Lab members are noted in bold
2023
Cho, J.-H., & Brennan, J. R. (2023) Cross-language masked prefix priming. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2023), March 2023 [poster]
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J.R. (2023) Modeling retrieval interference during naturalistic comprehension. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2023), March 2023 [poster]
2022
Dunagan, D., Coavoux, M, Shang, S., Bhattasali, S., Li, Jixing, Pallier, C., Spreng, N., Brennan, J. R., & Hale, J. (2022) Long-distance dependencies in Chinese, English, and French brains. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2022), October 2022
Abugaber, D., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Building a neurolinguistic corpus of naturalistic conversation to investigate second language grammar. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2022), October 2022
Tung, T. Y. & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Transformer language models partly predict retrieval interference effects. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2022), October 2022
Cho, J. -H. & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Neural decoding of grammatical number within and across languages. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2022), October 2022.
Cho, J.-H., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Word-final orthographic priming as a function of word frequency, prime duration, and morphological status. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2022), July 2022.
Brennan, J. R. (2022). Big data needs big theory to understand understanding. Keynote presentation for NLP@Michigan, May 2022.
Brennan, J. R. (2022). Lessons learned while searching for syntax in the brain. Colloquium presentation at the University of Michigan Linguistics Department, March 2022 [slides] [video]
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Expectations modulate retrieval interference. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022), March 2022. [download poster]
Hildebrandt, T., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Adaptation effects limited to online measures in the needs past participle construction. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022), March 2022. [download poster]
Cho, J,-H. & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Word-final orthographic overlap is facilitatory in masked priming but inhibitory in unmasked priming. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022), March 2022. [download poster]
Yu, C-L., Eggleston, E., Kovelman, I., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study developmental aspects of naturalistic narrative comprehension. Talk presented at the Cognitive Development Society, April 2022
2021
Brennan, J. R. (2021). Building bridges between computation and implementation for natural language understanding. Talk presented at the Workshop on Neurobiology of Language Key issues and ways forward. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, April 2021. [download slides]
Hildebrandt, T. & Brennan, J. R. (2021). The Stability of Individual ERP Response Dominance Within and Across Conditions. Flash talk presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 2021.
Cho, J.-H. & Brennan, J. R. (2021). Meaning, but not grammatical features, is crosslinguistically mask-primed in sentential contexts. Flash talk presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 2021.
2020
Lo, C.-W. & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Testing semantic compositionality in low-frequency neural oscillations. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2020), October 2020.
Sabo, E. & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Speaker Accent influences Bilingual Lexical Activation: An EEG Study on Sentence Processing of False Cognates. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2020), October 2020.
Tung, T.-Y. & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Symmetric retrieval in processing Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2020), October 2020.
Lo, C.-W. & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Lexical representation doesn’t fully capture lowfrequency neural oscillations during sentence comprehension. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP2020), September 2020. [download poster]
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Asymmetric processing of Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, March 2020. [download poster]
Lo, C.-W., & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Testing temporal boundaries of composition in low-frequency neural oscillations. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, March 2020.
Hildebrandt, T., & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Examining behavioral and electrophysiological coherence in a construction demonstrating gradient acceptability. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, March 2020. [download poster]
Bhattasali, S., Brennan, J. R., Luh, W.-M., Franzluebbersy, B., & Hale, J. T., (2020). The Alice Datasets: fMRI & EEG Observations of Natural Language Comprehension. Talk presented at the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2020), Marseille, May 2020.
Weissler, R., & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Racial identity matters: EEG correlates reflect syntactic expectation based on both speaker identity and language variety in American Englishes. Talk presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, March 2020. [video]
Brennan, J. R. (2020) Grammar in the brain: Computational models of the neural dynamics of natural language understanding. Talk presented at the Michigan Symposium on Emergence in Communication & Learning, University of Michigan, January 2020.
2019
Hale, J. T., Kuncoro, A., Hall, K. B., Dyer, C., & Brennan, J. R., (2019). Text Genre and Training Data Size in Human-Like Parsing. Poster presented at Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). [download paper]
Weissler, R. & Brennan, J. R. (2019). Grammatical Expectations of American English Dialects. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, August 2019. [download poster]
Brennan, J. R., Martin, A. E., Dunagen, D., Meyer, L., & Hale, J. T. (2019). Resolving dependencies during naturalistic listening. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, August 2019. [download poster]
Lo, C.-W., Tung, T.-Y., Ke, A., & Brennan, J. R. (2019). Cortical tracking of Mandarin structures. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, August 2019. [download poster]
Brennan, J. R. (2019) The neural dynamics of naturalistic language comprehension. Talk presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Early Career Award), Helsinki, September 2019. [download slides]
Brennan, J. R. (2019) Neural network models of the dynamics of sentence comprehension. Symposium presentation at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Berlin, September 2019.
2018
Lo, C-W & Brennan, J. R. (2018) EEG correlates of covert dependency formation in Mandarin wh-questions. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis CA, Mar 2018. [abstract]
Lo, C-W., & Brennan, J. R. (2018). A simulation-based approach to statistical power with ERPs. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebéc City, August 2018.
Brennan, J. R. & Hale, J. T. (2018 Teasing apart structure-building and structure-completion during naturalistic story listening using EEG. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis CA, Mar 2018. [abstract, poster]
Lo, C.-W. & Brennan, J. R. (2018) EEG correlates of covert dependency formation in Mandarin wh-questions. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, Mar 2018.
Herbert, M., Brennan, J. R. & Pires, A. (2018) A principle component analysis of variable signing in deaf ASL–English bilinguals. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, Jan 2018.
Brennan, J. R. (2018). Modeling the neural dynamics of structure-building during naturalistic language comprehension. Talk presented at the Workshop on Towards Mechanistic Models of Meaning Comprehension, Trondheim, October 2018. [download slides]
Weissler, R. & Brennan, J. R. (2018). Do listeners form grammatical expectations to African American Language? Talk presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation, New York, October 2018.
Hale, J., Dyer, C., Kuncoro, A., & Brennan, J. R. (2018). Finding syntax in human encephalography with beam search. Talk presented at the 2018 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, July 2018.[video]
🏆 Best paper award
Brennan, J. R., Dyer, C., Kuncoro, A., Pallier, C. & Hale, J. T. (2018) Neural network models of the electrophysiological dynamics of language comprehension. Talk presented at the 2018 Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience meeting, Berkeley, June 2018.
Cowell, T., & Brennan, J. (2018) Can Natural Language Processors Help Unlock the Black Box of Sentence Comprehension? Talk Presented at the Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference, Bloomington, April 2018.
🏆 Honorable Mention for Outstanding Oral Presentation
2017
Hale, J. T., Bhattasali, S., Brennan, J. R., Li, J., Luh, W.-M., & Pallier, C. (2017) Localizing Structure-building and Memory Retrieval in Naturalistic Language Comprehension. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, Nov 2017.
Brennan, J. R., Saraff, E., Cantor, C., & Embick, D. (2017) N400 modulated by word onset duration but not information content during spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, Nov 2017. [download poster]
Lo, C.-W. & Brennan, J. R. (2017) EEG correlates of covert dependency formation in Mandarin wh-questions. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, Nov 2017.
Brennan, J. R., Lajiness-ONeill, R. Bowyer, S., Kovelman, I., & Hale, J. T. (2017) Predictive sentence comprehension during story-listening in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Develpment, Boston, Nov 2017. [download poster]
2016
Hale, J. T., Brennan, J., Murphy, B. (2016) Grammatical Relations in the Listening Brain. Poster presented at Pattern Recognition for NeuroImaging 2016, Trento, June 2016.
Flores, A., Swick, C., Andersen, T., Goodcase, R., McFarlane, K., Bowyer, S. M., Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., & Lajiness-ONeill, R. (2016). Relationship between neural coherence in gamma frequency band and social problem solving ability in autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the 2016 meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society.
Lajiness-O’Neill, R., McFarlane, K., Rusiniak, K., Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., & Bowyer, S. M. (2016). Altered P3 neuromagnetic evoked response related to language functioning in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the 2016 meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society, Boston.
Brennan, J., Cantor, M., Eby, R., & Hale, J. T. (2016) EEG correlates of syntactic expectation reflect both word-to-word and hierarchical dependencies. Talk presented at the 2016 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, March, 2016. [download slides]
2015
Brennan, J., Cantor, M., Eby, R., & Hale, J. T. (2015) Early EEG indices of syntactic expectation reflect both linear and hierarchical dependencies. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, October, 2015. [download poster]
Brennan, J., Stabler, E. P., VanWagenen, S. E., Luh, W.-M., & Hale, J. T. (2015) Abstract Linguistic Structure Correlates with Anterior Temporal Activity during Naturalistic Comprehension. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, October, 2015. [download poster]
Hale, J. T., Brennan, J. R., Luh, W.-M., & Pallier, C. (2015) Neural correlates of syntactic subjecthood. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, October, 2015.
Wagley, N., Hay, J. S. F., Bowyer, S. M., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Brennan, J., & Kovelman, I. (2015) Brain and behavioral differences in speech segmentation between typically developing children and children with ASD. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, October, 2015.
Anderson, T., Flores, A.-M., Swick, C., Bowyer, S., Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2015) Relationship Between Neural Coherence and Social/Language Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.
🏆 Awarded special recognition by APA Division 40-Society for Clinical Neuropsychology
Seifeldin, M., Cantor, M., Boland, J., & Brennan, J. (2015) They dropping copulas: Salient cues in the integration of speaker identity and syntax. Poster presented at the 28th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, March 2015. [download poster]
Lajiness-O’Nell, R., Richard, A., Wagley, N., Ugolini, M., Younce, S., Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., & Bowyer, S. M. (2015) Aberrant Neural Synchrony in Autism Spectrum Disorders Revealed with Magnetoencephalography (MEG) During Resting State: Relationship with Core Behaviors. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Denver, CO, February 2015.
Hale, J. T., Lutz, D. E., Luh, W.–M., & Brennan, J. (2015) Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure at various grain sizes. Paper presented at the 2015 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), Denver, CO, June 2015. [download paper]
Lajiness-O’Nell, R., Richard, A., Wagley, N., Ugolini, M., Younce, S., Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., & Bowyer, S. M. (2015) Aberrant Neural Synchrony in Autism Spectrum Disorders Revealed with Magnetoencephalography (MEG) During Resting State: Relationship with Core Behaviors. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Denver, CO, February 2015.
2014
Brennan, J., Wagley, N., Ugolini, M., Richard, A., Kovelman, I., Bowyer, S., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. Neural coherence during natural story listening as a biomarker for Autism. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Amsterdam, August 2014. [download poster]
Brennan, J., Lignos, C., Cantor, M., Embick, D., & Roberts, T. P. L. Oscillatory dynamics to time-stretched speech during lexical decision. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Amsterdam, August 2014.
Lajiness-O’Nell, R., Richard, A., Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., & Bowyer, S. M. (2014) Examining Neural Synchrony in Autism Spectrum Disorders with Magnetoencephalography (MEG) During Resting State. Poster presented at the 19th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Halifax, CA, August 2014.
Hale, J., Callaway, F., Feldman, E., Jeffrey-Wilensky, J., Lutz, D., Mahar, A. & Brennan, J. (2014) Modeling Neural Correlates of Syntactic Structure Building. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK, August 2014. [download poster]
Brennan, J., Kovelman, I., Bowyer, S., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. Neural coherence at rest and during language processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited talk at the 2014 University of Michigan M-Cubed Symposium, October 2014. [Video]