Van Berkum, J.J.A. (in press). The neuropragmatics of 'simple' utterance comprehension: An ERP review. To appear in U. Sauerland & K. Yatsushiro (Eds.), Semantic and pragmatics: From experiment to theory. Palgrave (preprint)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Holleman, B., Nieuwland, M.S., Otten, M., & Murre, J. (in press). Right or wrong? The brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements. Psychological Science (preprint).

Snijders, T.M., Vosse, T., Kempen, G., Van Berkum, J.J.A., Petersson, K.M., & Hagoort, P. (in press). Retrieval and unification in sentence comprehension: An fMRI study using word category ambiguity. Cerebral Cortex.

Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Petersson, K.M., Van Berkum, J.J.A., Van den Brink, D., Buitelaar, J.K., & Hagoort, P. (in press). Unification of speaker and meaning in language comprehension: An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (submitted). The electrophysiology of discourse and conversation. In M. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. Joanisse (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press. (revised draft)

Van Alphen, P.M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (submitted). Is there pain in champagne? Semantic involvement of words within words during sense-making.

Van den Brink, D., Van Berkum, J.J.A., Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Kos, M., Buitelaar, J.K., & Hagoort, P. (submitted), Empathy and sex in social language processing.

Otten, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (in preparation). When predictions don't come true: An ERP experiment investigating the role of working memory capacity in message-based lexical prediction. (working title)

 

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008). Understanding sentence in context: What brain waves can tell us. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(6), 376-380. (pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., van den Brink, D., Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Kos, M., & Hagoort, P. (2008). The neural integration of speaker and message. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(4), 580-591. (pdf)

Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008). The interplay between semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution: Evidence from ERPs. Brain and Language, 106(2), 119-131. (pdf)

Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008). The neurocognition of referential ambiguity in language comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass 2(4), 603-630. (pdf) (DOI 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00070.x)

Otten, M. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008). Discourse-based anticipation during language processing: Prediction or priming? Discourse Processes, 45(6), 464-496. (pdf items)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Koornneef, A.W., Otten, M., & Nieuwland, M.S. (2007). Establishing reference in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective. Brain Research, 1146, 158-171. (abstract pdf)

Nieuwland, M.S, Petersson, K.M. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). On sense and reference: Examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing. NeuroImage, 37, 993-1004. (pdf)

Otten, M., Nieuwland, M.S, & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). Great expectations: Specific lexical anticipation influences the processing of spoken language. BMC Neuroscience, 8(89). (on-line article pdf)

Otten, M. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). What makes a discourse constraining? Comparing the effects of discourse message and scenario fit on the discourse-dependent N400 effect. Brain Research, 1153, 166-177. (pdf)

Nieuwland, M.S, & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006). Individual differences and contextual bias in pronoun resolution: Evidence from ERPs. Brain Research, 1118, 155-167. (pdf)

Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006). When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(7), 1098-1111. (abstract pdf) 

Koornneef, A.W. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006). On the use of verb-based implicit causality in sentence comprehension: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye tracking. Journal of Memory and Language, 54(4), 445-465. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Brown, C.M., Zwitserlood, P., Kooijman, V., & Hagoort, P. (2005). Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31(3), 443-467. (abstract pdf supplementary materials)

Nieuwland, M.S. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2005). Testing the limits of the semantic illusion phenomenon: ERPs reveal temporary semantic change deafness in discourse comprehension. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 691-701. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2004). Sentence comprehension in a wider discourse: Can we use ERPs to keep track of things? In M. Carreiras & C. Clifton Jr. (Eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eyetracking, ERPs and beyond (pp. 229-270). New York: Psychology Press. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Brown, C.M., Hagoort, P., & Zwitserlood, P. (2003). Event-related brain potentials reflect discourse-referential ambiguity in spoken-language comprehension. Psychophysiology, 40, 235-248. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Zwitserlood, P., Brown, C.M., & Hagoort, P., (2003) When and how do listeners relate a sentence to the wider discourse? Evidence from the N400 effect. Cognitive Brain Research, 17, 701-718. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Hagoort, P., & Brown, C.M. (2000). The use of referential context and grammatical gender in parsing: A reply to Brysbaert and Mitchell. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29 (5), 467-481. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Hagoort, P., & Brown, C.M. (1999). Semantic integration in sentences and discourse: Evidence from the N400. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(6), 657-671. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Brown, C.M., & Hagoort, P. (1999). Early referential context effects in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 147-182. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Brown, C.M., & Hagoort, P., (1999). When does gender constrain parsing? Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 28(5), 555-571. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1997). Syntactic processes in speech production: The retrieval of grammatical gender. Cognition, 64, 115-152. (abstract pdf)

van Berkum, J.J.A. (1996). De taalpsychologie van genus. NEDER-L, Electronisch Tijdschrift voor de Neerlandistiek, nr. 9601.a, article 9601.04 (Dutch). (pdf)

Bastiaansen, M.C.M., Van Berkum, J.J.A., & Hagoort, P. (2002). Syntactic processing modulates the theta rhythm of the human EEG. NeuroImage, 17, 1479-1492. (abstract)

Bastiaansen, M.C.M., Van Berkum, J.J.A., & Hagoort, P. (2002). Event-related theta power increases in the human EEG during online sentence processing. Neuroscience Letters, 323, 13-16. (abstract)

Brown, C.M., Van Berkum, J.J.A., & Hagoort, P., (2000). Discourse before gender: An event-related brain potential study on the interplay of semantic and syntactic information during spoken language understanding. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(1), 53-68. (abstract)

Radeau, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1996). Gender decision. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11(6), 605-610.

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Holleman, B.C., Murre, J.M.J., Nieuwland, M.S., & Otten, M. (2007). So how do you feel about this? An ERP study on opinion poll comprehension. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS-2007), New York, May 5-9. (pdf)

Van Alphen, P.M. & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007). About embarking dogs and gracious mice: An ERP study on the integration of embedded words. Annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing (CUNY-2007), San Diego, March 29-31. (pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Van den Brink, D., Tesink, C., Kos, M., & Hagoort, P. (2006). When do listeners think about the speaker? Neural evidence for rapid voice-based speaker modelling. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS-2006), San Francisco, April 8-12. (pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Otten, M., Jansen, J., Koornneef, A., De Boer, S., Huizinga, F., & Junge, C. (2005). Why does "David praised Linda because he was proud" feel odd? ERP evidence for the predictive use of verb-based interpersonal bias. 9th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-2005), Havana, September 5-10. (pdf ppt)

Nieuwland, M.S., Otten, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2005). The 'Problem of 2' revisited: Tracking discourse-level referential processing with ERPs. 9th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-2005), Havana, September 5-10. (pdf ppt)

Nieuwland, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A., (2005). Discourse context can completely overrule lexical-semantic violations: Evidence from the N400. 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (CUNY-2005), Tucson, March 31 - April 2. (ppt)

Nieuwland, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A., (2005). Testing the limits of the semantic illusion phenomenon: ERPs reveal temporary semantic change deafness in discourse comprehension. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS-2005), New York, April 9-12. (ppt)

Otten, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A., (2005). Discourse based lexical anticipation during language processing: Prediction or Priming? 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (CUNY-2005), Tucson, March 31 - April 2. (ppt)

Otten, M., & Van Berkum, J.J.A., (2005). The influence of message-based predictability and lexical association on the N400 effect. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS-2005), New York, April 9-12. (ppt)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Zwitserlood, P., Kooijman, V., Brown, C.M., & Hagoort, P. (2004). Sentence comprehension in a wider discourse: ERP studies on syntax, sense, and reference. 14th annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Chicago, August 1-4.  (pdf ppt)

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Zwitserlood, P., Bastiaansen, M.C.M., Brown, C.M. & Hagoort, P. (2004). So who's "he" anyway? Differential ERP and ERSP effects of referential success, ambiguity and failure during spoken language comprehension. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS-2004), San Francisco, April 18-20. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1996). The psycholinguistics of grammatical gender: Studies in language comprehension and production. Doctoral Dissertation, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Nijmegen University Press [ISBN 90 373 0321 8].

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2008, invited). <title to be announced> Brain Talk: Discourse with and in the Brain, Lund, Sweden June 2-3.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007, invited). Processing Sentences in Context. Language: Acquisition, processing and disorders CSCA symposium, Amsterdam, July 6.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007, invited). Beyond Decontextualized Sentences: What can ERPs Tell Us about Pragmatics (and Semantics)? Experimental Pragmatics 2007 (XPRAG-2007), Berlin, December 13-16.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007, invited keynote lecture). Resolving discourse anaphors: What can the brain tell us?. 6^th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Conference (DAARC-2007), Lagos, Portugal, March 29-30.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2005, invited keynote lecture). How to use event-related potentials (ERPs) to study language processing. 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL-2005), Hong Kong, China, December 9-11.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2002, invited keynote lecture). Can we use EEG to keep track of discourse-level comprehension? 8^th Annual conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Tenerife, Spain, September 19-21. (abstract  spin-off chapter pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007, invited). Discourse electrified: ERP studies on discourse-level language comprehension. "A neuroscience approach to discourse processing" symposium, Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, July 8-11.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2007, invited). How does the brain make sense of discourse? Symposium on Endo-Neuro-Psycho conference, Doorwerth, June 8, 2007

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006, invited). Studying question answering with brain potentials. International conference on Discourse, Cognition and Communication, Utrecht, November 9-10. Co-authored by Holleman, B., Murre, J., & Nieuwland, M.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006, invited). Language interpretation: Unifying words and context. International Workshop on the Neurocognition of Unification. Nijmegen, August 29.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006, invited). Discourse and the brain. 5th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS-2006), Vienna, Austria, July 8-12.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2006, invited). So when do listeners use context? Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS-2006) San Francisco, April 8-11.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2005, invited). Can EEG oscillations help us track referential processes in language comprehension? 4th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting (ENP-2005). Doorwerth, May 31- June 3.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2002, invited). Sentence comprehension in a wider discourse: ERP studies on syntax, sense, and reference. 8^th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-8), Porquerolles, France, September 9-15. (abstract  related poster pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2002, invited). Sentence comprehension in a wider discourse: Architectural implications of recent ERP work. International Workshop on the Architecture of Sentence and Discourse Comprehension. Nijmegen, December 6.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (2001, invited). Processing sentences in discourse: What does the brain tell us? From sentence processing to discourse interpretation, international workshop, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht, July 2-3, 2001.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1998, invited). The interaction of grammatical gender and discourse context during sentence parsing: Evidence from ERPs. Processing of grammatical gender symposium, Leipzig, July 24-25, 1998.
 

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Hijne, H., de Jong, T., van Joolingen, W.R. & Njoo, M. (1995). Characterizing the application of computer simulations in education: Instructional criteria. In A. Ram & D.B. Leake (Eds.), Goal-driven learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Van Berkum, J.J.A., & de Jong, T., (1991). Instructional environments for simulations. Education & Computing, 6(3/4), 305-358.

Van Berkum, J.J.A., Hijne, H., de Jong, T., van Joolingen, W.R. & Njoo, M. (1991). Aspects of computer simulations in education. Education & Computing, 6(3/4), 231-240.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1991). The Instructional Support Manager: A prototype dynamic instructional planner for simulation-based learning environments. DELTA Tech Report SIM-25-8, European Community, Brussels.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1991). Functional requirements for an intelligent simulation learning environment: A cognitive apprenticeship perspective. DELTA Tech Report SIM-24B, European Community, Brussels.

Eysenck, M.W., & Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1992). Trait anxiety, defensiveness, and the structure of worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 13(12), 1285-1290. (abstract pdf)

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1986). Doordacht gevoel: Emoties als informatieverwerking. De Psycholoog, 21(9), 417-423 (in Dutch).

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1986). De cognitieve psychologie op zoek naar grondslagen. Kennis en Methode, X, 348-360 (in Dutch).

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1986). Intercity network search. Heymans Bulletin HB-88-914-SW, Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Informatica, RU Groningen.

Van Berkum, J.J.A. (1986). Cognitive modelling in Soar. Technical Report WR 88-01, Verkeerskundig Studiecentrum, RU Groningen.