Gibson, Edward

Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies

Gibson, E. (1998) · Cognition

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 2,537

The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty

Kaan, E., Harris, A., Gibson, E., & Holcomb, P. (2000) · Language and Cognitive Processes

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 993

Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication

Piantadosi, S. T., Tily, H., & Gibson, E. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 695

The communicative function of ambiguity in language

Piantadosi, S. T., Tily, H., & Gibson, E. (2012) · Cognition

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 628

How Efficiency Shapes Human Language

Gibson, E., Futrell, R., Piantadosi, S. P., Dautriche, I., Mahowald, K., Bergen, L., & Levy, R. (2019) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 485

Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages

Futrell, R., Mahowald, K., & Gibson, E. (2015) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Cited by 455

Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation

Gibson, E., Bergen, L., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 407

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

Fedorenko, E., Piantadosi, S. T., & Gibson, E. A. F. (2024) · Nature

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 190

A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models

Hu, J., Floyd, S., Jouravlev, O., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E. (2023) · Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Natural Language Processing TechniquesSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 78

Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network

Wehbe, L., Blank, I. A., Shain, C., Futrell, R., Levy, R., von der Malsburg, T., Smith, N., Gibson, E., & Fedorenko, E. (2021) · Cerebral Cortex

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismReading and Literacy Development

Cited by 72

Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language

Martínez, E., Mollica, F., & Gibson, E. (2022) · Cognition

Legal Language and InterpretationReading and Literacy Development

Cited by 39

Exact number concepts are limited to the verbal count range

Pitt, B., Gibson, E., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2022) · Psychological Science

Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsCategorization, perception, and language

Cited by 26

Overcoming Memory Limitations in Rule Learning

Frank, M. C., & Gibson, E. (2011) · Language Learning and Development

Language Development and DisordersCategorization, perception, and language

Cited by 23