Publications

Warren, K., Nichols, C., Petersen, D., Shalin, V. L., & Almor, A. (2025). Stylistic language drives perceived moral superiority of LLMs. Scientific Reports, 15, 39168. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-25046-9.

Rann, J. C. & Almor, A. (2025). An examination of sustained attention during complex multitasking scenarios. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10, 67. doi: 10.1186/s41235-025-00674-x.

Salman, N., & Almor, A. (2025). Commentary: Scalar diversity, negative strengthening, and adjectival semantics [General Commentary]. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 16 - 2025. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1657242

Petersen, D., & Almor, A. (2025). Agentive linguistic framing affects responsibility assignments toward AIs and their creators. Frontiers in Psychology – Cognitive Science, 16, 1498958. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1498958.

Luce K, Almor A. (2023). Inconsistency in perspective-taking during comprehension. Psychonomics Bulletin Review. 30(6), 2351-2362. doi: 10.3758/s13423-023-02315-0.

Petersen, D., & Almor, A. (2023). Anthropomorphism, not depiction, explains interaction with social robots. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e41. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22001698.

Rann, J. C. & Almor, A. (2022). Effects of verbal tasks on driving simulator performance. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 7, 12 (2022). Doi:10.1186/s41235-022-00357-x

Boiteau T.W., Smith C, Almor A. (2020) Rightward directional bias in art produced by cultures without a written language. Laterality. 25(2):165-176

van Dam W.O., Almor, A., Shinkareva, S, Kim, J, Boiteau T. W., Shay E. A., & Desai R. H. (2019). Distinct neural mechanisms underlying conceptual knowledge of manner and instrument verbs. Neuropsychologia, 133, 107183

Cheng, W. & Almor, A. (2018). A Bayesian approach to establishing coreference in second language discourse: Evidence from implicit causality and consequentiality verbs. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-20. doi:10.1017/S136672891800055X

Almor, A. Nair, V., Vendemmia, J., Boiteau, T. W. (2017). The N400 in Processing Repeated Name and Pronoun anaphors in Sentences and Discourse. Brain and Language. 173, 52-66

de Carvalho Maia, J., Vernice, M., Gelormini-Lezama, C.,Cunha Lima, M. L., Almor, A. (2017). Co-referential processing of pronouns and repeated names in Italian. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46:497–506.

Boiteau, T. W., Smith, C. M., Almor, A. (2017). Syntax response-space biases for hands, not feet. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(3):989–999

Conder, J., Fridrikson, J. Baylis, G., Smith, C., Boiteau, T. W., Almor, A. (2017). Bilateral parietal contributions to spatial language. Brain and Language, 164, 16-24.

Almor, A., de Carvalho Maia, J., Cunha Lima, M. L., Vernice, M., Gelormini-Lezama, C., (2017). Language Processing, Acceptability, and Statistical Distribution: A Study of Null and Overt Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Memory and Language, 92(1), 98-113.

Cheng, W. & Almor, A. (2017). The effect of implicit causality and consequentiality on nonnative pronoun resolution. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(1), 1–26. doi:10.1017/S0142716416000035

Shoji, S. Dubinsky, S. & Almor A. (2017). The Repeated Name Penalty, the Overt Pronoun Penalty, and topic in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 46(1), 89-106.

Shoji, S., Dubinsky, S. & Almor, A. (2016). Age of Arrival (AOA) effects on anaphor processing by Japanese bilinguals . Linguistics Vanguard, 2(s1).

Peters, S. A, & Almor, A. (2016). Creating the Sound of Sarcasm. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. doi: 10.1177/0261927X16653640

Cheng, W. & Almor, A. (2016). Referent predictability is affected by syntactic structures: Evidence from Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. doi:10.1007/s10936-016-9430-6

Boiteau, T. W., & Almor, A. (2016). Transitivity, space, & hand: The spatial grounding of syntax. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12355.

Peters, S., Boiteau, T. W., & Almor, A. (2016). Semantic relations cause interference in spoken language comprehension when using repeated definite references, not pronouns. Frontiers in Psychology. 7:214. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00214

Peters, S., Wilson, K., Boiteau, T. W., Gelormini-Lezama, C., Almor, A. (2016). Do you hear it now? A native advantage for sarcasm processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(2), 400 - 414.

Boiteau, T. W., Bowers, E., Nair, V. A., & Almor, A. (2014). The neural representation of plural discourse entities, Brain and Language, 137, Pages 130-141

Gelormini-Lezama, C. & Almor, A. (2014). Singular and Plural Pronominal Reference in Spanish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43(3) 299-313.

Boiteau, T. W., Malone, P. S., Peters, S. A., Almor, A. (2014). Interference between Conversation and a Concurrent Visuomotor Task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143(1) 295–311.

Gelormini-Lezama, C., Almor, A. (2011) Repeated Names, Overt Pronouns and Null Pronouns in Spanish. Language and Cognitive Processes. 26 (3), 437-454.

Almor, A., Aronoff, J. M., Macdonald, M. C., Gonnerman, L. M., Kempler, D., Hintiryan, H., Hayes, U. L., Arunachalam, S., and Andersen, E. S. (2009). A common mechanism in verb and noun naming deficits in Alzheimer’s patients. Brain and Language, 111 (1), 8-19

Hajjar, I., Keown, M., Wright A., Lewis P., Almor, A. (2008). Impact of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and other antihypertensives on cognitive and non-cognitive manifestations of Alzheimer’s Disease. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 23 (1), 77-83.

Almor, A. (2008). Why does Language Interfere with Vision Based Tasks? Experimental Psychology. 55 (4), 261-269.

Almor, A. & Eimas, P. D. (2008). Focus and Noun Phrase Anaphors in Spoken Language Comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes. 23 (2), 1-25.

Almor, A., Smith, D. V., Bonilha, L., Fridriksson, J., Rorden, C. (2007). What's in a name? Spatial brain circuits are used for tracking personal reference during discourse. Neuroreport, 18 (12), 1215-1219.

Almor, A. & Nair, V. A. (2007). The Form of Referential Expressions in Discourse. Language and Linguistics Compass, 1 (1-2), 84–99.

Almor, A., Arunachalem, S., Strickland, B. (2007). When the Creampuff Beat the Boxer: Cost and Function in Reading Metaphoric Reference. Metaphor & Symbol, 22 (2), 169-193.

Aronoff, J. M., Gonnerman, L. M., Almor, A., Arunachalam, S., Kempler, D., Andersen, E. S. (2006). Information Content versus Relational Knowledge: Semantic Deficits in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuropsychologia. 44 (1), 21-25.

Almor, A. (2004). A Computational Investigation of reference in production and comprehension. In J. C. Trueswell & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Approaches to studying world-situated language use: bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions (pp. 285-301). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Almor, A. (2003). Specialized behavior without specialized modules: the massive adaptability hypothesis. In D. E. Over (Ed.), Evolution & the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate (pp. 101-120). New York, US: Psychology Press.

Almor, A., MacDonald, M. C., Kempler, D., Andersen, E. S., & Tyler, L. K. (2001). Comprehension of long distance number agreement in probable Alzheimer's disease. Language & Cognitive Processes, 16(1), 35-63.

MacDonald, M. C., Almor, A., Henderson, V. W., Kempler, D., & Andersen, E. S. (2001). Assessing working memory and language comprehension in Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Language, 78(1), 17-42.

Almor, A. (2000). Constraints and mechanisms in theories anaphor processing. In M. W. Crocker, M. Pickering & C. Clifton (Eds.), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (pp. 341-354). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Almor A. & Sloman, S. A. (2000). Reasoning versus memory in the Wason selection task - A non-deontic perspective on perspective effects. Memory and Cognition, 28, 1060-1069.

Almor, A. (1999). Noun-phrase anaphora and focus: The informational load hypothesis. Psychological Review, 106,748-765.

Almor, A., Kempler, D., MacDonald, M. C., Andersen, E. S., & Tyler, L. K. (1999). Why do Alzheimer patients have difficulty with pronouns? Working memory, semantics, and reference in comprehension and production in Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Language, 67(3), 202-227.

Kempler, D., Almor, A., Tyler, L. K., Andersen, E. S., & MacDonald, M. C. (1998). Sentence comprehension deficits in Alzheimer's disease: A comparison of off-line vs. on-line sentence processing. Brain and Language, 64(3), 297-316.

Kempler, D., Almor, A., and MacDonald, M. (1998). Teasing apart the contribution of memory and language impairments in Alzheimer’s disease: An on-line study of sentence comprehension. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 61-67.

Almor, A., & Sloman, S. A. (1996). Is deontic reasoning special? Psychological Review, 103, 374-380.

Almor, A. (2002). Past tense learning. In The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second edition, (M.A. Arbib, Ed.), pp. 848-851, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Kempler, D., Almor, A., MacDonald, M. C., & Andersen, E. S. (1999). Working with limited memory: Sentence comprehension in Alzheimer's disease. In S. Kemper & R. Kliegl (Eds.), Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory (pp. 227-248). Boston, US.: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Almor, A., & Rindner, M. (1994). On the proper treatment of symbolism -- a lesson from linguistics. In: M. Mozer, P. Smolenskey, D. Touretzkey, J. Elman, & A Weigand (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Petersen, D., & Almor, A. (revision under review). Belief and goal attributions play distinct roles in anthropomorphic inference. Acta Psychologica.

Petersen, D., & Almor, A. (revision under review). Grammatical agency influences online perceptions of AI animacy. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

Çoban, R., & Almor, A. (in preparation). Does It Matter What You Know, or Who You Know? Disentangling Personal and Informational Common Ground.

Petersen, D., & Almor, A. (in preparation). Rethinking anthropomorphism: A new taxonomy.

Wilson, S. C., Langley, S., Warren, K., den Ouden, D. B., & Almor, A. (in preparation). Transcranial direct current stimulation of the superior parietal cortex modulates reference processing during reading comprehension.

Warren, K., & Almor, A. (in preparation). Hearing where they were: Spatial indexing as a modality-general discourse mechanism.

Petersen, D., Almor, A., & Shalin, V. L. (2024). Linguistic framing affects moral responsibility assignments towards AIs and their creators. Proceedings of Agency and Intentions in Language 4 [Extended abstract]. https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL4-Workshop/program.html

Granger, A., Bezuidenhout, A., & Almor, A. (2022). ARCs and their prominence in discourse. Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle, Coyote Papers, 24, 50–59. [Peer-reviewed conference proceedings paper].

Cheng, W., Yuan, M., Ferreira, F., & Almor, A. (2014). The effect of syntax-semantics mismatch on referent predictability: Evidence from Chinese. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 36, 2026–2031. [Peer-reviewed conference paper].

Hajjar, I., Keown, M., Wright, A., Lewis, P., Almor., A. (2006). The impact of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) and other antihypertensives on cognitive and non-cognitive manifestations of alzheimer’s disease. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54 (4): S100-S101.

Almor, A., Kempler, D., Andersen, & MacDonald, M.C. (2005). Frequency and semantic effects on verb reading in aging and dementia. Brain and Language, 95, 147-148.

Aronoff, J. M., Gonnerman, L. M., Almor, A., Kempler, D., Andersen, E. S. (2004). The role of similarity structure in category specific deficits in Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Language, 91 (1), 154-155.

Gonnerman, L. M., Aronoff, J. M., Almor, A., Kempler, D., & Andersen, E. S. (2004). From Beetle to bug: Progression of error types in naming in Alzheimers disease. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1563. [Peer-reviewed conference abstract].

Almor, A., Kempler, D., Andersen, E.S., Aronoff, J.M., Gonnerman, L.M., & MacDonald, M.C. (2003). Investigating semantic deficits with nouns and verbs in Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Language, 87, 109-111.

Gonnerman, L.M., Aronoff, J.M., Andersen, E.S., & Kempler, D., & Almor, A. (2003). The relationship between naming performance and underlying category structure in Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Language, 87, 29-30.

Aronoff, J., Gonnerman, L., Andersen, E.S., Kempler, D., Almor, A. (2003). Implications of Distributed Representations for Semantic Processing: Evidence from Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 97-102. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Peer-reviewed conference paper].

Almor, A., Kempler, D., Andersen, E.S., MacDonald, M.C., Hayes, U.L., & Hintiryan, H. (2002). The production of regularly and irregularly inflected nouns and verbs in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients. Brain and Language, 83, 149-151.

Marblestone, K. L., Almor, A. , Andersen, E. S., Kempler, D., MacDonald, M. C. (2001) On-line Reference Assignment in Younger Adults, Older Adults, and Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Brain and Language, 79, 130-132.

Long, C., and Almor, A. (2000). Irregularization: The Interaction of Item Frequency and Phonological Interference in Regular Past Tense Production. In: the proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the cognitive science society. 310-315 Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Peer-reviewed conference paper].

Almor, A., MacDonald, M., Kempler, D., Andersen, E. and Tyler, L. (1999). Processing sentences and discourse in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Cognitive Neuroscience society annual meeting program 1999. A supplement of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 52.

Almor, A., Kempler, D., MacDonald, M., Andersen, E. (1998). Long Distance Number Agreement in Alzheimer’s Disease. Brain and Language, 65, 19-22.

Stevens-Dagerman, K., Almor, A., MacDonald, M., Kempler, D., Andersen, E. (1998). Is it dove or dove? Alzheimer’s patients’ ability to use context and frequency information to resolve heteronym ambiguities. Brain and Language, 65, 87-90.

Almor, A., Kempler, D., MacDonald, M., and Andersen, E. (1997). Discourse processing and working memory in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscience Letters Supplement 48, S2.

Almor, A., Kempler, D., MacDonald, M., and Andersen, E. (1997). Discourse comprehension in Alzheimer’s disease: The effects of pronouns vs. nouns. Brain and Language, 60,185-188.

MacDonald, M., Almor, A., Kempler, D., Andersen, E., and Tyler, L. (1996). Sentence comprehension impairments in Alzheimer’s disease: Semantic, syntactic or memory problem? Brain and Language, 55,78-81.

Almor, A. (1992). A grounded mental model of physical systems: A modular connectionist approach. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Peer-reviewed conference paper].

Almor, A. (1992). A grounded modular architecture for cognitive models - what symbols need and what are they needed for. In: AAAI-92: Workshop notes - Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes - the Cognitive Dimension.

Çoban, R., & Almor, A. (2026, July 29–31). Understanding verbal irony: A contrastive analysis of personal and informational common ground. Talk presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Charlotte, NC, United States.

Warren, K., & Almor, A. (2026, March 27). Spatial memory of auditory sources in language comprehension. Poster presented at Human Sentence Processing 2026 (HSP), Cambridge, MA. [Peer-reviewed presentation].

Petersen, D., & Almor, A. (2026, March 26–28). Belief verbs increase perceptions of AI animacy during semantic integration, goal verbs do not. Poster presented at The Society for Human Sentence Processing 2026. [Peer-reviewed presentation].