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Adrian Staub 430 Tobin Hall (413) 545 - 5925 (office) |
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I am an assistant professor of cognitive
psychology at the
Most
of my work is in psycholinguistics. My primary area of interest is
syntactic parsing, i.e., the process of analyzing the grammatical structure of
a sentence as it is heard or read. In many of my experiments,
participants' eye movements are monitored as they read sentences in which
syntactic structure has been manipulated. Much of my research has focused
on questions about the time-course with which readers and listeners make use of
their grammatical knowledge in the process of constructing an initial syntactic
analysis of a sentence. I’m interested in how grammatical constraints
interact with probabilistic constraints, and in how the processing of
individual words interacts with higher-level processing. I'm also
interested in the temporal dynamics of the process by which speakers make
syntactic decisions in the course of sentence production, and in applying
models of response time distributions to psycholinguistic data.
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.
I’m very happy to respond to queries from prospective visitors or grad
students. Please email me!
Here are my recent publications and presentations. 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.
Psych 240 Fall 2009 data is HERE
Publications:
In
press
Staub, A., White, S. J., Drieghe, D., Hollway, E. C., & Rayner, K. (in press). Distributional effects of word frequency on eye fixation durations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Staub, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (in press). Processing effects of an indeterminate future: Evidence from self-paced reading. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics.
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., Hyönä, 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
2006
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Staub, A.,
2004
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
2002
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.
Talks:
Staub, A. (2009, May). The timing of garden path effects on eye
movements in reading. Max Planck
Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
Staub, A. (2009, March). The timing of garden path effects on eye
movements: Structural and lexical
factors. 22nd Annual CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Staub, A. (2008, May). On
the interaction of lexical and syntactic processing: Eye movement
evidence. Invited Talk, Festschrift in honor of Charles Clifton, Royal Society
of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Staub, A., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2007, August). Building syntactic structure takes time: Experimental evidence and theoretical implications for models of eye movement control in reading. 14th European Conference on Eye Movements, Potsdam, Germany.
Staub, A. (2006,
November). Abandoned parses facilitate syntactic reanalysis: Evidence
from eye movements. Invited talk, Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences,
Staub, A. (2006,
November). The parser doesn't ignore intransitivity, after all: Evidence
from eye movements. Invited talk, Department of Germanic Language and
Linguistics, Phillips University Marburg,
Staub, A. and Clifton C.,
Jr. (2006, March) Effects of a word's status as a predictable phrasal
head on lexical decision and eye movements. 19th CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing,
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Posters:
Staub, A.
(2009, March). The sources of
intervening and non-intervening number attraction: Response time evidence. Poster presented at 22nd Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Staub, A.
(2007, November) Number attraction and the mismatch asymmetry: Reaction
time evidence for competition. Poster presented at 48th annual
meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, CA.
Staub,
A. (2007, March). Intransitivity does prevent direct object
misanalysis: Eye movement evidence. Poster presented at the 20th
Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
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A.,