Presentations

Conference Posters & Talks

Crinnion, A.M., Magnuson, J.M., Myers, E., & Gaston, P. (2023, November). Predictability effects on auditory word recognition in a novel priming paradigm. Oral presentation at the sixty fourth annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Crinnion, A.M., Gaston, P., & Myers, E. (2022, November). Examining individual differences in semantic and acoustic cue use. Poster to be presented at the sixty third annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 

Crinnion, A.M., Magnuson, J., Myers, E.,  & Gaston, P. (2022, October). Predictability effects on auditory word recognition with a pre-primed semantic priming task. Poster to be presented at the fourteenth annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.

Magnuson, J., Grubb, S., Crinnion, A.M., Luthra, S., & Gaston, P. (2022, July). How feedback in interactive activation improves perception. Poster presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto. 

Crinnion, A.M., Luthra, S., Gaston, P., & Magnuson, J. (2021, November). Resolving competing predictions in speech perception. Talk presented at the Psychonomic Society 2021 Annual Meeting.

Brodbeck, C., Luthra, S., Gaston, P., & Magnuson, J. (2021, July). Discovering computational principles in models and brains. Poster presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (virtual).

Gaston, P., Brodbeck, C., Phillips, C., & Lau, E. (2020, October). Cohort entropy and phoneme surprisal during auditory single-word recognition: a temporal response function analysis. Poster presented at the twelfth annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (virtual). [5-min video walk-through]

Gaston, P. & Lau, E. (2020, October). Syntactic vs. lexical prediction in posterior temporal lobe. Poster presented at the twelfth annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (virtual). [5-min video walk-through]

Gaston, P., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2019, June). Facilitation vs. inhibition as mechanisms for syntactic constraints on word recognition. Talk given (virtually) at Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction (PIPP), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Gaston, P., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2019, March). Facilitation vs. inhibition as mechanisms for syntactic constraints on word recognition. Poster presented at the 32nd annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Boulder, CO, USA

Gaston, P., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2019, January). How syntactic context affects comprehension: facilitation vs. inhibition. Talk given at the Linguistic Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting, New York, NY, USA.

Muller, H., Gaston, P., Dickerson, B., Liter, A., Durvasula, K., Hirzel, M., Hitczenko, K., Kandel, M., Lyskawa, P., Nelligan, J., Papillon, M., & Perkins, L. (2019, January). Gender bias in representation and publishing rates across subfields. Talk given at the Linguistic Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting, New York, NY, USA.

Gaston P., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2018, September). Syntactic category facilitates rather than inhibits lexical competition. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Gaston, P., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2018, March). Modeling cross-method conflicts in the timing of context effects on the cohort. Poster presented at the 31st annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, CA, USA.

Gaston, P., Liao, C., Matchin, W., & Lau, E. (2017, November). Investigating task-modulated syntactic prediction with MEG. Poster presented at the ninth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Matchin W., Liao C., Gaston P., & Lau E. (2017, March). An fMRI investigation of argument structure and syntactic selection. Poster presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Gaston, P., Gwilliams, L., & Marantz, A. (2015, October). The time course of cohort restriction in syntactic context: MEG evidence for a single auditory word-form. Poster presented at the seventh annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Meyer, L., Grigutsch, M., Henry, M., Schmuck, N., Gaston, P., & Friederici, A. (2015, October).  Delta-band oscillatory phase predicts formation of syntactic phrases: electroencephalography evidence from attachment ambiguities. Poster presented at the seventh annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Oseki, Y., Gwilliams, L., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Gaston, P., Marantz A., & Pylkkänen, L. (2015, October). Neural Dynamics of Morphological and Phrasal Composition. Poster presented at the seventh annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Linzen, T., Gaston, P., Gwilliams, L., & Marantz, A. (2014, August). Competition and prediction in the auditory processing of morphologically complex words. Poster presented at the sixth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Amsterdam.

Meyer, L., Grigutsch, M., Schmuck, N., Gaston, P., & Friederici, A. D. (2014, August). Memory retrieval during pronoun processing relies on coherent theta oscillations between frontal and posterior cortex. Poster presented at the sixth annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Amsterdam.

Meyer, L., Grigutsch, M., Schmuck, N., Gaston, P., & Friederici, A. (2014, April).  Frontal-posterior theta coherence subserves memory retrieval during language comprehension.  Poster presented at the 21st annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

Arredondo, M. M., Gaston, P., Ip, K. I, & Kovelman, I. (2012, October). Location, location, location—Where are we in the brain? Poster presented at the second biennial Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Conference, London.

Invited Talks

Gaston, P. (2023, March). Mapping from speech input to syntactic structure building. Invited talk for the CUNY Graduate Center Program in Linguistics.
Gaston, P. (2023, March). Mapping from speech input to syntactic structure building. Invited talk for the McMaster Department of Linguistics & Languages.

Gaston, P. (2021, March). The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition. Invited talk at Harvard Language and Cognition series.

Gaston, P. (2020, November). The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition. Invited talk at UMass Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Colloquium.

Gaston, P. (2020, February). The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition. Invited talk at Cornell Department of Linguistics.

Gaston, P. (2020, January). The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition. Invited talk at UConn Department of Psychological Sciences.

Gaston, P. (2019, December). The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition. Invited talk for the Tandon Lab at UT Health.

Gaston, P. & Muller, H. (2019, March) Replicability, effect sizes, & power. Invited talk at UMD Hearing and Speech Sciences department seminar.

Gaston, P. (2019, January). The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition. Invited talk at MarantzFest, New York, NY, USA.