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Overview

Holly P. Branigan is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with particular contributions in developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers various topics including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language, metaphor, and cognition, speech and dialogue systems, language, discourse, and communication strategies, reading and literacy development, second language acquisition and learning, as well as syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Holly P. Branigan include:

  • Children show selectively increased language imitation after experiencing ostracism, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Glutamate and functional connectivity - support for the excitatory-inhibitory imbalance hypothesis in autism spectrum disorders, 2021, Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
  • The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming, 2023, Journal of Memory and Language
  • Lexical alignment is affected by addressee but not speaker nativeness, 2021, Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Do bilinguals represent between-language relationships beyond the word level in their lexicon?, 2020, Journal of Neurolinguistics

Holly P. Branigan has frequently published in several venues, with notable numbers of publications in:

  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaborations are an important aspect of Branigan's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Martin J. Pickering
  • Philip R. Doyle
  • Justin Edwards
  • Benjamin R. Cowan
  • Diego Garaialde

Best Publications

  • Syntactic co-ordination in dialogue

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Alexandra A. Cleland

  • The Representation of Verbs: Evidence from Syntactic Priming in Language Production

    Martin J. Pickering;Holly P. Branigan

  • Syntactic priming in language production

    Martin J. Pickering;Holly P. Branigan

  • Discourse constraints on syntactic processing in language production: A cross-linguistic study in English and Spanish

    Mercè Prat-Sala;Holly P Branigan

  • Linguistic alignment between people and computers

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Jamie Pearson;Janet F. McLean

  • Priming Prepositional-Phrase Attachment During Comprehension.

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Janet F. McLean

  • SYNTACTIC PRIMING : INVESTIGATING THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF LANGUAGE

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Simon Paul Liversedge;Andrew J. Stewart

  • Syntactic priming in written production: Evidence for rapid decay

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Alexandra A. Cleland

  • Contributions of animacy to grammatical function assignment and word order during production

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Mikihiro Tanaka

  • Constituent structure is formulated in one stage.

    Martin J Pickering;Holly P Branigan;Janet F McLean

  • An experimental approach to linguistic representation

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering

  • Syntactic alignment and participant role in dialogue.

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Janet F. McLean;Alexandra Alice Cleland

  • The role of beliefs in lexical alignment: evidence from dialogs with humans and computers

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Jamie Pearson;Janet F. McLean

  • Syntactic priming in spoken production: Linguistic and temporal interference

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Andrew J. Stewart;Janet F. Mclean

  • Is young children's passive syntax semantically constrained? Evidence from syntactic priming.

    Katherine Messenger;Holly P. Branigan;Janet F. McLean;Antonella Sorace

  • Lexical and syntactic representations in closely related languages: Evidence from Cantonese–Mandarin bilinguals

    Zhenguang G. Cai;Martin J. Pickering;Hao Yan;Holly P. Branigan

  • Mapping Concepts to Syntax: Evidence from Structural Priming in Mandarin Chinese.

    Zhenguang G. Cai;Zhenguang G. Cai;Martin J. Pickering;Holly P. Branigan

  • Elucidating the component processes involved in dyslexic and non-dyslexic reading fluency: an eye-tracking study.

    Manon W. Jones;Mateo Obregón;M. Louise Kelly;Holly P. Branigan

  • What children learn from adults’ utterances: an ephemeral lexical boost and persistent syntactic priming in adult–child dialogue

    Holly P. Branigan;Janet F. McLean

  • Evidence for (shared) abstract structure underlying children’s short and full passives

    Katherine Messenger;Holly P. Branigan;Janet F. McLean

  • Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

    Patrick Sturt;Holly Branigan;Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Simon Paul Liversedge
Simon Paul Liversedge University of Central Lancashire
Nicola Yuill
Nicola Yuill University of Sussex
Nadine Martin
Nadine Martin Temple University
Liat Levita
Liat Levita University of Sussex
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass Stanford University
Julia Simner
Julia Simner University of Sussex
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow

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