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Honors theses on role-reversals, real-time neural-synchrony, and COVID sentiment

May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 Jonathan R Brennannews
A student receives an award certificate from a professor wearing red academic gowns

Many congratulations to seniors in the lab who completed their honors theses! Shuchen Wen conducted an EEG experiment testing the timing of argument-structure by testing for N400 effects when argument roles were reversed in Ba- and Bei-constructions in Mandarin Chinese. […]

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Award-winning undergraduate research at the Michigan research symposium

May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 Jonathan R Brennannews
A student holds a blue ribbon and a rolled-up scientific poster

Congrats to the undergraduate researchers who presented their work at the spring research symposiums for the UROP program and MRADs program. Kennedy Lloyd won a coveted blue-ribbon award 🏆 for her poster titled Quantifying methodological racialized inequities in neurolinguistics. Analyzing […]

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See you in Pittsburgh for HSP 2023

February 19, 2023March 8, 2023 Jonathan R Brennanconferences
drawing of a soup can with the words HSP2023, March 9-11, and Pitt

We are looking forward to HSP2023 in Pittsburgh! Be sure to see the latest from lab members on cross-language grammatical representations, modeling retrieval interference, and Junyuan’s masters thesis (MPI Psycholinguistics) on cortical phrase-tracking! And don’t forget to check out work […]

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Two preprints: separating incremental composition from predictability and localizing dependency-processing across languages

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 Jonathan R Brennanpublications
Schematic images of brains showing activation in the left middle temporal lobe for CCG and activity in the left superior temporal lobe for surprisal

I’m still catching up on some of our efforts from before the new year. These include two (2) pre-prints of papers that make use of the Little Prince datasets. First up: Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind) and I co-led a project where […]

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Dr. Tamarae Hildebrandt defends dissertation

January 14, 2023January 14, 2023 Jonathan R Brennannews

Congratulations are in order for newly minted Ph.D. Tamarae Hidlebrandt who successfully defended her dissertation on December 19th! The dissertation describes a host of experiments combining acceptability judgments, self-paced reading experiments, and EEG to probe the nuanced inter-relatedness between grammatical […]

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Paper and data: fMRI datasets and linguistic annotations from naturalistic listening in English, Mandarin, and French

September 12, 2022 Jonathan R Brennandata, publications

Jixing Li let a large team to prepare these unique neurolinguistic datasets. Speakers of English (49), Mandarin (35) or French (28) listened to a 1.5 h audiobook of The Little Prince during fMRI scanning. The full MRI datasets are released […]

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Presenting at AMLAP2022

August 23, 2022September 12, 2022 Jonathan R Brennanconferences

Tzu-Yun Tung will be at the 2022 meeting of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing to present some of her dissertation research on memory retrieval during language comprehension using a combination of EEG data and computational models. Check it out! […]

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See you in Philadelphia for SNL2022!

August 2, 2022October 8, 2022 Jonathan R Brennanconferences
Philadelphia skyline with the words SNL 2022

We are looking forward to sharing some of our research at SNL2022, including: Jeonghwa Cho: Neural decoding of grammatical number within and across languages (Poster B11 in Poster Session B and Reception, Thursday, October 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT, […]

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Rachel Weissler to join U Oregon faculty!

July 26, 2022September 12, 2022 Jonathan R Brennannews

We’re thrilled with the news that Dr. Rachel Weissler (PhD 2021) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Oregon, beginning Fall 2023. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Psychology, Linguistics, and Black Studies at Oregon where she […]

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Paper: neural synchrony for structure, not lexical patterns

July 26, 2022September 12, 2022 Jonathan R Brennanpublications
Four line-graphs plotting frequency against EEG energy

A team led by Chia-wen Lo (PhD 2021, now at MPI Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) has a new paper in Neurobiology of Language. Together with Tzu-yun Tung (4th year PhD student) and Alan Hezao Ke (PhD 2019), this paper […]

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  • A student receives an award certificate from a professor wearing red academic gowns
    Honors theses on role-reversals, real-time neural-synchrony, and COVID sentimentMay 3, 2023
    Many congratulations to seniors in the lab who completed their honors theses! Shuchen Wen conducted an EEG experiment testing the timing of argument-structure by testing for N400 effects when argument roles were reversed in Ba- and Bei-constructions in Mandarin Chinese. […]
  • A student holds a blue ribbon and a rolled-up scientific poster
    Award-winning undergraduate research at the Michigan research symposiumMay 3, 2023
    Congrats to the undergraduate researchers who presented their work at the spring research symposiums for the UROP program and MRADs program. Kennedy Lloyd won a coveted blue-ribbon award 🏆 for her poster titled Quantifying methodological racialized inequities in neurolinguistics. Analyzing […]
  • drawing of a soup can with the words HSP2023, March 9-11, and Pitt
    See you in Pittsburgh for HSP 2023February 19, 2023
    We are looking forward to HSP2023 in Pittsburgh! Be sure to see the latest from lab members on cross-language grammatical representations, modeling retrieval interference, and Junyuan’s masters thesis (MPI Psycholinguistics) on cortical phrase-tracking! And don’t forget to check out work […]
  • Schematic images of brains showing activation in the left middle temporal lobe for CCG and activity in the left superior temporal lobe for surprisal
    Two preprints: separating incremental composition from predictability and localizing dependency-processing across languagesJanuary 22, 2023
    I’m still catching up on some of our efforts from before the new year. These include two (2) pre-prints of papers that make use of the Little Prince datasets. First up: Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind) and I co-led a project where […]
  • Dr. Tamarae Hildebrandt defends dissertationJanuary 14, 2023
    Congratulations are in order for newly minted Ph.D. Tamarae Hidlebrandt who successfully defended her dissertation on December 19th! The dissertation describes a host of experiments combining acceptability judgments, self-paced reading experiments, and EEG to probe the nuanced inter-relatedness between grammatical […]
  • Paper and data: fMRI datasets and linguistic annotations from naturalistic listening in English, Mandarin, and FrenchSeptember 12, 2022
    Jixing Li let a large team to prepare these unique neurolinguistic datasets. Speakers of English (49), Mandarin (35) or French (28) listened to a 1.5 h audiobook of The Little Prince during fMRI scanning. The full MRI datasets are released […]
  • Presenting at AMLAP2022August 23, 2022
    Tzu-Yun Tung will be at the 2022 meeting of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing to present some of her dissertation research on memory retrieval during language comprehension using a combination of EEG data and computational models. Check it out! […]

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