publications

Preprints

  1. bioRxiv
    Functional identification of language-responsive channels in individual participants in MEG investigations
    Bruffaerts, Rose, Pongos, Alvince, Shain, Cory, Lipkin, Benjamin, Siegelman, Matthew, Wens, Vincent, Sjøgård, Martin, Pantazis, Dimitrios, Blank, Idan, Goldman, Serge, De Tiège, Xavier, and Fedorenko, Evelina
    bioRxiv 2023

Journal articles

  1. JoCN
    Distributed sensitivity to syntax and semantics throughout the language network
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2024
  2. PNAS
    Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024
  3. Open Mind
    Word Frequency and Predictability Dissociate in Naturalistic Reading
    Shain, Cory
    Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science 2024
  4. Open Mind
    A deep learning approach to analyzing continuous-time cognitive processes
    Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science 2024
  5. Cer Cort
    No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network
    Cerebral Cortex 2023
  6. J Neuro
    Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex
    Journal of Neuroscience 2022
  7. Cur Dir Psych Sci
    Similarity of computations across domains does not imply shared implementation: The case of language comprehension
    Fedorenko, Evelina, and Shain, Cory
    Current Directions in Psychological Science 2021
  8. Cognition
    Continuous-time deconvolutional regression for psycholinguistic modeling
    Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    Cognition 2021
  9. Cer Cort
    Incremental language comprehension difficulty predicts activity in the language network but not the multiple demand network
    Cerebral Cortex 2021
  10. Npsy
    fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension
    Neuropsychologia 2020
  11. JLM
    Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute?
    Elsner, Micha, Sims, Andrea, Erdmann, Alexander, Hernandez, Antonio, Jaffe, Evan, Jin, Lifeng, Johnson, Martha Booker, Karim, Shuan, King, David L., Lamberti Nunes, Luana, Oh, Byung-Doh, Rasmussen, Nathan, Shain, Cory, Antetomaso, Stephanie, Dickinson, Kendra, Diewald, Noah, McKenzie, Michelle, and Stevens-Guille, Symon
    Journal of Language Modelling 2019
  12. LVC
    The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní
    Shain, Cory, and Tonhauser, Judith
    Language Variation and Change 2010

Conference papers

  1. NAACL
    SentSpace: Large-scale benchmarking and evaluation of text using cognitively motivated lexical, syntactic, and semantic features
    Tuckute, Greta, Sathe, Aalok, Wang, Mingye, Yoder, Harley, Shain, Cory, and Fedorenko, Evelina
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations 2022
  2. ACL
    CDRNN: Discovering complex dynamics in human language processing
    Shain, Cory
    In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2021
  3. CoNLL
    Best Paper Award
    Acquiring language from speech by learning to remember and predict
    Shain, Cory, and Elsner, Micha
    In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning 2020
  4. COLING
    Coreference information guides human expectations during natural reading
    Jaffe, Evan, Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2020
  5. NAACL
    Measuring the perceptual availability of phonological features during language acquisition using unsupervised binary stochastic autoencoders
    Shain, Cory, and Elsner, Micha
    In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) 2019
  6. NAACL
    A large-scale study of the effects of word frequency and predictability in naturalistic reading
    Shain, Cory
    In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) 2019
  7. EMNLP
    Deconvolutional time series regression: A technique for modeling temporally diffuse effects
    Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018
  8. LREC
    Deep Syntactic Annotations for Broad-Coverage Psycholinguistic Modeling
    In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2018
  9. CMCL
    Coreference and focus in reading times
    Jaffe, Evan, Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics 2018
  10. EMNLP
    Speech segmentation with a neural encoder model of working memory
    Elsner, Micha, and Shain, Cory
    In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2017
  11. BIBINLP
    Breaking NLP: Using morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and world knowledge to fool sentiment analysis systems
    Mahler, Taylor, Cheung, Willy, Elsner, Micha, King, David, de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine, Shain, Cory, Stevens-Guille, Symon, and White, Michael
    In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems 2017
  12. COLING
    Memory-bounded left-corner unsupervised grammar induction on child-directed input
    Shain, Cory, Bryce, William, Jin, Lifeng, Krakovna, Victoria, Doshi-Velez, Finale, Miller, Timothy, Schuler, William, and Schwartz, Lane
    In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2016
  13. CL4LC
    Memory access during incremental sentence processing causes reading time latency
    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity 2016

Peer reviewed conference abstracts

  1. HSP
    Large-Scale Evidence for Logarithmic Effects of Word Predictability on Reading Time
    In 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2023
  2. HSP
    No Evidence of Theory of Mind Reasoning in the Human Language Network
    In 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2023
  3. HSP
    Robust Effects of Working Memory Demand in Language-Selective Cortex
    In 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2023
  4. HSP
    Lexical Retrieval and Probabilistic Inference Dissociate in Naturalistic Reading
    Shain, Cory
    In 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2023
  5. CUNY
    Continuous-time deconvolutional regression for psycholinguistic modeling
    Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2021
  6. CUNY
    Modeling effects of incremental memory and prediction pressures on phoneme learning from speech
    Shain, Cory, and Elsner, Micha
    In 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2021
  7. SNL
    Linguistic and conceptual processing are dissociated during sentence comprehension
    Tuckute, Greta, Shain, Cory, Blank, Idan, Wang, Mingye, and Fedorenko, Evelina
    In The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2020
  8. SNL
    Another look at the constituent structure of sentences in the human brain
    In The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2020
  9. CUNY
    Prediction in the language network is sensitive to syntactic structure
    In 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2020
  10. CUNY
    Controlling for human response latency with continuous-time deconvolutional regression
    Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2020
  11. CUNY
    Coreference information guides human expectations during naturalistic reading
    Jaffe, Evan, Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2020
  12. CUNY
    A large-scale deconvolutional study of predictability and frequency effects in naturalistic reading
    Shain, Cory
    In 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2019
  13. CUNY
    Computer modeling suggests patterns of perceptual availability of phonological structure during infant language acquisition
    Shain, Cory, and Elsner, Micha
    In 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2019
  14. CUNY
    fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension
    In 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2019
  15. CUNY
    Modeling psycholinguistic effect timecourses with deconvolutional time series regression
    Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2018
  16. CUNY
    Evidence of semantic processing difficulty in naturalistic reading
    In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2018
  17. CUNY
    Coreference and focus in broad-coverage stimuli
    Jaffe, Evan, Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
    In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2018
  18. MSLD
    Word segmentation with neural net working memory
    Elsner, Micha, and Shain, Cory
    In Midwest Speech and Language Days 2017 2017
  19. CUNY
    Modeling syntax acquisition via cognitively-constrained unsupervised grammar induction
    Shain, Cory, Bryce, William, Jin, Lifeng, Krakovna, Victoria, Doshi-Velez, Finale, Miller, Timothy, Schuler, William, and Schwartz, Lane
    In 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2017
  20. CUNY
    Retrieving structures from memory causes difficulty during incremental processing
    In 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2017
  21. CUNY
    Exploring memory and processing through a gold-standard annotation of Dundee
    In 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2016

Theses

  1. PhD Thesis
    Language, time, and the mind: Understanding human language processing using continuous-time deconvolutional regression
    Shain, Cory
    2021
  2. MA Thesis
    The distribution of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní
    Shain, Cory
    2009

Unpublished materials

  1. Unpublished
    A Sketch of the Phonology and Morphology of Iyasa
    Shain, Cory
  2. Unpublished
    Iyasa Webonary
    Shain, Cory