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Garnsey, Susan
Associate Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Research Areas
Language Processing and Language-Brain Relationships
My research focuses on language processing: the comprehension of sentences in isolation and in discourse; the resolution of syntactic and lexical ambiguity and context effects on that resolution; the effect of prosody on disambiguation; on-line techniques for measuring language comprehension, including eye-movement monitoring and event-related brain potentials; word recognition; and on language/brain relationships.
Representative Publications
Ueno, M.; Garnsey, S. M., An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. Language & Cognitive Processes 2008, 23, 646-688.
Bock, J. K.; Dell, G. S.; Garnsey, S. M.; Kramer, A. F.; Kubose, T., Car talk, car listen In Automaticity and control in language processing Meyer, A. S.; Wheeldon, L. R.; Krott, A., Eds. Psychology Press: Hove, England, 2007; pp 21-42.
Tse, C. Y.; Lee, C. L.; Sullivan, J.; Garnsey, S. M.; Dell, G. S.; Fabiani, M.; Gratton, G., Imaging cortical dynamics of language processing with the event-related optical signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007, 104, (43), 17157-17162.
Ueno, M. and & Garnsey, S. M. 2006. An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. Language and Cognitive Processes 23(5):646-688.
Gahl S, Garnsey SM, Fisher C, and Matzen L. 2006. "That sounds unlikely": Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation. In the Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
Ueno M, and Garnsey SM. 2006. Gap-filling vs. filling gaps: Event-related brain indices of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Japanese & Korean Linguistics.
Gahl S, and Garnsey SM. 2006. Knowledge of grammar includes knowledge of syntactic probabilities. Language 82:405-410.
Kubose TT, Bock K, Dell GS, Garnsey SM, Kramer AF, and Mayhugh J. 2006. The effects of speech production and speech comprehension on simulated driving performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology 20:43-63.
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