Adrian
Staub
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Assistant Professor (413) 545 - 5952 (lab) (413) 545 - 0996 (fax) email: astaub at psych dot umass dot edu |
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Most
of my work is in
psycholinguistics, which is the study of language comprehension and
production. On the comprehension side, I study (a) syntactic
parsing,
i.e., the process of analyzing the grammatical structure of a sentence
as it is
heard or read; (b) word recognition; and (c) the interface between
these two things.
In many of my experiments, participants' eye movements are monitored as
they
read sentences in which properties of individual words and/or syntactic
structure have been manipulated. I also have several projects
(in collaboration with colleagues) that use eye movements to investigate various
aspects of spoken language comprehension.
On the production side, I'm interested in detailed models of the
process by which speakers make decisions as they're speaking:
what grammatical structures to use, what words to use, etc.
My Ph.D. is also from
UMass. Prior to coming to UMass, I worked on memory for visual scenes and
on attentional processes at MIT. Before that, I received a B.A. in
Psychology from Harvard, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of
Pittsburgh.
Some other things:
- I'm a member of the UMass Institute for the Computational and Experimental Study of Language (ICESL), and adjunct faculty in the UMass Linguistics Department.
- I'm an Action Editor for the journal Language and Cognitive Processes. I also serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Memory and Language, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
- I'm very happy to respond to queries from prospective visitors or grad students.
Here are my recent publications. NOTE: All electronic documents are
provided for personal use only. Downloading a document should be
considered a request by you for a single copy. Do not circulate or
disseminate. Some are pre-final versions.
Journal Articles:
Staub, A., & Benatar, A. (in press). Individual differences in fixation duration distributions in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Cohen,
A., & Staub, A. (in press). On-line processing of novel
noun-noun compounds: Eye movement evidence. The Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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
quality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception & Performance, 38, 603-617.
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 architecture.
Journal of Experiment Psychology: General, 140-433.
Staub, A. (2011).
The effect of lexical predictability
on distributions of eye fixation durations. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 18, 371-376.
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 clauses. Cognition, 116, 71-86.
Staub, A. (2010). Response time distributional evidence
for distinct varieties of number attraction. Cognition, 114,
447-454.
Staub, A. (2009). On the interpretation of the number attraction
effect: Response time evidence. Journal of Memory and Language,
60, 308-327.
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.
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., & 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.
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.
Book Chapters and Reviews:
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.
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. 38: Processing 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.
Clifton, C., Jr., & Staub, A. (2008). Parallelism and
competition in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Language and Linguistics
Compass, 2, 234-250.
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.