Publications

Books edited

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M. (1999). Language processing. Hove: Psychology Press. Paperback edition published 2000. (PDF)

Crocker, M.W., Pickering, M., & Clifton, C., Jr. (2000). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

Alario, F.-X., Costa, A., Ferreira, V.S., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Language production (Special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes) Hove: Psychology Press.

Refereed journal articles

Pickering, M., & Barry, G.D. (1991). Sentence processing without empty categories. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6, 229-259. (PDF)

Nicol, J.L., & Pickering, M.J. (1993). Processing syntactically ambiguous sentences: Evidence from semantic priming. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22, 207-237. (PDF)

Pickering, M. (1993). Direct association and sentence processing: a reply to Gorrell and to Gibson and Hickok. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 163-196. (PDF)

Pickering, M., & Barry, G.D. (1993). Dependency categorial grammar and coordination. Linguistics, 31, 855-902. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J. (1994). Processing local and unbounded dependencies: A unified account. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 23, 323-352. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Chater, N.J. (1995). Why cognitive science is not formalized folk psychology. Minds and Machines, 5, 309-337. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., Liversedge, S.P., Stewart, A.J., & Urbach, T.P. (1995). Syntactic priming: Investigating the mental representation of language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24, 489-506. (PDF)

Traxler, M.J., & Pickering, M.J. (1996). Plausibility and the processing of unbounded dependencies: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 454-475. (PDF)

Traxler, M.J., & Pickering, M.J. (1996). Case marking in the parsing of complement sentences: Evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49A, 991-1004. (PDF)

Chater, N.J., & Pickering, M.J. (1997). Two projects for understanding the mind: A response to Morris and Richardson. Minds and Machines, 7, 553-569. (PDF)

Traxler, M.J., Bybee, M., & Pickering, M.J. (1997). Influence of connectives on language comprehension: Eye-tracking evidence for incremental interpretation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50A, 481-497. (PDF)

Liversedge, S.P., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & van Gompel, R.P.G. (1998). Processing arguments and adjuncts in isolation and context: The case of by-phrase ambiguities in passives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 461-475. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (1998). Plausibility and recovery from garden paths: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 940-961. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (1998). The representation of verbs: Evidence from syntactic priming in language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 633-651. (PDF)

Traxler, M.J., Pickering, M.J., & Clifton, C., Jr. (1998). Adjunct attachment is not a form of lexical ambiguity resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 558-592. (PDF)

Sturt, P., Pickering, M.J., & Crocker, M.W. (1999). Structural change and reanalysis difficulty in language comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 136-150. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (1999). Syntactic priming in language production. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 136-141. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Cleland, A.A. (1999). Syntactic priming in written production: Evidence for rapid decay. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6, 635-640. (PDF)

Frisson, S.P., & Pickering, M.J. (1999). The processing of metonymy: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1366-1383. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., Cleland, A.A., & Stewart, A.J. (2000). Activation of syntactic information during language production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 205-216. (PDF)

Stewart, A.J., Pickering, M.J., & Sanford, A.J. (2000). The role of implicit causality in language comprehension: Focus versus integration accounts. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 423-443. (PDF)

Sturt, P., Pickering, M.J., & Crocker, M.W. (2000). Search strategies in syntactic reanalysis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 183-194. (PDF)
 
Pickering, M.J., Traxler, M.J., & Crocker, M.W. (2000). Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: Evidence against frequency-based accounts. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 447-475. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Cleland, A.A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Cognition, 75, B13-B25. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., Stewart, A.J., & McLean, J.F. (2000). Syntactic priming in spoken production: Linguistic and temporal interference. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1397-1302. (PDF)

Frisson, S.P., & Pickering, M.J. (2001). Obtaining a figurative interpretation of a word: Support for underspecification. Metaphor and Symbol, 16, 149-171. (PDF)

McElree, B.D., Traxler, M.J., Pickering, M.J., Seely, R., & Jackendoff, R. (2001). Reading time evidence for enriched composition. Cognition, 78, B17-B25. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Frisson, S.P. (2001). Processing ambiguous verbs: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 556-573. (PDF)

Sturt, P., Pickering, M.J., Scheepers, C., & Crocker, M.W. (2001). Structural change in language processing: Is reanalysis the last resort? Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 225-258. (PDF)

Van Gompel, R.P.G., Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (2001). Making and revising syntactic commitments: Evidence against current constraint-based and two-stage models. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 283-307. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (2001). Strategies for processing unbounded dependencies: Lexical information and verb-argument assignment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1401-1410. (PDF)

Van Gompel, R.P.G., & Pickering, M.J. (2001). Lexical guidance in sentence comprehension: A reply to Adams, Clifton, and Mitchell (1998). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 851-857. (PDF)

Sturt, P., Scheepers, C., & Pickering, M. (2002). Choice of reanalysis in language comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 371-390. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & McLean, J.F. (2002). Constituent structure is formulated in one stage. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 586-605. (PDF)

Traxler, M.J., Pickering, M.J., & McElree, B. (2002). Coercion in sentence processing: Evidence from eye-movements and self-paced reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 530-547. (PDF)

Cleland, A.A., & Pickering, M.J. (2003). The use of lexical and syntactic information in language production: Evidence from the priming of noun phrase structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 214-230. (PDF)

Liversedge, S.P., Pickering, M.J., Clayes, E., & Branigan, H.P. (2003). Thematic processing of adjuncts: Evidence from an eye-tracking experiment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 667-675. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (2003). Evidence against the use of subcategorisation information in the processing of unbounded dependencies. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 469-503. (PDF)

Simner, J., Pickering, M.J., & Garnham, A. (2003). Discourse cues to ambiguity resolution: Evidence from ‘do it’ comprehension. Discourse Processes, 36, 1-18. (PDF)

Chater, N., & Pickering, M.J. (2003). Why science and belief-desire explanation do not overlap. Facta Philosophica, 5, 335-353. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (2004). Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 169-225. (PDF)

Hartsuiker, R.J., Pickering, M.J., & Veltkamp, E. (2004). Is syntax separate or shared between languages? Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Spanish/English bilinguals. Psychological Science, 15, 409-414. (PDF)

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2004). Why is conversation so easy? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 8-11. (PDF)

Stewart, A.J., Pickering, M.J., & Sturt, P. (2004). Using eye movements during reading as an implicit measure of the acceptability of brand extensions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 697-709. (PDF)

Stewart, A.J., Pickering, M.J., & Sturt, P. (2005). Se server du mouvemont des yeux durant la lecture comme mesure implicite de l’acceptabilité des extensions de marque. Recherche et Applications en Marketing, 20, 97-109. [French translation of Stewart et al., 2004] (PDF)

Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., & Pickering, M.J. (2005). The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: Evidence from eye-movements in depicted events. Cognition, 95, 95-127. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., Traxler, M.J., & McElree, B. (2005). The difficulty of coercion: A response to de Almeida. Brain and Language, 93, 1-9. (PDF)

Simner, J., & Pickering, M.J. (2005). Planning causes and consequences in discourse. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 226-239. (PDF)

Van Gompel, R.P.G., Pickering, M.J., Pearson, J., & Liversedge, S.P. (2005). Evidence against competition during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 284-307. (PDF)

Haywood, S.L., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2005). Do speakers avoid ambiguities during dialogue? Psychological Science, 16, 362-366. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & McLean, J.F. (2005). Priming prepositional-phrase attachment during language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 468-481. (PDF)

Traxler, M.J., McElree, B., Williams, R.S., & Pickering, M.J. (2005). Context effects in coercion: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 1-25. (PDF)

Boland, H.T., Hartsuiker, R.J., Pickering, M.J., & Postma, A. (2005). Repairing inappropriately specified utterances: Revision or restart? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 472-477. (PDF)

Frisson, S., Rayner, K., & Pickering, M.J. (2005). Effects of contextual predictability and transitional probability on eye movements during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 862-877. (PDF)

Hartsuiker, R.J., Pickering, M.J., & De Jong, N. (2005). Semantic and phonological context effects in speech error repair. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 921-932. (PDF)

Cleland, A.A., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Do writing and speaking employ the same syntactic representations? Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 185-198. (PDF)

Majid, A., Sanford, A.J., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Covariation and quantifier polarity: What determines causal attribution in vignettes? Cognition, 99, 35-51. (PDF)

McElree, B., Frisson, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Deferred interpretations: Why starting Dickens is taxing but reading Dickens isn't. Cognitive Science, 30, 181-192. (PDF)

McElree, B., Pylkkänen, L., Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (2006). A time-course analysis of enriched composition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 53-59. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., McElree, B., Frisson, S., Chen, L., & Traxler, M.J. (2006). Underspecification and aspectual coercion. Discourse Processes, 42, 131-155. (PDF)

Van Gompel, R.P.G., Pickering, M.J., Pearson, J., & Jacob, G. (2006). The activation of inappropriate analyses in garden-path sentences: Evidence from structural priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 335-362. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (2006). Alignment as the basis for successful communication. Research on Language and Computation, 4, 203-228. (PDF)

Alario, F-X., Costa, A., Ferreira, V.S., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Architectures, representations and processes of language production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 777-789. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J, McLean, J.F., & Stewart, A.J. (2006). The role of local and global syntactic structure in language production Evidence from syntactic priming. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 974-1010. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J. (2006). The dance of dialogue. The Psychologist, 19, 734-737. (PDF)

Schoonbaert, S., Hartsuiker, R.J., & Pickering, M.J. (2007). The representation of lexical and syntactic information in bilinguals: Evidence from syntactic priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 153-171. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (2007). Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 105-110. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., McLean, J.F., & Cleland, A.A. (in press). Syntactic alignment and participant role in dialogue. Cognition. (PDF)

Frisson, S., & Pickering, M.J. (in press). The processing of familiar and novel senses of a word: Why reading Dickens is easy but reading Needham can be hard. Language and Cognitive Processes. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Tanaka, M. (in press). Contributions of animacy to grammatical function assignment and word order during production. Lingua. (PDF)

Majid, A., Sanford, A.J., & Pickering, M.J. (in press). The linguistic description of minimal social scenarios affects the extent of causal inference-making. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Majid, A. (in press). What are implicit causality and consequentiality? Language and Cognitive Processes. (PDF)

Bernolet, S., Hartsuiker, R.J., & Pickering, M.J. (in press). Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals: Evidence for the role of word-order repetition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. (PDF)

Raffray C.N. Pickering, M.J. Branigan, H.P, (2007) Priming the interpretation of noun–noun combinations. Journal of Memory and Language 57 (2007) 380–395 (PDF)

Hartsuiker, R.J., & Pickering, M.J (2008), Language Integration in bilingual sentence production. Journal of Experimental Psychology (2008) 479-489 (PDF)

R.J. Hartsuiker, C.M. Catchpole, N.H. de Jong, M. J. Pickering (2008), Concurrent processing of words and their replacements during speech, Cognition 108 (2008) 601–607 (PDF)

A. Costa, M.J. Pickering, A. Sorace (2008), Alignment in second language dialogue, Language and Cognitive Processes, 23:4,528-556 (PDF)

Pickering, M.J, & Ferreira, V.S (2008), Structural Priming: A critical review (2008), Psychological Bulletin (2008), Vol 134, No 3, 427-459 (PDF)

Yatabe, K., Pickering, M.J., & McDonald, S.A. (2009).  Lexical processing during saccades in text comprehension.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 62-66. (PDF)

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2009).  Joint action, interactive alignment, and dialogue.  Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 292-304. (PDF)

Papoutsi, M., de Zwart, J.A., Jansma, J.M., Pickering, M.J., Bednar, J.A., & Horwitz, B. (2009).  From phonemes to articulatory codes: An fMRI study of the role of Broca’s area in speech production.  Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2156-2165. (PDF)

Bernolet, S., Hartsuiker, R.J., & Pickering, M.J. (2009).  Persistence of emphasis in language production: A cross-linguistic approach.  Cognition, 112, 300-317. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S.  (2009).  Prediction and embodiment in dialogue.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1162-1168. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S.  (2009).  Language, interaction, and embodiment.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1178-1179. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., Pearson, J., & McLean, J.F.  (in press).  Linguistic alignment between people and computers.  Journal of Pragmatics. (PDF)

Fukumura, K., van Gompel, R.P.G., & Pickering, M.J. (in press).  The use of visual context during the production of referring expressions.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. (PDF)

Raffray, C.N., & Pickering, M.J. (in press).  How do people construct logical form during language comprehension?  Psychological Science.

Refereed book chapters

Barry, G.D., & Pickering, M. (1992). Dependency and constituency in categorial grammar. In A. Lecomte (Ed.) Word order in categorial grammar/ L'ordre des mots dans les grammaires catégorielles (pp. 38-57). Clermont-Ferrand: Adosa. (PDF)

Pickering, M., & Shillcock, R.C. (1992). Processing subject extractions. In H. Goodluck & M. Rochemont (Eds.) Island constraints: Theory, acquisition and processing (pp. 295-320). Dordrecht: Kluwer. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., Barton, S.B, & Shillcock, R. (1994). Unbounded dependencies, island constraints and processing complexity. In C. Clifton Jr., L. Frazier, & K. Rayner (Eds.) Perspectives on sentence processing (pp. 199-224). London: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Chater, N., Crocker, M.W., & Pickering, M.J. (1998). The rational analysis of inquiry: The case of parsing. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.) Rational models of cognition (pp. 441-469). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Liversedge, S.P, Paterson, K.B., & Pickering, M.J. (1998). Eye movements and measures of reading times. In G. Underwood (Ed.), Eye guidance in reading and scene perception. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M. (1999). Issues in language processing. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.) Language processing (pp. 1-11). Hove: Psychology Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M. (1999). Sentence comprehension. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.) Language processing (pp. 123-153). Hove: Psychology Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M., & Traxler, M.J. (2000). Parsing and incremental interpretation during reading. In M.W. Crocker, M. Pickering, & C. Clifton Jr. (Eds.) Architectures and mechanisms for language processing (pp. 238-258). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M., Crocker, M.W., & Clifton, C. Jr. (2000). Architectures and mechanisms in sentence comprehension. In M.W. Crocker, M. Pickering, & C. Clifton Jr. (Eds.) Architectures and mechanisms for language processing (pp. 1-28). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

Van Gompel, R.P.G., Pickering, M.J., & Traxler, M.J. (2000). Syntactic ambiguity resolution is not a form of lexical ambiguity resolution. In A. Kennedy (Ed.), Reading as a perceptual process. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Traxler, M.J., Pickering, M.J., Clifton, C. Jr., & Van Gompel, R.P.G. (2000). Evaluating theories of modification of complex noun phrases. In M. De Vincenzi & V. Lombardo, Cross-linguistic studies of sentence processing (pp. 149-174). Dordrecht: Kluwer. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J. (2002). Parsing. Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science (Vol. 3), 462-465. London: Macmillan. (PDF)

McLean, J.F., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2004). Lexical overlap and syntactic priming in dialogue. In J. C. Trueswell & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Processing world-situated language: Bridging the language as product and language as action traditions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., Frisson, S., McElree, B., & Traxler, M.J. (2004). Eye movements and semantic composition. In M. Carreiras and C. Clifton, Jr. (Eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eyetracking, ERPs and beyond (pp. 33-50). Hove: Psychology Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J. (2005). Some reflections on imitation in human language (Commentary on I. Pepperberg). In Hurley, S., & Chater, N. (Eds.), Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science (Vol. 1). (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (2005). Establishing and using routines during dialogue: Implications for psychology and linguistics. In A. Cutler (ed.), Twenty-first century psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones (pp. 85-101). London: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Hartsuiker, R.J., Schoonbaert, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Lexical and syntactic access in bilingual language production. In J. Morais & G. d’Ydewalle (Eds.) Bilingualism and second language acquisition (pp. 55-68). Brussels: Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium. (PDF)

Garrod, S. & Pickering, M.J. (2007). Automaticity in language production in monologue and dialogue. In A.S. Meyer, L.R. Wheeldon, & A. Krott (Eds.) Automaticity and control in language processing (pp. 1-21). Hove: Psychology Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Van Gompel, R.P.G. (2006). Sentence processing. In M.A. Gernsbacher & M.J. Traxler (Eds.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 455-503). San Diego: Academic Press. (PDF)

Watson, M. E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (2009). Why dialogue methods are important for investigating spatial language. In K Coventry, T. Tenbrink, & J. Bateman (Eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (pp. 8-22). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Van Gompel, R.P.G., & Pickering, M.J. (in press). Sentence parsing. To appear in G. Gaskell (Ed.), Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M.J. (in press). Alignment in dialogue. To appear in G. Gaskell (Ed.), Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (in press). The use of prediction to drive alignment in dialogue. In G. Semin, & G. Echterhoff (Eds), Grounding sociality: Neurons, minds, and culture.  Hove: Psychology Press.

Refereed commentaries

Pickering, M.J. (2000). No evidence for traces in sentence comprehension. Commentary on Y. Grodzinsky, The neurology of syntax: Language use without Broca’s area. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 47-48.

Hartsuiker, R.J., & Pickering, M.J. (2001). A common framework for language production and language comprehension? Commentary on B. Hommel et al., The theory of event coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 887-888.

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2003). Linguistics fit for dialogue. Commentary on R. Jackendoff, Foundations of language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 678.

Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. (2004). Syntactic representation in the lemma stratum. Continuing commentary on W.J.M. Levelt et al., A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 296-297.

Garrod, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2008). Shared circuits in language and communication. Commentary on S. Hurley, The shared circuits model: How control, mirroring and simulation can enable imitation, deliberation and mindreading. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 26-27. (PDF)

Raffray, C.N., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2008). Relation priming, the lexical boost, and alignment in dialogue. Commentary on D. Leech et al., Analogy as relational priming: A developmental and computational perspective on the origins of a complex cognitive skill. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 394-395.

Other publications

Stevenson, R.J., & Pickering, M.J. (1987). The effects of linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge on the acquisition of pronouns. In P. Griffiths, J. Local, & A.E. Mills (Eds.), Proceedings of the Child Language Seminar, York.

Pickering, M.J., & Barry, G.D. (1989). Processing extractions without gaps. Edinburgh research paper in cognitive science, EUCCS/RP-36. Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh.

Barry, G.D., & Pickering, M.J. (1990). Dependency and constituency in categorial grammar. In G.D. Barry, & G. Morrill (Eds.), Edinburgh working papers in cognitive science 5: Studies in categorial grammar (pp. 23-45). Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. (PDF)

Pickering, M.J. (1993). Sentence processing as dependency formation. In Proceedings of the second conference on the cognitive science of natural language processing, Dublin City University, Ireland. (PDF)

Chater, N.J., Pickering, M.J., & Milward, D. (1995). What is incremental interpretation? In D. Milward & P. Sturt (eds.), Edinburgh working papers in cognitive science 11: Incremental interpretation (pp. 1-22). Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. (PDF)

Stewart, A.J., Pickering, M.J., & Sanford, A.J. (1997). The influence of implicit causality information in the language comprehension system. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1060). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stewart, A.J., Pickering, M.J., & Sanford, A.J. (1998). Implicit consequentiality. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1031-1036). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Stewart, A.J., & Pickering, M.J. (1998). Is syntactic priming a two-way effect? Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1206). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Majid, A., Pickering, M.J., & Stewart, A.J. (1998). The effect of covariational information on implicit causality. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1242). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stewart, A.J., Pickering, M.J., & Sanford, A.J. (1998). The relationship between implicit causality and implicit consequentiality. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1266). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & McLean, J.F. (2003). Effects of dialogue structure on the activation of syntactic information. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 49). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Knöferle, P., Crocker, M.W., Scheepers, C., & Pickering, M.J. Actions and roles: Using depicted events for disambiguation and reinterpretation in German and English. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 681-686). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J, Pearson, J., McLean, J.F., & Nass, C.I. (2003). Syntactic alignment between computers and people: The role of belief about mental states. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 186-191). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Haywood, S., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2003). Co-operation and co-ordination in the production of noun phrases. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 533-538). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Watson, M., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2004). Alignment of reference frames in dialogue. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Hadelich, K., Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Crocker, M.W. (2004). Alignment in Dialogue: Effects of Visual versus Verbal-feedback. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog'04). (PDF)

Pearson, J., Hu, J., Branigan, H.P., Pickering, M.J., & Nass, C.I. (2006). Adaptive language behavior in HCI: How expectations and beliefs about a system affect users’ word choice (pp. 1177-1180). Proceedings of CHI 2006, Montreal, Canada. (PDF)

Watson, M.E., Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (2006). An empirical investigation into spatial Reference frame taxonomy using dialogue. Proceedings of the 28th Cognitive Science Meeting, Vancouver, July 2006. (PDF)

M. Papoutsi, J.A. de Zwart, J.M. Jansma, M. Pickering, J. A. Bednar and B. Horwitz, (2007). “The Processing of low frequency pseudowords by Broca's area”, Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, 13th Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA.

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