Search Results - "Vasishth, Shravan"

Balancing Type I error and power in linear mixed models by Matuschek, Hannes, Kliegl, Reinhold, Vasishth, Shravan, Baayen, Harald, Bates, Douglas

“…•We show that “Keeping it maximal” comes with a cost for LMMs.•Maximal models may lose power if their complexity is not supported by the data.•Model selection…”
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How to capitalize on a priori contrasts in linear (mixed) models: A tutorial by Schad, Daniel J., Vasishth, Shravan, Hohenstein, Sven, Kliegl, Reinhold

“…•Tutorial on contrast coding in R.•Discussion of treatment, sum, repeated, polynomial, and custom contrasts.•Interactions between contrasts and ANOVA.•Explains…”
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Statistical methods for linguistic research: Foundational Ideas-Part II by Nicenboim, Bruno, Vasishth, Shravan

“…We provide an introductory review of Bayesian data analytical methods, with a focus on applications for linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, and…”
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Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis by Jäger, Lena A., Engelmann, Felix, Vasishth, Shravan

“…•We review 110 experimental comparisons on interference in sentence processing.•We provide a Bayesian meta-analysis of eyetracking and self-paced reading…”
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Using approximate Bayesian computation for estimating parameters in the cue-based retrieval model of sentence processing by Vasishth, Shravan

“…A commonly used approach to parameter estimation in computational models is the so-called grid search procedure: the entire parameter space is searched in…”
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Bayesian data analysis in the phonetic sciences: A tutorial introduction by Vasishth, Shravan, Nicenboim, Bruno, Beckman, Mary E., Li, Fangfang, Kong, Eun Jong

“…•A hands-on introduction to using the brms package for Bayesian data analysis.•Examples discussing how to decide on priors, and how to carry out sensitivity…”
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Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage by Vasishth, Shravan, Chen, Zhong, Li, Qiang, Guo, Gueilan

“…A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies…”
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Does entropy modulate the prediction of German long-distance verb particles? by Stone, Kate, Vasishth, Shravan, von der Malsburg, Titus

“…In this paper we examine the effect of uncertainty on readers' predictions about meaning. In particular, we were interested in how uncertainty might influence…”
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An Activation‐Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval by Lewis, Richard L., Vasishth, Shravan

“…We present a detailed process theory of the moment‐by‐moment working‐memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension…”
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Strong expectations cancel locality effects: evidence from Hindi by Husain, Samar, Vasishth, Shravan, Srinivasan, Narayanan

“…Expectation-driven facilitation (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and locality-driven retrieval difficulty (Gibson, 1998, 2000; Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) are widely…”
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When words collide: Bayesian meta-analyses of distractor and target properties in the picture–word interference paradigm by Bürki, Audrey, Alario, F-Xavier, Vasishth, Shravan

“…In the picture–word interference paradigm, participants name pictures while ignoring a written or spoken distractor word. Naming times to the pictures are…”
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Cross‐Linguistic Differences in Processing Double‐Embedded Relative Clauses: Working‐Memory Constraints or Language Statistics? by Frank, Stefan L., Trompenaars, Thijs, Vasishth, Shravan

“…An English double‐embedded relative clause from which the middle verb is omitted can often be processed more easily than its grammatical counterpart, a…”
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Effects of Early Cues on the Processing of Chinese Relative Clauses: Evidence for Experience‐Based Theories by Wu, Fuyun, Kaiser, Elsi, Vasishth, Shravan

“…We used Chinese prenominal relative clauses (RCs) to test the predictions of two competing accounts of sentence comprehension difficulty: the experience‐based…”
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Processing of ellipsis with garden-path antecedents in French and German: Evidence from eye tracking by Paape, Dario, Hemforth, Barbara, Vasishth, Shravan

“…In a self-paced reading study on German sluicing, Paape (Paape, 2016) found that reading times were shorter at the ellipsis site when the antecedent was a…”
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Retrieval Interference in Syntactic Processing: The Case of Reflexive Binding in English by Patil, Umesh, Vasishth, Shravan, Lewis, Richard L

“…It has been proposed that in online sentence comprehension the dependency between a reflexive pronoun such as himself/herself and its antecedent is resolved…”
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Understanding the Effects of Constraint and Predictability in ERP by Stone, Kate, Nicenboim, Bruno, Vasishth, Shravan, Rösler, Frank

“…Intuitively, strongly constraining contexts should lead to stronger probabilistic representations of sentences in memory. Encountering unexpected words could…”
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Determinants of Scanpath Regularity in Reading by Malsburg, Titus, Kliegl, Reinhold, Vasishth, Shravan

“…Scanpaths have played an important role in classic research on reading behavior. Nevertheless, they have largely been neglected in later research perhaps due…”
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The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing by Jäger, Lena, Chen, Zhong, Li, Qiang, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Vasishth, Shravan

“…•Study on Chinese relative clauses using both self-paced reading and eye-tracking.•First time local ambiguities in out-of-context RCs are experimentally…”
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Argument-Head Distance and Processing Complexity: Explaining Both Locality and Antilocality Effects by Vasishth, Shravan, Lewis, Richard L.

“…Although proximity between arguments and verbs (locality) is a relatively robust determinant of sentence-processing difficulty (Hawkins 1998, 2001, Gibson…”
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A Computational Investigation of Sources of Variability in Sentence Comprehension Difficulty in Aphasia by Mätzig, Paul, Vasishth, Shravan, Engelmann, Felix, Caplan, David, Burchert, Frank

“…We present a computational evaluation of three hypotheses about sources of deficit in sentence comprehension in aphasia: slowed processing, intermittent…”
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