Language Processing Lab, Kanpur

Human sentence processing

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.

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.

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.

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]

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]

Individual differences

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]

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]

Language evolution

A reappraisal of dependency length minimization as a linguistic universal. Himanshu Yadav, Shubham Mittal, and Samar Husain. Open Mind. 2022. [doi] [code]

Assessing corpus evidence for formal and psycholinguistics constraints on nonprojectivity. Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain, and Richard Futrell. Computational Linguistics. 2022. [pdf] [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]

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]

Statistical methods in cognitive sciences

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]

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]

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]

Miscellaneous

Shabd: A Psycholinguistic Database for Hindi. Ark Verma, Vivek Sikarwar, Himanshu Yadav, and J. Ranjith. Behavior Research Methods. 2022. [pdf] [data & code]

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]

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