Research

Publications

Jiaxuan Li, Jinghua Ou & Ming Xiang (2023). Context-specific effects of violated expectations: ERP evidence. Cognition, 241, 105628. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li, Lang Yu & Allyson Ettinger (2023). Counterfactual reasoning: Testing language models' understanding of hypothetical scenarios. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). [PDF]

Shiva Upadhye*, Jiaxuan Li* & Richard Futrell (*=equal contribution). Bridging production and comprehension: Toward an integrated computational model of error correction. Poster at the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2023 (SCiL 2023), Amherst, US, 2023. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li and Richard Futrell (2023). A decomposition of surprisal tracks the N400 and P600 brain potentials. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li & Allyson Ettinger (2023). Heuristic Interpretation as Rational Inference: A Computational Model of the N400 and P600 in Language Processing. Cognition, 233, 105359. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li & Richard Futrell (2022). A unified information-theoretic model of EEG signatures of human language processing. NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems (InfoCog) , New Orleans, US, 2022. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li, Lang Yu & Allyson Ettinger (2022). A unified information-theoretic model of EEG signatures of human language processing. NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Neuro Causal and Symbolic AI (nCSI) , New Orleans, US, 2022. [PDF]

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations

2023

Jiaxuan Li, Hailin Hao & Richard Futrell. Language models can adapt better to within-clause than across-clause exchange errors. Poster at the 6th California Annual Meetings for Psycholinguistics (CAMP6), California, US, 2023.

Jiaxuan Li, Alyssa Ortega, Richard Futrell & Rachel Ryskin. Do ERP indices of rational inference in real-time comprehension track the noise rate in the environment? Poster at conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia), Hong Kong, 2023.

Jiaxuan Li, Shiva Upadhye & Richard Futrell. Bridging production and comprehension: A computational model of error generation and correction. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Pittsburgh, US, 2023.

2022

Jiaxuan Li & Richard Futrell. A decomposition of surprisal predicts N400 and P600 in language processing. The 28th annual conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP2022) , York, UK, 2022. [PDF]

Weijie Xu, Jiaxuan Li, Ming Xiang & Richard Futrell. Syntactic adaptation to short-term cue-based distributional regularities. The 44th Annual Conference Cognitive Science (CogSci2022) , Toronto, Canada, 2022. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li & Richard Futrell. Pre-trained language models can track some ERP components in language processing. The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022) , California, March 24-26, 2022. [PDF]

Weijie Xu, Jiaxuan Li & Ming Xiang. Syntactic adaptation to short-term cue-based distributional regularities. The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022) , California, March 24-26, 2022. [PDF]

2021

Jiaxuan Li & Ming Xiang. The benefits and costs of language prediction: Evidence from ERPs. The 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2021) , Philadelphia, March 4-6, 2021. [PDF]

Jiaxuan Li & Allyson Ettinger. A noisy channel of N400 and P600 effects in sentence processing. The 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2021) , Philadelphia, March 4-6, 2021. [PDF]

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