Matthew W. Crocker

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  Psycholinguistics
  Dept of Computational Linguistics
  & Phonetics (FR 4.7)
  Saarland University
  Building C7.1, Room 1.15
  66123 Saarbrücken
  Germany

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!! NEW !! Visually Situated Language Comprehension

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Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes

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Professor of Psycholinguistics
Principal Investigator: Excellence Cluster “Multimodal Computing and Interaction”
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University

Professional activities:

• Associate Editor for Frontiers in Language Sciences
• 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:

• Harm Brouwer, Matthew 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, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew Crocker. 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 Crocker. Exploiting listener gaze to improve situated communication in dynamic virtual environments. Cognitive Science, 40:1671-1703, 2016.
• Harm Brouwer and Matthew 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. [pdf]
• Matthew Crocker. Vera Demberg and Elke Teich. Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL). Künstliche Intelligenz, 30:77-81, 2016. [link]
• Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönnen-Klauck and Matthew Crocker (eds). Visually Situated Language Comprehension. John Benjamins, 2016.
• Judith Koehne and Matthew Crocker. The interplay of cross-situational word learning and sentence-level constraints. Cognitive Science, 39:849-889, 2015. [pdf]
• Maria Staudte, Matthew Crocker, Alexis Heloir and Michael Kipp. The influence of speaker gaze on listener comprehension: Contrasting visual versus intentional accounts. Cognition, 133:317-328,2014. [link]
• Afra Alishahi, Afsaneh Fazly, Judith Koehne and Matthew Crocker. Sentence-based attentional mechanisms in word learning: evidence from a computational model. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:200, 2012. [pdf]
• Andrea Weber and Matthew Crocker. On the nature of semantic constraints on lexical access. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 41:195-214, 2012. [pdf]
• Jan Švantner, Igor Farkaš and Matthew Crocker. Modeling utterance-mediated visual attention during situated comprehension. Neural Network World, 22(2):85-101, 2012. [pdf]
  
• Maria Staudte and Matthew Crocker. Investigating Joint Attention Mechanisms through Spoken Human-Robot Interaction. Cognition, 120:268-291, 2011. [link]
• Matthew Crocker. Computational Psycholinguistics. In: Lappin, Clark and Fox (eds) The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Blackwell, UK, 2010. [pdf]
• Matthew Crocker, Pia Knoeferle and Marshall Mayberry. Situated Sentence Comprehension: The Coordinated Interplay Account and a Neurobehavioral Model. Brain and Language, 112(3), 2010. [pdf]

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