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D-Index
52
Citations
15978
World Ranking
4915
National Ranking
2707

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John C. Trueswell is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the field of Psychology, with a concentration on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional research interests include Language and Linguistics as well as Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research covers various topics, including:

  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Speech and dialogue systems

John C. Trueswell has published extensively, contributing to frequent publication venues such as:

  • Cognition
  • Developmental Science
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Language Acquisition

Recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • "How children attend to events before speaking: crosslinguistic evidence from the motion domain," 2021, published in Glossa a journal of general linguistics
  • "Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience," 2022, published in Cognitive Science
  • "Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping," 2020, published in Developmental Science
  • "Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition," 2021, published in Developmental Science
  • ""Look! It is not a bamoule!": 18- and 24-month-olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings," 2021, published in Developmental Science

The scientist often collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Anna Papafragou
  • Lila R. Gleitman
  • Alex de Carvalho
  • Anne Christophe
  • Alon Hafri

John C. Trueswell's work engages with multiple interdisciplinary domains addressing the development and cognitive processes underlying language and perception. Their contributions have addressed how children and adults represent and encode language and events, how semantic and syntactic knowledge emerge, and how language interacts with cognition across different populations.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, John C. Trueswell was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Semantic influences on parsing: Use of thematic role information in syntactic ambiguity resolution.

    John C. Trueswell;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Susan M. Garnsey

  • Verb-specific constraints in sentence processing: Separating effects of lexical preference from garden-paths.

    John C. Trueswell;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Christopher Kello

  • The kindergarten-path effect: studying on-line sentence processing in young children.

    John C. Trueswell;Irina Sekerina;Nicole M. Hill;Marian L. Logrip

  • Cognitive control and parsing: reexamining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension

    Jared M. Novick;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Using prosody to avoid ambiguity: Effects of speaker awareness and referential context

    Jesse Snedeker;John Trueswell

  • The effects of common ground and perspective on domains of referential interpretation

    Joy E Hanna;Michael K Tanenhaus;John C Trueswell

  • Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements

    Anna Papafragou;Justin Hulbert;John Trueswell

  • The developing constraints on parsing decisions: The role of lexical-biases and referential scenes in child and adult sentence processing

    Jesse Snedeker;John C. Trueswell

  • The rapid use of gender information: Evidence of the time course of pronoun resolution from eyetracking

    Jennifer E. Arnold;Janet G. Eisenband;Sarah Brown-Schmidt;John C. Trueswell

  • Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary 3 years later

    Erica A Cartmill;Benjamin F Armstrong;Lila R Gleitman;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language.

    Elsi Kaiser;John C. Trueswell

  • THE ROLE OF LEXICAL FREQUENCY IN SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION

    John C. Trueswell

  • Propose but verify: fast mapping meets cross-situational word learning.

    John C. Trueswell;Tamara Nicol Medina;Alon Hafri;Lila R. Gleitman

  • How words can and cannot be learned by observation

    Tamara Nicol Medina;Jesse Snedeker;John C. Trueswell;Lila R. Gleitman

  • On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation.

    Lila R. Gleitman;David January;Rebecca Nappa;John C. Trueswell

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  • Interpreting pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Evidence for a form-specific approach to reference resolution

    Elsi Kaiser;John C. Trueswell

  • A case for conflict across multiple domains: Memory and language impairments following damage to ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

    Jared M. Novick;Irene P. Kan;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Co-localization of stroop and syntactic ambiguity resolution in broca's area: Implications for the neural basis of sentence processing

    David January;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Broca’s Area and Language Processing: Evidence for the Cognitive Control Connection

    Jared M. Novick;John C. Trueswell;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

  • Approaches to studying world-situated language use : bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions

    John Charles Trueswell;Michael K. Tanenhaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Lila R. Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester
Jesse Snedeker
Jesse Snedeker Harvard University
Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Sarah Brown-Schmidt Vanderbilt University
Daniel Mirman
Daniel Mirman University of Edinburgh
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison

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