RECENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Prystauka., Y., & Altmann., G. T. M. (2019, September). Traveling back in time: does switching the focus to the initial state of the changed object come at a cost? Poster presented at the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference, Moscow, Russia.
• Prystauka., Y., & Altmann., G. T. M. (2019, August). Traveling back in time: does switching the focus to the initial state of the changed object come at a cost? Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland.
• Rossi, E., Krass, K., Joergensen, G. H., Zirnstein, M., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019, June) The Influence of Cognitive Control and Bilingual Experience on Event Processing. Talk presented at the International Symposium of Bilingualism, Edmonton, Canada.
• Shubert, K., Lindsay, M., Purushotham, S, Yearling, E. & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019, April) Keeping track of change: The developing ability to represent events in terms object states. Poster presented at the tenth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
• Benson, L., Lattanzi, M., Joergensen, G. H. & Rothermich, K. (2019, April) Individual differences in sarcasm perception. Poster presented at the tenth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
• Rothermich, K., Kim, H., Fammartino, M., & Joergensen, G. H. (2018, August). Individual differences in sarcasm perception: Behavioral and eye-tracking evidence. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec City, Canada.
• Turick, K., Prystauka., Y., Ekves., Z. & Altmann., G. T. M. (2018, April). The Effect of Idiomatic Language in the Processing of Events. Poster presented at the ninth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
• Lajoie, M., Citrin, K., Kyc, L., Pietruszewski, T., Krass, K., Joergensen, G., Zeidan, C., Zirnstein, M., Altmann, G. T. M., & Rossi, E. (2018, April) How individual difference measures inform event processing in monolingual and early and late bilingual speakers. Poster presented at the ninth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
• Ekves, Z., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Hindy, N.C., Solomon, S., Altmann, G.T.M. (2018, March). Instantiating new objects into the discourse: the role of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience SocietyAnnual Meeting, Boston, MA.
• Prystauka., Y., Ekves., Z. & Altmann., G. T. M. (2018, March). Comprehending events on the fly: Inhibition and selection during sentence processing. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
• Krass, K., Joergensen, G., Zeidan, C., Zirnstein, M., Altmann, G., & Rossi, E. (2018, March) How individual difference measures inform event processing in monolingual and early and late bilingual speakers. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
• Prystauka., Y., Ekves., Z. & Altmann., G. T. M. (2018, March). Comprehending events on the fly: Inhibition and selection during sentence processing. Talk presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. (Link to Youtube Video)
• Ekves, Z., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Hindy, N.C., Solomon, S., Altmann, G.T.M. (2017, November). Functional connectivity between cognitive control and episodic memory systems in event comprehension. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
• Krass, K. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2017, October). Investigating how anticipation of object states drives event comprehension. Poster presented at the Event Representations in Brain, Language, and Development Workshop, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• Ekves, Z., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Hindy, N.C., Solomon, S., Altmann, G.T.M. (2017, October). Functional connectivity underlying the processing of object-state change. Poster presented at Event Representations in Brain, Language, and Development Workshop, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H (2017, August). Groundless altruism: Why it makes sense to risk one’s life for other people’s money. Talk given at the 26^th Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision making Conference, Haifa, Israel.
• Tabor, W., Ekves, Z., Smith, G., Mao, Y., Dankowicz, H., (2017). The Blessing and the Curse of Fraught Regions in a Group Coordination Game. Poster presented at the Network Science Society, Indianapolis, IN.
• Citrin, K., Lajoie, M., Pietruszewski, T. Kyc, L., Hindy, N., Krass, K., Joergensen, G. H. & Altmann, G. T. M. (2017, April) Chop vs. weigh: Using MVPA to explore object states. Poster presented at the eighth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT. *Winner of the outstanding undergraduate poster award*
•  Fammartino, M. Joergensen, G. H., Altmann, G. T. M. & Rothermich, K.(2017, April) “No, No One Had Fun” – Individual Differences in Sarcasm Perception. Poster presented at the eighth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT. *Winner of the outstanding undergraduate poster award*
•  Prystauka, Y., Turick, K., Ekves, Z. & Altmann., G. T. M. (2017, April) Dimensions of change: Using machine learning techniques to predict neural activation from behavioral ratings. Poster presented at the eighth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
• Turick, K., Prystauka, Y., Ekves, Z. & Altmann., G. T. M. (2017, April) The Effect of Idiomatic Language in the Processing of Events. Poster presented at the eighth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT. *Winner of the outstanding undergraduate poster award*
• Krass., K., & Altmann., G. T. M. (2017, March) Affordances and end states: How verb type and tense affect event comprehension. Talk presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. (Link to Youtube Video)

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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• Prystauka, Y., Wing, E., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2023). Investigating the interplay between morphosyntax and event comprehension from the perspective of intersecting object histories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Prystauka, Y., Altmann, G. T. M., & Rothman, J. (2023). Online eye tracking and real-time sentence processing: On opportunities and efficacy for capturing psycholinguistic effects of different magnitudes and diversity. Behavior Research Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02146-9
• Davis, F., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2021). Finding event structure in time: What recurrent neural networks can tell us about event structure in mind. Cognition, 213, 104651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104651
• Davis, C. P., Paz-Alonso, P. M., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2021). Encoding and inhibition of arbitrary episodic context with abstract concepts. Memory & Cognition, 50(3), 546–563. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01212-y
• Ekves, Z., Prystauka, Y., Davis, C. P., Yee, E., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2021). Psychology of cleansing through the prism of intersecting object histories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000552
• Kang, X., Joergensen, B., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2020). The activation of object-state representations during online language comprehension. Acta Psychologica, 210, 103162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103162
• Davis, C. P., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2020). Situational systematicity: A role for schema in understanding the differences between abstract and concrete concepts. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37(1-2), 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1710124
• Davis, C. P., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2019). Commentary: Above and Beyond the Concrete: The Diverse Representational Substrates of the Predictive Brain. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1089. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01089
• Kang, E., Eerland, A., Joergensen, B., Zwaan, R. A., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019). The influence of state change on object representations in language comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 48(3), 390-399. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00977-7
• Altmann, G. T. M., & Ekves, Z. (2019). Events as intersecting object histories: A new theory of event representation. Psychological Review, 126(6), 817-840. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000154
• Mirković, J., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019). Unfolding meaning in context: The dynamics of conceptual similarity. Cognition, 183, 19–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.018
• Altmann, G. T. M. (2017). Abstraction and generalization in statistical learning: Implications for the relationship between semantic types and episodic tokens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1711), 20160060. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.006
• Staudte, M., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2016). Recalling what was where when seeing nothing there. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. In press. DOI 10.3758/s13423-016-1104-8
• Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2016). Gestalt reasoning with conjunctions and disjunctions. PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0151774
• Solomon, S. H., Hindy, N. C., Altmann, G. T., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2015). Competition between mutually exclusive object states in event comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(12), 2324-2338.
• Hindy, N. C., Solomon, S. H., Altmann, G. T., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2015). A cortical network for the encoding of object change. Cerebral Cortex, 25(4), 884-894.
• Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2015). Effects of word-evoked object size on numerosity estimations. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:876. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00876.
• Dumitru, M. L., & Joergensen, G. H. (2015). Similarity judgments of same-category object representations: Effects of physical size, manipulability, and word frequency. Visual Cognition. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2015.1093242
• Kukona, A., Altmann, G.T.M., & Kamide, Y. (2014). Knowing what, where, and when: Event comprehension in language processing. Cognition, 131, 25-31.
• Trenkij, D., Mirkovic, J., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2013). Real-time grammar processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the second language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.  doi:10.1017/S1366728913000321.
• Dumitru, M.L., Joergensen, G.H., Cruickshank, A.G., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2013). Language-guided visual processing affects reasoning: The role of referential and spatial anchoring. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (2), 562-571.
• Hindy, N.C., Altmann, G.T.M., Kalenik, E., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2012). The effect of object state-changes on event processing: Do objects compete with themselves? Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (17), 5795-5803.
• Salverda, A.P. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). Attentional capture of objects referred to by spoken language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 37, 1122-1133.
• Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). Looking at anything that is green when hearing ‘frog’ – How object surface colour and stored object colour knowledge influence language-mediated overt attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(1), 122–145.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). Language can mediate eye movement control within 100 milliseconds, regardless of whether there is anything to move the eyes to. Acta Psychologica, 137, 190-200.
• Weighall, A. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). The role of working memory and contextual constraints in children’s processing of relative clauses. Journal of Child Language. 38, 579-605.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (2010). Why emergentist accounts of cognition are more theoretically constraining than structured probability accounts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 340.
• Richardson, D.C., Altmann, G.T.M., Spivey, M. J., & Hoover, M.A. (2009). Much ado about eye movements to nothing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 235-236.
• Altmann, G.T.M. and Mirkovic, J. (2009). Incrementality and prediction in human sentence processing. Cognitive Science, 33, 583-609.
• Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (2009). Discourse-mediation of the mapping between language and the visual world: eye-movements and mental representation. Cognition, 111, 55-71.
• Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (2007). The real-time mediation of visual attention by language and world knowledge: Linking anticipatory (and other) eye movements to linguistic processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 502-518.
• Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2007). Visual-shape competition and the control of eye fixation during the processing of unambiguous and ambiguous words. Visual Cognition, 15(8), 985-1018.
• Huettig, F., Quinlan, P., McDonald, S., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2006). Models of high-dimensional semantic space predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world. Acta Psychologica, 121, 65-80.
• Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2005). Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm. Cognition, 96(1), 23–32.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (2004) Language-mediated eye movements in the absence of a visual world: The ‘blank screen paradigm’. Cognition. 93, 79–87.
• Nation, K., Marshall, C., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2003) Investigating individual differences in children’s real-time sentence comprehension using language-mediated eye movements. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.86, 314-329.
• Kamide, Y., Altmann, G.T.M., & Haywood, S. (2003). The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language. 49, 133–159.
• Kamide, Y., Scheepers, C., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2003) Integration of syntactic and semantic information in predictive processing: A cross-linguistic study in German and English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 32(1), 37–55.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (2002). Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of prior experience. Cognition, 85(2), 43-50.
• Tunney, R.J. and Altmann, G.T.M. (2001) Two modes of transfer in Artificial Grammar learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 27(3), 614–639.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (2001) The mechanics of language: Psycholinguistics in review. British Journal of Psychology. 92, 129–170.
• Altmann, G.T.M., and Kamide, Y. (1999) Incremental interpretation at verbs: Restricting the domain of subsequent reference. Cognition, 73(3), 247–264.
• Tunney, R.J. and Altmann, G.T.M. (1999) The transfer effect in artificial grammar learning: Re-appraising the evidence on the transfer of sequential dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 25(5), 1322-1333.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). Thematic role assignment in context. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 124­–145.
• Dienes, Z., Altmann, G.T.M., & Gao, S-J. (1999). Mapping across domains without feedback: A neural network model of transfer of implicit knowledge. Cognitive Science. 23(1), 53-82.
• Altmann, G.T.M., and Dienes, Z. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants and neural networks. Science. 284, 875.
• Altmann, G.T.M., van Nice, K., Garnham, A., & Henstra, J.A. (1998). Late closure in context.  Journal of Memory and Language. 38(4), 459-484.
• Dienes, Z., Altmann, G.T.M., Gao, S-J., & Goode, A. (1995). The transfer of implicit knowledge across domains. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10(3/4), 363-367.
• Altmann, G.T.M., Dienes, Z., & Goode, A. (1995). On the modality-independence of implicitly learned grammatical knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(4), 899-912.
• Dienes, Z., Altmann, G.T.M., Kwan, L., & Goode, A (1995).. Unconscious knowledge of artificial grammars is applied strategically. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(5), 1322-1338.
• Altmann, G.T.M., Garnham, A., & Henstra, J.A. (1994). Effects of syntax in human sentence parsing: Evidence against a structure-based proposal mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20(1), 209-216.
• Altmann, G.T.M., Garnham, A., & Dennis, Y. (1992). Avoiding the garden path: Eye movements in context. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 685-712.
• Altmann, G.T.M. (1988). Ambiguity, parsing strategies, and computational models. Language and Cognitive Processes, 3(2), 73-97.
• Altmann, G.T.M. & Steedman, M.J. (1988). Interaction with context during human sentence processing. Cognition, 30, 191-238.
• Bard, E.G., Shillcock, R.C., & Altmann, G.T.M. (1988). The recognition of words after their acoustic offsets in spontaneous speech: effects of subsequent context. Perception and Psychophysics. 44(5), 395-408.