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Corley, M., Pickering, M., Martin, A. E., & Nieuwland, M. S. (2015). Predicting form and meaning: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Ito, A., Corley, M., Pickering, M. J., Martin, A. E., & Nieuwland, M. S. (2015). Prediction of form and meaning? Evidence from brain potentials. Talk presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. 2015-03-19 - 2015-03-21.
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Martin, A. E., & Doumas, L. (2015). A mechanism for the cortical computation of syntax. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2015), Malta.
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Martin, A. E., & Doumas, L. (2016). A neurocomputational mechanism for parsing: Finding hierarchical linguistic structure in a model of relational processing. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2016), London, UK.
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Martin, A. E. (2015). Cue-based interference from illicit attractor: ERP Evidence from VP Ellipsis. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2015), Malta.
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Martin, A. E. (2015). Retrieval cues in language comprehension: Interference effects in monologue but not dialogue. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2015), Malta.
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Schoknecht, P., Lüll, S., Schiffer, L., Schmuck, N., Alday, P. M., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Martin, A. E. (2015). P3 amplitude indexes the degree of similarity-based interference in memory retrieval during sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Unitary memory models postulate a direct content-addressable (cuebased) retrieval in working and longterm memory Cue-based retrieval suffers from similarity-based interference. It increases with increasing cue overlap. The P300 effect correlates with memory retrieval in non-linguistic tasks. Amplitude is modulated by the number of involved features. The present study: is the P300 amplitude sensitive to the degree of similarity-based interference in memory retrieval during language comprehension? 2 ERP experiments investigated interference in memory retrieval in sluicing constructions -
Nieuwland, M. S., Martin, A. E., & Carreiras, M. (2010). An event-related FMRI study on case and number agreement processing in native and proficient nonnative speakers of Basque. Poster presented at the Workshop on Neurobilingualism, Donostia, Spain.
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Differences in native and nonnative sentence processing may surface most clearly around parameters that are not shared between L1 and L2. We investigated whether differences between Spanish-Basque bilinguals exist in processing related to the particular constraints of the ergative-absolutive case system of Basque, which is not present in Spanish, but not in processing related to number agreement which occurs in both languages. In an event-related FMRI experiment, we tested this hypothesis by examining the cortical networks recruited for reading in Spanish-Basque bilinguals. Highly proficient nonnative and native speakers of Basque read sentences containing violations of ergative case assignment or violations of number agreement as well as correct sentences (e.g., “Gizonak lehiatilan jaso ditu sarrerek/sarrera/sarrerak goizean”, respectively, approximate translation: “The man at the box office has received the tickets-erg/ticket/tickets in the morning”) while performing an acceptability judgment task. Preliminary results (6 nonnative and 16 native speakers) showed that ergative case violations and number violations similarly elicited activation increases compared to correct sentences in the right inferior parietal lobule and the precuneus while number violations elicited additional activation increases in middle and inferior frontal cortex, consistent with reports for morphosyntactic agreement errors. Compared to native speakers, nonnative speakers engaged the medial prefrontal cortex more strongly while processing ergative case violations and number violations, suggesting that they engaged additional cognitive resources to arrive at the same behavioral outcome. These latter effects, however, did not seem to differ between the ergative case and number violations. Thus, our preliminary results support the hypothesis that while morphosyntactic processing is quantitatively different in the two groups, native and nonnative speakers do not show qualitatively different responses when processing morphosyntactic features that are specific of the L2.
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