Articles

Knoeferle, P., Carminati, M., Abashidze, D., & Essig, K. (in press). Preferential inspection of recent real-world events over future events: evidence from eye tracking during spoken sentence comprehension. Frontiers in Cognition.

Knoeferle, P., Urbach, T., & Kutas, M. (2011). Comprehending how visual context influences incremental sentence processing: Insights from ERPs and picture-sentence verification. Psychophysiology, 48, 495-506.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., & Pulvermüller, F. (2010). Sentence processing and embodiment. Brain and Language, 112, 137-142. [link to paper]

Crocker, M.W., Knoeferle, P., & Mayberry, M. (2010). Situated sentence processing: The coordinated interplay account and a neurobehavioral model. Brain and Language 112, 189-201. [pdf]

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M. W. (2009). The time course of constituent order and semantic parallelism: evidence from eye tracking. QJEP, 62, 2338-2371. [pdf]

NOTE: In the typesetting process several unfortunate typographical errors were introduced in the tables. The pre-proof pdf above contains the correct tables. The Erratum can be found here.

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M.W., & Knoeferle, P. (2009). Learning to Attend: A Connectionist Model of the Coordinated Interplay of Utterance, Visual Context, and World  Knowledge. Cognitive Science, 33, 449-496.

Knoeferle, P., Habets, B., Crocker, M.W., & Muente, T.F. (2008). Visual scenes trigger immediate syntactic reanalysis: evidence from ERPs during spoken comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 789-795. knoeferle-etalcc07.pdf

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2007). The influence of recent scene events on spoken comprehension: evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 519-543.

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2006). The coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge: evidence from eye tracking Cognitive Science, 30, 481-529.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., & Pickering, M.J. (2005). The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events. Cognition, 95, 95-127 [pdf]

Special issue

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M. W., & Pulvermueller, F. (2010). Embodied language processing: neuroimaging, behavioural, and neurocomputational perspectives. Brain and Language, 112, 137-236.

Book chapters

Weber, A., Crocker, M. W., & Knoeferle, P. (2010). ”Conflicting constraints in resource adaptive sentence comprehension”, In: M. W. Crocker & J. Siekmann (eds) Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes, Springer, Berlin.

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2008). The coordinated processing of scene and utterance: evidence from eye tracking. In: N. Srinivasan, Gupta A.K., & Pandey J. Advances in Cognitive Science. (50-61). Sage Publishers.

Knoeferle, P. (2007). Comparing the time-course of processing initially ambiguous and unambiguous German SVO/OVS sentences in depicted events. In: R. van Gompel, M. Fischer, W. Murray, & Robin Hill (eds). Eye-movement Research. Elsevier.

Peer-reviewed 6-page conference papers

Kreysa, H., & Knoeferle, P. (to appear). Effects of speaker gaze on spoken language comprehension: task matters. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Burigo, M., & Knoeferle, P. (to appear). Visual attention during spatial language comprehension:

Is a referential linking hypothesis enough? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Kreysa, H., & Knoeferle, P. (2011). Peripheral speaker gaze facilitates spoken language comprehension: syntactic structuring and thematic role assignment in German. European Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

Abashidze, D., Knoeferle, P., Carminati, M., & Essig, K. (2011). The role of recent real-world versus future events in the comprehension of referentially ambiguous sentences: Evidence from eye tracking. European Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

Knoeferle, P., Urbach, Thomas P., Kutas, M. (2010). Verb-action versus role relations congruence effects: Evidence from ERPs in picture-sentence verification. Poster presented at Cogsci 2010.

Knoeferle, P., Urbach, Thomas P., Kutas, M. (2009). Is incremental semantic interpretation related to end-of-sentence verification?: Evidence from correlation analyses. Paper presented at Cogsci 2009.

Ellsiepen, E., Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M.W. (2008). Incremental syntactic disambiguation using depicted events: plausibility, co-presence and dynamic presentation. Poster presented at Cogsci 2008.

Apel, J., Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W. (2007). Processing Parallel Structure: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and a Computational Model. EuroCogSci 2007.

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M. W., & Knoeferle, P. (2006). 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.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M.W. (2006). Accessibility of depicted events influences their priority

in spoken comprehension. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive

Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M. W. (2005). Incremental Effects of Mismatch during Picture- Sentence Integration: Evidence from Eye-tracking (Talk). In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf of final draft

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M. W., & Knoeferle, P. (2005). A Connectionist Model of Anticipation in Visual Worlds. In: Robert Dale, Kam-Fai Wong, Jian Su, Oi Yee Kwong (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). (pp. 849-861). Berlin: Springer.pdf of final draft

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M. W. , & Knoeferle, P. (2005). A Connectionist Model of Sentence Comprehension in Visual Worlds (Talk). In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf of final draft

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M.W., & Knoeferle, P. (2005). A Connectionist Model of Language- Scene Interaction. In: Proceedings of the ACL Workshop Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M. W. (2004a). Stored knowledge versus depicted events: what guides auditory sentence comprehension? (Talk) In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 714-719), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf of final draft

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M. W. (2004b). The coordinated processing of scene and utterance: evidence from eye-tracking in depicted events. (Talk). In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Science (pp. 217-222), Allahabad, India.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., & Pickering M.J. (2003). 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 (Talk), (pp. 681-686), Boston, MA.

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2004). Stored knowledge versus depicted events: what guides auditory sentence comprehension? In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Talk), (pp. 714-719), Chicago, Il.

PhD Thesis

"The role of visual scenes in spoken language comprehension: evidence from eye-tracking" (2005) published on-line at scidok

Talk abstracts

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2007). Eye tracking parallelism in coordinate constructions. Paper presented at ECEM, Berlin, Aug 19-23.

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2006). Clause-level and constituent-level parallelism: eye tracking coordinate structures in German. Paper presented at AMLaP, Nijmegen, August 30-Sept. 1.

Knoeferle, P., Eric Auer, & Crocker, M.W. (2006). Scene-sentence congruence and structural ambiguity resolution: eye tracking reading . Paper presented at the Alfred Yarbus Workshop ”Eye Movements, Communication, and Cognition” at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, Russia.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M.W. (2006). The influence of the visual environment on spoken language comprehension: evidence from eye-tracking. Paper presented at La comunicazione parlata, Naples, Italy.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M.W. (2005). Incremental Picture-Sentence Integration: Tracking eye-movements in Scenes and Sentences. Paper presented at ECEM 13, Bern, Switzerland.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C. & Pickering, M.J. (2004). Blickbewegungen beim Betrachten von Handlungsszenen: Implikationen fuer inkrementelle Satzverarbeitung. Paper at TeaP, Giessen, Germany, April, 4-7.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., Pickering, M.J. (2003). The interaction of mental representations from linguistic and visual input: A processing account of role assignment in visual worlds. Paper presented at AMLaP, Glasgow, August 25-27.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., Pickering, M.J., & Sturt P. (2003). Eye-movements on images as a measure of disambiguation and reinterpretation in online sentence comprehension: a cross-linguistic comparison. Paper presented at the 12th Euopean Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, Scotland, August, 20-24.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C. & Pickering, M.J. (2002). Anticipatory eye-movements in initially ambiguous sentences: There's more to it than meets the eye. Paper presented at AMLaP, Tenerife, September, 19-21.

Posters

Pesonen, H., Knoeferle, P., Kaakinen, J., & Hyönä, J. (2011). No parallelism facilitation for "but"-coordination:          evidence from eye tracking.

Knoeferle, P., Urbach, T., & Kutas, M. (2009). What can sentence-picture verification reveal about visual context influences on online language comprehension? Poster presented at CUNY 2009.

Crocker, M.W., Mayberry, M., & Knoeferle, P. (2009). A neurobehavioral model of situated language comprehension. Poster to be presented at CUNY 2009.

Knoeferle, Urbach, & Kutas, (2008). ERP Correlates of Verb-Action and Sentence-Scene Role Relations in a Sentence-Picture Verification Task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.

Ellsiepen, E., Crocker, M., & Knoeferle. P. (2008). The influence of plausible scene events during incremental syntactic disambiguation. Poster to be presented at CUNY 2008.

Knoeferle, P., Urbach, T. & Kutas, M. (2008) ERP correlates of verb-action and sentence-scene role relations incongruence in a sentence-picture verification task. Poster presented at CNS 2008.

Knoeferle, P. & Steinberg, J. (2007). Incremental interpretation of motor knowledge affects the time course of visual attention during situated comprehension. Poster presented at AMLAP, Turku, Finland.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M.W. (2007). Combined effects of semantic and syntactic parallelism: evidence from eye tracking. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CUNY conference, La Jolla, San Diego, US.

Mayberry, M, Crocker, M.W., & Knoeferle, P. (2007). Modelling attention in the coordinated interplay of language and scene. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CUNY conference, La Jolla, San Diego, US.

Knoeferle, P. (2007). Eye tracking parallelism effects in coordinate constructions: the effects of “and”, “but” and “while”. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CUNY conference, La Jolla, San Diego, US.

Knoeferle, P. & M. Rodriguez (2006). Scene-Sentence Integration: Incremental Effects of Mismatch and Scene Complexity. The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (brandial), Potsdam.

Apel, J., Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M.W. (2006). Processing parallel structures: evidence from eye tracking and a computational model. Poster presented at AMLaP, Nijmegen, August 30- Sept. 1.

Mayberry, M., Crocker, M.W. & Knoeferle, P. (2006). The Coordinated Interplay of Utterance, Scene, and World Knowledge: A Model of Situated Sentence Comprehension. Poster presented at AMLaP, Nijmegen, Aug 30 - Sept. 1.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M. W. (2006). The mechanism(s) underlying parallelism: eye-tracking coordinate structures in German. Poster presented at the 19th CUNY Conference, New York.

Knoeferle, P., & Crocker, M. W. (2006). Effects of “blank screen” and disappearing events on the greater relative importance of depicted events. Poster presented at the 19th CUNY Conference, New York.

Knoeferle, P., Habets, B., Crocker, M. W., & Muente, T. (2005). Early effects of depicted events on disambiguation of locally structurally ambiguous utterances. Poster presented at the 9th ICON Conference, Havana, Cuba.

Knoeferle, P. (2005). ”Coordinated Interplay”: thematic interpretation of initially ambiguous and unambiguous German SVO/OVS sentences in depicted events. Poster at the 18th CUNY Conference, Tuscon, Arizona.

Knoeferle, P., Vasishth, S., Crocker, M.W., & Lewis, R. (2005). Effects of NP-type, NP-similarity, and cleft-type in reading German sentences. Poster at the 18th CUNY Conference, Tuscon, Arizona.

Knoeferle, P., Habets, B., Crocker, M. W., & Muente, T. (2005). The influence of depicted

events during spoken language comprehension: evidence from ERPs. Poster at the 18th

CUNY Conference, Tuscon, Arizona.

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2004). Beyond Unrestricted Interaction: the priority of depicted events over stored knowledge. Poster presented at the 12th Conference, Aix-en-Provence, Sept, 19-21.

Knoeferle, P. & Crocker, M.W. (2004). When linguistic experience competes with scene information in sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 17th CUNY Conference, Washington, March, 25-27.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., & Scheepers, C. (2004). The influence of depicted event scenes on comprehension of locally ambiguous sentences. Poster presented at the 17th CUNY Conference, Washington, March, 25-27.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., Pickering, M.J. (2003). Using depicted role-relations for rapid disambiguation and reinterpretation in online sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 13th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Granada, September, 17-20.

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., Pickering, M.J., & Sturt, P. (2003). Visual events, role (re-) assignment, and word-order ambiguity in German and English. Poster presented at the 16th CUNY Conference, Boston, March, 27-29.