Theory of mind, executive function, memory and prediction
I am also interested in the interface between cognitive mechanisms and language processing. During online sentence comprehension, people’s ability to incrementally compute various sources of information derive from social context, visual context, discourse context, long-term linguistic knowledge and real-time language inputs fundamentally affects their speed to reach the interpretation as well as the final result of the interpretation. My research examines the roles of the theory of mind, executive functions, declarative memory, and prediction in an individual’s language processing and learning.
Role of the theory of mind:
- Qi Z., Saratsli D., & Papafragou A. (2020) Social cognition and pragmatic inference in word learning. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Role of executive function:
- Qi Z., Love J., Fisher C.L., & Brown-Schmidt S. (2020). Referential context and executive functioning influence children’s resolution of syntactic ambiguity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000886.
- Qi Z., Fisher C. L., Brown-Schmidt S. (2011) On recovering from ‘kindergarten path’ errors: referential context and executive functioning influence children’s online ambiguity resolution. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.
Role of declarative memory:
- Ryskin, R., Qi, Z., Covinton, N., Duff, M., Brown-Schmidt, S. (2018). Knowledge and Learning of Verb Biases in Amnesia. Brain and Language. 180-182: 62-83
- Brown-Schmidt S., Qi Z., Duff M. (2014). Contributions of hippocampal-dependent declarative memory to on-line processing of global syntactic ambiguity. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
Role of prediction:
- Weng Y-L., Schneider J., & Qi Z. (2020) Prediction and sentence ambiguity resolution: A simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG study. Poster at Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA. https://osf.io/meetings/cuny2020/
- Qi Z., Garnsey S. M. (In Prep) Prediction-based distributional learning of novel verb bias: an ERP study.
- Qi Z., Garnsey S. M. (2012) Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning: an ERP study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
