Selected Publications

Osterhout, L., Kim. A., & Kuperberg, G.  (draft copy). The neurobiology of sentence comprehension.    To appear in M. Spivey, M. Joanaisse, & K. McRae (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Pitkanen, I.,  Frenck-Mestre, C., & Molinaro, N. (in press). Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials: A paradigm for exploring the neurocognition of second-language processing.  Language Learning.

Kim, A. & Osterhout, L. (2005). The independence of combinatory semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 205-225. .

Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Kim, A., Greenwald, R., & Inoue, K. (2004). Sentences in the brain: Event-related potentials as real-time reflections of sentence comprehension and language learning. In M. Carreiras & C. Clifton, Jr. (eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP, and beyond. Psychology Press.

McLaughlin, J., Osterhout, L., & Kim, A.  (2004). Neural correlates of second-language word learning: minimal instruction produces rapid change. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 703-704.

McKinnon, R., Allen, M., & Osterhout, L. (2003).  Morphological decomposition involving non-productive morphemes: ERP Evidence. NeuroReport, 14, 883-886.

Allen, M. D., Badecker, W., & Osterhout, L. (2003). Morphological analysis during sentence processing.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 405-430.

Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Allen, M., & Inoue, K. (2002).    Brain potentials elicited by prose-embedded linguistic anomalies.  Memory and Cognition, 30, 1304-1312.  

Osterhout, L., Allen, M., & McLaughlin, J. (2002). Words in the brain: lexical determinants of word-induced brain activity. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 15, 171-187.

Osterhout, L. (2000). On space, time and language: For the next century, timing is (almost) everything.   Brain and Language, 71, 175-177.

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.