Professor of Psycholinguistics
Department of Language Science & Technology, Saarland University
Deputy Director SFB/CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding"
Professional activities:
- Associate Editor for Frontiers in Language Sciences
- Editorial Board for Glossa Psycholinguistics
- Associate Editor for Dialogue & Discourse (2010–2017)
- Associate Editor for 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)
Selected recent publications:
- Les Sikos, Noortje Venhuizen, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker. Reevaluating pragmatic reasoning in language games. PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248388, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0248388
- Noortje Venhuizen, Petra Hendriks, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. Distributional Formal Semantics. Information and Computation, (in press). arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01713 [PDF] [Code]
- 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. (early access).
- 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
- Noortje Venhuizen, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. Semantic entropy in language comprehension. Entropy, 21, 1159, 2019. DOI:10.3390/e21121159
- Elli Tourtouri, Francesca Delogu, Les Sikos and Matthew W. Crocker. Rational over-specification in visually-situated comprehension and production. J Cult Cogn Sci, 3:175–202, 2019. DOI:10.1007/s41809-019-00032-6
- Francesca Delogu, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. Event-related potentials index lexical retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) during language comprehension. Brain & Cognition, 135, 2019.
- Torsten Jachmann, Heiner Drenhaus, Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. Influence of Speakers' Gaze on Situated Language Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials, Brain & Cognition, 135, 2019.
- Noortje Venhuizen, Petra Hendriks, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. A Framework for Distributional Formal Semantics. In: Iemhoff, R., Moortgat, M., and de Queiroz, R. (Eds.), Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop WoLLIC 2019, LNCS 11541, pp. 633-646. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59533-6_39
- Noortje Venhuizen, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. Expectation-based Comprehension: Modeling the interaction of world knowledge and linguistic experience. Discourse Processes, 56:3, 229-255, 2019.
- Francesca Delogu, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew W. Crocker. On the predictability of event-boundaries in discourse: An ERP investigation. Memory & Cognition, 46:315-325, 2018.
- Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. On the Proper Treatment of the N400 and P600 in Language Comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1327, 2017.
- Harm Brouwer, Matthew W. Crocker, Noortje Venhuizen, and John Hoeks. A Neurocomputational Model of the N400 and the P600 in Language Processing. Cognitive Science, 41:1318-1352, 2017.
- Francesca Delogu, Matthew W. Crocker and Heiner Drenhaus. Teasing apart coercion and surprisal: Evidence from ERPs and eye-movements. Cognition, 161:46-59, 2017.
- Harm Brouwer, Matthew W. Crocker and Noortje Venhuizen. Neural Semantics. In: Wieling, M., Kroon, M., Van Noord, G., and Bouma, G. (eds.), From Semantics to Dialectometry: Festschrift for John Nerbonne, pp. 75–83. College Publications, 2017.
- Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte, Alexander Koller and Matthew W. Crocker. Exploiting listener gaze to improve situated communication in dynamic virtual environments. Cognitive Science, 40:1671-1703, 2016.
- Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. On the Organization of the Perisylvian Cortex: Insights from the Electrophysiology of Language. Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by M.A. Arbib. Physics of Life Reviews, 16:58-60, 2016.
- Matthew W. Crocker. Vera Demberg and Elke Teich. Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL). Künstliche Intelligenz, 30:77-81, 2016.
- Judith Koehne and Matthew W. Crocker. The interplay of cross-situational word learning and sentence-level constraints. Cognitive Science, 39:849-889, 2015.
- Maria Staudte, Matthew W. Crocker, Alexis Heloir and Michael Kipp. The influence of speaker gaze on listener comprehension: Contrasting visual versus intentional accounts. Cognition, 133:317-328, 2014.
(see a short biography, or download my CV and list of publications)