PUBLICATIONS (selected):


Swinney, D., Love, T., Nicol, J., Bouck, V., Hald, L. A. (2000). Neuroanatomical Organization of Sentential Processing Operations: Evidence from aphasia on the (modular) processing of discontinuous dependencies (chapter 3, pp 51-66). In R. Bastiannse & Y. Grodzinsky (Eds.) Grammatical disorders in Aphasia: a neurolinguistic perspective. London: Whurr Publishers. Download

Swinney, D., Prather, P. & Love, T. (2000) The Time-Course of Lexical Access and the Role of Context: Converging Evidence from Normal and Aphasic Processing  In: Grodzinsky, Y., Shapiro, L. P., Swinney, D. A. (Eds.) Language and the Brain: Representation and Processing. Academic Press. N.Y.,  pp. 73-294.

Swinney, D.  (2000). Understanding the Behavioral-Methodology / Language-Processing Interface.  Brain and Language, 71, 241-244. Download

Grodzinsky, Y., Shapiro, L. P., Swinney, D. A.  (2000) Language and the Brain: Representation and Processing. Academic Press. N.Y

Hillert, D. & Swinney, D. (2001) The processing of fixed expressions during sentence comprehension. In:  Cienki, A., Luka, B.J., & Smith, M.B. (Eds.), Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure , CSLI Publications, Stanford, Ca. pp107-122. Download

Nicol, J.and Swinney, D. (Eds.) (2001) Special Issue on Human Sentence Processing: CUNY 2000 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research  Part I : 29 (6) and Part II: 30 (1).

Friederici, A., Hickok, G. & Swinney, D. (Eds) (2001) Brain Imaging and Sentence PRocessing (A Special Issues) Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30 (3).

Kanarek, R. and Swinney, D.. (1990). Effects of Food Snacks on Cognitive Performance in Male College Students, Appetite: a journal of behavior and nutrition14, 15-27.

Zurif, E., Swinney, D. and Garrett, M. (1990). Lexical processes in service of syntactic function.  In: Caramazza, A. (Ed.) Cognitive Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics: advances in models of cognitive function and impairment, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New York.

Swinney, D. and Osterhout, L. (1990). Inference generation during auditory language comprehension.  In: Graesser, A. C. and Bower, G. H. (Eds.) Inference and Text Comprehension: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 25, Academic Press, San Diego.

Swinney, D. (1990). Acceso al lexico durante la comprehension de oraciones: (Re) consideracion de los efectos del contexto.  Reprint in translation of 1979 paper in: F. Valle, F. Cuetos, J.M. Igoa, S. del Viao (Eds.) Lecturas de Psicolinguistica, Vol. 1 (Comprension Y Produccion del Lenguaje), Alianza  Editorial,  Madrid, Spain.

Swinney, D. (1990). The resolution of indeterminacy during language comprehension: evidence from lexical and structural processing.  In G. Simpson, (Ed.), Understanding Word and Sentence  (Advances in Psychology Series) North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Prather, P., Zurif, E., Shapiro, L., and Swinney, D.. (1991). Real-time examinations of lexical processing in aphasics.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 20, 3, 271-281.

Stern, C. Prather, P. Swinney, D., Zurif, E. (1991).  The time-course of automatic lexical access and aging. Brain and Language, 40, 359-372.

Zurif, E., Swinney, D.  and, Fodor, J..A. (1991)  An evaluation of assumptions underlying the single-patient-only position in neuropsychological research. Brain and Cognition, 16, 198-210.

Swinney, D. A. and Fodor, J. D. (Eds.)  (1991)  Special Issue on Sentence Processing II:Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 20, (3), Plenum Press, N. Y.

Kanarek, R., Hirsch, E., Norkin, E., Anderson, J., Holcomb, P., Swinney, D., and Lester, L.  (1992)  Nutritional snacks and behavior.  Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Supplement 16B, 256.

Smith, E. E. and Swinney, D. (1993) The role of schemas in reading text:  a real-time examination. Discourse Processes, 15, 303-316.

Osterhout. L. and Swinney, D. (1993)  On the temporal course of gap-filling during comprehension of verbal passives. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22, 273-286.

Zurif, E., Swinney, D., Prather, P., Solomon, J. and Bushell, C. (1993)  An on-line analysis of syntactic processing in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia, Brain and Language, 45, 448-464.

Swinney, D. and Fodor J. D. (Eds.) (1993)  Special Issue on Sentence Processing III: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22, (2), Plenum Press, N. Y.

Zurif, E. and Swinney, D. (1994) The Neuropsychology of Language.   In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (Ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics  Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, Fla.

Zurif, E. and Swinney, D. (1994) Modularity need not imply locality; damaged modules can have non-local effects. An accompanying reply to Farah, M.J., Neuropsychological inference with an interactive brain: A critique of the "locality assumption". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 17, 1, 89-90.

Osterhout, L., Holcomb, P.J., and Swinney, D.  (1994)  Brain Potentials Elicited by Garden-Path Sentences: Evidence of the application of verb information during parsing.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 20, 4, 786-803.

Nicol, J., Fodor, J. D., Swinney, D. (1994)  Using Cross-Modal lexical decision tasks to investigate sentence processing.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 20, 5, 1229-1238. Download

Zurif, E. Swinney, D  Prather ,P. and Love, T. (1994)  Functional localization in the brain with respect to syntactic processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,23(6), 487-498. Download

Swinney, D. And Zurif, E.  (1994)  The neurological organization of lexical and structural operations in sentence comprehension: findings and methodological considerations.  Linguistische Berichte: [Special Issue: Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience], vol. 6, 234-244. Download

Swinney, D. and Zurif, E. (1995) Syntactic Processing in Aphasia. Brain and Language, 50, 225-239. Download

Zurif, E., Swinney, D., Prather, P, Wingfield, A. and Brownell, H.  (1995)  The allocation of memory resources during sentence comprehension: evidence from the elderly. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24 (3), 165-182. Download

Ahrens, K. and Swinney, D. (1995) Participant Roles and the Processing of Verbs during Sentence Comprehension.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24 (6) 533-547. Download

Swinney, D. Zurif, E., Prather, P., and Love, T. (1996) Neurological Distribution of Processing Operations Underlying Language Comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 (2), 174-184. Download

Love, T. and Swinney, D. (1996) Coreference Processing and Levels of Analysis in Object-Relative Constructions; Demonstration of Antecedent Reactivation with the Cross-Modal Priming Paradigm. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 25 (1), 5-24. Download

Hickok, G., Love, T., Swinney, D., Wong, E.C., Buxton, R.B. (1997)  Functional MR Imaging of Auditorily Presented Words: A Single-Item Presentation Paradigm. Brain and Language, 58, 197-201. Download

Balogh, J., Zurif, E., Prather, P., Swinney, D. and Finkel, L. (1998)  Gap-Filling and End-of-Sentence Effects in Real-time Language processing:  A new perspective on Blumstein et al.’s findings. Brain and Language, 61, 169-182. Download

Swinney, D., Nicol, J., and Rieber, R.  (1998)  Celebrating a Quarter Century of (The Journal of) Psycholinguistic Research.   Introduction to Celebrating a Quarter Century of Psycholinguistic Research A Special Anniversary Issue of The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.  (27), 2, 1. Plenum Press, N.Y. .

Shapiro, L., Swinney, D., & Borsky, S. (1998)  On-line examination of language performance in normal and neurologically-impaired adults.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, (7),1, 49-60. Download

Swinney, D., Nicol, J., and  Rieber, R.(Eds.)  (1998) Celebrating a Quarter Century of Psycholinguistic Research: A Special Anniversary Issue of The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research27, (2), Plenum Press, N.Y.

Love, T. & Swinney, D. (1998) The Influence of Canonical Word Order on Structural Processing; real-time processing from a cross-linguistic perspective  In D. Hillert (Ed.) Psycholinguistics: a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. [Volume 31 of Syntax and Semantics], pp153-166. Academic Press, N.Y. Download

Swinney, D. and T. Love (1998) The Processing of Discontinuous Dependencies in Language and Music.  Music Perception, 16, 1, 63-78. Download

Walenski, M. and Swinney, D. (1999) Sources of Variability in correlating syntactic complexity and working memory. A commentary on: Caplan and Waters’ ‘Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 112. Download

Swinney, D. (1999)  Aphasia   In: Wilson , R. and Keil, F. (Eds.)  MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences,: MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma. (pp.31-32)

Swinney, D and Zurif, E. Szintaktikai feldologozas az afaziaban [Syntactic Processing in Aphasia].  In Zoltan, B. (Ed.)  (1999)  NYELVI STRUKTURAK ES AZAGY. Corvina (Press), Budapest, Hungary.  [[Reprint of Swinney & Zurif 1995 article in the first published Hungarian textbook on Neurolinguistics]]

Swinney, D. and Prather, P. (1980). Phoneme identification: The role of within-syllable context in monitoring for syllable-initial consonants. Perception and Psychophysics, 27(2), 104-110.

Swinney, D., Zurif, E., and Cutler, A. (1980). Effects of sentential stress and word class upon comprehension in Broca's aphasics. Brain and Language, l0, l32- l44.

Swinney, D. (1981). Lexical Processing during Sentence Comprehension:  Effects of higher order constraints and implications for representation.  In: T. Meyers, J. Laver, and J. Anderson (Eds.) The Cognitive Representation of Speech, North-Holland Publishing Co., (Advances in Psychology Series) Amsterdam.

Onifer, W. and Swinney, D. (1981). Accessing lexical ambiguities during sentence comprehension:  Effects of frequency-of-meaning and contextual bias. Memory and Cognition, 9,(3), 225-236.

Swinney, D. (1981). A Collage of Psycholinguistic Concerns.  Review of Aaronson and Rieber (Eds.): Psycholinguistic Research.  In: Contemporary Psychology, 26(5), 394- 395.

Swinney, D., and Prather, P.  Review of Karmiloff-Smith's: A Functional Approach to Language Development.  In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, l98l, 33A, 2, 2l6.

Swinney, D. (1981). Review of Cooper and Walker (Eds.):  Sentence Processing: Psycholinguistic Studies Presented to Merrill Garrett.  In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A,(2), 2l7-2l8.

Swinney, D. (1981). The process of language comprehension:  an approach to examining issues in cognition and language.  Cognition, l0, 307-312.

Swinney, D. (1982). The Structure and Time-Course of Information Interaction during Speech Comprehension:  Lexical Segmentation, Access, and Interpretation.  In Mehler, J., E. T. C. Walker, and M. Garrett (Eds.)  Perspectives on Mental Representation, Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, HillsdaleN.J.

Swinney, D. (1984). Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Cognitive Science: a Psycholinguistic Perspective.  In: W. Kintsch, J. Miller, P. Polson (Eds.).  Methods and Tactics in Cognitive Science, Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Hillsdale, N.J.

Grodzinsky, Y., Zurif, E., and Swinney, D. (1985). Agrammatism: Structural characteristics and processing antecedents. In: M.L. Kean (Ed.) Agrammatism. Wiley Publishing Co., New York.

Cutler, A. and D. Swinney. (1987). Prosody and the Development of Comprehension. Journal of Child Language, 14, (1), 145-167.

Prather, P. and D. Swinney. (1988). Lexical Processing and Ambiguity Resolution: An autonomous process in an interactive "box".  In Small, S. L., Cottrell, G.W., and M.K. Tanenhaus. (Eds.) Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA.

Swinney, D. and Prather, P. (1989).  On the comprehension of lexical ambiguity by young children: investigations into the development of mental modularity.  In Gorfein, D. (Ed.) Resolving Semantic Ambiguity, Springer-Verlag, New York.

Swinney, D. and Fodor, J.D. (1989). Introduction to Special Issue on Sentence Processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18(1), 1-3.

Swinney, D., Zurif, E., and Nicol, J. (1989). The effects of focal brain damage on sentence processing:  an examination of the neurological organization of a mental module. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 25-37.

Nicol, J. and Swinney, D. (1989). The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension.  Journal of Psycholinguistics Research: Special Issue on Sentence Processing, 18(1), 5-24.

Osterhout, L. and Swinney, D. (1989). On the role of the simplicity heuristic in language processing: evidence from structural and inferential processing.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18,(6), 553-562.

Kanarek, R. and Swinney, D. (1989) Abstract/summary of work on Cognition and Nutrition  in Readers Digest, section on Recent Advances in Medicine, July, 1989.

Swinney, D. A. and Fodor, J. D. (Eds.)  (1989)  Sentence Processing: A Special Issue of the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, (1) Plenum Press. N. Y.

Swinney, D. and Taylor, O. (1971). Short term memory recognition search in aphasics. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, l4, 578-588.

Taylor, O. and Swinney, D. (1972). The Onset of Language.  In Irwin and Marge (Eds.) Principles of Childhood Language Disabilities, Appleton-Century-Crofts /Prentice- Hall, N.Y.

Foss, D. and Swinney, D. (1973). On the psychological reality of the phoneme: Perception, identification, and consciousness, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, l2, 246-257.

Swinney, D. and Hakes, D. (1976). Effects of prior context upon lexical access during sentence comprehension. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, l5, 68l-  689.

Onifer, W., Hirshkowitz, M., and Swinney, D. (1978). A mini-processor system for investigation of on-line language processing. Journal of Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, l0, 307-308.

Swinney, D. (1978). Psycholinguistics for the (Intelligent) Masses?  Review of Dennis Fry's Homo Loquens, Man as a Talking Animal.  In: Contemporary Psychology, 23(ll), 885-886.

Swinney, D., Onifer, W., Prather, P., and Hirshkowitz, M. (1979). Semantic facilitation across sensory modalities in the processing of individual words and sentences. Memory and Cognition, 7(3), 54-178.

Swinney, D. and Cutler, A. (1979). The access and processing of idiomatic expressions. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 523-534.

Swinney, D. (1979). Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)consideration of context effects. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 645-660. Reprinted in: F. Valle, F. Cuetos, J.M. Igoa, S. del Viao (Eds.) (1990). Lecturas de Psicolinguistica, Vol. 1 (Comprension Y Produccion del Lenguaje), Alianza  Editorial, Madrid, Spain.

Keefe, B. and Swinney, D. (1979). On the relationship of hemispheric specialization and developmental dyslexia. Cortex, 15, 471-481.

Recent  Published Abstracts

Walenski, M., Swinney, D., Bagdasaryan, S. Bouck, V. , Smith, E.  (1999) Conceptual Combination during Sentence Comprehension.  Proceedings of the 12th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York,

Love, T., Swinney, D. Bagdasaryan, S. and Prather, P. (1999) Real-time processing of lexical ambiguities by pre-school children. Proceedings of the 12th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York

Swinney, Love, Oliver & Bouck (1999) Temporal Parameters in Language Comprehension in Aphasia. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Academy of Aphasia, Brain and Language, 66, 3, 337-340.

Love, Swinney, Wong, Buxton, Hickok, Bouck, Oster (1999) Perfusion MRI as a Measure of Cognitive/Linguistic Deficits.  Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Academy of Aphasia, Brain and Language, 69, 469-472..

Swinney, D. (1999) Parameters and Modes of language comprehension: evidence form on-line processing. In; Witruk and Lachmann (Eds.) Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders. Leipziper Universitatsverlag, Leipzig, Germany. pp. 27-28.

Friedmann, N., Shapiro, L. and Swinney, D.  (2001) Agrammatic comprehension of simple active sentences with moved objects: the case of Hebrew OVS and           OSV structures, Brain and Cognition.

Humphries, C., Buchsbaum, B., Love, T., Swinney, D., & Hickok, G. (2000).  Patterns of spatio-temporal activation during the perception and production of speech.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, San Francisco, April 9-11   

Walenski, M., Cohen, M , Shefelbine, R., and Swinney, D. 2001) Serial effects in parsing temporarily ambiguous sentences . Proceedings of the 14th Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 20001, Philadelphia.

Swinney, D., Shapiro, L. Hestvik, A.  (2001)The role of lexical knowledge in guiding ellipsis during sentence comprehension.  German Linguisitic Society, Workshop on Lexical Information and Sentence Comprehension, Leipzig, March 1, 2001.

Buchsbaum, B, .Humphries, C., Swinney, D., Hickok. G. (2001) Shared Nueral Substrates in Working memory for music and speech. Society for Neurosciences Abstracts, 2001(session 81.6)