Publications
* indicates a lab-member-led paper.
Preprints
A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism.
[psyarxiv]
Neural dynamics express syntax in the time domain during natural story listening.
[biorxiv]
What's surprising about surprisal.
[psyarxiv]
A mathematical neural process model of language comprehension, from syllable to sentence.
[psyarxiv]
Modelling compositionality and structure dependence in natural language.
[arxiv]
How we learn things we didn't know already: A theory of learning structured representations from experience.
[biorxiv]
Human-like generalization in a machine through predicate learning.
[arxiv]
Speed-accuracy tradeoff modeling and its interface with experimental syntax.
[psyarxiv]
2024
(2024).
Lexical surprisal shapes the time course of syntactic structure building.
Neurobiology of Language.
[pdf]
(2024).
Structural and sequential regularities modulate phrase-rate neural tracking.
Scientific Reports.
[pdf]
(2024).
Phase-dependent word perception emerges from region-specific sensitivity to the statistics of language.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
[pdf]
(2024).
The Structure and Statistics of Language jointly shape Cross-frequency Dynamics during Spoken Language Comprehension.
Nature Communications.
[pdf]
(2024).
Delta-band Activity Underlies Referential Meaning Representation during Pronoun Resolution.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2024).
Alpha and beta oscillations differentially support word production in a rule-switching task.
eNeuro.
[pdf]
2023
(2023).
Delta-band neural responses to individual words are modulated by sentence processing.
Journal of Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2023).
A tradeoff between acoustic and linguistic feature encoding in spoken language comprehension.
eLife.
[pdf]
(2023).
On logical inference over brain, behavior, and artificial neural networks.
Computational Brain & Behavior.
[pdf]
(2023).
Naturalistic spoken language comprehension is supported by alpha and beta oscillations.
Journal of Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2023).
Hierarchical structure in language and action: A formal comparison.
Psychological Review.
[pdf]
(2023).
What oscillations can do for syntax depends on your theory of structure building.
Letter in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
[pdf]
2022
(2022).
Effects of structure and meaning on cortical tracking of linguistic units in naturalistic speech.
Neurobiology of Language.
[pdf]
(2022).
Inferring the nature of linguistic computations in the brain.
PLoS Computational Biology.
[pdf]
(2022).
Neural dynamics differentially encode phrases and sentences during spoken language comprehension.
PLoS Biology.
[pdf]
(2022).
Neural tracking of phrases in spoken language comprehension is automatic and task-dependent.
eLife.
[pdf]
2021
(2021).
Structure-(in)dependent interpretation of phrases in humans and LSTMs.
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
[pdf]
(2021).
A model for learning structured representations of similarity and relative magnitude from experience.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
[pdf]
(2021).
The relational processing limits of classic and contemporary neural network models of language processing.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2021).
How computational modeling can force theory building in psychological science?.
Perspectives on Psychological Science.
[pdf]
(2021).
An oscillating computational model can track pseudo-rhythmic speech by using linguistic predictions.
eLife.
[pdf]
(2021).
Hierarchy in language interpretation: Evidence from behavioral experiments and computational modeling.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
2020
(2020).
From language to language-ish: How brain-iike is an LSTM's representation of atypical language stimuli?.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings.
[pdf]
(2020).
Relation learning in a neurocomputational architecture supports cross-domain transfer.
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
[pdf]
(2020).
Phase synchronization varies systematically with linguistic structure composition.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
[pdf]
(2020).
Tensors and compositionality in neural systems.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
[pdf]
(2020).
Modeling meaning composition from formalism to mechanism.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
[pdf]
(2020).
The activation of contextually predictable words in syntactically illegal positions.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
[pdf]
(2020).
Readers detect an low-level phonological violation between two parafoveal words.
Cognition.
[pdf]
(2020).
Linguistic structure and meaning organize neural oscillations into a content-specific hierarchy.
The Journal of Neuroscience.
[pdf]
2019
(2019).
Predicate learning in neural systems: Using oscillations to discover latent structure.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
[pdf]
(2019).
Knowledge-based and signal-based cues are weighted flexibly during spoken language comprehension.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
[pdf]
(2019).
Capitalization interacts with syntactic complexity.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
[pdf]
(2019).
Contextual speech rate influences morphosyntactic prediction and integration.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2019).
Synchronous, but not entrained: exogenous and endogenous cortical rhythms of speech and language processing.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
2018
(2018).
Retrieval cues and syntactic ambiguity resolution: Speed-accuracy tradeoff evidence.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2018).
Justify your alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance.".
Nature Human Behavior.
[pdf]
(2018).
Learning structured representations from experience.
Psychology of Learning and Motivation.
[pdf]
(2018).
Cue integration during sentence comprehension: Electrophysiological evidence from ellipsis.
PLoS ONE .
[pdf]
2017
(2017).
On predicting form and meaning in a second language.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
[pdf]
(2017).
Neural oscillations and a nascent cortico-hippocampal theory of reference.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2017).
Can structural priming answer the important questions about language? Comment on target article "An experimental approach to linguistic representation" by Branigan & Pickering.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
[pdf]
(2017).
Why the A/AN prediction effect may be hard to replicate: A rebuttal to Delong, Urbach, & Kutas .
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2017).
A theory of the detection and learning of stimulus similarity and magnitude.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
[pdf]
2016
(2016).
Abstraction in time: Finding hierarchical linguistic structure in a model of relational processing.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
[pdf]
(2016).
Language processing as cue integration: Grounding the psychology of language in perception and neurophysiology.
Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences.
[pdf]
(2016).
Prediction of agreement and phonetic overlap shape sublexical identification.
Language and Speech.
[pdf]
(**equal authorship contribution, alphabetical listing)
(2016).
How robust are prediction effects in language comprehension? Failure to replicate article-elicited N400 effects.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
[pdf]
(2016).
Predicting form and meaning: Evidence from brain potentials.
Journal of Memory and Language.
[pdf]
2014
(2014).
Agreement attraction during comprehension of grammatical sentences: ERP evidence from ellipsis.
Brain and Language.
[pdf]
2013
(2013).
Modelling accuracy as a function of response time with the generalized linear mixed effects model.
Acta Psychologica.
[pdf]
(2013).
Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension.
Brain and Language.
[pdf]
2012
(2012).
If the real-world were irrelevant, so to speak: The role of propositional truth-value in counterfactual sentence comprehension.
Cognition.
[pdf]
(2012).
Event-related brain potentials index cue-based retrieval interference during sentence comprehension.
NeuroImage.
[pdf]
2011
(2011).
Direct-access retrieval during sentence comprehension: Evidence from Sluicing.
Journal of Memory and Language.
[pdf]
2009
(2009).
Memory operations that support language comprehension: Evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
[pdf]
2008
(2008).
Prosodic phonological representations in early visual word recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
[pdf]
(2008).
A content-addressable pointer mechanism underlies comprehension of verb-phrase ellipsis.
Journal of Memory and Language.
[pdf]