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Lee, M., Nayar, K., Maltman, N., Hamburger, D., Martin, G.E., Gordon, P.C., & Losh, M. (in press). Understanding social communication differences in autism and first-degree relatives: A study of looking and speaking.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Nayar K, Gordon PC, Martin GE, Hogan AL, La Valle C, McKinney W, Lee M, Norton ES, Losh M. (2018).  Links between looking and speaking in autism and first-degree relatives: insights into the expression of genetic liability to autism. Molecular Autism. 2018;9(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s13229-018-0233-5.

Lee, M., Martin, G.E., Hogan, A., Hano, D., Gordon, P.C., & Losh, M. (in press). What’s the story? A computational analysis of narrative competence in autism. Autism. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2017). Print exposure modulates effects of repetition priming during sentence reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1035-1942.PDF

Plummer, P., DeWolf, M., Bassok, M., Gordon, P.C., & Holyoak, K.J. (2017). Reasoning strategies with rational numbers revealed by eye tracking. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1426-1437. PDF

Hoedemaker, R.S., & Gordon, P.C. (2017). The onset and time course of semantic priming during rapid recognition of visual words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 881-902. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2016). Eye-tracking and corpus-based analyses of syntax-semantics interactions in complement coercion. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 921-939. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hoedemaker, R.S. (2016). Effective scheduling of looking and talking during rapid automatized naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 742-760. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Lowder, M.W., & Hoedemaker, R.S. (2016). Reading in normally aging adults. In Wright, H.H. (Ed.), Cognitive-Linguistic Processes and Aging, pp. 165-191. John Benjamins Publishing. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2015). Focus takes time: Structural effects on reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1733-1738. PDF

Moore, M., & Gordon, P.C. (2015). Reading ability and print exposure: Item Response Theory analysis of the Author Recognition Test. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 1095-1109. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2015). Natural forces as agents: Reconceptualizing the animate-inanimate distinction. Cognition, 136, 85-90. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2015). The manuscript that we finished: Structural separation reduces the cost of complement coercion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 41, 526-540. PDF

Lee, Y., Kwon, Y., & Gordon, P.C. (2015). Thematic roles, markedness alignment and processing complexity. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 317-336.

Hoedemaker, R.S., & Gordon, P.C. (2014). It takes time to prime: Semantic priming in the ocular lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 2179-2197. PDF PeePs

Losh, M.C., & Gordon, P.C. (2014). Quantifying narrative ability in autism: A computational linguistic analysis of narrative coherence. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 3016-3025. PDF

Hogan-Brown, A.L., Hoedemaker, R.S., Gordon, P.C., & Losh, M.C. (2014). Eye-voice span during rapid automatized naming: Evidence of reduced automaticity in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their siblings. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 6:33. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2014). Effects of animacy and noun-phrase relatedness on the processing of complex sentences. Memory & Cognition, 42, 794-805. PDF

Hoedemaker, R.S., & Gordon, P.C. (2014). Embodied language comprehension: Encoding-based and goal-driven processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 914-929. PDF

Huang, Y.T., Hopfinger, J.B., & Gordon, P.C. (2014). Distinguishing lexical- versus discourse-level processing using event-related potentials. Memory & Cognition, 42, 275-291. PDF

Choi, W., & Gordon, P.C. (2014). Word skipping during sentence reading: Effects of lexicality on parafoveal processing. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 201-213. PDF

Johns, C.L., Gordon, P.C., Long, D.L., & Swaab, T.Y. (2014). Memory accessibility and referential access. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29, 60-87. PDF

Bone, D., Chi-Chun, L., Ramanarayanan, V., Narayanan, S., Hoedemaker, R. S., & Gordon, P. C. (2013). Analyzing eye-voice coordination in rapid automatized naming: Smooth patterns of fast performance. Interspeech-2013, pp. 2425-2429, Grenoble, France: International Speech Communication Association. PDF

Choi, W., & Gordon, P.C. (2013). Coordination of word recognition and oculomotor control during reading: The role of implicit lexical decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1032-1046. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Plummer, P., & Choi, W. (2013). See before you jump: Full recognition of parafoveal words precedes skips during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39(2), 633-641. PDF PeePs

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2013). It’s hard to offend the college: Effects of sentence structure on figurative language processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39, 993-1101. PDF

Lowder, M.W., Choi, W., & Gordon, P.C. (2013). Word recognition during reading: The interaction between lexical repetition and frequency. Memory & Cognition, 41, 738-751. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Lowder, M.W. (2012). Complex sentence processing: A review of theoretical perspectives on the comprehension of relative clauses. Language and Linguistics Compass, 6/7, 403-415. PDF

Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2012). The pistol that injured the cowboy: Difficulty with inanimate subject-verb integration is reduced by structural separation. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 819-832. PDF

Boudewyn, M.A., Gordon, P.C., Long, D., Polse, L., & Swaab, T.Y. (2012). Does discourse congruence influence spoken language comprehension before lexical association? Evidence from event-related potentials. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 698-733. Link to Article

Johnson, M.L., Lowder, M.W., & Gordon, P.C. (2011). The sentence composition effect: Processing of complex sentences depends on the configuration of common versus unusual noun phrases. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 707-724. PDF

Huang, Y., & Gordon, P.C. (2011). Distinguishing the time-course of lexical and discourse processes through context, co-reference, and quantified expressions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 37, 966-978. PDF

Kwon, N., Lee, Y., Gordon, P.C., Kluender, R., Polinsky, M. (2010). Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of pre-nominal relative clauses in Korean. Language, 89, 546-582. PDF

Lee, Y., Lee, E., Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (2010). Language diversity, cognitive universals. Lingua, 120, 2695-2698. PDF

Lee, H., & Gordon, P.C. (2009). Understanding complex sentences: Memory constraints and information structure. In Lee, C., Kim, Y. & Simpson, G. (Eds.) Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Volume 3: Korean), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lee, H., Nam, K., & Gordon, P.C. (2009). Processing of the Korean Eojel ambiguity. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38, 345-362.

Simmons, R., Chambless, D., & Gordon, P.C. (2008). How do hostile and emotionally over-involved relatives view their relationships? What relatives’ pronoun use tells us. Family Processes, 47, 405-419.

Lee, Y., Lee, H., & Gordon, P.C. (2007). Linguistic complexity and information structure in Korean: Evidence from eye-tracking during reading. Cognition, 104, 495-534. PDF

Ledoux, K., Gordon, P.C., Camblin, C.C., & Swaab, T.Y. (2007). Coreference and lexical repetition: Neural mechanisms of discourse integration. Memory & Cognition, 35, 801-815. PDF

Camblin, C.C., Ledoux, K., Boudewijn, M., Gordon, P.C., & Swaab, T.Y. (2007). Processing new and repeated names: Effects of coreference on repetition priming with speech and fast RSVPs. Brain Research, 1146, 172-184. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Moser, S.. (2007). Insight into analogies: Evidence from eye movements. Visual Cognition, 15, 20-35. PDF

Camblin, C.C., Gordon, P.C., Swaab, T.Y. (2007). The interplay of discourse congruence and lexical association during sentence processing: Evidence from ERPs and eye tracking. Journal of Memory & Language, 56, 103-128. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., Johnson, M., & Lee, Y. (2006). Similarity-based interference during language comprehension: Evidence from eye tracking during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 1304-1321. PDF

Ledoux, K., & Gordon, P.C. (2006). The effect of interruption on working memory during discourse processing. Memory, 14, 789-803. PDF

Ledoux, K., Camblin, C.C., Swaab, T.Y., & Gordon, P.C. (2006). Reading words in discourse: The modulation of lexical priming effects by message-level context. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 5, 107-127. PDF

Yang, C.L., Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (2006). The comprehension of reference in Chinese discourse. In Li, P., Tan, L.H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O.J.L. (Eds.) Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Volume 1: Chinese), pp. 257-267, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Simmons, R., Gordon, P.C., Chambless, D. (2005) Pronoun use in marital interaction: What do “you” and “I” say about marital health? Psychological Science, 16, 932-936. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (2005). Relativization, ergativity and corpus frequency. Linguistic Inquiry, 18, 315-332. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., & Johnson, M. (2004). Effects of noun phrase type on sentence complexity. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 97-114. PDF

Swaab, T.Y., Camblin, C.C., & Gordon, P.C. (2004). Electrophysiological evidence of reversed lexical repetition effects in language processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 715-726. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Camblin, C.C., & Swaab, T.Y. (2004). On-line measures of coreferential processing. In: M. Carreiras & C. Clifton (Eds.), The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP and Beyond, pp. 139-150, New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Yang, C.L., Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., & Wu, J.T. (2003). Constraining the comprehension of pronominal expressions in Chinese. Cognition, 86, 283-315. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., & Levine, W.H. (2002). Memory-load interference in syntactic processing. Psychological Science, 13, 425-430. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., & Johnson, M. (2001). Memory interference during language processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 27, 1411-1423. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Keyes, L., & Yung, Y.F. (2001). Ability in perceiving nonnative contrasts: Performance on natural and synthetic speech stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 746-758. PDF

Yang, C.L., Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., Wu, J.T., & Chou, T.L. (2001). The processing of coreference for reduced expressions in discourse integration. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30, 21-35. PDF

Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., & Foster, K. (2000). Language comprehension and probe-list memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 26, 766-775. PDF

Gordon, P.C. (2000). Masking protection in the perception of auditory objects. Speech Communication, 30, 197-206. PDF

Grosz, B.J., & Gordon, P.C. (1999). Conceptions of limited attention and discourse focus. Computational Linguistics, 25, 617-624.

Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., Ledoux, K., & Yang, C.L.. (1999). Processing of reference and the structure of language: An analysis of complex noun phrases. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14, 353-379. PDF

Gordon, P.C. (1999). Naming versus referring in the selection of words. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 44. PDF

Yang, C.L., Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R. & Wu, J.T. (1999). Comprehension of referring expressions in Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14, 715-743. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (1999). Non definite NP anaphora: A reappraisal. In M.C. Gruber, D. Higgins, K.S. Olson & T. Wysocki (Eds.), CLS34: The main session, pp. 95-210. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistics Society.

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (1999). Comprehension of coreferential expressions. Meeting Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference, pp. 82-89, New Brunswick, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (1998). The representation and processing of coreference in discourse. Cognitive Science, 22, 389-424. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (1998). Dimensions of grammatical coreference. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 424-429. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (1998). Implicit causality, negation, and models of discourse. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 430-435. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. PDF

Gordon, P.C., & Hendrick, R. (1997). Intuitive knowledge of linguistic co-reference. Cognition, 62, 325-370. PDF

Gordon, P.C. (1997). Coherence masking protection in speech sounds: The role of formant synchrony. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 232-242.

Gordon, P.C. (1997). Coherence masking protection in brief noise complexes: Effects of temporal alignment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(4), 2276-2283. PDF

Kennison, S.M., & Gordon, P.C. (1997). Comprehending referential expressions during reading: Evidence from eye tracking. Discourse Processes, 24, 229-252.