@article{shainfedorenko25,author={Shain, Cory and Fedorenko, Evelina},title={A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of over 1,000 human brains doing arbitrary tasks},year={2025},journal={bioRxiv},doi={https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.29.646067},url={https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.29.646067v1},section={preprints},}
arXiv
Constructions Are Revealed in Word Distributions
Rozner, Joshua, Weissweiler, Leonie, Mahowald, Kyle, and Shain, Cory
@article{rozneretal25,author={Rozner, Joshua and Weissweiler, Leonie and Mahowald, Kyle and Shain, Cory},title={Constructions Are Revealed in Word Distributions},year={2025},journal={arXiv},doi={10.48550/arXiv.2503.06048},section={preprints},}
2024
PBR
What We Mean When We Say Semantic: Toward a Multidisciplinary Semantic Glossary
Reilly, Jamie, Shain, Cory, Borghesani, Valentina, Kuhnke, Philipp, Vigliocco, Gabriella, Peelle, Jonathan E., Mahon, Bradford Z., Buxbaum, Laurel J., Majid, Asifa, Brysbaert, Marc, Borghi, Anna M., De Deyne, Simon, Dove, Guy, Papeo, Liuba, Pexman, Penny M., Poeppel, David, Lupyan, Gary, Boggio, Paulo, Hickok, Gregory, Gwilliams, Laura, Fernandino, Leonardo, Mirman, Daniel, Chrysikou, Evangelia G., Sandberg, Chaleece W., Crutch, Sebastian J., Pylkkänen, Liina, Yee, Eiling, Jackson, Rebecca L., Rodd, Jennifer M., Bedny, Marina, Connell, Louise, Kiefer, Markus, Kemmerer, David, de Zubicaray, Greig, Jefferies, Elizabeth, Lynott, Dermot, Siew, Cynthia S.Q., Desai, Rutvik H., McRae, Ken, Diaz, Michele T., Bolognesi, Marianna, Fedorenko, Evelina, Kiran, Swathi, Montefinese, Maria, Binder, Jeffrey R., Yap, Melvin J., Hartwigsen, Gesa, Cantlon, Jessica, Bi, Yanchao, Hoffman, Paul, Garcea, Frank E., and Vinson, David
@article{reilly24,title={What We Mean When We Say Semantic: {{Toward}} a Multidisciplinary Semantic Glossary},shorttitle={What We Mean When We Say Semantic},author={Reilly, Jamie and Shain, Cory and Borghesani, Valentina and Kuhnke, Philipp and Vigliocco, Gabriella and Peelle, Jonathan E. and Mahon, Bradford Z. and Buxbaum, Laurel J. and Majid, Asifa and Brysbaert, Marc and Borghi, Anna M. and De Deyne, Simon and Dove, Guy and Papeo, Liuba and Pexman, Penny M. and Poeppel, David and Lupyan, Gary and Boggio, Paulo and Hickok, Gregory and Gwilliams, Laura and Fernandino, Leonardo and Mirman, Daniel and Chrysikou, Evangelia G. and Sandberg, Chaleece W. and Crutch, Sebastian J. and Pylkk{\"a}nen, Liina and Yee, Eiling and Jackson, Rebecca L. and Rodd, Jennifer M. and Bedny, Marina and Connell, Louise and Kiefer, Markus and Kemmerer, David and {de Zubicaray}, Greig and Jefferies, Elizabeth and Lynott, Dermot and Siew, Cynthia S.Q. and Desai, Rutvik H. and McRae, Ken and Diaz, Michele T. and Bolognesi, Marianna and Fedorenko, Evelina and Kiran, Swathi and Montefinese, Maria and Binder, Jeffrey R. and Yap, Melvin J. and Hartwigsen, Gesa and Cantlon, Jessica and Bi, Yanchao and Hoffman, Paul and Garcea, Frank E. and Vinson, David},year={2024},month=sep,journal={Psychonomic Bulletin \& Review},issn={1531-5320},doi={10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7},url={https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7},section={articles},}
JoCN
Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network
@article{shainetal24:nlength,author={Shain, Cory and Kean, Hope and Casto, Colton and Lipkin, Benjamin and Affourtit, Josef and Siegelman, Matthew and Mollica, Francis and Fedorenko, Evelina},title={Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network},year={2024},journal={Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience},section={articles},}
PNAS
Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time
Shain, Cory, Meister, Clara, Pimentel, Tiago, Cotterell, Ryan, and Levy, Roger
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep, 2024
@article{shainetal24,author={Shain, Cory and Meister, Clara and Pimentel, Tiago and Cotterell, Ryan and Levy, Roger},title={Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time},year={2024},doi={https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307876121},journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},volume={121},number={10},pages={e2307876121},section={articles},}
Open Mind
Word Frequency and Predictability Dissociate in Naturalistic Reading
Shain, Cory
Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science Sep, 2024
@article{shain24,author={Shain, Cory},title={Word Frequency and Predictability Dissociate in Naturalistic Reading},year={2024},journal={Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science},volume={8},pages={177--201},section={articles},}
Open Mind
A deep learning approach to analyzing continuous-time cognitive processes
Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science Sep, 2024
@article{shainschuler24,author={Shain, Cory and Schuler, William},title={A deep learning approach to analyzing continuous-time cognitive processes},year={2024},journal={Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science},volume={8},pages={235--264},section={articles},}
2023
bioRxiv
Functional identification of language-responsive channels in individual participants in MEG investigations
@article{bruffaertsetal23,author={Bruffaerts, Rose and Pongos, Alvince and Shain, Cory and Lipkin, Benjamin and Siegelman, Matthew and Wens, Vincent and Sj{\o}g{\aa}rd, Martin and Pantazis, Dimitrios and Blank, Idan and Goldman, Serge and De Ti{\`e}ge, Xavier and Fedorenko, Evelina},title={Functional identification of language-responsive channels in individual participants in MEG investigations},year={2023},journal={bioRxiv},section={preprints},}
Cer Cort
No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network
@article{shainetal23:tom,author={Shain, Cory and Paunov, Alexander and Chen, Xuanyi and Lipkin, Benjamin and Fedorenko, Evelina},title={No evidence of theory of mind reasoning in the human language network},year={2023},journal={Cerebral Cortex},number={33},pages={6299--6319},doi={https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac505},section={articles},}
2022
J Neuro
Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex
Shain, Cory, Blank, Idan A., Fedorenko, Evelina, Gibson, Edward, and Schuler, William
@article{shainetal22,author={Shain, Cory and Blank, Idan A. and Fedorenko, Evelina and Gibson, Edward and Schuler, William},title={Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex},year={2022},journal={Journal of Neuroscience},volume={42},issue={39},pages={7412--7430},doi={https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1894-21.2022},section={articles},}
NAACL
SentSpace: Large-scale benchmarking and evaluation of text using cognitively motivated lexical, syntactic, and semantic features
In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations Sep, 2022
@inproceedings{tuckuteetal22,author={Tuckute, Greta and Sathe, Aalok and Wang, Mingye and Yoder, Harley and Shain, Cory and Fedorenko, Evelina},title={SentSpace: Large-scale benchmarking and evaluation of text using cognitively motivated lexical, syntactic, and semantic features},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations},pages={99--113},year={2022},section={papers},}
2021
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 Sep, 2021
@article{fedorenkoshain21,author={Fedorenko, Evelina and Shain, Cory},title={Similarity of computations across domains does not imply shared implementation: The case of language comprehension},year={2021},journal={Current Directions in Psychological Science},pages={526--534},volume={30},issue={6},doi={https://doi.org/10.1177%2F09637214211046955},section={articles},project={mempred},}
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 Sep, 2021
@inproceedings{shain21,author={Shain, Cory},title={CDRNN: Discovering complex dynamics in human language processing},booktitle={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},year={2021},data={https://osf.io/hb5w2/},recording={https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cr13ocV13bR},section={papers},project={cdrnn},}
Cognition
Continuous-time deconvolutional regression for psycholinguistic modeling
@article{shainschuler21,title={Continuous-time deconvolutional regression for psycholinguistic modeling},author={Shain, Cory and Schuler, William},year={2021},journal={Cognition},pages={104735},data={https://osf.io/hb5w2/},section={articles},project={cdrnn}}
Cer Cort
Incremental language comprehension difficulty predicts activity in the language network but not the multiple demand network
Wehbe, Leila, Blank, Idan, Shain, Cory, Futrell, Richard, Levy, Roger, von der Malsburg, Titus, Smith, Nathaniel, Gibson, Edward, and Fedorenko, Evelina
@article{wehbeetal21,title={Incremental language comprehension difficulty predicts activity in the language network but not the multiple demand network},author={Wehbe, Leila and Blank, Idan and Shain, Cory and Futrell, Richard and Levy, Roger and {von der Malsburg}, Titus and Smith, Nathaniel and Gibson, Edward and Fedorenko, Evelina},year={2021},journal={Cerebral Cortex},doi={10.1093/cercor/bhab065},vol={31},number={9},pages={4006--4023},section={articles},}
2020
CoNLL
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 Sep, 2020
@inproceedings{shainelsner20,author={Shain, Cory and Elsner, Micha},title={Acquiring language from speech by learning to remember and predict},booktitle={Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning},year={2020},pages={195--214},doi={10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.15},best_paper={true},section={papers},project={phonacq},}
Npsy
fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension
Shain, Cory, Blank, Idan, van Schijndel, Marten, Schuler, William, and Fedorenko, Evelina
@article{shainetal20,title={fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension},author={Shain, Cory and Blank, Idan and {van Schijndel}, Marten and Schuler, William and Fedorenko, Evelina},year={2020},journal={Neuropsychologia},volume={138},pages={107307},doi={10.1101/717512},section={articles},data={https://osf.io/eyp8q/},project={cdrnn,mempred},}
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 Sep, 2020
@inproceedings{jaffeetal20,author={Jaffe, Evan and Shain, Cory and Schuler, William},title={Coreference information guides human expectations during natural reading},booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},year={2020},pages={195--214},doi={10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.404},section={papers},project={mempred},}
2019
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) Sep, 2019
@inproceedings{shainelsner19,author={Shain, Cory and Elsner, Micha},booktitle={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)},year={2019},pages={69--85},recording={https://vimeo.com/353440477},section={papers},project={phonacq},}
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) Sep, 2019
@inproceedings{shain19,author={Shain, Cory},title={A large-scale study of the effects of word frequency and predictability in naturalistic reading},booktitle={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)},year={2019},pages={4086--4094},doi={10.18653/v1/N19-1413},recording={https://vimeo.com/359727110},section={papers},project={cdrnn,mempred},}
JLM
Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute?
@article{elsnerertal19,title={Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute?},author={Elsner, Micha and Sims, Andrea and Erdmann, Alexander and Hernandez, Antonio and Jaffe, Evan and Jin, Lifeng and Johnson, Martha Booker and Karim, Shuan and King, David L. and Lamberti Nunes, Luana and Oh, Byung-Doh and Rasmussen, Nathan and Shain, Cory and Antetomaso, Stephanie and Dickinson, Kendra and Diewald, Noah and McKenzie, Michelle and Stevens-Guille, Symon},journal={Journal of Language Modelling},year={2019},volume={7},number={1},doi={10.15398/jlm.v7i1.244},section={articles},}
2018
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 Sep, 2018
@inproceedings{shainschuler18,title={Deconvolutional time series regression: A technique for modeling temporally diffuse effects},author={Shain, Cory and Schuler, William},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},year={2018},pages={2679--2689},doi={10.18653/v1/D18-1288},section={papers},project={cdrnn},}
LREC
Deep Syntactic Annotations for Broad-Coverage Psycholinguistic Modeling
Shain, Cory, van Schijndel, Marten, and Schuler, William
In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Sep, 2018
@inproceedings{shainetal18,title={Deep Syntactic Annotations for Broad-Coverage Psycholinguistic Modeling},author={Shain, Cory and {van Schijndel}, Marten and Schuler, William},booktitle={Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation },year={2018},data={https://github.com/modelblocks/modelblocks-release},section={papers},project={mempred},}
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 Sep, 2018
@inproceedings{jaffeetal18,title={Coreference and focus in reading times},author={Jaffe, Evan and Shain, Cory and Schuler, William},booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics},year={2018},section={papers},project={mempred},}
CUNY
Coreference and focus in broad-coverage stimuli
Jaffe, Evan, Shain, Cory, and Schuler, William
In 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Sep, 2018
@inproceedings{jaffeetal18:cuny,title={Coreference and focus in broad-coverage stimuli},author={Jaffe, Evan and Shain, Cory and Schuler, William},year={2018},booktitle={31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing},}
2017
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 Sep, 2017
@inproceedings{elsnershain17,author={Elsner, Micha and Shain, Cory},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},year={2017},section={papers},project={phonacq},}
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 Sep, 2017
@inproceedings{mahleretal17,title={Breaking NLP: Using morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and world knowledge to fool sentiment analysis systems},author={Mahler, Taylor and Cheung, Willy and Elsner, Micha and King, David and {de Marneffe}, Marie-Catherine and Shain, Cory and Stevens-Guille, Symon and White, Michael},booktitle={Proceedings of the First Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems},year={2017},section={papers},}
2016
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 Sep, 2016
@inproceedings{shainetal16,title={Memory-bounded left-corner unsupervised grammar induction on child-directed input},author={Shain, Cory and Bryce, William and Jin, Lifeng and Krakovna, Victoria and Doshi-Velez, Finale and Miller, Timothy and Schuler, William and Schwartz, Lane},booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},year={2016},section={papers},project={graminduc},}
CL4LC
Memory access during incremental sentence processing causes reading time latency
Shain, Cory, van Schijndel, Marten, Futrell, Richard, Gibson, Edward, and Schuler, William
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity Sep, 2016
@inproceedings{shainetal16:cl4lc,title={Memory access during incremental sentence processing causes reading time latency},author={Shain, Cory and {van Schijndel}, Marten and Futrell, Richard and Gibson, Edward and Schuler, William},booktitle={Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity},year={2016},section={papers},project={mempred},}
2010
LVC
The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní
@article{shaintonhauser10,title={The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní},author={Shain, Cory and Tonhauser, Judith},journal={Language Variation and Change},year={2010},volume={22},number={03},pages={321--346},section={articles},project={guarani},}