Publications
* = equal contribution
* = equal contribution
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain, Apurva, Ishita Arun, and Himanshu Yadav. Journal of Memory and Language. 2025. [doi] [pdf] [data & code]
Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell, and Samar Husain. Glossa Psycholinguistics. 2025.
Do syntactic and semantic similarity lead to interference effects? Evidence from self-paced reading and event-related potentials using German. Pia Schoknecht. Himanshu Yadav, and Shravan Vasishth. Journal of Memory and Language. 2025. [doi] [pdf] [code]
Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading. Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, Sebastian Reich, and Shravan Vasishth. Journal of Memory and Language. 2023. [doi] [pdf] [code]
Sample size determination for Bayesian hierarchical models commonly used in Psycholinguistics. Shravan Vasishth, Himanshu Yadav, Daniel J. Schad, and Bruno Nicenboim. Computational Brain and Behavior. 2023. [doi] [pdf] [code]
A reappraisal of dependency length minimization as a linguistic universal. Himanshu Yadav, Shubham Mittal, and Samar Husain. Open Mind. 2022. [doi] [code]
Share the code, not just the data: A case study of the reproducibility of articles published in the Journal of Memory and Language under the open data policy. Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, and Shravan Vasishth. Journal of Memory and Language. 2022. [pdf] [code]
Assessing corpus evidence for formal and psycholinguistics constraints on nonprojectivity. Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain, and Richard Futrell. Computational Linguistics. 2022. [pdf] [code]
Individual differences in cue-weighting in sentence comprehension: An evaluation using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Himanshu Yadav, Dario Paape, Garrett Smith, Brian W. Dillon, and Shravan Vasishth. Open Mind. 2022. [pdf] [code]
Shabd: A Psycholinguistic Database for Hindi. Ark Verma, Vivek Sikarwar, Himanshu Yadav, and J. Ranjith. Behavior Research Methods. 2022. [pdf] [data & code]
Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies? Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain, and Richard Futrell. Linguistics Vanguard. 2021. [doi] [pdf] [code]
Word order typology interacts with linguistic complexity: a cross-linguistic corpus study. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, Vishakha Shukla, and Samar Husain. Cognitive Science. 2020. [pdf] [data & code]
Target complexity modulates syntactic priming during comprehension. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. Frontiers in Psychology-Language Sciences. 2020. [pdf]
Do working memory constraints influence prediction in verb-final languages? Himanshu Yadav, Apurva, Ishita Arun, and Samar Husain. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2024, pages 245-251. [pdf]
Naturalistic reading time data support information locality. Hailin Hao, Himanshu Yadav, and Elsi Kaiser. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. 2024. [pdf]
Individuals differ cross-linguistically in cue weighting: A computational evaluation of cue-based retrieval in sentence processing. Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, Daniela Mertzen, Ralf Engbert, and Shravan Vasishth. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44. 2022. [pdf] [talk]
Is similarity-based interference caused by lossy compression or cue-based retrieval? A computational evaluation. Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 2021. [pdf] [talk]
Feature encoding modulates cue-based retrieval: Modeling interference effects in both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences. Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. 2021. [pdf] [talk]
Statistical properties of the speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) paradigm in sentence processing. Elizabeth Pankratz, Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, and Shravan Vasishth. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. 2021. [pdf]
Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenomenal? Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain* and Richard Futrell*. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory. Paris, 2019. [pdf] [code]
Understanding Constraints on Non-Projectivity Using Novel Measures. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Dependency Linguistics. Pages 276-286. Pisa, 2017. [pdf]
Keeping it Simple: Generating Phrase Structure Trees from a Hindi Dependency Treebank. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT15). CEUR-WS, Vol-1779, 123-133. Bloomington, 2017. [pdf] [code]
Individual differences in predictive processing in a verb-final language. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), San Sebastian. 2023.
The effect of similarity-based interference in SOV languages -- Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain, Apurva, Ishita Arun and Himanshu Yadav. In the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), San Sebastian. 2023.
The role of goal in sentence processing. Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, Titus von der Malsburg, and Shravan Vasishth. In the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), San Sebastian. 2023.
Share the code, not just the data. Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, and Shravan Vasishth. In the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), San Sebastian. 2023.
Understanding nested versus crossed dependencies: The case of German and Dutch verb clusters. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell, and Samar Husain. In the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, USA. 2023.
Agreement attraction effects in comprehension depend on task demands. Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, and Shravan Vasishth. In the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, USA. 2023.
Share the code, not just the data. Anna Laurinavichyute, Himanshu Yadav, Titus von der Malsburg, and Shravan Vasishth. In the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, USA. 2023.
How are cues combined during cue-based retrieval? Pia Schoknecht, Himanshu Yadav, and Shravan Vasishth. In the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, USA. 2023.
Understanding nested versus crossed dependencies: The case of German and Dutch verb clusters. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell, Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris, France. 2022.
Modeling individual differences in sentence comprehension. Himanshu Yadav, Garrett Smith, Dario Paape, Shravan Vasishth. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Potsdam, Germany. 2020.
Dependency length minimization hypothesis revisited. Himanshu Yadav, Shubham Mittal and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Potsdam, Germany. 2020.
Are light verb constructions embodied in the spatial experiences? Srabasti Dey and Himanshu Yadav. In 5th Annual Conference of the Association for Cognitive Science (ACCS). IIT Guwahati, 2018. [poster]
Head directionality interacts with dependency length. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, and Samar Husain. In Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP ). Berlin, 2018.
Prediction overrides syntactic priming: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). Berlin, 2018.
Role of embodied spatial orientations in the meaning of light verb constructions. Srabasti Dey and Himanshu Yadav. In Embodied & Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP). Lancaster, 2018.
Processing crossing dependencies in Hindi. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. UC Davis, 2018. [poster]
Processing right-extraposed relative clause in Hindi: Evidence for locality effect. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. UC Davis, 2018. [poster]
A crosslinguistic corpus study of crossing dependencies using psycholinguistically motivated measures. Vishakha Shukla, Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, and Samar Husain. In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. UC Davis, 2018. [poster]
Role of prediction and memory constraints in processing crossing dependencies in Hindi. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing- Asia (AMLaP-Asia). University of Hyderabad, 2018.
Locality effect in a head-final language: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing- Asia (AMLaP-Asia). University of Hyderabad, 2018.
Crosslinguistic comparison of crossing dependencies using psycholinguistically motivated measures. Vishakha Shukla, Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, and Samar Husain. In Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing- Asia (AMLaP-Asia). University of Hyderabad, 2018.
Handling non-projectivity in a dependency-to-phrase-structure conversion algorithm for Hindi. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, and Samar Husain. In 39th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India. IIT Patna. 2017.