My research

Journal publications

1. Ramotowska, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. Does ease of learning explain quantifier universals?,  under review. http://ssrn.com/abstract=5352978.

2. Marty, P.,  Ramotowska S., Breheny, R., Romoli, J., Sudo, Y. On the source of distributive inferences, under review.

3. Schlotterbeck, F., Ramotowska, S., van Maanen, L., & Szymanik, J. Computational model reveals two sources of polarity across negative adjectival expressions and quantifiers, under review https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9zvq7_v2.

4. Ramotowska, S., Marty, P., Romoli,  J., Santorio, P. (2025). Counterfactuals and quantificational force Experimental evidence for selectional semantics,  Semantics and Pragmatics 18, https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.18.6.

5. Degano, M., Marty, P., Ramotowska, S.,  Aloni, M., Breheny, R., Romoli, J., Sudo, Y.  (2025).  The ups and downs of ignorance, Nat Lang Semantics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-024-09226-3.

6. Ramotowska, S., Haaf, J., van Maanen, L., Szymanik J. (2024). Most quantifiers have many meanings. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02502-7.

7. Ramotowska, S., Archambeau, K., Augurzky, P., Schlotterbeck, F., Berberyan, H., Van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2024). Testing two-step models of negative quantification using a novel machine learning analysis of EEG. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 39(5), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2345302.

8. Ramotowska, S., Steinert‐Threlkeld, S., van Maanen, L., & Szymanik, J. (2023). Uncovering the Structure of Semantic Representations Using a Computational Model of Decision‐Making. Cognitive Science, 47(1), e13234, DOI:10.1111/cogs.13234.

9. López Pérez D., Ramotowska S., Malinowska-Korczak A., Haman M., Tomalski P. (2020). Working together to orient faster: The combined effects of alerting and orienting networks on pupillary responses at 8 months of age, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI:10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100763, (first co-authorship).

10. Niedzwiecka A., Ramotowska S., Tomalski P. (2018). Mutual gaze during early mother-infant interactions promotes attention control development, Child Development, DOI:10.1111/cdev.12830.

Conference publications

1. Ramotowska S. (2025). Individual differences in the delay effect across scales. In D. Barner, N.R. Bramley, A. Ruggeri and C.M. Walker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47, 1626-1632.

2. Klochowicz T, Schlotterbeck F, Ramotowska S, Bott O, Aloni M. (2025). Neglect zero: evidence from priming across constructions. In D. Barner, N.R. Bramley, A. Ruggeri and C.M. Walker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47, 5954-5960.

3. Ramotowska S., Marty P., van Maanen, L., Sudo Y. (2024). Some but not all speakers sometimes but not always derive scalar implicatures, In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3931 - 3938.

4. Tsvilodub, P., Marty, P., Ramotowska, S., Romoli, J., Franke, M. (2024). Experimental Pragmatics with Machines: Testing LLM Predictions for the Inferences of Plain and Embedded Disjunctions, In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3960 - 3967.

5. Potthoff, R., Ramotowska, S., Szymanik, J., van Maanen, L. (2023). Time-pressure Does Not Alter the Bias Towards Canonical Interpretation of Quantifiers, In Proceedings for the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2275-2281, Cognitive Science Society.

6. Ramotowska S., Marty R., Romoli J., Sudo Y., Breheny R. (2022). Diversity with Universality, In M. Degano, T. Roberts, G. Sbardolini, and M. Schouwstra (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 251-257.

7. Ramotowska S., Steinert-Threlkeld S., van Maanen L., Szymanik J. (2020). Most, but not more than half, is proportion-dependent and sensitive to individual differences, In M. Franke, N. Kompa, M. Liu, J. L. Mueller, & J. Schwab (Eds.),  Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 24, pp.165–182, Osnabrueck, DOI:10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.891.

8. Schlotterbeck F., Ramotowska S., van Maanen L., Szymanik J. (2020). Representational complexity and pragmatics cause the monotonicity effect, In Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, pp. 3397-3403, Cognitive Science Society, (first co-author).

Conference presentations

1. Ramotowska S., Spychalska M., Bott O, Schlotterbeck F, Aloni M. (2025). How does the brain process zero models?, Poster at XPRAG 2025 Conference.

2. Ramotowska S., & Aloni M. (2025). Pragmatic inferences under working memory load. Poster at XPRAG 2025 Conference.

3. Ramotowska S., Spychalska M., Bott O, Schlotterbeck F, Aloni M. (2025). How does the brain process zero models?, Talk at European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) Conference.

4. Ramotowska S., Marty R., van Maanen, L., Sudo Y. (2024). Some but not all speakers sometimes but not always derive scalar implicatures, Poster at 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

5. Ramotowska S., Marty R., van Maanen, L., Sudo Y. (2023). Some but not all speakers sometimes but not always derive scalar implicatures, Poster at NVP Winter Conference. 

6. Ramotowska S., Marty R., Romoli J., Santorio, R. (2023). Counterfactuals (not) under discussion, SALT-33.

7. Ramotowska S., Marty R., Romoli J., Sudo Y., Breheny R. (2022). Diversity with Universality, 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, OSF.

8. Ramotowska, S., Archambeau, K., Augurzky, P., Schlotterbeck, F., Berberyan, H., Van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2021). Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, Poster at NVP Winter Conference.

9. Ramotowska, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2021). Does ease of learning explain quantifier universals? ExUni virtual Workshop at ESSLLI2021.

10. Schlotterbeck, F., Ramotowska, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2020). Is the Monotonicity Effect due to Covert Negation or Pragmatic Bias? Abstract Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language.

11. Schlotterbeck, F., Ramotowska, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2020). Is the Monotonicity Effect due to Covert Negation or Pragmatic Bias? Talk 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, OSF.

12. Ramotowska, S., Steinert Threlkeld, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2019). Most, but not more than half, is proportion-dependent and sensitive to individual differences, Poster session presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück, Germany.

13. Ramotowska, S., Steinert Threlkeld, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2019). Most, but not more than half, is proportion-dependent and sensitive to individual differences, Talk TbiLLC 2019: Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Georgia.

14. Ramotowska, S., Steinert Threlkeld, S., van Maanen, L., Szymanik, J. (2019). Individual differences in semantic representations affect quantifier processing, Talk RALNatLang19: REASONING, ARGUMENTATION AND LOGIC IN NATURAL LANGUAGE: EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS, Bochum, Germany.

Talks

1. Learnability of quantifiers and semantic universals, Invited talk at SALC9, Thematic session: Explaining semantic universals (2024).

2. Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, Tilburg University (2021).

3. Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, University of Groningen (2021).

4. Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Networking Event (2021).

5. Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, Cognitive Modeling group at University of Osnabrück (2021).

6. Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, Lab Meeting Language and Cognition group at University of Tübingen (2021).

7. Discovering stages of processing in quantified sentences, MLC seminar at IILC UvA (2021).

8. Individual differences in semantic representations: The case of most and more than half, MLC seminar at IILC UvA (2020).

9. Most has more meanings than more than half, [N]OAP dag at ACLC UvA (2019).

Others

1. Sonia Ramotowska (2022). Quantifying quantifier representations: Experimental studies, computational modeling, and individual differences, doctoral dissertation.