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Matthew Wagers -- curriculum vitae

Ph.D. student in Linguistics

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, MD): Ph.D. in progress, Linguistics, 2003 -- present: University Graduate Fellow 2003-4, 2005-6; Wylie Fellow 2008; Dissertation: The structure of memory meets memory for structure in linguistic cognition; Supervisor: Colin Phillips; expected completion Spring 2008
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, NJ): A.B. Molecular Biology cum laude, Certificate in Neuroscience, Linguistics, 2003.: Thesis: Optimization of neocortical white matter: constraints of space and time [ abstract ]; Supervisor: Sam Wang

Wagers M, Lau E, Phillips C (2007) Agreement attraction in comprehension: representation and processes. Submitted (Journal of Memory and Language) [pdf]
Wagers M, Phillips C (2007) The grammar of multiple wh-dependences in real-time comprehension. In preparation.
Marcus G, Wagers M (2007) Tree structure and the representation of sentences: a reappraisal. In prep.
Phillips C & Wagers M (2006) Constituent structure and the binding problem. Behav Brain Sci 29: 81-2 29. (commentary on target article by van der Velde & de Kamps) [ pdf ]
Wang SS-H, Shultz JR, Burish MJ, Harrison KH, Hof PR, Towns LC, Wagers MW, Wyatt KD. Shaping of white matter composition by biophysical scaling constraints. In review.
Gould E, Vail N, Wagers M, Gross CG (2001) Adult-generated hippocampal and neocortical neurons in macaques have a transient existence. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 10910-7. [ abstract ]

Phillips C & Wagers M (2007) Relating Structure and Time in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. In G. Gaskell (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [ pdf (530K)]
Omaki A, Ortega-Santos I, Sprouse J, Wagers M, eds., (2007) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, In press.

Talks

Lau E, Wagers M & Phillips C (2007) How (not) to get confused in comprehension: the case of agreement (2007) Talk given at the 13th Annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Turku, Finland.
Wagers M & Phillips C (2005) Re-active filling. Talk given at the 19th Annual Cuny Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY

Posters

Wagers M, Phillips C (2007) Content-dependent and content-independent processes in filler-gap resolution. Poster given at the 20th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, San Diego, CA.
Caputo-Nimbark R, Hines P, Larson R, Levy J, Longini A, Quon H, Smith C, Wagers M (2007) The impact of resolved filler-gap dependences on later dependency formation. Poster given at the 20th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, San Diego, CA.
Wagers M & Lau E (2006) Non-intervening attraction and the computation of agreement in comprehension. Poster given at AMLaP 2006, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Wagers M & Phillips C (2005) Fillers after the gap. Poster presented at 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson AZ. [ abstract | pdf ]
Shultz JR, Harrison KH, Wagers MW, Burish MJ, Wang, SS-H. (2003) Speed limits in mammalian brains: scaling constraints from biophysics. Society for Neuroscience.

LING499 (Fall 2006), Seminar in Psycholinguistics, instructor -- self-designed course for advanced undergraduates
LING240 (Summer 2005), Language and Mind, instructor

Reviewing (ad-hoc)

University of Maryland