On-line Publications since 1996

Books and Edited Volumes

  • Matthew W. Crocker, Gerhard Jäger, Gina Kuperberg, Hannah Rohde, Elke Teich and Rory Turnbull (Topic Editors). Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science. Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 2021.
  • Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönnen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker (eds). Visually Situated Language Comprehension. John Benjamins, 2016. [link] [pre-proof version]
  • Matthew W. Crocker and Joerg Siekmann (eds). Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes. Cognitive Technologies Series. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010. [pdf, Amazon.de, Amazon.com]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew W. Crocker and Friedemann Pulvermuller. Special Issue on: Embodied language processing: neuroimaging, behavioural, and neurocomputational perspectives. Brain and Language, 112(3), 2010.
  • Frank Keller, Steven Clark, Matthew W. Crocker and Mark Steedman (eds). Proceedings of the ACL Workshop Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2004.
  • Matthew W. Crocker, Martin Pickering and Charles Clifton, Jr. (eds). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, January 2000.
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, January 1996.

Articles
  • Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte, Alexander Koller and Matthew W. Crocker. Exploiting listener gaze to improve situated communication in dynamic virtual environments. Cognitive Science, 40:1671-1703, 2016.
  • Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker. On the Organization of the Perisylvian Cortex: Insights from the Electrophysiology of Language. Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by M.A. Arbib. Physics of Life Reviews, 16:58-60, 2016. [pdf]
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Vera Demberg and Elke Teich. Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL). Künstliche Intelligenz, 30:77-81, 2016. [link]
  • Judith Koehne and Matthew W. Crocker. The interplay of cross-situational word learning and sentence-level constraints. Cognitive Science, 39:849-889, 2015. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte, Matthew W. Crocker, Alexis Heloir and Michael Kipp. The influence of speaker gaze on listener comprehension: Contrasting visual versus intentional accounts. Cognition, 133:317-328, 2014. [link]
  • Afra Alishahi, Afsaneh Fazly, Judith Koehne and Matthew W. Crocker. Sentence-based attentional mechanisms in word learning: evidence from a computational model. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:200, 2012. [pdf]
  • Andrea Weber and Matthew W. Crocker. On the nature of semantic constraints on lexical access. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 41:195-214, 2012. [pdf]
  • Jan Švantner, Igor Farkaš and Matthew W. Crocker. Modeling utterance-mediated visual attention during situated comprehension. Neural Network World, 22(2):85-101, 2012. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. Investigating Joint Attention Mechanisms through Spoken Human-Robot Interaction. Cognition, 120:268-291, 2011. [link]
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Computational Psycholinguistics. In: Lappin, Clark and Fox (eds) The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Blackwell, UK, 2010. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew W. Crocker, and Friedemann Pulvermüller. Sentence processing and embodiment. Brain and Language, 112(3):137-142, 2010.
  • Matthew W. Crocker, Pia Knoeferle and Marshall Mayberry. Situated Sentence Comprehension: The Coordinated Interplay Account and a Neurobehavioral Model. Brain and Language, 112(3):189-201, 2010. [pdf]
  • Andrea Weber, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. Conflicting constraints in resource adaptive language comprehension. In: Crocker & Siekmann (eds), Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes, pp. 119-142, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010.
  • Marshall Mayberry and Matthew W. Crocker. The evolution of a connectionist model of situated language understanding. In: Crocker & Siekmann (eds), Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes, pp. 143-169, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010.
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. Constituent order and semantic parallelism in on-line comprehension: eye-tracking evidence from German. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(12):2338-2371, 2009. [pdf]
  • Ulrike Pado, Matthew W. Crocker and Frank Keller. A Probabilistic Model of Semantic Plausibility in Sentence Processing. Cognitive Science, 33(5):794-838, 2009. [pdf]
  • Marshall Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. Learning to Attend: A Connectionist Model of Situated Language Comprehension. Cognitive Science, 33(1):449-496, 2009.
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. The coordinated processing of scene and utterance: evidence from eye tracking in depicted events. In: Srinivasan, Gupta & Pandey (eds), Advances in Cognitive Science, Sage Publications, 2008.
  • Igor Farkas and Matthew W. Crocker. Syntactic systematicity in sentence processing with a recurrent self-organizing network. Neurocomputing, 71(7-9):1172-1179, 2008. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Boukje Habets, Matthew W. Crocker and Thomas Münte. Visual scenes trigger immediate syntactic reanalysis: evidence from ERPs during situated spoken comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 18(4):789-795, 2008. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. The influence of recent scene events on spoken comprehension: evidence from eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language (Special issue: Language-Vision Interaction); 57(2):519-543, 2007. [pdf]
  • Matthew W. Crocker and Frank Keller. Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing. In: Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, Ralph Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky, eds., Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2006. [pdf]
  • Andrea Weber, Bettina Braun and Matthew W. Crocker. Finding Referents in Time: Eye-tracking Evidence for the Role of Contrastive Accents. Language and Speech, 49(3):367-392, 2006. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. The coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge: evidence from eye tracking. Cognitive Science, 30(3):481-529, 2006. [pdf]
  • Andrea Weber, Martine Grice and Matthew W. Crocker. The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: a study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition. 99(2):B63-B72, 2006. [pdf]
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Rational models of comprehension: addressing the performance paradox. In: A. Culter (ed) Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 2005. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew W. Crocker, Martin Pickering, and Christoph Scheepers. The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events. Cognition; 95(1):95-127, 2005. [pdf]
  • Christoph Scheepers and Matthew W. Crocker. Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening: A Visual-World Study. In: M. Carreiras and C. Clifton, Jr. (eds), The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP and Beyond. Psychology Press, UK, 2004. [pdf]
  • Matthew W. Crocker and Steffan Corley. Modular Architectures and Statistical Mechanisms: The Case from Lexical Category Disambiguation. In: Merlo & Stevenson (eds), The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2002. [pdf]
  • Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, Christoph Scheepers, and Matthew W. Crocker. The Preservation of Structure in Language Comprehension: Is Reanalysis the Last Resort? Journal of Memory and Language; 45(2):283-307, 2001.
  • Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew W. Crocker, and Shari Trewin. Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The GSEARCH Corpus Query System. Computers and the Humanities; 35:81-94, 2001. [pdf]
  • Matthew W. Crocker and Thorsten Brants. Wide Coverage Probabilistic Sentence Processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 29(6):647-669, 2000. [pdf]
  • Martin Pickering, Matthew Traxler, and Matthew W. Crocker. Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Processing: Evidence Against Likelihood. Journal of Memory and Language; 43(3):447-475, 2000.
  • Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, and Matthew W. Crocker. Search Strategies in Syntactic Reanalysis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 29(2):183-194, 2000.
  • Steffan Corley and Matthew W. Crocker. The Modular Statistical Hypothesis: Exploring Lexical Category Ambiguity. In: Crocker, Pickering & Clifton (eds), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000.
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Mechanisms for Sentence Processing. In: Garrod & Pickering (eds), Language Processing, Psychology Press, London, UK, 1999. [pdf]
  • Martin Pickering, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Matthew W. Crocker. Introduction. In: Crocker, Pickering & Clifton (eds), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
  • Masato Ishizaki, Matthew W. Crocker and Chris Mellish. Exploring Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Using Computer Dialogue Simulation. Journal of User-Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction; 9(1/2):79-91, 1999.
  • Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, and Matthew W. Crocker. Structural Change and Reanalysis Difficulty in Language Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language; 40(1):136-150, 1999.
  • Nicholas Chater, Matthew W. Crocker, and Martin Pickering. The Rational Analysis of Inquiry: The Case for Parsing. In: Chater & Oaksford (eds), Rational Models of Cognition, pp. 441-468, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. [pdf]
  • Patrick Sturt and Matthew W. Crocker. Generalized Monotonicity for Reanalysis Models. In: Fodor & Ferreira (eds), Reanalysis in Sentence Processing, pp. 365-400, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998.
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Principle-Based Parsing and Logic Programming. Informatica; 21:263-277, 1997. [pdf]
  • Patrick Sturt and Matthew W. Crocker. Thematic Monotonicity. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 26(3):297-322, 1997.
  • Andrew Fordham and Matthew W. Crocker. A Stochastic Government-Binding Parser. In: Jones & Somers (eds): New Methods in Language Processing, pp. 318-330, UCL Press, London, 1997.
  • Patrick Sturt and Matthew W. Crocker. Monotonic Syntactic Processing: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Attachment. Language and Cognitive Processes; 11(5):449-494, 1996. [pdf]

Selected Conference Papers
  • Noortje Venhuizen, Petra Hendriks, Matthew W. Crocker and Harm Brouwer. A Framework for Distributional Formal Semantics. In: Iemhoff, R., Moortgat, M., and de Queiroz, R. (Eds.), Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop WoLLIC 2019, LNCS 11541, pp. 633-646. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-59533-6_39
  • Christine Ankener, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker and Maria Staudte. Multimodal Surprisal in the N400 and the Index of Cognitive Activity. In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Madison WI, July 2018.
  • Chiara Gambi and Matthew W. Crocker. How do speakers coordinate planning and articulation? Evidence from gaze-speech lags. In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK, July, 2017.
  • Les Sikos, Clayton Greenberg, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew W. Crocker. Information density of encodings: The role of syntactic variation in comprehension. In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK, July, 2017.
  • Elli Tourtouri, Francesca Delogu and Matthew W. Crocker. Specificity and entropy reduction in situated referential processing. In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK, July, 2017.
  • Jesus Calvillo, Harm Brouwer and Matthew W. Crocker (2016). Connectionist Semantic Systematicity in Language Production. In Trueswell et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
  • Elli Tourtouri, Francesca Delogu and Matthew W. Crocker (2015). ERP indices of situated reference in visual contexts. In Noelle et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2422-2427). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
  • Alexander Koller, Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. Enhancing referential success by tracking hearer gaze. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, Korea, July 2012. (Best Paper Award) [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte, Alexander Koller, Konstantina Garoufi and Matthew W. Crocker. Using listener gaze to augment speech generation in a virtual 3D environment. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan, August 2012.
  • Maria Staudte, Alexis Heloir, Matthew W. Crocker and Michael Kipp. On the importance of gaze and speech alignment for efficient communication. To appear in: Proceedings of the Gesture Workshop (GW2011), Athens, Greece, May 2011.
  • Garance Paris and Matthew W. Crocker. Modeling the Effect of Lexico-Syntactic Gender on Spoken-Word Recognition. To appear in: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Mass., July 2011.
  • Maria Staudte, Matthew W. Crocker, Alexis Heloir and Michael Kipp. Speaker gaze affects utterance comprehension beyond visual attention shifts. To appear in: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Mass., July 2011.
  • Judith Köhne and Matthew W. Crocker. The Interplay of Multiple Mechanisms in Word Learning. To appear in: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Mass., July 2011.
  • Jan Svantner, Igor Farkas and Matthew W. Crocker. Modeling Utterance-mediated Attention in Situated Language Comprehension. To appear in: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Mass., July 2011.
  • Judith Köhne and Matthew W. Crocker. Sentence Processing Mechanisms Influence Cross-Situational Word Learning. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon, August 2010. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. When Robot Gaze Helps Human Listeners: Attentional versus Intentional Account. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon, August 2010. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. Visual attention in spoken human-robot interaction, In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July, 2009. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. Visual attention in spoken human-robot interaction, In: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE conference on Human-Robot Interaction, San Diego, March 2009. [pdf]
  • Emilia Ellsiepen, Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. Incremental Syntactic Disambiguation Using Depicted Events: Plausibility, Co-Presence and Dynamic Presentation. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington D.C., July, 2008. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker. The role of gaze in spoken human-robot interaction, In: Proceedings of the HRI Workshop on Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, March 2008. [pdf]
  • Jens Apel, Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. Processing Parallel Structure: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and a Computational Model. To appear in: Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Society Conference, Delphi, Greece, May 2007.[pdf]
  • Igor Farkas and Matthew W. Crocker. Systematicity in sentence processing with a recursive self-organizing neural network. In: Proceedings of European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium, April 2007.[pdf]
  • Ulrike Pado, Frank Keller and Matthew W. Crocker. Combining syntax and thematic fit in a probabilistic model of sentence processing. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Marshall Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. A Connectionist Model of the Coordinated Interplay of Scene, Utterance, and World Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Igor Farkas and Matthew W. Crocker. Recurrent networks and natural language: exploiting self-organization. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. Accessibility of depicted events influences their priority in spoken comprehension. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Ulrike Pado, Matthew W. Crocker and Frank Keller. Modelling semantic role plausibility in human sentence processing. In: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter  of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy, April 2006.[pdf]
  • Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle, A Connectionist Model of Anticipation in Visual Worlds, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Proceedings of IJCNLP), Volume 3651, Pages 849 - 861, September 2005. [pdf]
  • Bettina Braun, Andrea Weber and Matthew W. Crocker. Does Narrow Focus Activate Alternative Referents? In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2005.[pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. Incremental Effects of Mismatch during Picture-Sentence Integration: Evidence from Eye-tracking. In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005. [pdf]
  • Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. A Connectionist Model of Sentence Comprehension in Visual Worlds. In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. The coordinated processing of scene and utterance: evidence from eye-tracking in depicted events In: Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Science, Allahabad, India, December 2004. [pdf]
  • Marshall Mayberry and Matthew W. Crocker. Generating Semantic Graphs through Self-Organization. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science, Washington D.C, October 2004. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker. Stored knowledge versus depicted events: what guides auditory sentence comprehension? In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, USA, August 2004. [pdf]
  • Kerstin Hadelich, Holly Branigan, Martin Pickering and Matthew W. Crocker. Allignment in Dialogue: Effects of Visual versus Verbal-feedback. In: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog'04), Barcelona, Spain. July, 2004, [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew W. Crocker, Christoph Scheepers and Martin Pickering, Actions and Roles: Using depicted events for disambiguation and reinterpretation in German and English. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, USA, July 2003. [pdf]
  • Matthew W. Crocker. Parsing as Prediction: Evidence from SVO and OVS constructions in German. Keynote paper in: Proceedings of the 6th Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2002), pp. 3-6, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2002. [pdf]
  • Thorsten Brants and Matthew W. Crocker. Probabilistic Parsing and Psychological Plausibility. In: Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000); pp. 111-117, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000. [pdf]
  • Paola Merlo, Matthew W. Crocker, and Cathy Berthouzoz. Attaching Multiple Prepositional Phrases: Generalized Backed-Off Estimation. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing; Providence, RI, June 1997. [pdf]