Prof. Dr. Shravan Vasishth (how to pronounce my name)

Dept. of Linguistics
University of Potsdam
14476 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)331-977-2950 | Fax: - 2087
Email: vasishth squiggle uni hyphen potsdam dot de


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Our open data and code access policy: We routinely release data and code with published papers (see below); we have been systematically working towards achieving open access to our research since 2010. I signed the research transparency commitment on Sept 9 2015.

research articles

published, accepted, in press
[1]
Dario Paape, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Do local coherence effects exist in English reduced relative clauses? Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 2025. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[2]
Maximilian M. Rabe, Dario Paape, Daniela Metzen, Shravan Vasishth, and Ralf Engbert. SEAM: An Integrated Activation-Coupled Model of Sentence Processing and Eye Movements in Reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 2024. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[3]
Daniela Mertzen, Anna Laurinavichyute, Brian W. Dillon, Ralf Engbert, and Shravan Vasishth. Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from sentence-external distractors. Journal of Memory and Language, 137, 2024. [ DOI ]
[4]
Kate Stone, Bruno Nicenboim, Shravan Vasishth, and Frank Roesler. Understanding the effects of constraint and predictability in ERP. Neurobiology of Language, 2023. [ DOI | code ]
[5]
Daniela Mertzen, Dario Paape, Brian W. Dillon, Ralf Engbert, and Shravan Vasishth. Syntactic and semantic interference in sentence comprehension: Support from English and German eye-tracking data. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2, 2023. [ pdf ]
[6]
Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, Sebastian Reich, and Shravan Vasishth. Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 129, 2023. [ DOI | code ]
[7]
Johnny van Doorn, Julia M. Haaf, Angelika M. Stefan, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Gregory Edward Cox, Clintin P. Davis-Stober, Andrew Heathcote, Daniel W. Heck, Michael Kalish, David Kellen, Dora Matzke, Richard D. Morey, Bruno Nicenboim, Don van Ravenzwaaij, Jeffrey N. Rouder, Daniel J. Schad, Richard M. Shiffrin, Henrik Singmann, Shravan Vasishth, João Veríssimo, Florence Bockting, Suyog Chandramouli, John C. Dunn, Quentin F. Gronau, Maximilian Linde, Sara D. McMullin, Danielle Navarro, Martin Schnuerch, Himanshu Yadav, and Frederik Aust. Bayes Factors for Mixed Models: A Discussion. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2023. [ DOI ]
[8]
Audrey Bürki, Francois-Xavier Alario, and Shravan Vasishth. When words collide: Bayesian meta-analyses of distractor and target properties in the picture-word interference paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76:1410--1430, 2023. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[9]
Shravan Vasishth. Some right ways to analyze (psycho)linguistic data. Annual Review of Linguistics, 9:273–291, 2023. [ DOI | code ]
[10]
Paula Lissón, Dario Paape, Dorothea Pregla, Frank Burchert, Nicole Stadie, and Shravan Vasishth. Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension in aphasia: A computational evaluation of two models of cue-based retrieval. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2023. [ DOI ]
[11]
Daniel J. Schad, Bruno Nicenboim, and Shravan Vasishth. Data aggregation can lead to biased inferences in Bayesian linear mixed models and Bayesian ANOVA. Psychological Methods, 2023. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[12]
Ralf Engbert, Maximilian M. Rabe, Lisa Schwetlick, Stefan A. Seelig, Sebastian Reich, and Shravan Vasishth and. Data Assimilation in Dynamical Cognitive Science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26:99--102, 2022. [ DOI | pdf ]
[13]
Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, and Shravan Vasishth. Share the code, not just the data: A case study of the reproducibility of JML articles published under the open data policy. Journal of Memory and Language, 125, 2022. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[14]
Himanshu Yadav, Dario Paape, Garrett Smith, Brian W. Dillon, and Shravan Vasishth. Individual differences in cue weighting in sentence comprehension: An evaluation using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Open Mind, 2022. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[15]
Shravan Vasishth, Himanshu Yadav, Daniel Schad, and Bruno Nicenboim. Sample size determination for Bayesian hierarchical models commonly used in psycholinguistics. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2022. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[16]
Dario Paape and Shravan Vasishth. Conscious rereading is confirmatory: Evidence from bidirectional self-paced reading. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1, 2022. [ DOI | code ]
[17]
Dario Paape and Shravan Vasishth. Estimating the true cost of garden-pathing: A computational model of latent cognitive processes. Cognitive Science, 46:e13186, 2022. [ DOI | code ]
[18]
Dorothea Pregla, Shravan Vasishth, Paula Lissón, Frank Burchert, and Nicole Stadie. Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German. Brain and Language, 235:105204, 2022. [ DOI | code ]
[19]
Daniel J. Schad, Bruno Nicenboim, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Michael Betancourt, and Shravan Vasishth. Workflow Techniques for the Robust Use of Bayes Factors. Psychological Methods, 2022. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[20]
Daniel J. Schad and Shravan Vasishth. The posterior probability of a null hypothesis given a statistically significant result. Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2022. [ DOI | code | http ]
[21]
Kate Stone, Shravan Vasishth, and Titus von der Malsburg. Does entropy modulate the prediction of German long-distance verb particles? PLoS ONE, 2022. [ DOI | code ]
[22]
Dario Paape and Shravan Vasishth. Is reanalysis selective when regressions are consciously controlled? Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[23]
Kate Stone, João Veríssimo, Daniel Schad, Elise Oltrogge, Shravan Vasishth, and Sol Lago. The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2021. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[24]
Shravan Vasishth and Andrew Gelman. How to embrace variation and accept uncertainty in linguistic and psycholinguistic data analysis. Linguistics, 59:1311--1342, 2021. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[25]
Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Feature encoding modulates cue-based retrieval: Modeling interference effects in both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science conference, 2021. [ pdf ]
[26]
Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Is similarity-based interference caused by lossy compression or cue-based retrieval? A computational evaluation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2021. [ pdf ]
[27]
Dario Paape, Serine Avetisyan, Sol Lago, and Shravan Vasishth. Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction: A computational evaluation. Cognitive Science, 45(8):e13019, 2021. [ code | pdf ]
[28]
Dario Paape, Shravan Vasishth, and Ralf Engbert. Does local coherence lead to targeted regressions and illusions of grammaticality? Open Mind, 5:42–58, 2021. [ DOI | code ]
[29]
Maximilian M. Rabe, Johan Chandra, André Krü"gel, Stefan A. Seelig, Shravan Vasishth, and Ralf Engbert. A Bayesian Approach to Dynamical Modeling of Eye-movement Control in Reading of Normal, Mirrored, and Scrambled Texts. Psychological Review, 28:803–823, 2021. [ DOI | code | http ]
[30]
Paula Lissón, Dorothea Pregla, Bruno Nicenboim, Dario Paape, Mick van het Nederend, Frank Burchert, Nicole Stadie, David Caplan, and Shravan Vasishth. A computational evaluation of two models of retrieval processes in sentence processing in aphasia. Cognitive Science, 45, 2021. [ DOI | code | http ]
[31]
Dorothea Pregla, Paula Lissón, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Burchert, and Nicole Stadie. Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German. Brain and Language, 222:105008, 2021. [ code | pdf ]
[32]
Daniela Mertzen, Sol Lago, and Shravan Vasishth. The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, pages 1--6, 2021. [ DOI | code | http ]
[33]
Garrett Smith and Shravan Vasishth. A principled approach to feature selection in models of sentence processing. Cognitive Science, 44, 2020. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[34]
Audrey Bürki, Shereen Elbuy, Sylvain Madec, and Shravan Vasishth. What did we learn from forty years of research on semantic interference? A Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of Memory and Language, 114:104125, 2020. [ DOI | code ]
[35]
Shravan Vasishth. Using Approximate Bayesian Computation for estimating parameters in the cue-based retrieval model of sentence processing. MethodsX, 2020. [ code | www: ]
[36]
Bruno Nicenboim, Shravan Vasishth, and Frank Rösler. Are words pre-activated probabilistically during sentence comprehension? Evidence from new data and a Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis using publicly available data. Neuropsychologia, 142, 2020. [ DOI | code ]
[37]
Felix Engelmann, Lena A. Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth. The effect of prominence and cue association in retrieval processes: A computational account. Cognitive Science, 43:e12800, 2020. [ DOI | code ]
[38]
Maximilian Rabe, Shravan Vasishth, Sven Hohenstein, Reinhold Kliegl, and Daniel J. Schad. hypr: An R package for hypothesis-driven contrast coding. Journal of Open Source Software, 2020. [ DOI | pdf ]
[39]
Dario Paape, Shravan Vasishth, and Titus von der Malsburg. Quadruplex negatio invertit? The on-line processing of depth charge sentences. Journal of Semantics, 2020. [ code | pdf | http ]
[40]
Daniel J. Schad, Michael Betancourt, and Shravan Vasishth. Toward a principled Bayesian workflow in cognitive science. Psychological Methods, 26(1):103--126, 2020. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[41]
Daniel J. Schad, Shravan Vasishth, Sven Hohenstein, and Reinhold Kliegl. How to capitalize on a priori contrasts in linear (mixed) models: A tutorial. Journal of Memory and Language, 110, 2020. [ code | pdf ]
[42]
Kate Stone, Titus von der Malsburg, and Shravan Vasishth. The effect of decay and lexical uncertainty on processing long-distance dependencies in reading. PeerJ, 2020. [ pdf ]
[43]
Serine Avetisyan, Sol Lago, and Shravan Vasishth. Does case marking affect agreement attraction in comprehension? Journal of Memory and Language, 112, 2020. [ DOI | code ]
[44]
Lena A. Jäger, Daniela Mertzen, Julie A. Van Dyke, and Shravan Vasishth. Interference patterns in subject-verb agreement and reflexives revisited: A large-sample study. Journal of Memory and Language, 111, 2020. [ DOI | code ]
[45]
Shravan Vasishth, Bruno Nicenboim, Felix Engelmann, and Frank Burchert. Computational models of retrieval processes in sentence processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23:968--982, 2019. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[46]
Bruno Nicenboim and Shravan Vasishth. Models of retrieval in sentence comprehension: A computational evaluation using Bayesian hierarchical modeling. Journal of Memory and Language, 99:1--34, 2018. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[47]
Shravan Vasishth, Bruno Nicenboim, Mary E. Beckman, Fangfang Li, and Eun Jong Kong. Bayesian data analysis in the phonetic sciences: A tutorial introduction. Journal of Phonetics, 71:141--161, 2018. [ DOI | http ]
[48]
Bruno Nicenboim, Timo B. Roettger, and Shravan Vasishth. Using meta-analysis for evidence synthesis: The case of incomplete neutralization in German. Journal of Phonetics, 70:39--55, 2018. [ DOI | pdf | http ]
[49]
Bruno Nicenboim, Shravan Vasishth, Felix Engelmann, and Katja Suckow. Exploratory and confirmatory analyses in sentence processing: A case study of number interference in German. Cognitive Science, 42, 2018. [ DOI | code ]
[50]
Dario Paape, Barbara Hemforth, and Shravan Vasishth. Processing of ellipsis with garden-path antecedents in French and German: Evidence from eye tracking. PLoS ONE, 2018. [ http ]
[51]
Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Andrew Gelman. The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability. Journal of Memory and Language, 103:151--175, 2018. [ DOI | http ]
[52]
Paul Mätzig, Shravan Vasishth, Felix Engelmann, David Caplan, and Frank Burchert. A computational investigation of sources of variability in sentence comprehension difficulty in aphasia. Topics in Cognitive Science, 10(1):161--174, 2018. [ code | pdf ]
[53]
Shravan Vasishth. Planned experiments and corpus based research play a complementary role: Comment on “Dependency distance: A new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural languages” by Liu et al. Physics of Life Reviews, page ??, 2017.
[54]
R. Harald Baayen, Shravan Vasishth, Reinhold Kliegl, and Douglas M. Bates. The Cave of Shadows: Addressing the human factor with generalized additive mixed models. Journal of Memory and Language, pages 206--234, 2017. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[55]
Hannes Matuschek, Reinhold Kliegl, Shravan Vasishth, R. Harald Baayen, and Douglas M. Bates. Balancing Type I Error and Power in Linear Mixed Models. Journal of Memory and Language, 94:305--315, 2017. [ DOI | pdf ]
[56]
Fuyun Wu, Elsi Kaiser, and Shravan Vasishth. Effects of early cues on the processing of Chinese relative clauses: Evidence for experience-based theories. Cognitive Science, 42:1101--1133, 2017. [ code | pdf ]
[57]
Lena A. Jäger, Felix Engelmann, and Shravan Vasishth. Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of Memory and Language, 94:316--339, 2017. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[58]
Dario Paape, Bruno Nicenboim, and Shravan Vasishth. Does antecedent complexity affect ellipsis processing? An empirical investigation. Glossa, 2, 2017. [ http ]
[59]
Gerrit Kentner and Shravan Vasishth. Prosodic focus marking in silent reading: Effects of discourse context and rhythm. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(319), 2016. [ DOI | pdf | http ]
[60]
Shravan Vasishth and Bruno Nicenboim. Statistical Methods for Linguistic Research: Foundational Ideas – Part I. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10(8):349--369, 2016. [ code | pdf ]
[61]
Bruno Nicenboim and Shravan Vasishth. Statistical methods for linguistic research: Foundational Ideas -- Part II. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10:591--613, 2016. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[62]
Molood Sadat Safavi, Samar Husain, and Shravan Vasishth. Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian separable complex predicates: Implications for expectation and memory-based accounts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 2016. [ code | pdf ]
[63]
Umesh Patil, Sandra Hanne, Frank Burchert, Ria De Bleser, and Shravan Vasishth. A computational evaluation of sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia. Cognitive Science, 40:5–50, 2016. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[64]
Umesh Patil, Shravan Vasishth, and Richard L. Lewis. Retrieval interference in syntactic processing: The case of reflexive binding in English. Frontiers in Psychology, 2016. Special Issue on Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory. [ DOI | code ]
[65]
Tanner Sorensen, Sven Hohenstein, and Shravan Vasishth. Bayesian linear mixed models using Stan: A tutorial for psychologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists. Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 12(3):175--200, 2016. [ DOI | pdf | .html ]
[66]
Pavel Logačev and Shravan Vasishth. Understanding underspecification: A comparison of two computational implementations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(5):996--1012, 2016. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[67]
Bruno Nicenboim, Pavel Logačev, Carolina Gattei, and Shravan Vasishth. When high-capacity readers slow down and low-capacity readers speed up: Working memory differences in unbounded dependencies. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(280), 2016. Special Issue on Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[68]
Paul Metzner, Titus von der Malsburg, Shravan Vasishth, and Frank Rösler. The importance of reading naturally: Evidence from combined recordings of eye movements and electric brain potentials. Cognitive Science, 2016. [ DOI ]
[69]
Dario Paape and Shravan Vasishth. Local coherence and preemptive digging-in effects in German. Language and Speech, 59:387--403, 2016. [ pdf ]
[70]
Titus von der Malsburg, Reinhold Kliegl, and Shravan Vasishth. Determinants of Scanpath Regularity in Reading. Cognitive Science, 39(7):1675--1703, 2015. [ DOI ]
[71]
Lena A. Jäger, Felix Engelmann, and Shravan Vasishth. Retrieval interference in reflexive processing: Experimental evidence from Mandarin, and computational modeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(617), 2015. [ DOI | pdf ]
[72]
Lena A. Jäger, Zhong Chen, Qiang Li, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, and Shravan Vasishth. The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 79--80:97--120, 2015. [ pdf ]
[73]
Lena A. Jäger, Lena Benz, Jens Roeser, Brian W. Dillon, and Shravan Vasishth. Teasing apart retrieval and encoding interference in the processing of anaphors. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(506), 2015. [ DOI | pdf | http ]
[74]
Pavel Logačev and Shravan Vasishth. A Multiple-Channel Model of Task-Dependent Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Comprehension. Cognitive Science, 40:266--298, 2015. [ code | pdf ]
[75]
Bruno Nicenboim, Shravan Vasishth, Reinhold Kliegl, Carolina Gattei, and Mariano Sigman. Working memory differences in long distance dependency resolution. Frontiers in Psychology, 2015. [ code | pdf | http ]
[76]
Stefan L. Frank, Thijs Trompenaars, and Shravan Vasishth. Cross-linguistic differences in processing double-embedded relative clauses: Working-memory constraints or language statistics? Cognitive Science, 40:554--578, 2015. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[77]
Sandra Hanne, Frank Burchert, Ria De Bleser, and Shravan Vasishth. Sentence comprehension and morphological cues in aphasia: What eye-tracking reveals about integration and prediction. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 34:83--111, 2015. [ pdf ]
[78]
Sandra Hanne, Frank Burchert, and Shravan Vasishth. On the nature of the subject-object asymmetry in wh-question comprehension in aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking. Aphasiology, 2015. [ pdf ]
[79]
Samar Husain, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan. Integration and prediction difficulty in Hindi sentence comprehension: Evidence from an eye-tracking corpus. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 8(2):1--12, 2015. [ code | pdf ]
[80]
Paul Metzner, Titus von der Malsburg, Shravan Vasishth, and Frank Rösler. Brain responses to world-knowledge violations: A comparison of stimulus- and fixation-triggered event-related potentials and neural oscillations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(5):1017--1028, 2014. [ DOI | pdf ]
[81]
Philip Hofmeister and Shravan Vasishth. Distinctiveness and encoding effects in online sentence comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1--13, 2014. Article 1237. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[82]
Samar Husain, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan. Strong Expectations Cancel Locality Effects: Evidence from Hindi. PLoS ONE, 9(7):1--14, 2014. [ code | pdf ]
[83]
Shravan Vasishth, Zhong Chen, Qiang Li, and Gueilan Guo. Processing Chinese Relative Clauses: Evidence for the Subject-Relative Advantage. PLoS ONE, 8(10):1--14, 10 2013. [ code | pdf ]
[84]
Felix Engelmann, Shravan Vasishth, Ralf Engbert, and Reinhold Kliegl. A framework for modeling the interaction of syntactic processing and eye movement control. Topics in Cognitive Science, 5(3):452--474, 2013. [ pdf ]
[85]
Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. Scanpaths reveal syntactic underspecification and reanalysis strategies. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(10):1545--1578, 2013. [ DOI ]
[86]
Niloofar Keshtiari and Shravan Vasishth. Reactivation of antecedents by overt vs null pronouns: Evidence from Persian. Journal of Language Modelling, 1(2):243--266, 2013. [ code | pdf ]
[87]
Kate McCurdy, Gerrit Kentner, and Shravan Vasishth. Implicit prosody and contextual bias in silent reading. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(2):1--17, 2013. [ code | pdf ]
[88]
Shravan Vasishth, Rukshin Shaher, and Narayanan Srinivasan. The role of clefting, word order and given-new ordering in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Hindi. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2012. [ code | pdf ]
[89]
Frank Burchert, Sandra Hanne, and Shravan Vasishth. Sentence comprehension disorders in aphasia: The concept of chance performance revisited. Aphasiology, 2012. [ pdf ]
[90]
Shravan Vasishth, Titus von der Malsburg, and Felix Engelmann. What eye movements can tell us about sentence comprehension. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, pages 125--134, 2012. [ pdf ]
[91]
Sandra Hanne, Irina Sekerina, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Burchert, and Ria De Bleser. Chance in agrammatic sentence comprehension: What does it really mean? Evidence from Eye Movements of German Agrammatic Aphasics. Aphasiology, 25:221--244, 2011. [ pdf ]
[92]
Shravan Vasishth, Katja Suckow, Richard L. Lewis, and Sabine Kern. Short-term forgetting in sentence comprehension: Crosslinguistic evidence from head-final structures. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25:533--567, 2011. [ code | pdf ]
[93]
Marisa F. Boston, John T. Hale, Shravan Vasishth, and Reinhold Kliegl. Parallel processing and sentence comprehension difficulty. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26(3):301--349, 2011. [ pdf | http ]
[94]
Brian Bartek, Richard L. Lewis, Shravan Vasishth, and Mason Smith. In Search of On-line Locality Effects in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 37(5):1178--1198, 2011. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[95]
Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. What is the scanpath signature of syntactic reanalysis? Journal of Memory and Language, 65:109--127, 2011. [ pdf ]
[96]
Heiner Drenhaus, Malte Zimmermann, and Shravan Vasishth. Exhaustiveness effects in clefts are not truth-functional. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24:320--337, 2011. [ pdf ]
[97]
Shravan Vasishth and Heiner Drenhaus. Locality in German. Dialogue and Discourse, 1:59--82, 2011. [ pdf ]
[98]
Sigrid Beck and Shravan Vasishth. Multiple Focus. Journal of Semantics, 2009. [ code | .pdf ]
[99]
Marisa Ferrara Boston, John T. Hale, Umesh Patil, Reinhold Kliegl, and Shravan Vasishth. Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2(1):1--12, 2008. [ code | pdf ]
[100]
Umesh Patil, Gerrit Kentner, Anja Gollrad, Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry, and Shravan Vasishth. Focus, word order and intonation in Hindi. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 1(1):55--72, October 2008. [ .pdf ]
[101]
Shravan Vasishth, Sven Bruessow, Richard L. Lewis, and Heiner Drenhaus. Processing Polarity: How the ungrammatical intrudes on the grammatical. Cognitive Science, 32(4):685--712, 2008. [ code | pdf ]
[102]
Shravan Vasishth and Richard L. Lewis. Argument-head distance and processing complexity: Explaining both locality and antilocality effects. Language, 82(4):767--794, 2006. [ code | pdf ]
[103]
Richard L. Lewis, Shravan Vasishth, and Julie Van Dyke. Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(10):447--454, 2006. [ pdf ]
[104]
Richard L. Lewis and Shravan Vasishth. An activation-based model of sentence processing as skilled memory retrieval. Cognitive Science, 29:1--45, 2005. [ DOI | code | pdf ]
[105]
Shravan Vasishth. Discourse context and word order preferences in Hindi. Yearbook of South Asian Languages, pages 113--127, 2004. [ .pdf ]
[106]
Shravan Vasishth. Word order, negation, and negative polarity in Hindi. Research on Language and Computation, 3, 2002. [ .pdf ]
unpublished manuscripts
[1]
Garrett Smith and Shravan Vasishth. A software toolkit for modeling human sentence parsing: An approach using continuous-time, discrete-state stochastic dynamical systems. Submitted to Open Mind, 2022. [ pdf ]
[2]
Pia Schoknecht and Shravan Vasishth. Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German. preprint, 2023. [ pdf ]
[3]
Douglas M. Bates, Reinhold Kliegl, Shravan Vasishth, and Harald Baayen. Parsimonious mixed models. Unpublished manuscript, 2015. [ pdf ]
[4]
Shravan Vasishth, Bruno Nicenboim, Nicolas Chopin, and Robin Ryder. Bayesian Hierarchical Finite Mixture Models of Reading Times: A Case Study. Unpublished MS, 2017. [ DOI | http ]

proceedings (current and previous year)
[1]
Elizabeth Pankratz, Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Statistical Properties of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-off (SAT) Paradigm in Sentence Processing. In Proceedings of CogSci 2021, pages 2176--2182, 2021. [ .pdf ]
[2]
Dorothea Pregla, Paula Lissón, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Burchert, and Nicole Stadie. Adaptation to complex sentences in people with aphasia and unimpaired adults in German. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Paris, France, 2021.
[3]
Dario Paape and Shravan Vasishth. A large-scale evaluation of bidirectional self-paced reading. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Paris, France, 2021.
[4]
Kate Stone, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Rösler, and Bruno Nicenboim. Maximising ERP resources using a sequential Bayes factor approach to sample size. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Paris, France, 2021.
[5]
Paula Lissón, Dorothea Pregla, Dario Paape, Frank Burchert, Nicole Stadie, and Shravan Vasishth. Similarity-based interference in aphasia: A computational evaluation of two models of cue-based retrieval. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Paris, France, 2021.
[6]
Elizabeth Pankratz, Titus von der Malsburg, and Shravan Vasishth. An entropy-based approach to measuring morphological productivity. In TODO, editor, 44st Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Tübingen, Germany, 2 2022. University of Tübingen, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft.
[7]
Paula Lissón, Dorothea Pregla, Dario Paape, Frank Burchert, Nicole Stadie, and Shravan Vasishth. Modeling Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia: A Computational Evaluation of the Direct-Access Model of Retrieval. 2021. CMCL Conference. [ http ]
[8]
Kate Stone, Titus von der Malsburg, and Shravan Vasishth. Contextual constraint and the frontal post-N400 positivity: A large-sample, pre-registered ERP study. In Mara Breen, Brian Dillon, Lyn Frazier, John Kingston, Shota Momma, and Adrian Staub, editors, Proceedings of the 33th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst MA, USA, 3 2020. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Garrett Smith, Maximilian Rabe, Shravan Vasishth, and Ralf Engbert. A simple, integrated model of eye-movement control and dependency completion during reading. In Proceedings of the AMLaP Conference, San Sebastian, Spain, 2023.
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Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, Titus von der Malsburg, and Shravan Vasishth. The role of goal in sentence processing. In Proceedings of the AMLaP Conference, San Sebastian, Spain, 2023.
books (including in prep books)
[1]
Shravan Vasishth. Working memory in sentence comprehension: Processing Hindi center embeddings. Garland Press, New York, 2003. Published in the Garland series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, edited by Laurence Horn.
[2]
Shravan Vasishth and Michael Broe. The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. [ .html ]
[3]
Shravan Vasishth and Michael Broe. The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach. Springer, Heidelberg, second edition, 2021. In preparation.
[4]
Shravan Vasishth and Felix Engelmann. Sentence Comprehension as a Cognitive Process: A Computational Approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022. [ http ]
[5]
Shravan Vasishth, Daniel J. Schad, Audrey Bürki, and Reinhold Kliegl. Linear Mixed Models for Linguistics and Psychology: A Comprehensive Introduction. 2022. Under contract with Chapman and Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series. [ http ]
[6]
Bruno Nicenboim, Daniel J. Schad, and Shravan Vasishth. Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science. 2024. In production with Chapman and Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series. [ http ]
[7]
Nick Cipollone, Steven Hartman Keiser, and Shravan Vasishth. Language files: materials for an introduction to language & linguistics. Ohio State University Press, 1998.
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