Research
2023
It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It: Evidence from Russian Shows Robust Effects of the Structural Prior on Noisy Channel Inferences.
Poliak, M., Ryskin, R., Braginsky, M., & Gibson, E. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.Real-time inference in communication across cultures: Evidence from a nonindustrialized society.
Ryskin, R., Salinas, M., Piantadosi, S. & Gibson, E. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [Preprint]The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in “Broca’s area,” does not support music perception
Chen, X., Affourtit, J., Ryskin, R., Regev, T., Norman-Haignere, S., Jouravlev, O., Malik-Moraleda, S., Kean, H., Varley, R., & Fedorenko, E. Cerebral Cortex.Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives.
Zhang, Z., Bergen, L., Paunov, A., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E. Cognitive Science.A Noisy-Channel Approach to Depth-Charge Illusions.
Zhang, Y., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E. Cognition. [Preprint]
2022
Agrammatic output in non-fluent/Broca’s aphasia as a rational behavior.
Fedorenko, E., Ryskin, R., Gibson, E. AphasiologyThe Effects of Diachronic Language Change on Semantic Organization Across the Lifespan.
Cain, E., & Ryskin, R. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing.Quantifying cross-situational statistics during parent-child toy play.
Cain, E., Ryskin, R., & Yu, C. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.A Lexico-Syntactic Trade-off in Language Production: Evidence from Primary Progressive Aphasia.
Rezaii, N., Mahowald, K, Ryskin, R., Dickerson, B. & Gibson, E. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.What paradigms can webcam eye-tracking be used for? Attempted replications of 5 “classic” cognitive science experiments.
James, A., Ryskin, R.,…, deLeeuw, J. (2022).Talk presented as part of the symposium on ‘Automated gaze-tracking and gaze-annotation for online studies of cognition and development’ Cognitive Development Society Conference.Effects of the structural prior on noisy-channel inference: evidence from Russian.
Poliak, M., Ryskin, R., Braginsky, M. & Gibson, E. (2022). Poster at Human Sentence Processing (HSP) Conference.
2021
The Many Timescales of Context in Language Processing.
Ryskin, R., & Fang, X. Chapter in Psychology of Learning and Motivation.A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English.
Liu, Y., Ryskin, R., Futrell, R., & Gibson, E. Cognition.An ERP index of real-time error correction within a noisy-channel framework of human communication.
Ryskin*, R., Stearns*, L., Bergen, L., Eddy, M., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E. Neuropsychologia. [UC Open Access]Linguistic prediction across the lifespan.
Ryskin, R. & Nicolette-Sanchez, V. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.How People Talk Affects the Implicatures That Others Make.
Zhang, Z., Bergen, L., Ryskin, R., Paunov, A. & Gibson, E. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP).A Noisy-channel Explanation for Depth-charge Illusions.
Zhang, Y., Ryskin, R. & Gibson, E. Talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP).Talker-specific and talker-general learning in speech comprehension.
Fang, X. & Ryskin, R. Poster presented at the California Meetup on Psycholinguistics.Syntactic Rule Frequency as a Measure of Syntactic Complexity: Insights from Primary Progressive Aphasia.
Rezaii, N., Mahowald, K., Ryskin, R., Dickerson, B. & Gibson, E. Short talk presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.English locative inversions are not special in terms of their discourse function. Ricciardi, G., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E. Short talk presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
The role of construction frequency in listeners’ noisy-channel inferences.
Liu, Y., Ryskin, R., Futrell, R., & Gibson, E. Talk presented at 45th Penn Linguistic Conference.
2020
Probabilistic weighting of perspectives in dyadic communication.
Ryskin, R., Stevenson, S., & Heller, D. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.Do domain-general executive resources play a role in linguistic prediction? Re-evaluation of the evidence and a path forward.
Ryskin, R., Levy, R. P., & Fedorenko, E. Neuropsychologia.Individual-subject functional localization does not benefit ERP analyses.
Ryskin, R., & Fedorenko, E. Poster at Society for the Neurobiology of Language.Neural representation of syntactic prediction: A simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG study. Weng, Y., Ryskin, R., & Qi, Z. Poster at Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
Probabilistic weighting of perspectives in dyadic communication. Ryskin, R., Stevenson, S., & Heller, D. Poster at Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop.
The role of construction frequency in listeners’ noisy-channel inferences. Liu, Y., Ryskin, R., Futrell, R., & Gibson, E. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP).
Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic ‘must’. Ricciardi, G. Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E. Talk presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM).