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

Publications

Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., Heins, C. and Grodner, D.J. (2019). What do you know? ERP evidence for immediate use of common ground during online reference resolution. Cognition, 182, 275-285. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.013. (link, preprint)

Sikos, L., Kim, M., and Grodner, D. (2019). Social context modulates tolerance for pragmatic violations in binary but not graded judgments. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 510. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00510 (link)

Sikos, L., Greenberg, C., Drenhaus, H. and Crocker, M.W. (2017). Information density of encodings: The role of syntactic variation in comprehension. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK. (pdf)

Thibodeau, P., Sikos, L. and Durgin, F.H. (2017). Are Subjective Ratings of Metaphors a Red Herring? The Big Two Dimensions of Metaphoric Sentences. Behavioral Research Methods, 50(2). doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0903-9. (link)

Sikos, L., Duffield, J., and Kim, A.E. (2016). Grammatical predictions reveal influences of semantic attraction in online sentence comprehension: Evidence from speeded forced-choice sentence continuations. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(8), 1055-1073. doi:10.1080/23273798.2016.1186808 (link)

Thibodeau, P., Sikos, L. , and Durgin, F.H. (2016). What do we learn from rating metaphors? In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Kim, A.E., Oines, L., and Sikos, L.. (2016). Prediction during sentence comprehension is more than a sum of lexical associations: The role of event knowledge. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(5), 597-601. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1102950. (link)

Kim, A.E., and Sikos, L. (2011). Conflict and surrender during sentence processing: an ERP study of syntax-semantics interaction. Brain and Language, 118(1), 15-22. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.03.002. (link)

Sikos, L. (2011). Tipping the balance between syntactic and semantic processing: The modulation of ERP effects at the syntax-semantics interface. PhD thesis.

Sikos, L. (2010). Locative Constructions in Lakhota: Evidence for/against "universal conceptual categories" in spatial topology. Colorado Research in Linguistics, 22:1. (pdf)

Sikos, L., Brown, S.W., Kim, A.E., Michaelis, L.A., and M. Palmer. (2008). Figurative Language: "Meaning" is often more than just a sum of the parts. Proceedings of the AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. Washington, DC: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)

Sikos, L. (2000). Sherpas and Mountaineers: The contradictions and paradoxes in cross-cultural encounters. Master's thesis.

Submitted or under revision

Sikos, L., Thibodeau, P., Strawser, C., Klein, B., Williams, M. and Durgin, F.H. (under revision). Beneath the waves: Event-related potentials reveal underlying qualities of extended metaphors.

Sikos, L., and Kim, A.E. Conflict between discourse-driven event representations and syntactic cues during sentence processing: An ERP study.

Pützer, M., Moringlane, J. R., Sikos, L., Reith, W., and Krick, C. M. fMRI and micro-phonetic acoustic analyses reveal neural correlates of gestural complexity and articulatory effort during speech production.

In preparation

Sikos, L. , Martin, H., Fitzgerald, L., and Grodner, D. Memory-based limits on surprisal-based syntactic adaptation.

Sikos, L., Tomlinson, S., Heins, R. and Grodner, D. Incremental computation of scalar implicatures: An ERP study.

Sikos, L., Stigliani, V., and Durgin, F.H. Careers and conventions: ERP evidence concerning metaphor comprehension supports discourse-timecourse hemispheric specialization.

Durgin, F.H., Sikos, L., Thibodeau, P., Strawser, C., and Klein, B. Metaphor quality and context: An eye tracking study of extended metaphor.

Sikos, L., and Kim, A. Tipping the balance between syntactic and semantic processing: Relative strength of competing cues modulates the "semantic P600" effect.

Kim, A.E., Oines, L., and Sikos, L. The neural mechanisms of sentence comprehension: Insights old and new from event-related potentials.

Sikos, L. and Duman, S. Shh! Alexa is listening: How we talk about Alexa behind her back reveals how we think about her.

Sikos, L. , Duffield, J. and Duman, S. Rudeness with robots: Frustration during human-machine interaction spills over into human-to-human interaction.

Messerli, T., Duman, S., and Sikos, L. From Screen to voice: Evidence of changed perceptions of voice-based virtual assistants.

Sikos, L., Phelps, K.S., Gould, K., and Duman, S. The role of linguistic knowledge in hue perception.