Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab

Lee Osterhout, Director    Dept of Psychology    University of Washington

 

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Osterhout, McLaughlin, Pitkanen, Frenck-Mestre, & Molinaro (in press).  Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials. Language Learning.                 We describe an alternative paradigm for studying the earliest stages of second-language learning.

Osterhout, L., Kim. A., & Kuperberg, G.  The Neurobiology of Sentence Comprehension.    To appear in M. Spivey, M. Joanaisse, & K. McRae (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  In this chapter, we review the evidence pertaining to the neurobiology of real-time sentence comprehension.    We conclude that the most compelling neurobiological account of this skill will necessarily be driven as much by the principles of genetics, evolution, and neurobiological design as by the principles of linguistic and psycholinguistic modeling.  We propose our own account, one in which comparative analyses across species play a central role.

 

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.