The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Linguistic Interpretation: Using Event-related Potentials to Investigate Probabilistic Predictions of Hearers

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Markus Werning
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Theoretical Philosophy
• Term: from 2017 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 367110651

• Final Report Year: 2024

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Publications

• Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words. Language and Cognition, 9(3), 553-567.
  REUTER, KEVIN; WERNING, MARKUS; KUCHINKE, LARS & COSENTINO, ERICA
  
• Negative Properties in First-Degree Entailment with Constructible Negation and an Extensional Semantics. Proceedings of the Logic Colloquium 2017, Stockholm. Association for Symbolic Logic
  Unterhuber, M.
  
• The interaction of Bayesian pragmatics and lexical semantics in linguistic interpretation: Using event-related potentials to investigate hearers’ probabilistic predictions. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 39, 3504–3509
  Werning, M. & Cosentino, E.
  
• The Time-Course of Sentence Meaning Composition. N400 Effects of the Interaction between Context-Induced and Lexically Stored Affordances. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(c(2017, 5, 26)).
  Cosentino, Erica; Baggio, Giosuè; Kontinen, Jarmo & Werning, Markus
  
• Evidence for Single-Type Semantics—An Alternative To $e$/$t$-Based Dual-Type Semantics. Journal of Semantics (c(2018, 8, 15)).
  Liefke, Kristina & Werning, Markus
  
• Introduction: Origin and Evolution of Language—An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Topoi, 37(2), 219-234.
  Ferretti, Francesco; Adornetti, Ines; Chiera, Alessandra; Cosentino, Erica & Nicchiarelli, Serena
  
• Artifacts and affordances. Synthese, 198(S17), 4007-4026.
  Cosentino, Erica
  
• Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on Word Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 41, 3085–3091
  Werning, M.; Unterhuber, M. & Wiedemann, G.
  
• Introduction to the special issue “Logical perspectives on science and cognition”. Synthese, 197(4), 1381-1390.
  Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J.; Gebharter, Alexander; Brössel, Peter & Werning, Markus
  
• Investigating the Comprehension of Negated Sentences Employing World Knowledge: An Event-Related Potential Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(c(2019, 10, 17)).
  Haase, Viviana; Spychalska, Maria & Werning, Markus
  
• Processing of affirmation and negation in contexts with unique and multiple alternatives: Evidence from event-related potentials. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 41, 2845-2851
  Spychalska, M.; Haase, V.; Kontinen, J. & Werning, M.
  
• 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.
  Spychalska, Maria; Kontinen, Jarmo; Noveck, Ira; Reimer, Ludmila & Werning, Markus
  
• Rewarding one’s Future Self: Psychological Connectedness, Episodic Prospection, and a Puzzle about Perspective. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2), 449-467.
  McCarroll, Christopher Jude & Cosentino, Erica
  
• Self-Control, Mental Time Travel, and the Temporally Extended Self. Surrounding Self-Control (c(2020, 9, 3)), 434-452. Oxford University PressNew York.
  Cosentino, Erica
  
• Experiential Imagination and the Inside/Outside-Distinction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2021), 96-112. Springer International Publishing.
  Liefke, Kristina & Werning, Markus
  
• The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(c(2021, 7, 19)).
  Spychalska, Maria; Reimer, Ludmila; Schumacher, Petra B. & Werning, Markus
  
• Constructing a Wider View on Memory. Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (c(2022, 10, 26)), 165-190. Routledge.
  Peeters, Anco; Cosentino, Erica & Werning, Markus
  
• Does the character-based dimension of stories impact narrative processing? An event-related potentials (ERPs) study. Cognitive Processing, 23(2), 255-267.
  Chiera, Alessandra; Adornetti, Ines; Altavilla, Daniela; Acciai, Alessandro; Cosentino, Erica; Deriu, Valentina; McCarroll, Christopher; Nicchiarelli, Serena; Preziotti, Viviana & Ferretti, Francesco
  
• Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination: The roles of mental time travel and metacognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 21(4), 791-811.
  Cosentino, Erica; McCarroll, Christopher Jude & Michaelian, Kourken
  
• Factivity Variation in Episodic Memory Reports. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2023), 110-127. Springer Nature Switzerland.
  Liefke, Kristina & Werning, Markus
  
• Modelling the Integration of Co-Speech Gestures into Sentence Meaning Composition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 625–631
  Reimer, L. & Werning, M.