Research

2025

• Noisy-channel language comprehension in aphasia: A Bayesian mixture modeling approach.
  Ryskin, R., Gibson, E., & Kiran, S.
  Paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

• The Contribution of Learning and Memory Processes to Verb-Specific Syntactic Processing.
  Ball L., Mak M., Ryskin R., Curtis A., Rodd J., & Gaskell MG.
  Paper in Journal of Memory and Language

• Diachronic language change and age-related differences in information-theoretic efficiency.
  Cain, E., Chao, A., & Ryskin, R.
  Talk at Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)

2024

• The role of context gating in predictive sentence processing.
  Gokcen, Y., Noelle, D., & Ryskin, R.
  Talk at California Meetup on Psycholinguistics (UCSD)

• Stability in the production of syntactic attachment across the lifespan.
  Cain, E., Chao, A., & Ryskin, R.
  Talk at California Meetup on Psycholinguistics (UCSD)

• Diachronic language change explains apparent age-related differences in information-theoretic efficiency.
  Cain, E., Chao, A., & Ryskin, R.
  Poster at California Meetup on Psycholinguistics (UCSD)

• Diachronic change in verb usage statistics predicts differences in sentence processing across the lifespan.
  Cain, E. & Ryskin, R.
  Talk & proceedings paper in Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics

• Professional Jazz Musicians Explore and Exploit a Space of Sounds.
  Williams, T., Setzler, M., Kim, M., Ryskin, R. A., Spivey, M., & Marghetis, T.
  Poster & proceedings paper in Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society

• Investigating ERP Indices of Syntactic Adaptation.
  Williams, T., Ostrand, R., Montiel, A. & Ryskin, R.
  Talk at California Meetup on Psycholinguistics (Stanford)

• Effects of context and proficiency on processing difficulty during L2 reading.
  Liu, C., Ryskin, R. & Aguirre-Muñoz, Z.
  Poster at California Meetup on Psycholinguistics (Stanford)

2023

• Toward sophisticated models of naturalistic language behavior.
  Ryskin, R. & Spivey, M.
  Commentary on target article: “Beyond Simple Laboratory Studies” by A. Maselli et al. in Physics of Life Reviews

• Do ERP indices of rational inference in real-time comprehension track the noise rate in the environment?
  Li, J., Ortega, A., Futrell, R. & Ryskin, R.
  Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP)

• Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic ‘must’.
  Ricciardi, G., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E.
  Paper in Language

• Diachronic Verb Usage Statistics and Sentence Processing Across the Lifespan.
  Cain, E., Brown-Schmidt, S. & Ryskin, R.
  Talk at Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

• The role of working memory in predictive language processing.
  Gokcen, Y., Noelle, D., & Ryskin, R.
  Poster at Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

• Sandbox Series: The role of working memory in predictive language processing.
  Gokcen, Y., Noelle, D., & Ryskin, R.
  Poster at Society for Neurobiology of Language

• The Time Course of Verb-Specific Priming.
  Ball, L., Mak, M., Ryskin, R., Rodd, J., & Gaskell, G.
  Poster at Society for Neurobiology of Language

• Prediction during language comprehension: what is next?
  Ryskin, R. & Nieuwland, M.
  Paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Diachronic Language Change and Its Influence on Lexico-semantic Representations Across the Lifespan
  Cain, E. & Ryskin, R.
  Poster & proceedings paper in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

• Robust dissociation between the language and domain-general (multi- ple demand) networks in aging and after a stroke.
  Billot, A., Jhingan, N., Varkanitsa, M., Falconer, I., Carvalho, N., Blank, I., Ryskin, R., Fedorenko, E., & Kiran, S.
  Poster at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

• The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension.
  Chen, S., Nathaniel, S., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E.
  Paper in Cognition

• 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.
  Paper in 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.
  Paper in 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.
  Paper in Cerebral Cortex.

• Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives.
  Zhang, Z., Bergen, L., Paunov, A., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E.
  Paper in Cognitive Science.

• A Noisy-Channel Approach to Depth-Charge Illusions.
  Zhang, Y., Ryskin, R., & Gibson, E.
  Paper in Cognition. [Preprint]

2022

• Agrammatic output in non-fluent/Broca’s aphasia as a rational behavior.
  Fedorenko, E., Ryskin, R., Gibson, E.
  Paper in Aphasiology

• The 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.
  Talk and proceedings paper in 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.
  Paper in 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.
  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.
  Paper in 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.
  Paper in Neuropsychologia. [UC Open Access]

• Linguistic prediction across the lifespan.
  Ryskin, R. & Nicolette-Sanchez, V.
  Poster 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.
  Talk & proceedings paper in 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.
  Paper in 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).