ALPHA: Adaptive Mechanisms for Human Language Processing
Publications
- Pia Knoeferle, Matthew Crocker, Martin Pickering, and Christoph Scheepers. The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events. Cognition (accepted for publication).
- Matthew Crocker. Rational models of comprehension: addressing the performance paradox. To appear in: A. Culter (ed) Psycholinguistic Crossroads, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
- Christoph Scheepers and Matthew Crocker. Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening: A Visual-World Study. In: M. Carreiras and C. Clifton, Jr. (eds), The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP and Beyond. Psychology Press, UK, (in press).
- Pia Knoeferle, M. Crocker, C. Scheepers, and M. Pickering, Actions and Roles: Using depicted events for disambiguation and reinterpretation in German and English. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, USA, July 2003.
- Marshall Mayberry and Risto Miikkulainen. Incremental Nonmonotonic Parsing through Semantic Self-Organization. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, USA, July 2003.
- Y. Kamide, C. Scheepers, G. Altmann. Integration of syntactic and semantic information in predictive processing: Anticipatory eye-movements in German. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2003.
- M. Crocker. Parsing as Prediction: Evidence from SVO and OVS constructions in German. Invited paper in: Proceedings of the 6th Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2002), pp. 3-6, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2002.
Presentations
- Marshall Mayberry and Matthew Crocker. Incrementality, prediction, and attention in a scaleable network model of linguistic competence and performance. Paper presented at: The 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing; College Park, MD, March 2004.
- Andrea Weber, Bettina Braun, Matthew Crocker. Adjectival modifiers and reference resolution: when prosodic focus matters. Poster presented at: The 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing; College Park, MD, March 2004.
- Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. When Linguistic Experience Competes with Scene Information in Sentence Comprehension. Poster presented at: The 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing; College Park, MD, March 2004.
- Pia Knoeferle, Matthew Crocker and C. Scheepers. The influence of depicted event scenes on written comprehension of locally ambiguous sentences. Poster presented at: The 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing; College Park, MD, March 2004.
- Andrea Weber, Martine Grice, and Matthew Crocker. Effects of prosody on the resolution of word order ambiguities. Poster presented at: AMLaP-2003, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2003.
- Christoph Scheepers, Sandra Muckel, Matthew Crocker and Karin Müller. On-line interpretation of German particle verb constructions. Poster presented at: The 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing; Boston, MA, March 2003.
Software
- Stimulus Presentation Software: we have developed software for the presentation of acoustic and visual (graphical) experimental stimula for conductin visual world experiments, as well as reading experiments. The software is designed for use with the SMI eye-link, head-mounted eye-tracking system.
- Eye-movement Analysis Software: we have developed software for analysing eye-movement data output by our stimulus presentation system (above). The software permits association of fixation data with pre-defined regions in a visual scene, as well as tools for post-hoc drift-correction.
Researchers interested in using our software can obtain it for free: to find out how to download, please contact: