Anna Laurinavichyute
Statistical consultant at SFB 1287 grant “Limits of variability in language”
University of Potsdam
Biography
I am a cognitive scientist interested in experimental research, computational conitive modeling, and machine learning. In addition to a PhD in Cognitive science, I am currently finishing a MSc degree in Data science, tackling the task of categorizing dyslexic readers based on their eye movements and the properties of the text they read. I’m also interested in quantifying reading skills and the factors affecting their development in L2 learners and sign language speakers.
As a postdoc at Shravan Vasishth’s lab, I also work on such topics as reproducible statistical analyses and computational modeling of sentence processing, as well as teach data analysis at the Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology.
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Interests
- Task demands in sentence processing
- Cognitive modeling
- Research methodology
- Open science
- Reading skills in various populations
Education
PhD in Cognitive Science (magna cum laude), 2021
University of Potsdam
MSc in Data Science, 2020 – present
University of Potsdam
Diploma in Linguistics, 2010
Moscow State University
Recent Publications
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(2024).
Agreement attraction in grammatical sentences and the role of the task.
Journal of Memory and Language, (137), pp. 104525, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104525.
(2024).
Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors.
Journal of Memory and Language, (137), pp. 104514, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104514.
(2024).
Eye-Movement Suppression in the Visual World Paradigm.
Open Mind, (8), pp. 1012-1036, https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00157.
(2023).
Crosslinguistic evidence against interference from extra-sentential distractors.
NA, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t2j8v.
(2023).
Do we rely on good-enough processing in reading under auditory and visual noise?.
Plos one, (18), 1, pp. e0277429.
(2023).
Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?.
Frontiers in Psychology, (14), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638.
(2023).
Number agreement attraction in Czech and English comprehension: A direct experimental comparison.
Glossa Psycholinguistics, (2), 1.
(2022).
Share the code, not just the data: A case study of the reproducibility of articles published in the Journal of Memory and Language under the open data policy.
Journal of Memory and Language, pp. in press, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hf297.
(2022).
Semantic attraction in sentence comprehension.
Cognitive Science, (46), pp. e13086, https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13086.
(2021).
Eye-movement benchmarks in Heritage Language reading.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, (24), 1, pp. 69–82, https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672892000019X.
(2021).
Morphosyntactic but not lexical corpus-based probabilities can substitute for cloze probabilities in reading experiments.
PLOS ONE, (16), 1, pp. 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246133.
(2021).
Reliance on semantic and structural heuristics in sentence comprehension across the lifespan.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, pp. 17470218211053263, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211053263.
(2020).
Complex phonological tasks predict reading in 7 to 11~years of age typically developing Russian children.
Journal of Research in Reading, (43), 4, pp. 516-535, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12327.
(2020).
Heritage speakers can actively shape not only their grammar but also their processing.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, (23), 1, pp. 43-45, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000440.
(2019).
Good-Enough Sentence Processing in Adolescents and Adults under No-Noise and Auditory-Linguistic-Noise Conditions.
The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science, (6), 2, pp. 25-32.
(2019).
Russian Sentence Corpus: Benchmark measures of eye movements in reading in Russian.
Behavior research methods, (51), 3, pp. 1161–1178.
(2019).
What eye movements can and cannot tell us about Wh-movement and Scrambling.
NA, pp. 147–165.
(2018).
No evidence for strategic nature of age-related slowing in sentence processing.
Psychology and aging, (33), 7, pp. 1045, https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000302.
(2018).
The Mental Representation of Polysemy across Word Classes.
Frontiers in Psychology, (9), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00192.
(2017).
Retrieval and Encoding Interference: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Anaphor Processing.
Frontiers in Psychology, (8), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00965.
(2016).
Fishing is not wrestling: Neural underpinnings of the verb instrumentality effect.
Journal of Neurolinguistics, (40), pp. 37–54.
(2015).
Comprehension of reversible constructions in semantic aphasia.
Aphasiology, (30), 1, pp. 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2015.1063582.
(2015).
The contribution of working memory to language comprehension: Differential effect of aphasia type.
Aphasiology, (29), 6, pp. 645-664.
(2014).
Processing lexical ambiguity in sentential context: Eye-tracking data from brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged individuals.
Neuropsychologia, (64), pp. 360-373.
Contact
- anna.laurinavichyute@uni-potsdam.de
- Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, Potsdam, Brandenburg 14476