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Overview

Susan E. Brennan is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on computer science and social sciences. Brennan's work integrates areas such as artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, biomedical engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, and language and linguistics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
  • Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
  • Peripheral Nerve Disorders

Among frequent collaborators are Brian A. Colle, Julia Hathaway, Elizabeth Bojsza, Josef M. Moses, and Katherine E. Rowan, each having coauthored multiple publications with Brennan.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a variety of topics and interdisciplinary approaches. Some of these include:

  • "What is retained about common ground? Distinct effects of linguistic and visual co-presence" (2021), published in Cognition
  • "Age-related changes in patients with upper limb thalidomide embryopathy in the United Kingdom" (2023), published in the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
  • "Risk Perception and Preparation for Storm Surge Flooding: A Virtual Workshop with Visualization and Stakeholder Interaction" (2023), published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Cancel cuts to Graduate Research Fellowships" (2020), published in Science
  • "Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives" (2024), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Brennan has contributed to notable publication venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cognition
  • Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Science

Best Publications

  • GROUNDING IN COMMUNICATION

    Herbert H. Clark;Susan E. Brennan

  • Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.

    Susan E. Brennan;Herbert H. Clark

  • A CENTERING APPROACH TO PRONOUNS

    Susan E. Brennan;Marilyn W. Friedman;Carl J. Pollard

  • Disfluency rates in conversation: effects of age, relationship, topic, role, and gender.

    Heather Bortfeld;Silvia D. Leon;Jonathan E. Bloom;Michael F. Schober

  • THE FEELING OF ANOTHER'S KNOWING : PROSODY AND FILLED PAUSES AS CUES TO LISTENERS ABOUT THE METACOGNITIVE STATES OF SPEAKERS

    Susan E. Brennan;Maurice Williams

  • Understanding effects of proximity on collaboration: Implications for technologies to support remote collaborative work.

    Robert E. Kraut;Susan R. Fussell;Susan E. Brennan;Jane Siegel

  • Identification and ratings of caricatures: implications for mental representations of faces.

    Gillian Rhodes;Susan Brennan;Susan Carey

  • When conceptual pacts are broken: Partner-specific effects on the comprehension of referring expressions

    Charles Metzing;Susan E. Brennan

  • How Listeners Compensate for Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech

    Susan E. Brennan;Michael F. Schober

  • Coordinating cognition: the costs and benefits of shared gaze during collaborative search.

    Susan E. Brennan;Xin Chen;Christopher A. Dickinson;Mark B. Neider

  • Caricature Generator: The Dynamic Exaggeration of Faces by Computer

    Susan E. Brennan

  • Speakers' eye gaze disambiguates referring expressions early during face-to-face conversation

    Joy E. Hanna;Susan E. Brennan

  • Partner-specific adaptation in dialog.

    Susan E. Brennan;Joy E. Hanna

  • Prosodic disambiguation of syntactic structure: for the speaker or for the addressee?

    Tanya Kraljic;Susan E. Brennan

  • Centering Attention in Discourse.

    Susan E. Brennan

  • LEXICAL ENTRAINMENT IN SPONTANEOUS DIALOG

    Susan E. Brennan

  • First Impressions and Last Resorts How Listeners Adjust to Speaker Variability

    Tanya Kraljic;Arthur G. Samuel;Susan E. Brennan

  • Addressees' needs influence speakers' early syntactic choices

    Calion B. Lockridge;Susan E. Brennan

  • Attenuating Information in Spoken Communication: For the Speaker, or for the Addressee?.

    Alexia Galati;Susan E. Brennan

  • Accommodating Variation: Dialects, Idiolects, and Speech Processing

    Tanya Kraljic;Susan E. Brennan;Arthur G. Samuel

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert H. Clark
Herbert H. Clark Stanford University
Gregory J. Zelinsky
Gregory J. Zelinsky Stony Brook University
Richard J. Gerrig
Richard J. Gerrig Stony Brook University
Robert E. Kraut
Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon University
Arthur G. Samuel
Arthur G. Samuel Stony Brook University
Günther Knoblich
Günther Knoblich Central European University
Michael J. Richardson
Michael J. Richardson Macquarie University
Daniel C. Richardson
Daniel C. Richardson University College London
Susan Carey
Susan Carey Harvard University
Gillian Rhodes
Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia

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