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Colin Phillips is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans several fields of study, primarily focusing on Neuroscience and Psychology. Within these broader areas, their work covers subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main research topics include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language Development and Disorders, Neural dynamics and brain function, as well as Neuroscience and Music Perception.

Colin Phillips has published several papers recently, including:

  • Syntactic category constrains lexical competition in speaking (2020) in Cognition
  • Auditory Word Comprehension Is Less Incremental in Isolated Words (2022) in Neurobiology of Language
  • Why non-native speakers sometimes outperform native speakers in agreement processing (2022) in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Agreement attraction error and timing profiles in continuous speech (2022) in Glossa Psycholinguistics
  • When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable (2021) in Glossa a journal of general linguistics

Their published book, released by Frontiers Media, is titled Different Ways to Help Those With Mental Illness (2020).

Colin Phillips frequently collaborates with several coauthors, notably Eun-Kyoung Rosa Lee, Margaret Kandel, Phoebe Gaston, Christian Brodbeck, and Ellen Lau.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Cognition
  • Annual Review of Linguistics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Language

Best Publications

  • A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400.

    Ellen F. Lau;Colin Phillips;David Poeppel;David Poeppel

  • Agreement Attraction in Comprehension: Representations and Processes.

    Matthew W. Wagers;Ellen F. Lau;Colin Phillips

  • Linear Order and Constituency

    Colin Phillips

  • ERP effects of the processing of syntactic long-distance dependencies

    Colin Phillips;Nina Kazanina;Shani H. Abada

  • Contrasting intrusion profiles for agreement and anaphora: Experimental and modeling evidence

    Brian Dillon;Alan Mishler;Shayne Sloggett;Colin Phillips

  • Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study

    Colin Phillips;Thomas Pellathy;Alec Marantz;Elron Yellin

  • A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects

    Jon Sprouse;Matt Wagers;Colin Phillips

  • Order and structure

    Colin Phillips

  • The linguistic processes underlying the P600

    Ana C. Gouvea;Colin Phillips;Nina Kazanina;David Poeppel

  • The role of structural prediction in rapid syntactic analysis.

    Ellen Lau;Clare Stroud;Silke Plesch;Colin Phillips

  • The Real-Time Status of Island Phenomena

    Colin Phillips

  • Processing filler-gap dependencies in a head-final language

    Sachiko Aoshima;Sachiko Aoshima;Colin Phillips;Amy Weinberg

  • Syntax at Age Two: Cross-Linguistic Differences 1

    Colin Phillips

  • Illusory licensing effects across dependency types: ERP evidence

    Ming Xiang;Brian Dillon;Colin Phillips

  • 5: Grammatical Illusions and Selective Fallibility in Real-Time Language Comprehension

    Colin Phillips;Matthew W. Wagers;Ellen F. Lau

  • Equal Treatment for All Antecedents: How Children Succeed with Principle B

    Anastasia Conroy;Eri Takahashi;Jeffrey Lidz;Collin Phillips

  • The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora

    Nina Kazanina;Ellen F. Lau;Moti Lieberman;Masaya Yoshida

  • The influence of meaning on the perception of speech sounds

    Nina Kazanina;Colin Phillips;William Idsardi

  • Aligning Grammatical Theories and Language Processing Models.

    Shevaun Lewis;Colin Phillips

  • Task-induced asymmetry of the auditory evoked M100 neuromagnetic field elicited by speech sounds.

    D. Poeppel;E. Yellin;C. Phillips;T.P.L. Roberts

  • The role of feature-number and feature-type in processing Hindi verb agreement violations.

    Andrew Ira Nevins;Brian Dillon;Shiti Malhotra;Colin Phillips

  • Relating structure and time in linguistics and psycholinguistics

    Colin Phillips;Matthew Wagers

  • Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension

    Sol Lago;Diego E. Shalom;Mariano Sigman;Ellen F. Lau

Frequent Co-Authors

David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University
Claudia Felser
Claudia Felser Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gustaf Gredebäck
Gustaf Gredebäck Uppsala University
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

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