Shravan Vasishth
University of Potsdam, Saarland, University of Sheffield, The Ohio State University, Hara Kenzo World Patent and Trademark, The University of Osaka
Research areas: Neuroscience · Cognitive Neuroscience · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Reading and Literacy Development
0000-0003-2027-1994
About
I am Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
I'm a professionally accredited Chartered Statistician (Royal Statistical Society).
I started studying Economics at the University of Delhi in 1983, but had to quit the program due to kidney failure. After a kidney transplant in 1984, I started studying Japanese (major), French and western philosophy (minors) at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. I won a couple of scholarships from the Japanese government, which made it possible for me to live in Japan (Osaka and Kobe) for a total of five years. For approximately two years (1990-1992), I worked as an in-house patent translator (Japanese to English) in a law firm in Osaka. In 1992, I decided to study linguistics, and eventually (1997-2002) completed a PhD in Linguistics at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
My current research interests are applications of Bayesian data analysis to experimental data in psycholinguistics, Bayesian cognitive modeling, cognitive/computational modeling in general, and sentence comprehension in unimpaired adult populations. I'm also interested in modeling individual differences.
Employment
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Universität Potsdam Professor: Chair of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics2008 - Present
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Universität Potsdam Juniorprofessor: Empirical Methods in Syntax2004 - 2018
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Saarland Postdoctoral researcher2002 - 2004
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Hara Kenzo World Patent and Trademark Translator1990 - 1992
Education
- 2012 - 2015
- 2000 - 2002
- 1997 - 2002
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Osaka University Research student1995 - 1997
- 1992 - 1994
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Osaka University of Foreign Studies Advanced Diploma in Japanese1989 - 1990
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Jawaharlal Nehru University BA (Honours)1986 - 1989
Projects & Funding
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AGREE Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2017 - 2020
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INHIBIT Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2017 - 2020
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Variabilität und ihre Grenzen beim gestörten und ungestörten Satzverständnis (B02) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2017 - 2021
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Modellierung der Interaktion von Blicksteuerung und syntaktischer Verarbeitung (B03) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2017 - 2021
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Wissenschaftliches Service- und Infrastrukturprojekt (Q) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2017 - 2021
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BUTTON - Untersuchung der Interaktion zwischen metakognitiver Bewusstheit und selektivem Wiederlesen in Garden-Path-Sätzen Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2017 - 2021
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Opus Magnum Volkswagen Foundation2016 - 2018
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Dynamic modeling of eye-movement control in reading Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2013 - 2015
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On-line sentence processing, aphasic impairments, computational modelling Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2010 - 2012
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Computational models of human sentence processing: A model comparison approach Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2007 - 2011
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Prosody in parsing Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2006 - 2015
Publications (116)
- The time course of local coherence effects in German: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials Save
- Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling Save
- The time course of local coherence effects: Evidence from self-paced reading times and event-related potentials Save
- Do local coherence effects exist in English reduced relative clauses? Save
- Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German Save
- Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science Save
- Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Save
- Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from sentence-external distractors Save
- SEAM: An Integrated Activation-Coupled Model of Sentence Processing and Eye Movements in Reading Save
- Workflow techniques for the robust use of bayes factors. Save
- Bayes Factors for Mixed Models: A Discussion Save
- Data aggregation can lead to biased inferences in Bayesian linear mixed models and Bayesian ANOVA Save
- Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading Save
- Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension in aphasia: A computational evaluation of two models of cue-based retrieval Save
- Some right ways to analyze (psycho)linguistic data Save
- Syntactic and semantic interference in sentence comprehension: Support from English and German eye-tracking data Save
- Understanding the effects of constraint and predictability in ERP Save
- When words collide: Bayesian meta-analyses of distractor and target properties in the picture-word interference paradigm Save
- Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German Save
- Conscious rereading is confirmatory: Evidence from bidirectional self-paced reading Save