Psycholinguistics


Szabolcsi, A., Bott, L. & McElree, B (in press). The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification. Jounral of Semantics. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A.E., McElree, B. & Smart, S. (in press). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or decision making? Brain & Language. [pdf]

Harris, J., Pylkkänen, L., McElree, B. & Frisson, S. (in press). The cost of question concealment: Eye-tracking and MEG evidence. Brain & Language. [pdf]

Martin, A. E. & McElree, B. (2008). A content-addressable pointer mechanism underlies comprehension of verb-phrase ellipsis. Journal of Memory and Language, 58,  879-906. [pdf]

Frisson, S. & McElree, B. (2008). Complement coercion is not ambiguity resolution: Evidence from eye movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 1-11. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2007). An MEG study of silent meaning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 126-149. [pdf]

Foraker, S., & McElree, B. (2007). The role of prominence in pronoun resolution: Availability versus accessibility. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 357-383. [pdf]

McElree, B., Murphy, G. L., & Ochoa, T. (2006). Time-course of retrieving conceptual information: A speed-accuracy tradeoff study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 848-853. [pdf]

Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel, I., & McElree, B. (2006). Decomposing gradience: quantitative vs. qualitative distinctions. In G. Fanselow, C. Féry, M. Schlesewsky, & R. Vogel (Eds.), Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. (2006). The syntax-semantics interface: On-line composition of sentence meaning. In M. Traxler & M.A. Gernsbacher (eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (2nd Ed). NY: Elsevier. [pdf]

Van Dyke, J. A., & McElree, B. (2006). Retrieval Interference in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 157-166. [pdf]

Pickering, M. J., McElree, B., Frisson, S., Chin, L., & Traxler, M. (2006). Aspectual coercion and underspecification. Discourse Processes, 42, 131-155. [pdf]

McElree, B., Frisson, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Deferred interpretations: Why starting Dickens is taxing but reading Dickens isn't. Cognitive Science, 30, 115-124. [pdf]

McElree, B., Pylkkänen, L., Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M. (2006). The time course of enriched composition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 53-59. [pdf]

Traxler, M., McElree, B., Williams, R. S. & Pickering, M.J. (2005). Context effects in coercion: Evidence from eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 1-25. [pdf]

Pickering, M. J., McElree, B., & Traxler, M. (2005). The difficulty of coercion: A response to de Almeida. Brain & Language, 93, 1-9. [pdf]

Pickering, M.J., Frisson, S., McElree, B., & Traxler, M., (2004). Eye movements and semantic composition.  In M. Carreiras and C. Clifton, Jr. (Eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eyetracking, ERPs, and beyond. Hove: Psychology Press. [pdf]

Bornkessel, I., McElree, B., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A. D. (2004). Multi-dimensional contributions to garden path strength: Dissociating phrase structure from relational structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 495-522. [pdf]

McElree, B., Foraker, S. & Dyer, L. (2003). Memory structures that subserve sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 67-91. [pdf]

Traxler, M., Pickering, M.J., & McElree, B. (2002). Coercion in sentence processing: Evidence from eye-movements and self-paced reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 4, 530-547. [pdf]

McElree, B., Traxler, M., Pickering, M.J., Seely, R, & Jackendoff, R. (2001). Reading time evidence for enriched composition. Cognition, 78, B17-B25. [pdf]

McElree, B. (2000). Sentence comprehension is mediated by content-addressable memory structures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 111-123. [pdf]

McElree, B., Jia, G. X., & Litvak, A. (2000). The time-course of conceptual processing in three bilingual populations. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 229-254. [pdf]

McElree, B., & Nordlie, J., (1999). Literal and figurative interpretations are computed in equal time. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6, 486-494. [pdf]

McElree, B. & Griffith, T. (1998). Structural and lexical constraints on filling gaps during sentence processing: A time-course analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 432-460. [pdf]

McElree, B. & Griffith, T. (1995). Syntactic and thematic processing in sentence comprehension: Evidence for a temporal dissociation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 134-157. [pdf]

McElree, B. (1993). The locus of lexical preference effects in sentence comprehension: A time-course analysis. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 536-571. [pdf]

McElree, B. & Bever, T.G. (1989). The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, 21-35.

Bever, T.G. & McElree, B. (1988). Empty categories access their antecedent during comprehension. Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 35-43.

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Human Memory


Öztekin, I., Curtis, C., & McElree, B. (in press). Medial temporal lobe and the left inferior prefrontal cortex jointly support interference resolution in verbal working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [pdf]

Öztekin, I., McElree, B., Staresina, B.P., & Lila Davach, L. (in press). Working Memory Retrieval: Contributions of Left Prefrontal Cortex, Left Posterior Parietal Cortex and Hippocampus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [pdf]

Öztekin, I., & McElree, B. (2007). Retrieval dynamics of proactive interference: PI slows retrieval by eliminating fast assessments of familiarity. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 126-149. [pdf]

Van Dyke, J. A., & McElree, B. (2006). Retrieval Interference in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 157-166. [pdf]

McElree, B. (2006). Accessing recent events. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 46. San Diego: Academic Press. [pdf]

Dosher, B. A. & McElree, B. (2002). Memory search: Retrieval processes in short-term and long-term recognition. In John H. Byrne (Ed.) Learning & Memory. Gale Group.

McElree, B. (2001). Working memory and focal attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 27, 817-835. [pdf]

McElree, B. & Dosher, B. A. (2001). The focus of attention across space and time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 129-130.

McElree, B., Dolan, P. O., & Jacoby, L. L., (1999). Isolating the contributions of familiarity and source information in item recognition: A time-course analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 25, 563-582. [pdf]

Jacoby, L. J., McElree, B., & Trainham, T. N. (1999). Automatic influences as accessibility bias in memory and Stroop-like tasks: Toward a formal model. In A. Koriat & D. Gopher (Eds.) Attention & Performance XVII:Cognitive Regulation of Performance: Interaction of Theory and Application. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Jacoby, L. J., Kelly, C. M. & McElree, B. (1999). The role of cognitive control: Early selection and late correction. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.) Dual process theories in social psychology. NY:Gullford.

McElree, B. (1998). Attended and non-attended states in working memory: Accessing categorized structures. Journal of Memory & Language, 38, 225-252. [pdf]

McElree, B. (1996). Accessing short-term memory with semantic and phonological information: A time-course analysis. Memory & Cognition, 24, 173-187.[pdf]

McElree, B. & Dosher, B.A. (1993). Serial retrieval processes in the recovery of order information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 122, 291-315. [pdf]

Dosher, B. A. & McElree, B. (1992). Memory search: Retrieval processes in short-term and long-term recognition. In Larry Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Learning & Memory. New York: Macmillian.

McElree, B. & Dosher, B.A. (1989). Serial position and set size in short-term memory: Time course of recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 18, 346-373. [pdf]

Dosher, B. A., McElree, B., Hood, R. M., & Rosedale, G. R. (1989). Retrieval dynamics of priming in recognition memory:Bias and discrimination analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 15, 868-886. [pdf]

Slamecka, N. J. & McElree, B.(1983). Normal forgetting of verbal lists as a function of their degree of learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 9, 384-397.

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Attention


Giordano, A.M.,  McElrew, B.,  &  Carrasco, M. (submitted). On the automaticity and flexibility of covert attention: A speed-accuracy trade-off analysis. [pdf]

Carrasco, M., Giordano, A. M., & McElree, B. (2006). Attention speeds processing across eccentricity: Feature and conjunction searches. Vision Research, 46, 2028–2040 [pdf]

Carrasco, M., Giordano, A. M., & McElree, B. (2004). Temporal perfromance fields: Visual and attentional factors. Vision Research, 44(12), 1351-1365.[pdf]

Carrasco, M., McElree, B., Denisova, K., & Giordano, A. M. (2003). The speed of visual information processing increases with eccentricity. Nature Neuroscience, 6(7): 669-670.[pdf] [supplemental materials]

Carrasco, M. & McElree, B. (2001). Covert attention speeds the accrual of visual information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 5341-5436. [pdf]

McElree, B., & Carrasco, M., (1999). The temporal dynamics of visual search: Speed-accuracy tradeoff analysis of feature and conjunctive searches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 25, 1517-1539. [pdf]

McElree, B., & Carrasco, M., (1998). Speed-accuracy tradeoff analysis of the temporal dynamics of visual search. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Abstracts, 39(4), s224.

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