selected publications chapter Sentence Processing 2018 Accessibility and Linear Order in Phrasal Conjuncts. 211-234. 2015 The Neurobiology of Sentence Comprehension. 365-389. 2012 Speech Errors and Word Form Encoding 2005 Sentences in the brain: Event-related potentials as real-time reflections of sentence comprehension and language learning 2004 conference proceeding Distributional learning over meaningful words facilitates semantic inferences about previously unknown words. 1109-1105. 2025 Labels Facilitate Categorical Perception Effects during Novel Category Learning. 5156-5162. 2025 journal article Resolving conflicting interpretations: Theta band oscillations and the role of cognitive control. Neuropsychologia. 2025 The Role of Cognitive Control in Language Comprehension: Commentary on Kuz et al. (2024). Languages. 2025 The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 219-240. 2025 Theta-Band Neural Oscillations Reflect Cognitive Control During Language Processing. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 2279-2298. 2024 Does cognitive control modulate referential ambiguity resolution? A remote visual world study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 924-938. 2024 How variable are the classic ERP effects during sentence processing? A systematic resampling analysis of the N400 and P600 effects. Cortex. 130-149. 2024 Cognitive control states influence real-time sentence processing as reflected in the P600 ERP. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 939-947. 2022 Individual Differences in Verbal Working Memory Underlie a Tradeoff Between Semantic and Structural Processing Difficulty During Language Comprehension: An ERP Investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 406-420. 2018 Grammatical predictions reveal influences of semantic attraction in online sentence comprehension: evidence from speeded forced-choice sentence continuations. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 1055-1073. 2016 Prediction during sentence comprehension is more than a sum of lexical associations: the role of event knowledge. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 597-601. 2016 The neural computation of scalar implicature. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 620-634. 2015 Neural mechanisms of rapid sensitivity to syntactic anomaly. Frontiers in Psychology. 2013 Rapid effects of syntactic prediction during language understanding in visual cortex. Frontiers in Psychology. 2013 Concurrent effects of lexical status and letter-rotation during early stage visual word recognition: Evidence from ERPs. Brain Research. 52-62. 2012 Rapid Interactions between Lexical Semantic and Word Form Analysis during Word Recognition in Context: Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 1104-1112. 2012 Parametric effects of syntactic-semantic conflict in Broca's area during sentence processing. Brain and Language. 259-264. 2012 Cognitive Control Reflects Context Monitoring, Not Motoric Stopping, in Response Inhibition. PLoS ONE. 2012 Conflict and surrender during sentence processing: An ERP study of syntax-semantics interaction. Brain and Language. 15-22. 2011 Anaphoric agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its interpretation. Cognition. 963-974. 2008 The independence of combinatory semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Memory and Language. 205-225. 2005 Semantic control of combinatory language processing in syntactically unambiguous sentences: Evidence from event related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 211-211. 2005 Studying the grammatical aspects of word recognition: Lexical priming, parsing, and syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 57-75. 2003
education and training Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 2000 M.S., Univ of Edinburgh (Scotland) 1993 B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1991