Selected recent group publications since 2000:

2008

• Igor Farkas and Matthew Crocker. Syntactic systematicity in sentence processing with a recurrent self-organizing network. Neurocomputing, 71(7-9):1172-1179, 2008.
• Pia Knoeferle, Boukje Habets, Matthew Crocker and Thomas Münte. Visual scenes trigger immediate syntactic reanalysis: evidence from ERPs during situated spoken comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 18(4):789-795, 2008.
• Maria Staudte and Matthew Crocker. The role of gaze in spoken human-robot interaction, In: Proceedings of the HRI Workshop on Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, March 2008.

2007

• Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. The influence of recent scene events on spoken comprehension: evidence from eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language (Special issue: Language-Vision Interaction); 57(2):519-543, 2007.
• Matthew Crocker and Frank Keller. Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing. To appear in: Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, Ralph Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky, eds., Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Andrea Weber, Bettina Braun and Matthew Crocker. Finding Referents in Time: Eye-tracking Evidence for the Role of Contrastive Accents. Language and Speech. (in press).

 

2006

• Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. The coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge: evidence from eye tracking. Cognitive Science. (2006).
• Andrea Weber, Martine Grice and Matthew Crocker. The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: a study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition. 99(2):B63-B72, 2006.
• Matthew Crocker and Frank Keller. Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing. In: Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, Ralph Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky, eds., Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2006.
• Andrea Weber, Martine Grice and Matthew Crocker. The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: a study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition. (2006).

2005

• Pia Knoeferle, Matthew Crocker, Martin Pickering, and Christoph Scheepers. The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events. Cognition; 95:95-127, 2005.

• Matthew Crocker. Rational models of comprehension: addressing the performance paradox. In: A. Culter (ed) Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 2005.
• Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle, A Connectionist Model of Anticipation in Visual Worlds, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Proceedings of IJCNLP), Volume 3651, Pages 849 - 861, September 2005.
• Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. A Connectionist Model of Sentence Comprehension in Visual Worlds. In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005.

2004

• Andrea Weber and Anne Cutler. Lexical competition in non-native spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 50:1-25, 2004.
• Christoph Scheepers and Matthew Crocker. Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening: A Visual-World Study. In: M. Carreiras and C. Clifton, Jr. (eds), The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP and Beyond. Psychology Press, UK, 2004.
• Marshall Mayberry and Matthew Crocker. Generating Semantic Graphs through Self-Organization. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science, Washington D.C, October 2004.
• Kerstin Hadelich, Holly Branigan, Martin Pickering & Matthew Crocker. Alignment in Dialogue: Effects of Visual versus Verbal-feedback. In: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog'04) , Barcelona, Spain. July, 2004,

2003

• Pia Knoeferle, M. Crocker, C. Scheepers, and M. Pickering, Actions and Roles: Using depicted events for disambiguation and reinterpretation in German and English. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , Boston, USA, July 2003.

2002

• Matthew Crocker and Steffan Corley. Modular Architectures and Statistical Mechanisms: The Case from Lexical Category Disambiguation. In: Merlo & Stevenson (eds), The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2002.

2001

• Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, Christoph Scheepers, and Matthew Crocker. The Preservation of Structure in Language Comprehension: Is Reanalysis the Last Resort? Journal of Memory and Language; 45(2):283-307, 2001.
• Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew Crocker, and Shari Trewin. Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The GSEARCH Corpus Query System. Computers and the Humanities; 35:81-94, 2001.

2000

• Matthew Crocker, Martin Pickering and Charles Clifton, Jr. (eds). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, January 2000.
• Matthew Crocker and Thorsten Brants. Wide Coverage Probabilistic Sentence Processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 29(6):647-669, 2000.
• Martin Pickering, Matthew Traxler, and Matthew Crocker. Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Processing: Evidence Against Likelihood. Journal of Memory and Language; 43(3):447-475, 2000.
• Thorsten Brants and Matthew Crocker. Probabilistic Parsing and Psychological Plausibility. In: Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000); pp. 111-117, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000.
• Steffan Corley and Matthew Crocker. The Modular Statistical Hypothesis: Exploring Lexical Category Ambiguity. In: Crocker, Pickering & Clifton (eds), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000.