CURRICULUM VITAE
Lee Osterhout
Address
Department
of Psychology
Guthrie
Hall
Office
Phone: (206) 543-4177
Email:
losterho@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D.
in Experimental Psychology,
Professional
and Research Experience
Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Associate
Professor, Department of Psychology,
Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, 1991-1997.
Faculty
Member, Program in Neurobiology and Behavior,
Research
Affiliate,
Visiting
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience,
Visiting
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology,
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 1989 - 1990.
Consultant,
Natural Language Processing Laboratory of the
Teaching
and Research Assistant, Department of Psychology,
Editorial
and Reviewing Experience
Member,
Language and Communication Study Section (Formerly BBBP-3), National Institutes
of Health, 2000-2004.
Associate
Editor, Memory and Cognition, 2001 – 2005.
Editorial
Board: Brain & Language, 1997 - .
Memory and Cognition,
1996 – 1997.
Advisory Editor, The
Ad
hoc reviewer: American Psychologist; Biological Psychology; Brain and Cognition; Brain and Language; Cognitive Brain Research; European
Journal of Neuroscience; Developmental
Psychobiology; Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition; Journal of
Memory and Language; Language and
Cognitive Processes; Language Learning; Memory and Cognition; Nature
Neuroscience; Neuroimage; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience Letters; Perception
and Psychophysics; Psychology and Aging; Psychophysiology; Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology; Science
Ad
hoc reviewer for numerous granting agencies (including NIH, NSF, and Canadian,
Israeli, and British scientific institutes).
University
Service
Member,
Chair Search Committee, Department of Biology, 2005.
Member,
Scientific Misconduct Committee,
Departmental
Service
Member,
Planning (Executive) Committee, 2006 -.
Cognition/Perception
Area Head, 2004 - .
Chair,
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1998- 2004.
Chair,
Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, 2005
Member,
Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, 2002, 2003
Member,
Planning (Executive) Committee, 1997-2001.
Member,
Cognitive Psychology Search Committee, 1992
Grants
and Awards
Current
Principal
Investigator, Grant R01DC01947, “Electrophysiology of language processes,”
National Institute of on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National
Institutes of Health, 9/1/05 - 3/31/10, ~$1,400,000 total costs.
Core
Co-director, Grant P30DC04661, “
Participating
Faculty, Grant T32DC000033-11, “Research Training in Speech and Hearing
Sciences” (Chris Moore, Principal Investigator), National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, 4/1/04-3/31/09.
Completed
Principal
Investigator, Grant R01DC01947, “Electrophysiology of language processes,” National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communation Disorders, National Institutes of
Health,
Sponsor,
Grant F32DC05756, “Event-related brain potentials and syntactic ambiguity,” National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communation Disorders, National Institutes of
Health,
Core
User, Grant P30DC04661, “
Participating
Faculty, Grant T32DC000033-11, “Research Training in Speech and Hearing
Sciences” (Chris Moore, Principal Investigator), National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health,
4/1/99-3/31/04.
Principal
Investigator, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders,
National Institutes of Health, Grant R29DC01947, "Electrophysiology of
language processes",
Principal
Investigator, "Electrophysiology of linguistic anomalies," National
Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health,
9/1/90-9/1/93. Funded but declined.
Principal
Investigator, UW Graduate School Fund Grant, “Event-related potentials and
agrammatism”, 7/1/94-12/31/94.
Principal
Investigator, UW Graduate School Fund Grant, "Event-related brain potentials
and language", 7/1/93-12/31/93.
Principal
Investigator, UW Graduate School Fund Grant, "Electrophysiology of
language comprehension", 1/1/92-12/15-92.
Peer-reviewed
Publications
Osterhout, L., & Swinney, D. A.
(1989). On the role of the simplicity heuristic in language processing:
Evidence from structural and inferential processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, 553-562.
Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J.
(1990). Event-related potentials
elicited by grammatical anomalies. In C.H.M. Brunia, A.W.K. Gaillard, and A.
Kok (Eds.), Psychophysiological Brain
Research.
Swinney, D. A., & Osterhout, L.
(1990). Inference generation during auditory language comprehension. The Psychology
of Learning and Motivation, 25,
17-33.
Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J.
(1990). Syntactic anomalies elicit brain potentials during sentence
comprehension. Psychophysiology, 27,
S5.
Kotz, S. A., Osterhout, L., &
Holcomb, P. J. (1990). Event-related potentials: A sensitive measure of
bilingual sentence comprehension. Psychophysiology,
27, S45.
Osterhout, L., &
Holcomb, P. J. (1992). Event-related
brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 785-806.
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., & Swinney, D. A.
(1993). On the temporal course of
gap-filling during comprehension of verbal passives. Journal
of Psycholinguistic Research, 22,
273-286.
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 Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition, 20,
786-803.
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.
Osterhout, L., & Holcomb, P. J.
(1995). Event-related potentials and
language comprehension. In M. D. Rugg
& M. G. H. Coles (Eds), Electrophysiology
of mind: Event-related brain potentials and cognition.
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., 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.
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. (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 potentials and human language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 203-209.
Smith, R. W., Kounios, J., &
Osterhout, L. (1997). The robustness and
applicability of speed-accuracy decomposition, a technique for measuring
partial information. Psychological Methods,
2, 95-120.
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.
Hagoort, P., Brown, C., & Osterhout,
L. (1999). The neural architecture of
syntactic processing. In C. Brown &
P. Hagoort (Eds.), Neurocognition of
Language.
Osterhout, L., & Bersick, M.
(1999). Words - sentences = ?. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 22, 298-299.
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.
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1999). ERP evidence for the integrity
of the sentence in pronoun resolution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 48, 48.
Osterhout, L, Bersick, M., &
McLaughlin, J. (1999) Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own: ERPS as tools
for understanding language. Psychophysiology, 36, S8.
Osterhout, L., Bersick, M., &
McLaughlin, J. (1999) ERPS as tools for investigating human language. International
Journal of Psychophysiology, 33,
22.
Osterhout, L. (2000). On space, time, and language: For the next
century, timing is (almost) everything. Brain and Language, 71, 175-177.
Osterhout, L,
Allen, M., & McLaughlin, J.
(2001). Neurophysiology of syntax and
semantics. Psychophysiology, 38, S17.
Allen, M., Inoue,
K., Osterhout, L., et al. (2001). Primary sensory cortex and word
meanings. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 50, E57.
Osterhout, L., Allen, M., &
McLaughlin, J. (2002). Words in the
brain: Lexical determinants of
word-induced brain activity. Journal of Neurolinguistics (Special
issue on the Lexicon and the Brain, A. Caramazza, Ed.), 15, 171-187.
Osterhout, L.,
Allen, M., & McLaughlin, J., & Inoue, K. (2002). Brain potentials
elicited by linguistic anomalies embedded in prose. Memory and Cognition, 30,
1304-1312.
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., Kim, A.,
& 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, ERPs, 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.
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., Pitkanen,
Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Pitkanen,
Osterhout, L. & Inoue, K.
(2007). What the brain’s electrical activity can tell us about language processing
and language learning. Communicating
Skills of Intention.
Osterhout, L. & Kim, A. (in press).
The neurobiology of sentence comprehension. To appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics (M. Spivey, M.
Joanisse, & K. McRae, Eds.).
Osterhout, L., Poliakov, A., Inoue, K.,
McLaughlin, J., Valentine, G., Pitkanen,
Kotz, S., Holcomb, P., & Osterhout,
L. (submitted). ERPs reveal comparable syntactic
sentence processing in early bilinguals and monolinguals. Acta Psychologia.
Frenck
Mestre, C., Osterhout, L., & McLaughlin, J.
(submitted). Acta Psychologia.
Osterhout, L. (soon to be in press). The
psychology of linguistic form. To appear
in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the
Language Sciences (Patrick C. Hogan, Ed.).
Osterhout, L. (soon to be in press). Birdsong and human language. To appear in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language
Sciences (Patrick C. Hogan, Ed.).
Presentations
Swinney, D. A., & Osterhout, L.
(1988). Perceptual and cognitive processes involved in inference
generation. Presented at the Conference
on Inference Generation During Discourse Processing,
Swinney, D., Nicol,
J., Bresnan, J., Ford, M., Frauenfelder, U.,& Osterhout, L. (1988). Coreference
processing during sentence comprehension. Presented at the First Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 24-26,
Osterhout, L. & Holcomb, P. J.
(1989). Event-related potentials elicited by garden-path sentences. Presented
at the Ninth EPIC Conference on Event-Related Brain Potentials, May 28-June 3,
Noordwijk, the
Osterhout, L. (1989). Inferencing during
discourse processing. Presented at the
Second Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 16-18,
Osterhout, L. & Swinney, D. (1989).
The effects of context on elaborative inferencing during discourse processing.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March
30-April 2,
Swinney, D. & Osterhout, L. (1989).
Inference generation during language comprehension. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society,
Osterhout, L. & Holcomb, P.J. (1990).
Syntactic anomalies elicit brain potentials during sentence comprehension. Presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of
the Society for Psychophysiological Research, October 17-21,
Osterhout, L., Holcomb, P., & Kotz,
S. (1990). Syntactic anomalies elicit brain potentials. Presented at the Third Annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing, March 22-24,
Kotz, S., Osterhout, L., & Holcomb,
P.J. (1991). Event-related potential
studies of sentence processing in bilinguals.
Presented at the
Kotz, S., Osterhout, L. & Holcomb, P.
(1991). Electrophysiological evidence for
individual differences in syntactic proficiency during sentence comprehension.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,
Osterhout, L. (1992). Syntactic processes in language
comprehension. Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb. 6-11,
Osterhout, L. (1992). Event-related brain potentials elicited by
garden-path sentences during spoken language comprehension. Presented at the Fifth Annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing, March 19-23,
Osterhout, L., & Swinney, D.A.
(1992). Temporal course of antecedent reactivation in sentences containing
np-trace. Presented at the Fifth Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 19-23,
Osterhout, L. (1993). Is the brain
response to syntactic anomaly language-specific? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, November 4-6,
Osterhout, L. (1993). On the language-specificity of the brain
response to syntactic anomaly. Presented
at the American Conference on Cognitive ERP Research, July 30-August 3,
Osterhout, L. (1993). Event-related brain
potentials elicited by failure to agree.
Presented at the Sixth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, March 18-20,
McKinnon, R., Osterhout, L., & Fodor,
J.D. (1993). Constraints on
Knowledge? Negative evidence from ERP
responses to ECP violations. Presented
at the Sixth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 18-20,
Osterhout, L., McKinnon, R., Mobley, L.,
Aiken, D., & Corey, V. (1993). Brain
potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological
Association, April 22-25,
Osterhout, L. (1994). Is the brain response to syntactic violations
language-specific? Presented at the
First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 27-29, San
Fransciso.
Corey, V., & Osterhout, L.
(1994). ERPs elicited as a function of
grammatical class. Presented at the
First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 27-29, San
Fransciso.
Osterhout, L., Nicol, J., McKinnon, R.,
Ni, W., Fodor, J. D., & Crain, S. (1994).
An ERP investigation of the temporal course of syntactic and semantic
processes. Presented at the Seventh Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, March 17-19,
McKinnon, R., & Osterhout, L.
(1994). Morphological processing: Evidence from ERPs. Presented at the Seventh
Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 17-19,
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1994). The locus of processing from
pronominal resolution. Presented at the Seventh Annual CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing, March 17-19,
Osterhout, L., Bersick, M., &
McKinnon, R. (1994). Word class effects
on ERPs: Evidence of distinct lexicons
or distinct functions? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics
Society,
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1995). Presented at the Eighth Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1995). Pronouns and ERP word repetition
effects. Presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society, March 26-28,
McKinnon, R., & Osterhout, L.
(1995). An ERP marker of a morphological
garden path. Presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, March 26-28,
McLaughlin, J., Osterhout, L., &
Nelson, T. (1995). ERPs and JOLs as
predictors of memory performance. Presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 26-28,
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1996). A fork in the garden path? Presented
at the Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March
30-April 2,
McLaughlin, J., & Osterhout, L.
(1996). Brain potentials reflect
violations of gender stereotypes. Presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 30-April 2,
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1997). ERPs and discourse functions.
Presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society,
March 23-25,
McLaughlin, J., & Osterhout, L.
(1997). Acquisition of lexical knowledge
during second language learning: An ERP
analysis. Presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society, March 23-25,
Bersick, M., & Osterhout, L.
(1999). Presented at the Sixth Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11-13,
Osterhout, L. (1999). Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own.
Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, October,
Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Inoue, K.,
and Loveless, J. (2000). Brain responses
to syntactic and semantic anomalies during the earliest stages of L2
learning. Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March,
Badecker, W., Allen,
M., and Osterhout, L. (2001). Brain response to reading agreement
attraction contexts. Presented at the CUNY Human Sentence Processing
Conference, March 15-17,
Allen, M.,
Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Inoue, K., and Werkheiser, I. (2001). Syntactic features are
analyzed independently of their hosts.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuoroscience Society,
March 25-27,
Osterhout, L., Allen, M., and McLaughlin,
J. (2001). Neurophysiology of syntax and
semantics. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Psychophysiological Research,
Allen, M.,
Badecker, W., & Osterhout, L.
(2003). ERP evidence for on-line parsing of familiar,
regularly inflected verbs. Annual CUNY Conference,
Kim, A., Chen, J., Rippey, C., &
Osterhout, L. (2003). Combinatory semantic processing can occur independently
of syntactic support. Presented at the
AMLAP Conference,
Inoue, K. & Osterhout, L. (2005). Honorifics
in Japanese: An ERP study. Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference,
Kim, A. & Osterhout, L. (2005).
Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference,
Kim, A. & Osterhout, L. (2005).
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society,
Osterhout, L.,
Poliakov, A., McLaughlin, J., Inoue, K., Pitkanen, I., & Valentine, G.
(2007). Assessing gray
matter changes during language learning: A VBM study. Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society,
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2008.