Dr. Les Sikos
Psycholinguistics Group
Dept of Language Science and Technology
Saarland University
Building C7.1, Room 1.13
66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
E-mail: sikos@coli.uni-saarland.de
Presentations
Talks
Vergilova, Y., Sikos, L. , and Crocker, M.W. (2018). The lateralization of expectations: Evidence from a divided visual field ERP study. Talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Humbolt University, Berlin.
Duman, S., Messerli, T., & Sikos, L . (2018). Voice-based virtual assistants and metaphor. Talk presented at Swiss Work of English Language & Linguistics. Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Messerli, T., Duman, S., & Sikos, L . (2018). From Screen to Voice: Evidence of changed perceptions of voice-based virtual assistants. Talk presented at the bi-annual Conference of Interactions Multimodales Par ECran (IMPEC). Lyon, France.
Thibodeau, P., Sikos, L., and Durgin, F.H. (2016). What do we learn from rating metaphors? Talk presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, United States.
Sikos, L.,, Martin, H., Fitzgerald, L., and Grodner, D.J. (2016). Memory-based limits on surprisal-based syntactic adaptation. Talk presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Florida, United States.
Durgin, F., Tawa, E., Sikos, L., and Thibodeau, P. (2015). Is the right hemisphere more flexible (than the left) during language comprehension? Talk presented at the 2015 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, United States.
Creem, D. R., Sikos, L. , & Norris, C. J. (2015). Brief meditation increases resource allocation and improves performance on the ANT. Presented at Panel Discussion (Altered States: Undergraduate-Driven EEG/ERP Research on Attention, Cognition, and Emotion) at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Seattle, Washington.
Durgin, F., Sikos, L., and Thibodeau, P. (2014). Priming Conceptual Metaphors: An ERP Study. Talk presented at the 2014 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, United States.
Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., Sanchez, L., and Grodner, D.J. (2014). What do you know? ERP evidence for immediate use of common ground during online reference resolution. Talk presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, United States.
Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., and Grodner, D.J. (2013). Incremental computation of scalar implicatures: An ERP study. Talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Marseille, France.
Sikos, L. and Kim, A.E. (2011). N400 to P600: Discourse context modulates the "semantic P600." Talk presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford University, United States.
Sikos, L., Brown, S.W., Kim, A.E., Michaelis, L.A., and Palmer, M. (2008). Figurative Language: "Meaning" is often more than just a sum of the parts. (2008). Talk presented at AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, United States.
Posters
Sikos, L. , Venhuizen, N., Drenhaus, H., and Crocker, M. W. (2019). Reevaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Web-based Language Games. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. (pdf)
Muljadi, C., Ankener, C., Sikos, L. , Staudte, M. (2019). Verb Surprisal in the Visual World. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. (pdf)
Sikos, L. , Kim, M., Lane, J., and Grodner, D.J. (2018). "Some" tasks are not optimal: Concerns about truth value judgment tasks for assessing scalar implicature. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of California, Davis. (pdf)
Tourtouri, E., Sikos, L. , and Crocker, M.W. (2018). Referential entropy influences overspecification: Evidence from production. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of California, Davis. (pdf)
Tourtouri, E., Sikos, L. , and Crocker, M.W. (2018). Referential Overspecification: From egocentricity to rationality. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Humbolt University, Berlin. (pdf)
Tourtouri, E., Sikos, L. , and Crocker, M.W. (2018). Referential Overspecification as a Rational Strategy. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (pdf)
Sikos, L. , Greenberg, C., Drenhaus, H. & Crocker, M.W. (2017). Information density of encodings: The role of syntactic variation in comprehension. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Brouwer, H. & Crocker, M.W. (2017). Neural correlates of referential processing: Event-related potentials for ambiguity versus resolution. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Brouwer, H. & Crocker, M.W. (2017). Neural correlates of referential processing: Event-related potentials for ambiguity versus resolution. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, United States.
Sikos, L., Kim, M., and Grodner, D.J. (2016). Speaker likeability influences utterance acceptability: Social context modulates tolerance for pragmatic violations in adults. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Florida, United States. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., Heins, C., and Grodner, D.J. (2016). What do you know? ERP evidence for immediate use of common ground during online reference resolution. Poster presented at RefNet Round Table, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., Sanchez, L., and Grodner, D.J. (2013). Individual differences in using common ground during real-time reference resolution: An ERP study. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Marseille, France. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., Traut, H., and Grodner, D.J. (2013). Incremental Computation of Scalar Implicatures: An ERP Study. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, United States. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Thibodeau, P., Strawser, C., and Durgin, H. (2013). Advantages of extending vs. mixing metaphors: An ERP study. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, United States. (pdf)
Phelps, K.S., Gould, K., Duman, S., and Sikos, L. (2012). The role of linguistic knowledge in hue perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan. (pdf)
Sikos, L. and F.H. Durgin. (2012). Productive figurative communication: Conventional metaphors facilitate the comprehension of related novel metaphors. Poster presented at the "Understanding the meaning of words and sentences: The role of non-linguistic processes" workshop. Tubingen, Germany. (pdf)
Sikos, L., and Kim, A.E. (2011). N400 to P600: Discourse context modulates the "semantic P600." Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, United States. (pdf)
Sikos, L., Rood, T., Michaelis, L.A., Palmer, M., and Kim, A.E. (2009). On the Road to Conventionalization: A Corpus Analysis of Nominal Coercion. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Univeristy of California, Davis, United States. (pdf)