Yuki Kamide’s research while affiliated with University of Dundee and other places

... Beyond the question of pronoun interpretation, the results are compatible with findings showing that listeners and speakers spontaneously update mental representations based on past events, and that referential expressions are interpreted relative to these dynamic representations (see, e.g., Altmann & Kamide, 2007;Chambers & San Juan, 2008;Ibarra & Tanenhaus, 2016;Kukona et al., 2014;Williams, Kukona, & Kamide, 2019). It is also interesting to note the connection between these (and our) findings and work in visual cognition, where the indexical pointers used for tracking entities (e.g., Pylyshyn, 1989) may be separable from the information associated with these entities in working memory (Thyer et al., 2022). ...

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How do Antecedent Semantics Influence Pronoun Interpretation? Evidence from Eye Movements

... Kukona et al. (2011) observed predictive eye movements during "arrest" to both the crook, which was related to the verb and a predictable direct object, and policeman, which was related to the verb but an unpredictable direct object. Thus, participants' predictions were not extinguished by conflicting information (e.g., see also Kamide & Kukona, 2018). Similarly, comprehenders' predictions may not be extinguished by exposure to unexpected sentences (e.g., which conflict with their predictions), which may also account for evidence showing that comprehenders do not adapt. ...

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Mouse Cursor Trajectories Capture the Flexible Adaptivity of Predictive Sentence Processing

... This paucity of evidence on predictive language processing in ASD is in contrast to substantial evidence on incremental processing in language comprehension among neurotypical adults (e.g., Altmann & Kamide, 1999;Altmann & Kamide, 2007Altmann & Mirković, 2009;Kamide et al., 2003;Kamide et al., 2016;Kang et al., 2020;Kang & Ge, 2022;Knoeferle et al., 2005;Knoeferle & Crocker, 2007;Kukona et al., 2014) and children (e.g., Borovsky et al., 2012;Gambi et al., 2018;Gambi et al., 2016;Huang & Snedeker, 2011;Reuter et al., 2021;Trueswell et al., 1999). The ability to process language incrementally is also associated with individual differences in language skills and nonverbal cognitive abilities, such as vocabulary size (Borovsky et al., 2012;Lew-Williams & Fernald, 2007). ...

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Predictive Processing Among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder During Online Language Comprehension: A Preliminary Systematic Review

... However, analogues of the graded view have been explored in the language processing literature. Prior studies have found that world knowledge violations elicit similar patterns of neural activity as SRVs (Hagoort et al., 2004;Matsuki et al., 2011), and event-based plausibility plays a rapid and important role in online sentence comprehension (e.g., Garnsey et al., 1997;McRae et al., 1998;Kamide et al., 2003;Van Berkum et al., 2005). Beyond this, the lexical/world knowledge distinction might also be dis-preferred on the basis of parsimony. ...

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Shades of Zero: Distinguishing Impossibility from Inconceivability

... Such detrimental effects have been explained by arguing that the process of identifying a target in the cue-congruent location may first require an inhibition of spatial features activated by the cue (Estes et al., 2015). Similarly, it has also been hypothesized that the inhibition effect in those studies is due to the feature overlap being manipulated between the cue and the location of the target, rather than the cue and the target itself (Dunn et al., 2014), or due to the fact that the cueing effect interfered with the more demanding discrimination rather than a simpler detection task (Dudschig et al., 2012). However, given that the two studies that reported the cueinduced spatial facilitation effect used spatially congruent but cue-irrelevant targets (Dudschig et al., 2012) and a discrimination task (Ostarek & Vigliocco, 2017), more research is needed in order to understand the conditions and mechanism behind the inhibition effects of cues spatially congruent with the target location. ...

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Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Linguistic Influence on Perception

... This finding aligns with theoretical predictions concerning human memory capacity (Abney & Johnson, 1991;Resnik, 1992). In the case of a head-final language like Japanese, the construction of a left-branching CCG structure requires establishing the relationship between arguments before the verb, which is supported by the findings in psycholinguistics (e.g., Mazuka & Itoh, 1995;Kamide & Mitchell, 1999;Isono & Hirose, 2022). By employing CCG as a theory of grammar, we can examine how much distinct syntactic operations with distinct syntactic and semantic properties contribute to predicting human reading times. ...

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Dissociating Syntactic Operations via Composition Count

... This paucity of evidence on predictive language processing in ASD is in contrast to substantial evidence on incremental processing in language comprehension among neurotypical adults (e.g., Altmann & Kamide, 1999;Altmann & Kamide, 2007Altmann & Mirković, 2009;Kamide et al., 2003;Kamide et al., 2016;Kang et al., 2020;Kang & Ge, 2022;Knoeferle et al., 2005;Knoeferle & Crocker, 2007;Kukona et al., 2014) and children (e.g., Borovsky et al., 2012;Gambi et al., 2018;Gambi et al., 2016;Huang & Snedeker, 2011;Reuter et al., 2021;Trueswell et al., 1999). The ability to process language incrementally is also associated with individual differences in language skills and nonverbal cognitive abilities, such as vocabulary size (Borovsky et al., 2012;Lew-Williams & Fernald, 2007). ...

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Predictive Processing Among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder During Online Language Comprehension: A Preliminary Systematic Review

... Indeed, the computational properties of actual language comprehension closely resemble those expected under such a model. This includes evidence from brain potentials (DeLong, Urbach, & Kutas, 2005; Dikker & Pylkkänen, 2013; Kutas & Hillyard, 1984; Van Berkum, Brown, Zwitserlood, Kooijman, & Hagoort, 2005; for recent reviews, see Kuperberg, 2013; Van Petten & Luka, 2012), eye-movements during reading (Boston, Hale, Kliegl, Patil, & Vasishth, 2008; Demberg & Keller, 2008; Staub & Clifton, 2006) and spoken sentence comprehension (Altmann & Kamide, 1999; Kamide, Altmann, & Haywood, 2003; Tanenhaus, Spivey-Knowlton, Eberhard, & Sedivy, 1995), and self-paced reading time data (Garnsey, Pearlmutter, Myers, & Lotocky, 1997; MacDonald, Pearlmutter, & Seidenberg, 1994; N. J. Smith & Levy, 2013; Trueswell, Tanenhaus, & Kello, 1993). All these works point to a language comprehension system that heavily relies on prediction of the signal (see also Farmer, Brown, & Tanenhaus, 2013; Kuperberg, 2013; MacDonald, 2013; Pickering & Garrod, 2013). ...

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Communicative efficiency in language production: Optional case-marking in Japanese

... For example, dwell time and fixation counts on the depicted protagonist and destination were shorter and fewer for sentences describing fast actions compared to those describing slow actions (e.g., A man dashed/sauntered into the supermarket). In other words, the speed of a motion described in a sentence influenced the amount of gaze directed at the protagonist (i.e., the man) and the destination (i.e., the supermarket) relevant to the motion (Lindsay et al., 2013;Speed and Vigliocco, 2014). The changes in dwell time and fixation counts on the depicted protagonist and the destination indicate that indexing occurs in two directions. ...

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Embodied cognition and L2 sentence comprehension: an eye-tracking study of motor representations

... Furthermore, unlike Baccino et al. (2000), De Vincenzi and Job (1995), and Kamide and Mitchell (1997) who found differences between offline attachment preferences and online data regarding the processing cost of either RC attachment, we did not find such a difference in our work. ...

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The actress was not on the balcony: testing the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis in Spanish