Two LCNL projects were presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 15-17 at UC Davis. Check out the posters below: Steven Schwering and Maryellen MacDonald Syntax and recall serial: The effect of positional statistics on serial ordering. Mark Koranda and Maryellen MacDonald The Breadth of Phonological…
Maryellen MacDonald and Mark Seidenberg were invited to speak individually between three institutions in February 2018: The Oxford University Press (MacDonald, Seidenberg), The University of Edinburgh (MacDonald, Seidenberg), and The University of Cambridge (Seidenberg). One of Maryellen MacDonald’s talks was titled “Language Production is not Just for Producing Language,” given…
Abstract Cross-linguistic studies allow for analyses that would be impossible in a single language. To better understand the factors that underlie sentence production, we investigated production choices in main and relative clause production tasks in three languages: English, Japanese and Korean. The effects of both non-linguistic attributes (such as conceptual…
Eric Raimy and Mark Koranda presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The work titled “Phonological substance and the Successive Division Hierarchy” compares the implications of two approaches to phonological features, the ‘naive phonetic’ descriptive system used by UPSID, and that proposed by Avery and…
Mark Seidenberg presented at eLUCID8 on August 15, 2017 as part of the Scientific Communication panel at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery in Madison, Wisconsin. “LUCID is a project-focused cross-disciplinary graduate training program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that focuses on Learning, Understanding, Cognition, Intelligence, and Data-science. Its goal is…
Where language meets math: the impact of reading skill on solving math story problems Matt Cooper Borkenhagen and Mark Seidenberg Matt Cooper Borkenhagen presented his research with Mark Seidenberg on the impact of reading skill on solving math story problems at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study…
Abstract Unfamiliar speech—spoken in a familiar language but with an accent different from the listener’s—is known to increase comprehension difficulty. However, there is evidence of listeners’ rapid adaptation to unfamiliar accents (although perhaps not to the level of familiar accents). This paradox might emerge from prior focus on isolated word…
Maryellen MacDonald gave a talk entitled “A Psycholinguist Thinks about Verbal Working Memory” in the Past President’s Symposium at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences in Regina, Saskatchewan on June 3, 2017.
On May 25, 2017, Maryellen MacDonald gave a talk entitled “Attributions of Limitations in Sentence Processing: Comprehension, Production and Computational Capacity” at an MIT workshop on The Relationship between Executive Functions and Language Processing. The recorded presentation and slides are available here.
Producing during language learning affects comprehension Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald To investigate the extent to which learning transfers from Production to Comprehension, we taught participants an artificial language containing multiple dependencies. Participants were randomly assigned to either a Production or a Comprehension learning condition, with conditions designed to balance…
