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Recent Papers

Allen, J.S., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio, H. (2008). Morphology of the insula in relation to hearing status and sign language. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(46), 11900-11905.

Arevalo A, Perani D, Cappa SF, Butler A, Bates E, Dronkers N. (2007) Action and object processing in aphasia: from nouns and verbs to the effect of manipulability. Brain Lang.,100(1), 79-94.

Baldo JV, Dronkers NF. (2007) Neural correlates of arithmetic and language comprehension: a common substrate? Neuropsychologia, 45(2), 229-35.

Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. (2008). From reduction back to higher levels. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 559-564. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. (2007). Explaining human freedom and dignity mechanistically: From receptive to active mechanisms. The Journal of Philosophical Research, 32, 43-66.

Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A (2007). In search of mitochondrial mechanisms: Interfield excursions between cell biology and biochemistry. Journal of the History of Biology, 40, 1-33.

Bicknell, K., Elman, J.L., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Kutas, M. (2008) Online expectations for verbal arguments conditional on event knowledge. In B.C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2220-2225). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Bicknell, K., Levy, R., & Demberg, V. (2009). Correcting the incorrect: Local coherence effects modeled with prior belief update. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Bicknell, K., & Levy, R. (2009). A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. Proceedings of North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009 conference. Boulder, CO: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Bicknell, K.& Rohde, H. (2009). Dynamic integration of pragmatic expectations and real-world event knowledge in syntactic ambiguity resolution. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Borovsky, A., Saygin, A.P., Bates, E. & Dronkers, N. (2007). Lesion correlates of conversational speech production deficits. Neuropsychologia.

Casey, S., & Emmorey, K. (2008). Co-speech gesture in bimodal bilinguals. Language and Cognitive Processes. doi: 10.1080/01690960801916188.

Cowles, H.W., Kluender, R., Kutas, M. & Polinsky, M. (2007). Violations of information structure: An electrophysiological study of answers to wh-questions. Brain and Language, 102, 228-242.

Cummings, A., Čeponienė, R., Dick, F., Saygin, A.P., & Townsend, J. (2008). A developmental ERP study of verbal and non-verbal semantic processing. Brain Research, 1208, 137-149.

Emmorey, K., Borinstein, H.B., Thompson, R., & Gollan, T.H. (2008). Bimodal bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11(1), 43-61.

Emmorey, K., Thompson, R., & Colvin, R. (2008). Eye gaze during comprehension of American Sign Language by native and beginning signers. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, doi: 10.1093/deafed/enn037

Emmorey, K., Korpics, F., & Petronio, K. (2008). The use of visual feedback during signing: Evidence from signers with visual impairments. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enn020

Emmorey, K., & McCullough, S. (2008). The bimodal brain: Effects of sign language experience. Brain and Language. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.03.005

Emmorey, K. (2007). The psycholinguistics of signed and spoken languages: How biology affects processing. In G. Gaskell (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp. 703-721, Oxford University Press

Emmorey, K., Mehta, S., & Grabowski, T.J. (2007). The neural correlates of sign versus word production. NeuroImage

Fabiano, L. (2007) "Evidence-based phonological assessment of bilingual children" in Goldstein, B. & Gildersleeve-Neumann, C. (Eds.) Typical Speech Sound Acquisition in Bilinguals. (Published simultaneously in Communications Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations Newsletter and the July 2007 issue of Language Learning and Education Newsletter, 14, (2).)

Ferreira, V.S., Bock, K., Wilson, M., & Cohen, N. J. (in press). Memory for syntax despite amnesia. Psychological Science.

Ferreira, V. S. (in press). Ambiguity, accessibility, and a division of labor for communicative success. Psychology of Learning and Motivation.

Freedman, S., Mass, E., Caligiuri, M.P., Wulf, G., & Robin, D.A. (2007) Internal Versus External: Oral-Motor Performance as a Function of Attentional Focus. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Resesarch, 50, 131-136

Kiang, M., Kutas, M., Light, G.A., Braff, D.L. An event-related brain potential study of direct and indirect semantic priming in schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2008, 165(1) pp. 74-81.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., & Pulvermüller F. (to appear) Embodied Language Processing: Neuroimaging, behavioural, and neurocomputational perspectives. Special issue to appear in Brain and Language.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M. W. (accepted). Constituent order and semantic parallelism in online comprehension: eye-tracking evidence from German. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Mandler, J. M. (2008). On the birth and growth of concepts. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 207-230.

Mandler, J. M. (2008). Infant concepts revisited. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 269-280.

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M.W., & Knoeferle, P. (accepted). Learning to Attend: A Connectionist Model of the Coordinated Interplay of Utterance, Visual Context, and World Knowledge. Cognitive Science.

Munte, T.F., Kutas, M. Capitalizing on Deep Brain Stimulation: Thalamus as a Language Monitor. Neuron, 2008, 59(5) pp. 677-679.

Olichney, J.M., Taylor, J.R., Gatherwright, J., Salmon, D.P., Bressler, A.J., Kutas, M., Iragui-Madoz, V.J. Patients with MCI and N400 or P600 abnormalities are at very high risk for conversion to dementia. Neurology, 2008, 70(19 Pt 2) pp. 1763-70.

Pesciarelli, F., Kutas, M., Dell’Acqua, R., Peressotti, F., Job, R. & Urbach, T.P. (2007). Semantic and repetition priming within the attentional blink: An event-related brain potential (ERP) investigation study. Biological Psychology 76, 21–30

Pickering, M. J. & Ferreira, V. S. (2008). Structural priming: A critical review. Psychological Bulletin.

Pyers, J. & Emmorey, K. (2008). The face of bimodal bilingualism: ASL grammatical facial expressions are produced when bilinguals speak to English monolinguals. Psychological Science, 19, 531-535.

Senkfor, A.J., Van Petten, C., Kutas, M. Enactment versus conceptual encoding: Equivalent item memory but different source memory. Cortex, 2008, 44(6) pp. 649-664.

Schendan, H.E., Kutas, M. Neurophysiological evidence for transfer appropriate processing of memory: processing versus feature similarity. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2007, 14(4) pp. 612-9.

Spreckelmeyer, K.N., Kutas, M., Urbach, T., Altenmuller, E., Munte, T.F. Neural processing of vocal emotion and identity. Brain and Cognition, 2008, Jul 19

Wardlow Lane, L. & Ferreira, V. S. (in press). Speaker-external versus speaker-internal forces on utterance form: Do cognitive demands override threats to referential success? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.



Recent Presentations

Allen, J., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio, H. (2007). Do hearing status and sign language experience affect insula morphology? An MR volumetric analysis. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, California.

Allen, J., Emmorey, K., Bruss, J., & Damasio, H. (2007). An MR Volumetric Study of the Motor Hand Region and Insula in Deaf, Hearing, and Hearing-Signing Individuals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May, New York.

Bechtel, W. & Abrahamsen, A. (2008). "From reduction back to higher levels." To be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Washington, DC, July 24-26, 2008.

Bechtel, W. & Abrahamsen, A. (2008). "Reduction doesn't eliminate the need for higher-level research: Circadian rhythm research as an exemplar." To be presented at the 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 10-16, 2008.

Bechtel, W. & Abrahamsen, A. (2007). "Mental mechanisms, autonomous systems, and moral agency". To be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Nashville, TN, Aug 1-4, 2007.

Beyer, T., & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2007). The Comprehension of Standard American English Morphology by 6- an 7-year-old Speakers of African American English. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Bicknell, K., Elman, J.L., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Kutas, M. (2008) Situation-specific expectations for verbal arguments: Evidence from self-paced reading and ERPs. Poster presentation at the 2008 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC.

Bicknell, K., Demberg, V., & Levy, R. (2008). Local coherences in the wild: An eye-tracking corpus study. Poster presentation at the 2008 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC.

Bicknell, K., Elman, J.L., Hare, M.& McRae, K. (2008). When a participant tells us about an event: Evidence for the use of event knowledge. Oral presentation at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Bicknell, K., Levy, R., & Demberg, V. (2009). An empirical investigation and new model of local coherences. Oral presentation at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 8-11 January 2009.

Borovsky, A., Elman, J. & Kutas, M. (2008). Getting the gist is not enough: An ERP investigation of word learning from context. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

Boyd, J. (2008) Online and offline comprehension of English comparative constructions. Oral presentation at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Brumm, K. (2008). An Investigation of the Effects of Syntactic Complexity, Task Demand, and Rate of Speech Input on the Neural Correlates of Sentence Comprehension. Poster to be presented at the annual conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia.

Brumm, K., Liu, T., Perthen, J., Haist, F., & Love, T. (2007). An Investigation of Cerebral Perfusion in Aphasia using Arterial Spin Labeling. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, Illinois.

Casey, S., Emmorey, K., & Larrabee, H. (2007). The effects of American Sign Language on co-speech gesture. Paper presented at the International Society for Gesture Studies. June, Evanston, Illinois.

Emmorey, K. (2007). Some perspectives on gesture and sign language. Key note presentation at the International Society for Gesture Studies. June, Evanston, Illinois.

Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., Mehta, S., Ponto, L. L. B., & Grabowski, T.J. (2007). Neural systems underlying sign language versus pantomime production. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, California.

Emmorey, K., Xu, J., Gannon, P., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Braun, A. (2007). Perception of pantomime, American Sign Language verbs, and nonsense signs by deaf signers and hearing non-signers. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May, New York.

Evans, J., Hall, G., & Sizemore, M. (2008). Neural correlates of statistical word learning as measured by event-related potentials (ERPs). Poster presented at the 29th annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Fabiano, L. & Goldstein, B. (2007). Phonological acquisition in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children. Presented in seminar format by L.Fabiano at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA.

Fabiano, L. (2007). Inventory complexity in Spanish and English: A comparison of bilingual and monolingual acquisition. To be presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD), Madison, WI, June

Fabiano, L. (2007). Phonological representation in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children. To be presented at the Child Phonology conference, Seattle, WA, June 22-23.

Goldstein, B., Fabiano, L., Gildersleeve-Neumann, C., & Barlow, J. (2007). Phonological characteristics of bilingual preschoolers. Presented in seminar format at the annual convention of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA). Boston, MA.

Kertz, L. (2008) VP ellipsis in context. Oral presentation at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Kertz, L. (2008) Focus Structure and Acceptability in Verb Phrase Ellipsis. Oral presentation at the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Los Angeles, CA.

Knoeferle, P., Urbach, T. & Kutas, M. (2008) ERP correlates of verb-action and sentence-scene role relations incongruence in a sentence-picture verification task, Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Levy, R., Bicknell, K, Slattery, T., & Rayner, K. (2009). Readers maintain and act on uncertainty about past linguistic input: Evidence from eye movements. Oral presentation at the 2009 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA, 26-29 March, 2009.

Bicknell, K., & Levy, R. (2009). A new model of local coherences as resulting from Bayesian belief update. Poster presentation at the 2009 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA, 26-29 March, 2009.

Luk, G., Pyers, J., Emmorey, K., & Bialystok, E. (2007). The source of enhanced cognitive control in bilinguals: Evidence from bimodal bilinguals. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Long Beach, California.

Mandler, J. M. (2008, April). The spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Paper presented at the Jacobs Foundation Conference on Early Childhood Development and Later Achievement. Marbach Castle, Germany.

Phan, L., Woolpert, D., Reilly, J. & Akshoomoff, N. (2008).  Writing development in children with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference of the EARLY Special Interest Group on Writing. Lund, Sweden.

Pyers, J. & Emmorey K., (2007). Two-faced: How knowledge of a sign language affeccs facial gesture. Paper presented at the International Society for Gesture Studies. June, Evanston, Illinois.

Rohde, H., Levy, R. & Kehler, A. (2008). Coherence-driven effects in relative clause processing. Oral presentation at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. (2007). Pronoun Interpretation as a Side Effect of Discourse Coherence. The 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, Tenessee.

Rohde, H., Kehler, A., & Elman, J. (2007). Where to next? Pronoun interpretation as a side effect of discourse direction. The 20th Annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, March, San Diego, CA.

Saygin, A., McCullough, S., Alac, M., & Emmorey, K. (2007). Sentences with motion semantics activate motion-sensitive visual areas in the human brain. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, California.

Sizemore, M. & Evans, J. (2008). Word frequency effects on event-related potentials in the auditory modality. Poster presented at the 29th annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison,WI.

Thal, D. & Sizemore, M. (2007). Gesture use by late talkers at 16 months and 6 years of age. Poster presented at the Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, June 7-9.

Travis, K., Halgren, E., Leonard, M., Brown, T.T., Hagler, D.J., Dale, A.M., Elman, J. (abstract/poster submitted) Multimodal Neuroimaging of Early Word Knowledge in Human Infants: A Novel MEG-MRI Approach Reveals a N400m-like MEG Response. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. March 2009.

Travis, K., Leonard, M., Brown, T.T., Hagler, D.J., Huang, M., Dale, A.M., Halgren, E., Elman, J. (abstract/poster submitted) Multimodal neuroimaging of early word knowledge in human infants: A novel MEG-MRI approach. Soceity for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C. Nov. 2008.

Travis, K. (2008). Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of word knowledge in infants. Presented at Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium. May 3rd, Salk Institute, San Diego, CA.

Travis, K (2008). Multimodal neuroimaging of word knowledge in human infants: A baby talk. Presented at Institute for Neural Computation Retreat, May 3rd, Salk Institute, San Diego, CA.

Udoff, J. (2008). Put your hands together: Phonological constraints on handshape mapping in ASL. Presented at the High Desert Linguistic Society Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Woolpert, D., Reilly, J., & Fenson, J. (2007).  Language and brain plasticity: Spelling errors in written narratives of children with early focal brain lesions. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.

Woolpert, D., Mansfield, A., Reilly, J., & Fenson, J. (2007).  Limitations on neuroplasticity: Evidence from the spelling of children with early focal brain lesion. Poster to be presented at the Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. Madsion, WI.