Publications

Lola Karsenti & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2025). Thematic considerations in the processing of local ambiguities: Evidence from Hebrew. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4. [link]

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Maayan Keshev, Mandy Cartner, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, & Brian Dillon (2024). A working memory model of sentence processing as binding morphemes to syntactic positions. Topics in Cognitive Science. [link]

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Samuel Amouyal, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, & Jonathan Berant (2024). Large language models for psycholinguistic plausibility pretesting. Findings of EACL, 166-181. [link]

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​Maayan Keshev & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2023). The representation of agreement features in memory is incrementally updated during sentence processing: Evidence from verb-reflexive interactions. Journal of Memory and Language, 135, 104495. [link]

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Lola Karsenti & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2022). Prediction of successful reanalysis based on eye-blink rate and reading times in sentences with local ambiguity. Language and Cognition. [link]

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Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2021). Rational adaptation in lexical prediction:The influence of prediction strength. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. [link]

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Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2021). From pre-activation to pre-updating: A threshold mechanism for commitment to strong predictions. Psychophysiology, 58. [link]

Maayan Keshev & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2021). Noisy is better than rare: Comprehenders compromise subject-verb agreement to form more probable linguistic structures. Cognitive Psychology, 124. [link]

Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2021). Resumptive pronouns in language comprehension and production. Annual Review of Linguistics, 7, 177-194. [link]

Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2020). Love thy neighbor: Facilitation and inhibition in the competition between parallel predictions. Cognition. [link]

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Maayan Keshev & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2020). The effects of syntactic pressures and pragmatic considerations on predictive dependency formation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35, 256-272. [link]

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Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2019). When is the verb a potential gap site? The influence of filler maintenance on the active search for a gap. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 34, 936-948. [link]

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Julie Fadlon, Adam M. Morgan, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, & Victor S. Ferreira (2019). It depends: Optionality in the production of filler-gap dependencies. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 40-67. [link] 

Maayan Keshev & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2019). A processing-based account of subliminal wh-island effects. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 37, 621-657. [link]

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Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2018). Predictive pre-updating and working memory capacity: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 1916-1938. [link]

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Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2018). Lexical inhibition due to failed prediction: Behavioral evidence and ERP correlates. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44, 1269-1285. [link]

Maayan Keshev & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2017). Active dependency formation in islands: How grammatical resumption affects online sentence processing. Language, 93, 249-269. [link]

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Tal Ness & Aya Meltzer-Asscher (2017). Working memory in the processing of long-distance dependencies: Interference and filler maintenance. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46,1353-1365. [link]

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Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Julie Fadlon, Kayla Goldstein, & Ariel Holan (2015). Direct object resumption in Hebrew: How modality of presentation and relative clause position affect acceptability. Lingua, 166, 65-79. [link]

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