Lab Presentations

Publications & Manuscripts

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2013). Against structural constraints in subject-verb agreement production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(2), 515-528. [DOI]

Gillespie, M., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2013). Prosody reflects semantic integration in sentence production [Unpublished manuscript].

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011). Effects of semantic integration on phrase and word ordering errors in production. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2295-2300). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nn9t293

Gibson, E., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (Eds.) (2011). The processing and acquisition of reference. MIT Press. [DOI]

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011). Effects of semantic integration and advance planning on grammatical encoding in sentence production. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1625-1630). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vt99426

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011). Hierarchy and scope of planning in subject-verb agreement production. Cognition, 118(3), 377-397. [DOI]

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2005). Forward versus backward agreement processing in comprehension [Unpublished manuscript].

Stanczak, L., Waters, G., Caplan, D., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2005). Neural correlates of semantic plausibility in sentence comprehension in high and low working memory groups [Unpublished manuscript].

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2004). Semantic integration and syntactic planning in language production. Cognitive Psychology, 49(1), 1-46. [DOI]

Argaman, V., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2002). Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases. In P. Merlo & S. Stevenson (Eds.), The lexical basis of sentence processing: Formal, computational and experimental perspectives (pp. 303-324). John Benjamins. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J., & Gibson, E. (2001). Recency in verb phrase attachment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(2), 574-590. [DOI]

Gibson, E., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2000). Distinguishing serial and parallel parsing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(2), 231-240. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J. (2000). Linear versus hierarchical agreement feature processing in comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(1), 89-98. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J., & Mendelsohn, A. A. (2000). Serial versus parallel sentence comprehension [Unpublished manuscript].

Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Torrens, V. (1999). Recency and lexical preferences in Spanish. Memory & Cognition, 27(4), 603-611. [DOI]

Miyamoto, E. T., Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N. J., Aikawa, T., & Miyagawa, S. (1999). A U-shaped relative clause attachment preference in Japanese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14(5-6), 663-686. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J. (1999). Problems with plausibility, and alternatives to working memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(1), 109. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J., Garnsey, S. M., & Bock, K. (1999). Agreement processes in sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 41(3), 427-456. [DOI]

Gibson, E., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (1998). Constraints on sentence processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(7), 262-268. [DOI]

Garnsey, S. M., Pearlmutter, N. J., Myers, E., & Lotocky, M. A. (1997). The contributions of verb bias and plausibility to the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 37(1), 58-93. [DOI]

Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N. J., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Hickok, G. (1996). Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism. Cognition, 59(1), 23-59. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (1995). Individual differences and probabilistic constraints in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 34(4), 521-542. [DOI]

Gibson, E., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (1994). A corpus-based analysis of psycholinguistic constraints on prepositional-phrase attachment. In C. Clifton, Jr., L. Frazier, & K. Rayner (Eds.), Perspectives on sentence processing (pp. 181-198). Lawrence Erlbaum. [DOI]

MacDonald, M. C., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1994). The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution. Psychological Review, 101(4), 676-703. [DOI]

MacDonald, M. C., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1994). Syntactic ambiguity resolution as lexical ambiguity resolution. In C. Clifton, Jr., L. Frazier, & K. Rayner (Eds.), Perspectives on sentence processing (pp. 123-153). Lawrence Erlbaum. [DOI]

Pearlmutter, N. J., Daugherty, K., MacDonald, M. C., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1994). Modeling the use of frequency and contextual biases in sentence processing. Proceedings of the 16th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 699-704. [PDF]

Pearlmutter, N. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (1992). Plausibility and syntactic ambiguity resolution. Proceedings of the 14th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 498-503. [PDF]

(Selected) Conference Presentations

Zhou, Y., Eskew, Jr., R. T., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2018, November). Representation of number in agreement comprehension. Poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. [PDF]

Zhou, Y., Eskew, Jr., R. T., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2018, September). Representation of number in agreement comprehension. Poster presented at the 2018 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Berlin.

Penta, D. J., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2016, November). Independent contributions of semantic factors to subject-verb agreement errors during production. Poster presented at the 2016 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. [PDF]

Penta, D. J., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2014, November). Effects of non-notional-number semantic relations on subject-verb agreement errors during sentence production. Poster presented at the 2014 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. [PDF]

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2014, March). Noun-phrase-internal structural priming in a picture-description task. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH. [PDF]

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2014, March). Timing of lexical activation in determiner-adjective-noun phrase production. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH. [PDF]

Penta, D. J., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2014, March). Semantic relatedness and semantic integration in subject-verb agreement errors. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH. [PDF]

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2013, November). Timing of lexical activation in determiner- adjective-noun phrase production. Poster presented at the 2013 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON.

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2012, July). Syntactic and semantic effects on the production of ordering errors. Poster presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Language Production, New York, NY. [PDF]

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2012, March). Advance planning and speech error production in a picture description task. Poster presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011, November). Effects of semantic, conceptual, and structural properties on the production of complex noun phrases. Poster presented at the 2011 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. [PDF]

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011, November). Imageability in subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the 2011 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. [PDF]

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011, March). Structural similarity and semantic integration effects on exchange error production. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Palo Alto, CA. [PDF]

Gillespie, M., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2010, September). Prosodic phrasing reflects semantic integration. Poster presented at 6th International Workshop on Language Production, Edinburgh, Scotland. [PDF]

DiBattista, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2010, March). Investigating semantic integration’s effect on the functional and positional levels of grammatical encoding during production. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. [PDF]

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2010, March). Simultaneity of planning increases interference during subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. [PDF]

Gillespie, M., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2010, March). Prosodic phrasing reflects planning processes in sentence production. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2009, September). Evidence against clause boundedness and hierarchical distance in subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the 2009 AMLaP Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2009, March). Against hierarchical distance in subject-verb agreement production. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2008, November). Scope of planning as an alternative to hierarchical feature passing in language production. Poster presented at the 2008 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2008, March). Alternatives to hierarchical feature passing in production: Timing of planning and semantic integration in subject-verb agreement. Paper presented at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC.

Stanczak, L., Caplan, D., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Waters, G. (2008, March). Mechanisms underlying lexical and syntactic ambiguities. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC.

Stanczak, L., Caplan, D. N., Kuperberg, G. R., Waters, G. S., Babbitt, L., Lee, J. M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2007, November). BOLD signal correlations with plausibility in sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 2007 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. [PDF]

Stanczak, L., Caplan, D., Waters, G., Babbitt, L., Lee, J. M., Kuperberg, G., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2007, May). Working memory capacity interactions with plausibility task demands. Poster presented at the 2007 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, New York, NY. [PDF]

Pearlmutter, N. J. (2007, March). Examination of a distributional account of recency effects in comprehension. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA. [PDF]

Pearlmutter, N. J., & Solomon, E. S. (2007, March). Semantic integration and competition versus incrementality in planning complex noun phrases. Paper presented at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA.

Geyer, A., Holcomb, P., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Kuperberg, G. (2006). Plausibility and sentence comprehension: An ERP study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2006 conference, San Francisco, CA.

Pearlmutter, N. J., & Solomon, E. S. (2006). Semantic integration and the timecourse of planning complex noun phrases. Poster presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Language Production, Chicago, IL. [PDF]

Pearlmutter, N. J., Stanczak, L., Caplan, D., & Waters, G. (2005). Neural correlates of semantic plausibility in sentence comprehension with high and low working memory groups. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 conference, New York, NY. [PDF]

Argaman, V., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2004). Semantic category effects in sentence production. Poster presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD. [PDF]

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2004). Flexibility, simultaneity, and exchange errors in sentence production. Poster presented at the 2004 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2004). Semantic integration and hierarchical feature-passing in sentence production. Poster presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD. [PDF]

Garnsey. S. M., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Pirog, K. A. (2003). Individual differences in the use of parafoveal cues in sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Cambridge, MA. [PDF]

Mendelsohn, A. (2003). The role of inhibition in sentence processing as demonstrated by a new task. Paper presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Cambridge, MA.

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2003). Forward versus backward processing of subject-verb agreement in comprehension. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Cambridge, MA. [PDF]

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2002). The role of semantic integration in syntactic planning in production. Paper presented at the 15th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY.

Argaman, V., Mendelsohn, A., & Pasquino, J. N. (2001). Comparing spoken and written production of the object/subject closure ambiguity. Poster presented at the 14th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2001). Effects of linking prepositions in the production of subject-verb agreement. Paper presented at the 14th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Argaman, V., & Mendelsohn, A. (2000). The role of the comma in the resolution of closure ambiguities. Poster presented at the 13th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Mendelsohn, A., & Argaman, V. (1999). Disambiguation of closure ambiguities in written production. Poster presented at the University of Southern California Speech Production Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Argaman, V., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (1999). Verb semantic category and argument structure frequency biases in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Poster presented at the 12th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

Mendelsohn, A., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (1999). Individual differences in relative clause attachment preferences. Poster presented at the 12th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY. [PDF]

Argaman, V., Pearlmutter, N. J., Garnsey, S. M., Mendelsohn, A. A., Randall, J. H., & Myers, E. (1998). Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases. Poster presented at the 1998 meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.

Garnsey, S. M., Atchley, R., Wilson, M., Kennison, S. M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (1998). An event- related brain potential study of verb bias and plausibility in the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New Brunswick, NJ.

Pearlmutter, N. J., & Mendelsohn, A. A. (1998). Serial versus parallel sentence processing. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New Brunswick, NJ.