Lee Osterhout

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, University of Washington

E-mail: losterho@u.washington.edu

Visit my lab home page.

Web site for Psych/Ling 347, Psychology of Language I.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, 1997-present

Faculty Member, Program in Neurobiology and Behavior,  University of Washington

Research Associate, Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, 1991-1997

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 1990-1991

Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Tufts University, 1990

Research Support

Grants R29DC01947 and R01DC01947, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health

Research Interests

Cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychophysiology

Selected Publications 

Osterhout, L. (in press).  On space, time and language: For the next century, timing is (almost) everything.  Brain and Language.

Osterhout, L., & Bersick, M. (1999).  Words - sentences = ?.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 298-299.

Hagoort, P., Brown, C.M., & Osterhout, L. (1999). The neural architecture of syntactic processing. In C.M. Brown & P. Hagoort (eds.), Neurocognition of language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Osterhout, L., & Nicol, J. (1999).  On the distinctiveness, independence, and time course of the brain responses to syntactic and semantic anomalies.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 14, 283-317.

Osterhout, L., & Hagoort, P. (1999).  A superficial resemblance does not necessarily mean you are part of the family: Counterarguments to Coulson, King, and Kutas (1998) in the P600/SPS-P300 debate.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 14, 1-14.

Osterhout, L. (1997). On the brain response to syntactic anomalies: Manipulations of word position and word class reveal individual differences. Brain and Language, 59, 494-522.

Osterhout, L., Bersick, M., & McKinnon, R. (1997). Brain potentials elicited by words: word length and frequency predict the latency of an early negativity. Biological Psychology, 46, 143-168.

Osterhout, L., Bersick, M., & McLaughlin, J. (1997). Brain potentials reflect violations of gender stereotypes. Memory and Cognition, 25, 273-285.

Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., & Bersick, M. (1997). Event-related brain potentials and human language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 203-209.

McKinnon, R., & Osterhout, L. (1996). Constraints on movement phenomena in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 495-523.

Osterhout, L., McKinnon, R., Bersick, M., & Corey, V. (1996). On the language-specificity of the brain response to syntactic anomalies: Is the syntactic positive shift a member of the P300 family? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 507-526.

Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J. (1995). Event-related brain potentials and language comprehension. In M. D. Rugg & M. G. H. Coles (Eds.), Electrophysiology of mind: Event-related brain potentials and cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Osterhout, L., & Mobley, L. A. (1995). Event-related brain potentials elicited by failure to agree. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 739-773.

Osterhout, L. (1994). Event-related brain potentials as tools for comprehending language comprehension. In C. Clifton, Jr., L. Frazier, & K. Rayner, (Eds.), Perspectives on sentence processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Osterhout, L., Holcomb, P. J., & Swinney, D. A. (1994). Brain potentials elicited by garden-path sentences: Evidence of the application of verb information during parsing. Journal of Experiment Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 20, 786-803.

Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J. (1993). Event-related potentials and syntactic anomaly: Evidence of anomaly detection during the perception of continuous speech. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 413-438.

Osterhout, L. & Holcomb, P. J. (1992). Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 785-806.