Publications

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2023 and in press

Staub, A. (in press).  The function/content word distinction and eye movements in reading.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Burnsky, J., Kretzschmar, F., Mayer, E., & Staub, A. (2023).  The influence of predictability, visual contrast, and preview validity on eye movements and N400 amplitude:  Co-registration evidence that the N400 reflects late processes. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 38, 821-842.

Huang, K.-J., & Staub, A. (2023).  The transposed-word effect does not require parallel word processing: Failure to notice transpositions with serial presentation of words.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 393-400.

Rastle, K., Chan, J., Cleary, A., Pexman, P., & Staub, A. (2023). Beware influential findings that have not been replicated. Journal of Memory and Language129, 104390.

2022

Risti?, B., Mancini, S., Molinaro, N. & Staub, A. (2022).  Maintenance cost in the processing of subject-verb dependencies.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48, 829-838.

Huber, D.E., Cohen, A.L., & Staub. A. (2022) A ‘compensatory selection’ effect with standardized tests: Lack of correlation between test scores and success is evidence that test scores are predictive of success. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0265459. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265459.

Hammerly, C. M., Staub, A., & Dillon, B. (2022).  Person-based prominence guides incremental processing: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe.  Cognition, 225, 105122.

Yao, P., Staub, A., & Li, X. (2022).  Predictability eliminates neighborhood effects during Chinese sentence readingPsychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 243-252.

2021

Huang, K.-J., & Staub, A. (2021).  Why do readers fail to notice word transpositions, omissions, and repetitions?  A review of recent evidence and theory.  Language and Linguistics Compass, 15, e12434.

Huang, K.-J., & Staub, A. (2021).  Using eye tracking to investigate failure to notice word transpositions in reading.  Cognition, 216, 104868.

Konrad, I., Burattin, M., Cecchetto, C., Foppollo, F., Staub, A., & Donati, C. (2021).  Avoiding gaps in Romance:  Evidence for a structural parsing principle from Italian and French. Syntax, 24, 191-223.

Huang, L., Staub, A., & Li, X. (2021).  Prior context influences lexical competition when segmenting Chinese overlapping ambiguous stringsJournal of Memory and Language, 118, 104281.

Staub, A. (2021).  How reliable are individual differences in eye movements in reading?  Journal of Memory and Language, 116, 104190.

2020

Staub, A. (2020).  Do effects of visual contrast and font difficulty on readers’ eye movements interact with effects of word frequency or predictabilityJournal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 46, 1235-1251.

Foppolo, F., & Staub, A. (2020).  The puzzle of number agreement with disjunctionCognition, 198, 104161.

2019

Kush, D., Dillon, B., Eik, R., & Staub, A. (2019).  Processing of Norwegian complex verbs:  Evidence for early decomposition.  Memory & Cognition, 47, 335-350.

Staub, A., Dodge, S., & Cohen. A. (2019).  Failure to notice function word repetitions and omissions in reading:  Are eye movements to blame?  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 340-346.

Hammerly, C., Staub, A., & Dillon, B. (2019).  The grammaticality asymmetry in agreement attraction reflects response bias: Experimental and modeling evidence. Cognitive Psychology, 110, 70-104.

Staub, A., & Goddard, K. (2019).  The role of preview validity in predictability and frequency effects on eye movements in reading.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 110-127.

2018

Keung, L., & Staub, A. (2018).  Variable agreement with coordinate subjects is not a form of agreement attraction.  Journal of Memory and Language, 103, 1-18.

Weiss, A. F., Kretzschmar, F., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Staub, A. (2018). Comprehension demands modulate re-reading, but not first pass reading behavior. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 198-210.

White, S. J., Drieghe, D., Liversedge, S. P., & Staub, A. (2018). The word frequency effect during sentence reading: A linear or nonlinear effect of log frequency? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 46-55.

Staub, A., Foppolo, F., Donati, C., & Cecchetto, C. (2018).  Relative clause avoidance:  Evidence for a structural parsing principle.  Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 26-44.

2017

Cohen, A. L., Sidlowski, S., & Staub, A. (2017). Beliefs and Bayesian reasoning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 972-978.

Staub, A., Dillon, B., and Clifton, C., Jr. (2017). The matrix verb as a source of comprehension difficulty in object relative sentences. Cognitive Science, 41, 1353-1376.

Frisson, S., Harvey, D. R., & Staub, A. (2017). No prediction error cost in reading: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 95, 200-214.

Dillon, B., Staub, A., Levy, J., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2017). Which noun phrases is this verb supposed to agree with? Object agreement in American English. Language, 93, 65-96.

Starns, J. J., Chen, T., & Staub, A. (2017). Eye movements in forced-choice recognition: Absolute judgments can preclude relative judgments. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 55-66.

2016

Kingston, J., Levy, J., Rysling, A., & Staub, A. (2016). Eye movement evidence for an immediate Ganong effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 42, 1969-1988.

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Staub, A., & Schlesewsky, M. (2016). The timecourse of sentence processing in the brain. In: G. Hickok & S. L. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of Language (pp. 607-620). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

2015

Kretzschmar, F., Schlesewsky, M., & Staub, A. (2015). Dissociating word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Evidence from co-registration of eye movements and EEG. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1648-1662.

Cohen, A. L., & Staub, A. (2015). Within-subject consistency and between-subject variability in Bayesian reasoning strategies. Cognitive Psychology, 81, 26-47.

Abbott, M. J., & Staub, A. (2015). The effect of plausibility on eye movements in reading:  Testing E-Z Reader’s null predictions. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 76-87.

Staub, A. (2015). The effect of lexical predictability on eye movements in reading: Critical review and theoretical interpretation. Language & Linguistics Compass, 9, 311-327.

Staub, A., Grant, M., Astheimer, L., & Cohen, A. (2015). The influence of cloze probability and item constraint on cloze task response time. Journal of Memory and Language, 82, 1-17.

Staub, A. (2015). Reading sentences: Syntactic parsing and semantic interpretation. In: Alexander Pollatsek and Rebecca Treiman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Reading (pp. 202-216). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2014

Pazzaglia, A. M., Staub, A., & Rotello, C. M. (2014).  Encoding time and the mirror effect in recognition memory:  Evidence from eyetracking.  Journal of Memory and Language, 75, 77-92.

Helfer, K. S., & Staub, A. (2014).  Competing speech perception in older and younger adults: Behavioral and eye movement evidence.  Ear and Hearing, 35, 161-170.

Cohen, A., & Staub, A. (2014). On-line processing of novel noun-noun compounds: Eye movement evidence. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 147-165.

2013

Staub, A., & Benatar, A. (2013). Individual differences in fixation duration distributions in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 1304-1311.

Shen, E. Y., Staub, A., & Sanders, L. D. (2013).  Event-related brain potential evidence that local nouns affect subject-verb agreement processing.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 498-524.

2012

Yang, J., Staub, A., Li, N., Wang, S., & Rayner, K. (2012). Plausibility effects when reading one- and two-character words in Chinese: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 1801-1809.

Johnson, R. L., Staub, A., & Fleri, A. M. (2012). Distributional analysis of the transposed-letter neighborhood effect on naming latency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 1773-1779.

Staub, A., Abbott, M., & Bogartz, R. S. (2012). Linguistically-guided anticipatory eye movements in scene viewing. Visual Cognition, 20, 922-946.

Bogartz, R. S., & Staub, A. (2012).   Gaze step distributions reflect fixations and saccades: A comment on Stephen and Mirman (2010).  Cognition, 123, 325-334.

Slattery, T. J., Staub, A., & Rayner, K. (2012).  Saccade launch site as a predictor of fixation durations in reading:  Comments on Hand, Miellet, O’Donnell, and Sereno (2010).  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception & Performance, 38, 251-261.

White, S. J., & Staub, A. (2012).  The distribution of fixation durations during reading:  Effects of stimulus qualityJournal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception & Performance, 38, 603-617.

Kretzschmar, F.,  Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Staub, A., Roehm, D., & Schlesewsky, M. (2012).  Prominence facilitates ambiguity resolution: On the interaction between referentiality, thematic roles, and word order in syntactic reanalysis.  In:  Peter de Swart and Monique Lamers, (Eds.), Case, Word Order, and Prominence (pp. 239-271). Dordrecht: Springer.

2011

Staub, A., Grant, M., Clifton, C., Jr., & Rayner, K. (2011).  Still no phonological typicality effect on word reading time (and no good explanation of one, either):  A rejoinder to Farmer, Monaghan, Misyak, and Christiansen.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1326-1328.

Staub, A. (2011).  Word recognition and syntactic attachment in reading:  Evidence for a staged architectureJournal of Experiment Psychology:  General, 140, 407-433.

Staub, A. (2011).  The effect of lexical predictability on distributions of eye fixation durations.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 371-376.

Staub, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2011).  Processing effects of an indeterminate future:  Evidence from self-paced reading.  In:  Jesse A. Harris and Margaret Grant (Eds.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 38Processing Linguistic Structure (pp. 131-140).  GLSA Publishing.

Clifton, C., Jr., & Staub, A. (2011).  Syntactic influences on eye movements in reading.  In:  S.P. Liversedge, Iain D. Gilchrist and Stefan Everling (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements (pp. 895-909).  Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press.

2010

Staub, A., White, S. J., Drieghe, D., Hollway, E. C., & Rayner, K. (2010).  Distributional effects of word frequency on eye fixation durations.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 36, 1280-1293.

Staub, A. (2010).  Eye movements and processing difficulty in object relative clausesCognition, 116, 71-86.

Staub, A. (2010).  Response time distributional evidence for distinct varieties of number attraction.  Cognition, 114, 447-454.

2009

Staub, A., Grant, M., Clifton, C., Jr., & Rayner, K. (2009).  Phonological typicality does not influence fixation durations in normal reading.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 806-814.

Staub, A. (2009).  On the interpretation of the number attraction effect:  Response time evidence.  Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 308-327.

2008

Drieghe, D., Pollatsek, A., Staub, A., & Rayner, K. (2008).  The word grouping hypothesis and eye movements during reading.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,34, 1552-1560.

Clifton, C., Jr., & Staub, A. (2008).  Parallelism and competition in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2, 234-250.

2007

Staub, A., Rayner, K., Pollatsek, A., Hyona, J., & Majewski, H.  (2007).  The time course of plausibility effects on eye movements in reading: Evidence from noun-noun compounds.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 1162-1169.

Staub, A.  (2007).  The parser doesn’t ignore intransitivity, after all.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 550-569.

Staub, A.  (2007).  The return of the repressed: Abandoned parses facilitate syntactic reanalysis.  Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 299-323.

Staub, A., & Rayner, K.  (2007).  Eye movements and on-line comprehension processes.  In: G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 327-342). Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press.

Clifton, C., Jr., Staub, A., & Rayner, K.  (2007).  Eye movements in reading words and sentences.  In: R. van Gompel (Ed.), Eye movements: A window on mind and brain (pp.  341-372).  Amsterdam: Elsevier.

2006

Staub, A., & Clifton, C., Jr.  (2006).  Syntactic prediction in language comprehension: Evidence from either…or.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 425-436.

Staub, A., Clifton, C., Jr., & Frazier, L.  (2006).  Heavy NP shift is the parser’s last resort: Evidence from eye movements.  Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 389-406.

pre-2006

Potter, M.  C., Staub, A., & O’Connor, D.  H.  (2004).  Conceptual representation of glimpsed pictures.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 30: 478-489

Potter, M.  C., Staub, A., & O’Connor, D.  H.  (2002).  The time course of competition for attention: Attention is initially labile.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 28: 1149-1162.

Potter, M.  C., Staub, A., Rado, J., & O’Connor, D.  H.  (2002).  Recognition memory for briefly-presented pictures: The time course of rapid forgetting.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 28: 1163-1175.

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