = 4, pages = {887--916}, author = {Cooper, Richard P and Shallice, Tim}, year = 2006, publisher = {American Psychological Association} } @Article{cronbach1955psychological, file = {Documents/reading/psychology/cronbach1955psychological.pdf}, pages = {281--302}, number = {4}, volume = {52}, year = {1955}, journaltitle = {Psychological Bulletin}, title = {Construct validity in psychological tests}, author = {Cronbach, Lee and Meehl, Paul} } @Article{cronbach1957two, pages = {671--684}, volume = {12}, year = {1957}, journaltitle = {American Psychologist}, title = {The two disciplines of scientific psychology}, author = {Cronbach, Lee} } @Article{diesendruck2001childrens, pages = {630--641}, number = {5}, volume = {37}, year = {2001}, journaltitle = {Developmental Psychology}, subtitle = {A pragmatic account}, title = {Children's avoidance of lexical overlap}, author = {Diesendruck, Gil and Markson, Lori} } @article{dikker2013predicting, title = {Predicting language: MEG evidence for lexical preactivation}, author = {Dikker, Suzanne and Pylkk{\"a}nen, Liina}, journal = {Brain and language}, volume = 127, number = 1, pages = {55--64}, year = 2013, publisher = {Elsevier} } @inproceedings{fyshe2012decoding, title = {Decoding Word Semantics from Magnetoencephalography Time Series Transformations}, author = {Fyshe, Alona and Sudre, Gustavo and Wehbe, Leila and Murphy, Brian and Mitchell, Tom}, booktitle = {2nd NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in NeuroImaging (MLINI)}, year = 2012 } @Article{hudson2009getting, pages = {30--66}, volume = {59}, year = {2009}, journaltitle = {Cognitive Psychology}, subtitle = {When learners change languages}, title = {Getting it right by getting it wrong}, author = {Hudson Kam, Carla L. and Newport, Elissa L.} } @article{huth20121210, title = "A Continuous Semantic Space Describes the Representation of Thousands of Object and Action Categories across the Human Brain ", journal = "Neuron ", volume = 76, number = 6, pages = "1210 - 1224", year = 2012, issn = "0896-6273", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.10.014", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312009348", author = "Alexander G. Huth and Shinji Nishimoto and An T. Vu and Jack L. Gallant", abstract = "Summary Humans can see and name thousands of distinct object and action categories, so it is unlikely that each category is represented in a distinct brain area. A more efficient scheme would be to represent categories as locations in a continuous semantic space mapped smoothly across the cortical surface. To search for such a space, we used fMRI to measure human brain activity evoked by natural movies. We then used voxelwise models to examine the cortical representation of 1,705 object and action categories. The first few dimensions of the underlying semantic space were recovered from the fit models by principal components analysis. Projection of the recovered semantic space onto cortical flat maps shows that semantic selectivity is organized into smooth gradients that cover much of visual and nonvisual cortex. Furthermore, both the recovered semantic space and the cortical organization of the space are shared across different individuals. Video Abstract " } @Article{james2018individual, pages = {155--181}, volume = {102}, year = {2018}, journaltitle = {Journal of Memory and Language}, subtitle = {Is there evidence for reader-text interactions?}, title = {Individual differences in syntactic processing}, author = {James, Ariel N and Fraundorf, Scott H and Lee, Eun-Kyung and Watson, Duane G} } @article{kaiser2004role, title = {The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language}, author = {Kaiser, Elsi and Trueswell, John C}, journal = {Cognition}, volume = 94, number = 2, pages = {113--147}, year = 2004, publisher = {Elsevier} } @Article{kalashnikova2018acceptance, pages = {1517--1530}, number = {6}, volume = {23}, year = {2018}, journaltitle = {International Journal of Bilingualism}, title = {Acceptance of lexical overlap by monolingual and bilingual toddlers}, author = {Kalashnikova, Marina and Oliveri, Aimee and Mattock, Karen} } @Article{laine1998lexical, pages = {220--229}, number = {3}, volume = {61}, year = {1998}, journaltitle = {Psychological Research}, title = {Lexical access to inflected words as measured by lateralized visual lexical decision}, author = {Laine, Matti} } @incollection{lashley1951problem, title = {The problem of serial order in behavior}, author = {Lashley, Karl Spencer}, booktitle = {Cerebral mechanisms in behavior}, pages = {112--136}, year = 1951 } @article{leonard2014specific, title = {Specific language impairment across languages}, author = {Leonard, Laurence B}, journal = {Child development perspectives}, volume = 8, number = 1, pages = {1--5}, year = 2014, publisher = {Wiley Online Library} } @article{levelt1998meg, title = {An MEG study of picture naming}, author = {Levelt, Willem JM and Praamstra, Peter and Meyer, Antje S and Helenius, P{\"a}ivi and Salmelin, Riitta}, journal = {Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience}, volume = 10, number = 5, pages = {553--567}, year = 1998, publisher = {MIT Press} } @Article{markman1988childrens, pages = {121--157}, number = {2}, volume = {20}, year = {1988}, journaltitle = {Cognitive Psychology}, title = {Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words}, author = {Markman, Ellen M. and Wachtel, Gwyn F.} } @Article{maye2008weckud, pages = {548--561}, number = {3}, volume = {32}, year = {2008}, journaltitle = {Cognitive Science}, subtitle = {Lexical adaptation to novel accent}, title = {The {W}eckud {W}etch of the {W}ast}, author = {Maye, Jessica and Aslin, Richard N. and Tanenhaus, Michael K.} } @Article{meyer1971facilitation, pages = {227--234}, number = {2}, volume = {90}, year = {1971}, journaltitle = {Journal of Experimental Psychology}, subtitle = {Evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations}, title = {Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words}, author = {Meyer, David E. and Schvaneveldt, Roger W.} } @article{orourke201162, title = "Morphological agreement at a distance: Dissociation between early and late components of the event-related brain potential ", journal = "Brain Research ", volume = 1392, number = 0, pages = "62 - 79", year = 2011, issn = "0006-8993", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2011.03.071", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006899311006664", author = "Polly L. O'Rourke and Cyma Van Petten", keywords = "Event-related potential", keywords = "Gender agreement", keywords = "Number agreement", keywords = "Morphology", keywords = "Sentence", keywords = "Proficiency ", abstract = "Syntactic relationships among non-adjacent words are a core aspect of sentence structure. Research on complex sentences with displaced elements has concluded that resolving long-distance dependencies can tax working memory. Here we examine a simpler relationship—morphological agreement between the elements of a noun phrase—across a gradient of distance. Participants read sentences with violations of gender agreement among Spanish nouns, determiners and adjectives. For those explicitly assigned the task of detecting errors, accuracy was uniformly high across the four levels of distance between (dis)agreeing words. A second group performed a comprehension task as \{ERPs\} were recorded. Gender agreement errors elicited a left anterior negativity (LAN) regardless of the distance between (dis)agreeing words, indicating that the errors were detected. In contrast, a temporally later component of the \{ERP\} (P600) showed decreasing amplitudes as the number of words between (dis)agreeing elements increased. Smaller \{P600\} responses were also associated with slower responses to the comprehension questions. Given other work suggesting that the \{P600\} indexes attempted repair of a problematic sentence structure, the results suggest that the participants became increasingly unwilling to re-visit their initial parse of a sentence as the required effort increased, despite having noted an error. The results are discussed within the context of studies showing that readers often compute inadequate structural representations of sentences. We suggest that \{P600\} amplitude may reflect the costs versus benefits of sentence re-analysis, determined by a combination of sentence structure, task requirements, and the degree to which sentence meaning hinges on a correct structural analysis. " } @Article{shoji2017repeated, file = {Documents/reading/psycholinguistics/shoji2017repeated.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/s10936-016-9424-4}, pages = {89--106}, volume = {46}, year = {2017}, journaltitle = {Journal of Psycholinguistic Research}, title = {The repeated name penalty, the overt pronoun penalty, and topic in {J}apanese}, author = {Shoji, Shinichi and Dubinsky, Stanley and Almor, Amit} } @Article{singh2016accommodating, pages = {607-634}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, journaltitle = {Cognitive Science}, title = {Accommodating presuppositions is inappropriate in implausible contexts}, author = {Singh, Raj and Fedorenko, Evelina and Mahowald, Kyle and Gibson, Edward} } @article{sudre2012451, title = "Tracking neural coding of perceptual and semantic features of concrete nouns ", journal = "NeuroImage ", volume = 62, number = 1, pages = "451 - 463", year = 2012, issn = "1053-8119", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.048", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912004442", author = "Gustavo Sudre and Dean Pomerleau and Mark Palatucci and Leila Wehbe and Alona Fyshe and Riitta Salmelin and Tom Mitchell", keywords = "Knowledge representation", keywords = "Semantics", keywords = "Language comprehension", keywords = "Magnetoencephalography ", abstract = "We present a methodological approach employing magnetoencephalography (MEG) and machine learning techniques to investigate the flow of perceptual and semantic information decodable from neural activity in the half second during which the brain comprehends the meaning of a concrete noun. Important information about the cortical location of neural activity related to the representation of nouns in the human brain has been revealed by past studies using fMRI. However, the temporal sequence of processing from sensory input to concept comprehension remains unclear, in part because of the poor time resolution provided by fMRI. In this study, subjects answered 20 questions (e.g. is it alive?) about the properties of 60 different nouns prompted by simultaneous presentation of a pictured item and its written name. Our results show that the neural activity observed with \{MEG\} encodes a variety of perceptual and semantic features of stimuli at different times relative to stimulus onset, and in different cortical locations. By decoding these features, our MEG-based classifier was able to reliably distinguish between two different concrete nouns that it had never seen before. The results demonstrate that there are clear differences between the time course of the magnitude of \{MEG\} activity and that of decodable semantic information. Perceptual features were decoded from \{MEG\} activity earlier in time than semantic features, and features related to animacy, size, and manipulability were decoded consistently across subjects. We also observed that regions commonly associated with semantic processing in the fMRI literature may not show high decoding results in MEG. We believe that this type of approach and the accompanying machine learning methods can form the basis for further modeling of the flow of neural information during language processing and a variety of other cognitive processes. " } @Article{tamminen2013novel, number = {5}, volume = {66}, year = {2013}, journaltitle = {Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology}, subtitle = {Evidence from unmasked and masked semantic priming}, title = {Novel word integration in the mental lexicon}, author = {Tamminen, Jakke and Gaskell, M. Gareth} } @Comment{ Local Variables: bibtex-dialect: biblatex End: }