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Patrick Sturt is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research expertise spans psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Their primary fields of study include psychology, neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, second language acquisition and learning, language development and disorders, language, metaphor and cognition, syntax, semantics and linguistic variation, and natural language processing techniques.

Patrick Sturt has published research in notable venues including Bilingualism Language and Cognition, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Cognition, Glossa Psycholinguistics, and the Journal of Child Language. Frequent coauthors in their work include Nayoung Kwon, Derya Çokal, Jiuzhou Hao, Vicky Chondrogianni, and Michael G. Cutter.

Recent publications by Patrick Sturt include the following:

  • Syntactic and semantic mismatches in English number agreement, 2022, Glossa Psycholinguistics
  • Agreement attraction in comprehension: do active dependencies and distractor position play a role?, 2023, Language Cognition and Neuroscience

Additional recent papers related to their coauthors' research topics include:

  • Heritage language development and processing: Non-canonical word orders in Mandarin-English child heritage speakers, 2023, Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • When social hierarchy matters grammatically: Investigation of the processing of honorifics in Korean, 2024, Cognition
  • The activation of contextually predictable words in syntactically illegal positions, 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

The collaboration network of this scientist highlights interdisciplinary engagement across topics related to language processing, bilingualism, and cognitive neuroscience. This body of work contributes to the understanding of language structure, acquisition, and cognitive mechanisms underlying language use in varied social and linguistic contexts.

Best Publications

  • Depth of processing in language comprehension: not noticing the evidence

    Anthony J. Sanford;Patrick Sturt

  • The time-course of the application of binding constraints in reference resolution

    Patrick Sturt

  • Linguistic Focus and Good-Enough Representations: An Application of the Change-Detection Paradigm

    Patrick Sturt;Anthony J. Sanford;Andrew Stewart;Eugene Dawydiak

  • Monotonic Syntactic Processing : A Cross-linguistic Study of Attachment and Reanalysis

    Patrick Sturt

  • Lingering misinterpretations of garden path sentences arise from competing syntactic representations

    Timothy J. Slattery;Patrick Sturt;Kiel Christianson;Masaya Yoshida

  • Structural change and reanalysis difficulty in language comprehension

    Patrick Sturt;Martin J. Pickering;Matthew W. Crocker

  • What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition

    Gloria Chamorro;Antonella Sorace;Patrick Sturt

  • Semantic re-interpretation and garden path recovery.

    Patrick Sturt

  • Structural Priming Across Cognitive Domains From Simple Arithmetic to Relative-Clause Attachment

    Christoph Scheepers;Patrick Sturt;Catherine J. Martin;Andriy Myachykov

  • Predictive processing of syntactic structure: Sluicing and ellipsis in real-time sentence processing

    Masaya Yoshida;Michael Walsh Dickey;Patrick Sturt

  • Processing definitional and stereotypical gender in reference resolution: Evidence from eye-movements

    Hamutal Kreiner;Patrick Sturt;Simon Garrod

  • Processing coordinated structures : Incrementality and connectedness

    Patrick Sturt;Vincenzo Lombardo

  • Coargumenthood and the processing of reflexives

    Ian Cunnings;Patrick Sturt

  • Topics in Cognitive Science

    Wayne D. Gray;John Hale;David Reitter;Jennifer Culbertson

  • Syntactic priming in comprehension: Parallelism effects with and without coordination

    Patrick Sturt;Frank Keller;Amit Dubey

  • On the origin of islands

    Masaya Yoshida;Nina Kazanina;Leticia Pablos;Patrick Sturt

  • Linguistic focus and memory: an eye movement study

    Peter Ward;Patrick Sturt

  • The processing of subject and object relative clauses in Spanish: an eye-tracking study.

    Moisés Betancort;Manuel Carreiras;Patrick Sturt

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

    Patrick Sturt;Holly Branigan;Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt

  • Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and Preliminary Evidence

    Massimo Poesio;Patrick Sturt;Ron Artstein;Ruth Filik

  • The Preservation of Structure in Language Comprehension: Is Reanalysis the Last Resort?

    Patrick Sturt;Martin J. Pickering;Christoph Scheepers;Matthew W. Crocker

  • Talking in another person's shoes: Incremental perspective-taking in language

    Sarah Brown-Schmidt;Zeynep Ilkin;Patrick Sturt;Shravan Vasishth

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Antonella Sorace
Antonella Sorace University of Edinburgh
Christoph Scheepers
Christoph Scheepers University of Glasgow
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow
Fernanda Ferreira
Fernanda Ferreira University of California, Davis
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow
Martin Corley
Martin Corley University of Edinburgh
Holly P. Branigan
Holly P. Branigan University of Edinburgh
Alexander Weiss
Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh
Shravan Vasishth
Shravan Vasishth University of Potsdam

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