International Conference
2026
Rei Emura, Stefan L. Frank, Saku Sugawara, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
Why Produce Garden-Path Sentences? Evidence from Corpus Data across Registers.
CogSci 2026. 2026/07/22-25. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Poster.
Proceedings Poster
Rei Emura and Saku Sugawara.
A Dual-Task Paradigm to Investigate Sentence Comprehension Strategies in Language Models.
The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2026/07/02-07. San Diego, US. Oral.
Proceedings Slides
Rei Emura, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yousuke Kawachi, Ryuya Komuro, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
Cognitive Load Modulates the Neural Mechanisms of Syntax–Plausibility Integration: An fMRI Study.
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2026). 2026/03/26-28. MIT, US. Poster.
2025
Naoki Miura, Yumi Hamamoto, Rei Emura, Shoki Ogata, Motoaki Sugiura.
The self-determination of consideration rules in the ultimatum game enhances activity in the retrosplenial cortex.
Neuroscience 2025. 2025/11/15-19. San Diego, US. Poster.
Rei Emura, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yousuke Kawachi, Ryuya Komuro, & Masatoshi Koizumi.
Interpreting Sentences While Whispering ‘da ba ga da’: An fMRI Study of Plausibility-Based Processing under Phonological Loop Load.
International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON 2025). 2025/09/15-20. Porto, Portugal. Poster.
2024
Rei Emura, Saku Sugawara, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
A Corpus Analysis of Noun Phrases with Processing Difficulty in Japanese Legal Language.
The 30th AMLaP. 2024/09/05-07. Edinburgh, Scotland. Poster.
Poster
Rei Emura.
How to make sense of complex Japanese sentences.
4th International Doctoral Symposium on Asian and African Studies (IDSAAS IV). 2024/04/03-05. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice. Oral.
Rei Emura, Yousuke Kawachi, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
Do Higher Reanalysis Costs Promote Lingering Memory of Initial Misparse?: Evidence from Japanese Garden-Path Sentences.
The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2024). 2024/05/16-18. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Poster.
Poster
2023
Rei Emura, Xiaofang Wu, Shiori Kato, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
Effects of Pre-Verbal and Post-Verbal Processing on Garden-Path Effects and its Difference by Working Memory Capacity.
The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2023). 2023/03/09-11. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Poster.
Poster
Domestic Conference
2026
Masataka Yano, Qiang Huang, Rei Emura, Masatoshi Koizumi, Hyeonjeong Jeong.
Is the neural basis of syntactic processing shared between sentence production and comprehension? Evidence from fMRI.
The 172th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 2026/06/27-28. J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo. Oral
2025
Rei Emura, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yousuke Kawachi, Ryuya Komuro, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
An fMRI Study of Sentence Comprehension under the Phonological Loop.
The 170th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan.
2025/06/28-29. Meikai University, Chiba. Oral.
Junmiao Xi, Rei Emura, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
The Interpretation of No-marked Noun Phrases in Ga/No Conversion Sentences by Native Japanese Speakers and Chinese Learners of Japanese.
The 170th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan.
2025/06/28-29. Meikai University, Chiba. Oral.
Rei Emura and Saku Sugawara.
Dual tasks promote the rational inference of language models.
The 31the Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing. 2025/03/10-14. Dejima Messe Nagasaki, Nagasaki. Oral.
Presentation Material (in Japanese)
2023
Rei Emura, Shinnosuke Isono, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
Subject retrieval at the object position in Japanese: Insights from eye-tracking.
The 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. 2023/11/11-12. Doshisha University, Kyoto. Oral.
Proceeding (In Japanese)
Presentation Material (In Japanese)
Rei Emura, Saku Sugawara, Xiaofang Wu, Shiori Kato, and Masatoshi Koizumi.
Mechanism of the digging-in effect on Japanese garden-path sentences － Evidence from reading time and neural language model －.
Technical Committee on Thought and Language. 2023/09/30-10/01. University of Tokyo, Tokyo. Oral.
Technical Report
2021
Rei Emura. (2021).
Judgment of grammatical relations in Central Alaskan Yup’ik: the effects of case, agreement, and word order.
The 162th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. 2021/06/26-27. Online. Oral.
Presentation Material (In Japanese)
Invited Talks
Rei Emura and Masatoshi Koizumi. (2024).
Why Do We Misunderstand "Who Did What"?: Approaches from Linguistics and Psychology.
NTU x Tohoku University 7th Symposium on AI and Human Studies. 2024/03/02. National Taiwan University, Taipei. Oral.
Rei Emura. (2022).
The effects of word order, case marking, and agreement on comprehension of ambiguous sentences in Central Alaskan Yup’ik.
The 47th Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, Special Workshop. 2022/06/11-12. Online. Oral.
Presentation Material (In Japanese)
Rei Emura. (2021).
The effects of word order, case marking, and agreement cues on interpreting Central Alaskan Yup’ik sentences.
International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives. 2021/06/26-27. Online. Oral.
Presentation Material
Others
Rei Emura (2025)
Temporally Ambiguous Sentences in Japanese: Processing and Usage of Garden-Path Sentences.
2025 Japanese Studies Fellow Conference. 2025/11/18. Tohoku University, Sendai. Poster.
Rei Emura. (2024).
Lingering misinterpretations of Japanese garden-path sentences.
Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 2024. 2024/01/06-07. Konan University, Kobe. Oral.