BayesPrag@EEG Publications

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Theses

Löhr, Guido Robin. 2020. The Problem of Abstract Concepts For A Theory Of Situated Cognition: Combining Philosophical and Neurolinguistic Perspectives. Bochum, Germany: Ruhr-Universität Bochum dissertation. Retrieved from https://www.ub.rub.de/katalog/titel/3384133

Articles

Spychalska, Maria & Reimer, Ludmila & Schumacher, Petra B. & Werning, Markus. 2021. The cost of the epistemic step: Investigating scalar implicatures in full and partial information contexts. Frontiers in Psychology 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.679491
Cosentino, Erica. 2020. Self-control, mental time travel, and the temporally extended self. In Alfred R. Mele (ed.), Surrounding Self-Control, 434–452. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500941.003.0023
Werning, Markus. 2020. Predicting the Past from Minimal Traces: Episodic Memory and its Distinction from Imagination and Preservation. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11. pages301-333. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00471-z
McCarroll, Christopher Jude & Cosentino, Erica. 2020. Rewarding one’s Future Self: Psychological Connectedness, Episodic Prospection, and a Puzzle about Perspective. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11(2). 449–467. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00460-2
Haase, Viviana & Spychalska, Maria & Werning, Markus. 2019. Investigating the Comprehension of Negated Sentences Employing World Knowledge: An Event-Related Potential Study. Frontiers in Psychology 10. 2184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02184
Werning, Markus & Unterhuber, Mathias. 2019. Relevance vs Similarity: Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model for EEG and Cloze Data on Contextual Modulation in a Predictive Completion Task. Presented at the European Conference for Cognitive Science 2019 (EuroCogSci 2019), Bochum, Germany. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/EuroCogSci2019/program
Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J. & Gebharter, Alexander & Brössel, Peter & Werning, Markus. 2019. Introduction to the special issue “Logical perspectives on science and cognition”. Synthese 197. 1381–1390. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02334-2
Cosentino, Erica. 2019. Artifacts and affordances. Synthese. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02297-4
Spychalska, Maria & Kontinen, Jarmo & Noveck, Ira & Reimer, Ludmilla & Werning, Markus. 2019. When numbers are not exact: Ambiguity and prediction in the processing of sentences with bare numerals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 45(7). 1177–1204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000644
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2019. Processing of affirmation and negation in contexts with unique and multiple alternatives: Evidence from event-related potentials. In CogSci 2019 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2845–2851. Montreal, Canada.
Werning, Markus & Unterhuber, Matthias & Wiedemann, Gregor. 2019. Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on Word Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data. In Ashok K. Goel & Colleen M. Seifert & Christian Freksa (eds.), CogSci 2019 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 3085–3091. Montreal, Canada: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2019/papers/0517/0517.pdf
Wansing, Heinrich & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2019. Connexive Conditional Logic. Part I. Logic and Logical Philosophy 28(3). 567–610. Retrieved from https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/LLP/article/view/LLP.2018.018
Werning, Markus & Cosentino, Erica. 2018. The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Sentence Meaning Composition. Presented at the 26th Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Rijeka, Croatia. Retrieved from https://espp18.ffri.hr/programme/
Liefke, Kristina & Werning, Markus. 2018. Evidence for Single-Type Semantics—An Alternative To e / t -Based Dual-Type Semantics. Journal of Semantics 35(4). 639–685. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/jos/article-abstract/35/4/639/5073209?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Werning, Markus & Cheng, Sen. 2018. Doing without metarepresentation: Scenario construction explains the epistemic generativity and privileged status of episodic memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41 41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001534
Prochownik, Karolina & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018. Does the Blame Blocking Effect for Assignments of Punishment Generalize to Legal Experts? In T. Rogers & M. Rau & X. Zhu & C. Kalish (eds.), CogSci 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Madison, USA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0438/0438.pdf
Ferretti, Francesco & Adornetti, Ines & Chiera, Alessandra & Cosentino, Erica & Nicchiarelli, Serena. 2018. In search for a paradigm: the origin of language from biolinguistics to embodied cognition. Topoi 37. 219–234. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-018-9560-6#citeas
Ben-Yami, Hanoch & Carston, Robyn & Werning, Markus. 2018. Introduction to the 2nd Synthese Special Issue: trends in philosophy of language and mind. Synthese 195(8). 3289–3291. Retrieved from https://dblp.org/search?q=Trends+in+Philosophy+of+Language+and+Mind
Unterhuber, Matthias. 2017. A Mechanistic Take on the Theory Theory of Concepts 202–203. Presented at the Fourth Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference (PLM4), Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/phil-lang/content/plm4_program_and_abstracts_04_09_2017_press.pdf
Reuter, Kevin & Werning, Markus & Kuchinke, Lars & Cosentino, Erica. 2017. Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words. Language and Cognition 9(3). 553–567. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-and-cognition/article/reading-words-hurts-the-impact-of-pain-sensitivity-on-peoples-ratings-of-painrelated-words/09F8EC76F3F2B66D6E2C7FB1CD21A13F
Cosentino, Erica & Baggio, Giosuè & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2017. The time-course of sentence meaning composition. N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically stored affordances. Frontiers in Psychology 8. 813. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00813
Werning, Markus & Cheng, Sen. 2017. Taxonomy and Unity of Memory. In Sven Bernecker & Kourken Michaelian (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, 7–20. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308400831_Taxonomy_and_Unity_of_Memory
Werning, Markus & Cosentino, Erica. 2017. The interaction of Bayesian pragmatics and lexical semantics in linguistic interpretation: Using event-related potentials to investigate hearers’ probabilistic predictions. In G. Gunzelmann & A. Howes & T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (eds.), CogSci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 3504–3509. London, UK. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/phil-lang/content/cogsci2017werningcosentino.pdf
Unterhuber, Matthias. 2017. Necessity and Possible Worlds. In M. Schrenk (ed.), Handbook Metaphysics, 381–387. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05365-7_54
Unterhuber, Matthias. 2017. Negative Properties in First-Degree Entailment with Constructible Negation and an Extensional Semantics. In Proceedings of the Logic Colloqium 2017, 216. Stockholm: Stockholm University. Retrieved from https://www.math-stockholm.se/polopoly_fs/1.745278.1550157326!/LC2017book.pdf
Spychalska, Maria & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2016. Investigating scalar implicatures in a truth-value judgment task: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31(6). 817–840. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1161806

Talks

Spychalska, Maria & Werning, Markus. 2019, November. Processing quantifiers in partial information contexts. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Werning, Markus. 2019, September. The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Online Sentence Meaning Composition. Talk presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 24, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
Spychalska, Maria & Werning, Markus. 2019, June. Processing quantifiers in partial information contexts. Talk presented at the 8th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2019, Edinburgh. Retrieved from https://www.xprag2019.ppls.ed.ac.uk/abstracts/spychalska2.pdf
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana. 2019, April. The Role of Alternatives and Sentences Truth/Value in the Processing of Affirmative and Negative Sentences. Talk presented at the Reasoning, Argumentation and Logic in Natural Language: Experiments and Models, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Werning, Markus & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2019, April. Bayesian Pragmatics and the Contextual Modulation of Word Meanings:  A Quantitative Model of EEG and Cloze data. Talk presented at the Reasoning, Argumentation and Logic in Natural Language, Experiments and Models, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Werning, Markus & Unterhuber, Matthias & Wiedemann, G. 2019. Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on Word Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data. Talk presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Werning, Markus & Cosentino, Erica & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018, December. Surprise as a Measure for the Interaction of Pragmatics with the Lexicon in Sentence Meaning Composition. Talk, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Retrieved from https://spe10.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/werning.pdf
Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018, October. Convergence Results for Modal and Probabilistic Conditional Logics and the Role of Connexive Principles. Talk presented at the 4th Workshop on Connexive Logics, Bochum, Germany. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/connexivelogic/events/logic-in-bochum-4
Werning, Markus. 2018, September. Contextual modulation of telic and agentive components in the lexicon of nouns:  A quantitative Bayesian model of EEG and behavioral data from Italian, German and Arabic. Talk presented at the Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Werning, Markus & Cosentino, Erica & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018, September. Surprise as a Measure for the Interaction of Pragmatics with the Lexicon in Sentence Meaning Composition. Talk presented at the 10th Meeting of the Association for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), Universität zu Köln. Retrieved from https://gap10.de/en/?section=programme-en
Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018, September. Convergence Results for Probabilistic Logics and Connexive Principles. Talk presented at the 10th Meeting of the Association for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), Cologne, Germany. Retrieved from https://gap10.de/en/?section=programme-en
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2018, September. Negation, prediction and truth-­value judgments: Evidence from ERPs. Talk presented at the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Rijeka, Croatia.
Prochownik, K. & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018, September. Blame Blocking in Legal Experts? Experimental Evaluation of the (Legal) Expertise Defense. Talk presented at the 26th Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Rijeka, Croatia. Retrieved from https://espp18.ffri.hr/programme/
Werning, Markus. 2018, June. Surprise as a measure of pragmatic and embodiment effects on the composition of meaning. Talk presented at the 2nd Conference of the DFG-Research Training Group Situated Cognition., Bochum.
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2018, March. The role of alternatives in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. Talk presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California. Retrieved from https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/j7jjtobbxhwrb9ei2ikq6nwl05emh78g
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2018. Negation, prediction and truth-­value judgments: Evidence from ERPs. Talk presented at the Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Werning, Markus & Unterhuber, Matthias & Wiedemann, Gregor. 2018. Bayesian Pragmatics and the Contextual Modulation of Word Meanings: A Quantitative Model of EEG and Cloze data. Talk presented at the Linguistics Colloquium, UCL London.
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2017, September. Processing of affirmation and negation in contexts with unique and multiple alternatives: Evidence from event-related potentials. Talk presented at the Fourth Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference (PLM4), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/phil-lang/content/plm_program_and_abstracts_04_09_2017.pdf
Werning, Markus & Cosentino, Erica. 2017, September. The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Sentence Meaning Composition. Talk presented at the Fourth Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference (PLM4), Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/phil-lang/content/plm_program_and_abstracts_04_09_2017.pdf
Unterhuber, Matthias. 2017, September. Convergence Results for Conditional Logic in the Light of the Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditionals and Connexive Principles. Invited talk presented at the One-day workshop: Conditionals from Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
Werning, Markus. 2017, June. The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Linguistic Interpretation : Hearers’ Probabilistic Predictions in Discourses. Talk presented at the Revising formal semantic and pragmatic theories from a neurocognitive perspective, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/phil-lang/images/abstracts.pdf

Posters

Haase, Viviana & Spychalska, Maria & Werning, Markus. 2020, September. Investigating the comprehension of negated sentences employing world knowledge: an ERP-study. Poster presented at the 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2019), Cagliari, Italien. Retrieved from https://www.unica.it/unica/it/news_notizie_s1.page?contentId=NTZ188653
Markus, Markus & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2019, November. Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on Word Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Liefke, Kristina & Werning, Markus. 2019, September. Single-Type Semantics and Depiction Reports. Poster presented at the 13th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilisi, Georgia. Retrieved from https://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2019/uploaded_files/inlineitem/LiefkeWerning.pdf
Unterhuber, Matthias & AlHelou, Suaad & Werning, Markus. 2019, September. Accounting for Contextual Modulation in Arabic by a Bayesian Pragmatic Model. Poster presented at the European Conference for Cognitive Science, Bochum, Germany. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/EuroCogSci2019/assets/pdf/Program_detailed_edited.pdf
Werning, Markus & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2019, June. Relevance vs similarity: Bayesian Pragmatics provides the best quantitative model for EEG and Cloze data on contextual modulation in a predictive completion task. Poster presented at the 8th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2019, Edinburgh.
Spychalska, Maria & Haase, Viviana & Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus. 2018, August. Negation, prediction and truth-value judgments: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec, Canada. Retrieved from https://www.neurolang.org/2018/poster-information/?page=poster_detail&show=authors&sort=board_a&go=&id=89&show_board=1
Haase, Viviana & Werning, Markus. 2018, February. Predicting the Negative: Investigating the Comprehension of Negated Sentences in an Event-related Potential Study. Poster presented at the Spring School on ‘Language, Music and Cognition: Organizing events in time’, University of Cologne. Retrieved from https://musikwissenschaft.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/muwi/user_upload/07_Haase_Abstract_CologneSpringSchool2018.pdf
Prochownik, Karolina & Unterhuber, Matthias. 2018. Does the Blame Blocking Effect for Assignments of Punishment Generalize to Legal Experts? Poster presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
Haase, V. & Werning, Markus. 2017, November. Predicting the negative: investigating the comprehension of negated sentences in an event-related potential study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, USA. Retrieved from https://www.neurolang.org/programs/SNL_2017_Abstracts.pdf
Spychalska, Maria & Reimer, Ludmila & Schumacher, Petra & Werning, Markus. 2017, June. Scalar implicatures in the context of full and partial information: Evidence from ERPs. Poster presented at the 7th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2017, Universität zu Köln. Retrieved from https://xprag2017.uni-koeln.de/sites/xprag2017/user_upload/SpychalskaReimerSchumacherWerning.pdf