Professor of Psycholinguistics
Department of Language Science & Technology, Saarland University
Deputy Director SFB/CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding"
Professional activities:
- Specialty Chief Editor Psycholinguistics, Frontiiers in Language Sciences(2023-)
- Editorial Board: Glossa Psycholinguistics (2021-2024)
- Associate Editor: Dialogue & Discourse (2010–2017)
- Associate Editor: Cognition (2009–2013)
- Guest Editor for Brain & Language special issue “Embodied Language Processing: Neuroimaging, Behavioural, and Neurocomputational Perspectives” ,112(3), 2010.
- Chair of the Rumelhart Prize Selection Committee (2011–2016)
- Editorial Board: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (2005– 2018)
- Editorial Board: Computational Linguistics (1995 – 1997)
Selected recent publications:
- Francesca Delogu, Christoph Aurnhammer, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. On the biphasic nature of the N400-P600 complex underlying language comprehension. Brain & Cognition, 186 (2025) 106293.
- Ming Yean Sia, Emily Mather, Matthew W. Crocker and Nivedita Mani. The Role of Systematicity in Early Referent Selection. Developmental Science, 2024.
- Christoph Aurnhammer, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. Single-trial neurodynamics reveal N400 and P600 coupling in language comprehension. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2023.
- Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. Computational Psycholinguistics. In: Sun, R. (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences. CUP: Cambridge, UK, 2023.
- Torsten Jachmann, Heiner Drenhaus, Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. When a Look is Enough: Neurophysiological Correlates of Referential Speaker Gaze in Situated Comprehension. Cognition, 236 (2023) 105449.
- Christoph Aurnhammer, Francesca Delogu, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. The P600 as a Continuous Index of Integration Effort. Psychophysiology, 2023.
- Noortje Venhuizen, Petra Hendriks, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. Distributional Formal Semantics. Information and Computation, 287, 2022. [Code]
- Elizabeth Rabs, Francesca Delogu, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew W. Crocker. Situational Expectancy or Association? The Influence of Event Knowledge on the N400. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(6):766-784, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.2022171
- Matthew W. Crocker, Gerhard Jäger, Gina Kuperberg, Hannah Rohde, Elke Teich and Rory Turnbull (Topic Editors). Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science. Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 2021.
- Elli Tourtouri, Francesca Delogu and Matthew W. Crocker. Rational Redundancy in Referring Expressions: Evidence from Event-related Potentials. Cognitive Science, 45, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13071
- Christoph Aurnhammer, Francesca Delogu, Miriam Schulz, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. Retrieval (N400) and Integration (P600) in Expectation-based Comprehension. PLOS ONE 16(9): e0257430, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257430
- Francesca Delogu, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. When components collide: Spatiotemporal overlap of the N400 and P600 in language comprehension. Brain Research, 1766, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147514
- Jesús Calvillo, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. Semantic Systematicity in Connectionist Language Production. Information 12(8): 329. https://doi.org/10.3390/info12080329
- Les Sikos, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew W. Crocker. Speak before you listen: Pragmatic reasoning in multi-trial language games. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, Vienna, Austria, July, 2021.
- Les Sikos, Noortje Venhuizen, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker. Reevaluating pragmatic reasoning in language games. PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248388, 2021. DOI: 10.1371/journal. pone.0248388
- Harm Brouwer, Francesca Delogu, Noortje J Venhuizen and Matthew W Crocker. Neurobehavioral Correlates of Surprisal in Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:110, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.615538
- Maria Staudte, Christine Ankener, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew W. Crocker. Graded expectations in visually situated comprehension: Costs and benefits as indexed by the N400. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 624–631, 2021. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01827-3
- Harm Brouwer, Francesca Delogu and Matthew W. Crocker. Splitting Event-Related Potentials: Modeling Latent Components using Regression-based Waveform Estimation. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53:974–995, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14961
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