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Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, Psychology, Linguistics, and Communication Sciences and Disorders Departments, University of Pittsburgh

Research

At the University of Pittsburgh, my research is conducted in the Reading and Language Lab and the Eye-Language Lab. These labs house the students and lab personnel of Chuck Perfetti, Erik Reichle, Natasha Tokowicz and myself, as well as behavioral experiment labs, two ERP labs and multiple eye-tracking labs. Our eye-tracking equipment consists of a Generation VI Dual Purkinje eye-tracker, two Eyelink 1000 eye-trackers, and an ASL 501 high speed head mounted eye-tracker.

Publications

Patson, N.D., Gerret, G., & Warren, T. (under review). The mental representation of plurals.

Vanyukov, P.M., Warren, T., Wheeler, M.E., & Reichle, E.D. (in press). The emergence of frequency effects in eye movements. Cognition.

Warren, T. & Dickey, M.W. (2011). On line costs for predicting upcoming syntactic structure. In J. Harris and M. Grant (Eds.), UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics 38: Processing Structure (pp. 141-155). Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.

Warren, T. (2011). The influence of plausibility and anomaly on eye movements in reading. In S. P. Liversedge, I. Gilchrist, & S. Everling (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Eye Movements (pp. 911-923). USA, Oxford University Press.

White, S.J., Warren, T., & Reichle, E.D. (2011). Parafoveal preview during reading: Effects of sentence position. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(4), 1221-1238.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2011). Building complex reference objects from dual sets. Journal of Memory and Language, 64(4), 443-459.

Warren, T., Reichle, E.D., & Patson, N.D. (2011). Lexical and post-lexical complexity effects on eye movements in reading. Journal of Eye Movement Research,4(1):3, 1-10.

Tokowicz, N. & Warren, T. (2010). Beginning L2 learners' sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations: A self-paced reading study. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22(7), 1092-1106.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2010). Evidence for distributivity effects in comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(3), 782-789.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2010). Eye movements when reading implausible sentences: Investigating potential structural influences on semantic integration. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(8), 1516-1532.

Warren, T., White, S.J., & Reichle, E.D. (2009). Investigating the causes of wrap-up effects: Evidence from eye movements and E-Z Reader. Cognition, 111(1), 132-137.

Reichle, E.D., Warren, T., & McConnell, K. (2009). Using E-Z Reader to model effects of higher level language processing on eye-movements in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16(1), 1-20.

Reichle, E.D., Vanyukov, P., Laurent, P., & Warren, T. (2008). Serial or Parallel? Using depth of processing to examine attention allocation in reading. Vision Research, 48 (7), 1831-1836.

Warren, T., McConnell, K. & Rayner, K. (2008). Effects of context on eye movements when reading about plausible and impossible events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 34(4), 1001-1010.

Tokowicz, N. & Warren, T. (2008). Quantification and statistics in the study of bilingualism. In L. Wei & M. Moyer (Eds.), The Blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Warren, T. & McConnell, K. (2007). Investigating effects of selectional restriction violations and plausibility violation severity on eye-movements in reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14(4), 770-775.

Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2005). Effects of NP-type on reading English clefts. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20 (6), 751-767.

Rayner, K., Warren, T., Juhasz, B., & Liversedge, S. (2004). The effects of plausibility on eye movements in reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30(6), 1290-1301.

Warren, T. & Rayner, K. (2004). Top-down influences in the Interactive Alignment model: The power of the situation model. A commentary on Pickering & Garrod's Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27 (2), 211.

Gibson, E. & Warren, T. (2004). Reading time evidence for intermediate linguistic structure in long-distance dependencies. Syntax, 7:1, 55-78.

Warren, T. (2003). The processing complexity of quantifiers. In L. Alonso-Ovalle (Ed.), UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics 27: On Semantic Processing. 211 - 237.

Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2002). The influence of referential processing on sentence complexity. Cognition, 85, 79-112.

Warren, T. (2001). Understanding the Role of Referential Processing in Sentence Complexity. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.

Selected Conference Presentations

Dickey, M.W. & Warren, T. (2012). Neurolinguistic evidence for independent contributions of verb-specific and event-related knowledge to predictive processing. Poster presented at the 25th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. New York, NY.

Patson, N.D., George, G., & Warren, T. (2012). The mental representation of plurals. Poster presented at the 25th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. New York, NY.

George, G., Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2012). The mental representation of plurals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Pittsburgh, PA.

Patson, N.D., George, G., & Warren, T. (2011). The conceptualization of grammatical number. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Seattle, WA.

Tuninetti, A., Tokowicz, N., & Warren, T. (2011). Cross-language similarity in second language learning: An eye-tracking study. Talk presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Seattle, WA.

Tokowicz, N., Tolentino, L., Warren, T., & Tuninetti, A. (2011). Second language morphosyntactic processing: Evidence from eye tracking, self-paced reading, grammaticality judgments, and event-related potentials. Talk presented in the 'Bilingual word and sentence processing: Electrophysiological investigations' symposium at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology 17th meeting. Barcelona, Spain.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2011). Event distributivity and plurality. Poster presented at the 17th annual Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing conference. Paris, France.

White, S.J., Warren, T., Staub, A., & Reichle, E.D. (2011) The Distribution of Fixation Durations During Reading: Effects of Stimulus Quality and Sentence Wrap-up. Poster presented at the European Conference on Eye Movements. Marseilles, France.

Vanyukov, P.M., Warren, T., & Reichle, E.D. (2011). Emergence of frequency effects in eye movements. Talk presented at the European Conference on Eye Movements. Marseilles, France.

Vanyukov, P.M., Warren, T., & Reichle, E.D. (2011). Effects of frequency on eye movements in reading and visual search. Poster presented at the European Conference on Eye Movements. Marseilles, France.

Tuninetti, A., Tokowicz, N. & Warren, T. (2011). Cross-language similarity in L2 learning: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Oslo, Norway.

Warren, T. (2010). Comprehending the impossible: is there a role for selectional restriction violations? Talk presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. St. Louis, MO.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2010). The girls and some of the boys kissed: Evidence that conjoined plurals drive reciprocal interpretations. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. St. Louis, MO.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2010). Plural sets can saturate reciprocal theta roles. Poster presented at the 23rd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. New York, NY.

Vanyukov, P.M., Reichle, E.D., & Warren, T. (2009). Searching for O: Evidence for cognitive control in eye-movement behavior. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.

Warren, T., White, S.J., & Reichle, E.D. (2009). Wrap-up effects in reading: Evaluating E-Z Reader 10. Paper presented at the symposium: Modeling effects of higher-level language processing on eye movements. 15th European Conference on Eye-movements, Southampton, UK.

Reichle, E.D. & Warren, T. (2009). Simulating post-lexical effects on eye movements in reading: E-Z Reader 10. Paper presented at the symposium: Modeling effects of higher-level language processing on eye movements. 15th European Conference on Eye-movements, Southampton, UK.

Patson, N.D., Warren, T., & Reichle, E.D. (2009). Lexical and post-lexical complexity effects on eye movements in reading. Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye-movements, Southampton, UK.

White, S.J., Warren, T., & Reichle, E.D. (2009). Effects of sentence position on parafoveal preview. Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye-movements, Southampton, UK.

Vanyukov, P.M., Reichle, E.D., Warren, T., & Degani, T. (2009). Examining attention allocation in gaze-contingent visual search tasks using diffusion models. Paper presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye-movements, Southampton, UK.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2009). On-line evidence for distributivity effects in comprehension. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. Davis, CA.

Patson, N.D. & Warren, T. (2009). Making individuals within sets accessible: What is required? Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. Davis, CA.

Warren, T. & Dickey, M.W. (2009). On-line costs for predicting upcoming syntactic structure. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. Davis, CA.

Warren, T., Patson, N.D., Laurent, P.A., & Reichle, E.D. (2008). Revisiting length and predictability effects on eye movements in reading. Poster presented at the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Vanyukov, P.M., Degani, T., Reichle, E.D., & Warren, T. (2008). Examining attention allocation in visual search tasks. Poster presented at the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Warren, T., White, S.J., & Reichle, E. D. (2008). Evidence for pausing, not wrap-up, effects in reading and implications for E-Z Reader 10. Poster presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. Chapel Hill, NC.

Patson, N.D., Warren, T., Virbitsky, A., & McConnell, K. (2007). The detection of plausibility violations inside and outside of theta-assigning relations. Poster presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Warren, T., McConnell, K., & Reichle, E. (2007) Factors contributing to effects of implausibility on eye-movements during reading: Empirical results and implications for the EZ Reader model. Symposium on effects of sentence context and predictability on eye-movements. 14th European Conference on Eye-movements. Potsdam, Germany.

White, S., Warren, T., & Reichle, E. (2007) Clause wrap-up and the parafoveal processing of sentence-initial words. Symposium on effects of sentence context and predictability on eye-movements. 14th European Conference on Eye-movements. Potsdam, Germany.

Vanyukov, P., Reichle, E., Laurent, P., Morales, F., & Warren, T. (2007). Serial or parallel? Using depth of processing to examine attention allocation during reading. 14th European Conference on Eye-movements. Potsdam, Germany.

Warren, T., McConnell, K. & Rayner, K. (2007). The time course of different kinds of knowledge use during reading comprehension. Poster presented at the 20th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. San Diego, CA.

Tokowicz, N., Warren, T. & Rusinol, A. (2006). ?Correcto o incorrecto? Reading times and grammaticality judgments of beginning L2 learners. Poster presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.

Warren, T., Vasishth, S., Hirotani, M. & Drenhaus, H. (2006). Multiple-licensor and locality effects in negative polarity licensing. Poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. New York, NY.

Warren, T. & McConnell, K. (2006). Effects of building and maintaining syntactic predictions on eye-movements in reading. Poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing. New York, NY.

Warren, T. & McConnell, K. (2005). Effects of event possibility and likelihood on eye-movements in reading. Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Toronto, Canada.

Warren, T. & Russell, K. (2005). Differences in the processing complexity of quantified NPs. Paper presented at the 18th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing conference. Tuscon, AZ.

Warren, T., Hirotani, M. & Schiller, M. (2005). Retrieval difficulty in establishing syntactic, semantic and referential dependencies. Poster presented at the 18th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing conference. Tuscon, AZ.

Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2004). Conjoined NPs and syntactic complexity. Paper presented at the 10th annual Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing Conference. Aix en Provence, France.

Warren, T. & Grodner, D. (2004). Effects of the locality of syntactic dependencies on eye-movements in reading. Poster presented at the 17th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, MD.

Warren, T., Gibson, E., Jameson, M. & Hirsch, C. (2003). The effects of NP-type on Sentence Complexity. Paper presented at the 34th annual meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society. Stony Brook, NY.

Rayner, K., Warren, T. & Liversedge, S. (2003). The effect of plausibility on eye fixations in reading. Paper presented at the 12th European Conference on Eye-movements. Dundee, UK

Warren, T. (2003). The processing complexity of quantifiers. Paper presented at the 16th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, MA.

Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2002). Evidence for a constituent-based distance metric in distance-based complexity theories. Poster presented at the 15th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.

Warren, T. & Gibson, E. (2000). Effects of discourse status on reading times: Implications for quantifying distance in a locality based theory of linguistic complexity. Poster presented at 13th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. La Jolla, CA.