Publications
Watson SK, Mine JG, O’Neill LG, Mueller JL, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Cognitive constraints on vocal combinatoriality in a social bird. iScience. 2023 May;26(7):106977. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106977
Thoma L, Weyers I, Çano E, Schweter S, Mueller JL, Roth B. CogMemLM: Human-Like Memory Mechanisms Improve Performance and Cognitive Plausibility of LLMs. In Warstadt A, Mueller A, Choshen L, Wilcox E, Zhuang C, Ciro J, Mosquera R, Paranjabe B, Williams A, Linzen T, Cotterell R, editors, The BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2023. p. 180-185 doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-babylm.15, 10.18653/v1/2023.conll-babylm.15
Schwab J, Mueller JL, Liu M. Dimensions of variation in sentence comprehension: A case study on understating negative polarity items in German. Linguistische Berichte. 2023;2023(276):41-87. doi: 10.46771/9783967692853_2
Weyers I, Männel C, Mueller JL. Constraints on infants' ability to extract non-adjacent dependencies from vowels and consonants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2022 Oct;57:101149. Epub 2022 Aug 31. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101149
Weyers I, Mueller JL. A Special Role of Syllables, But Not Vowels or Consonants, for Nonadjacent Dependency Learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2022 Jul 1;34(8):1467-1487. Epub 2022. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01874
Cosper SH, Männel C, Mueller JL. Mechanisms of associative word learning: Benefits from the visual modality and synchrony of labeled objects. Cortex. 2022 Jul;152:36-52. Epub 2022 Apr 12. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.020
Lehfeldt S, Mueller JL, Pipa G. Spike-based statistical learning explains human performance in non-adjacent dependency learning tasks. Frontiers in Cognition. 2022;1:1026819. doi: 10.3389/fcogn.2022.1026819
Schwab J, Liu M, Mueller JL. On the Acquisition of Polarity Items: 11- to 12-Year-Olds' Comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 2021 Dec;50(6):1487–1509. doi: 10.1007/s10936-021-09801-3
Paul M, Männel C, van der Kant A, Mueller JL, Höhle B, Wartenburger I et al. Gradual development of non-adjacent dependency learning during early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2021 Aug;50:100975. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100975
Watson SK, Burkart JM, Schapiro SJ, Lambeth SP, Mueller JL, Townsend SW. Reply to comment on "Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans". Science Advances. 2021 Jul;7(30):eabj1517. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj1517
Gagl B, Weyers I, Wurth L, Mueller JL. Speechless Reader Model: A neurocognitive model for human reading reveals cognitive underpinnings of baboon lexical decision behavior. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2021;43.
Watson SK, Burkart JM, Schapiro SJ, Lambeth SP, Mueller JL, Townsend SW. Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans. Science Advances. 2020 Oct 21;6(43):eabb0725. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb0725
Cosper SH, Mannel C, Mueller JL. In the absence of visual input: Electrophysiological evidence of infants' mapping of labels onto auditory objects. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2020 Oct;45:100821. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100821
Kompa NA, Mueller JL. How Abstract (Non-embodied) Linguistic Representations Augment Cognitive Control. Frontiers in Psychology. 2020 Jul 15;11:1597. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01597
Mueller JL, Cate CT, Toro JM. A Comparative Perspective on the Role of Acoustic Cues in Detecting Language Structure. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2020 Jul;12(3):859-874. doi: 10.1111/tops.12373
Wilson B, Spierings M, Ravignani A, Mueller JL, Mintz TH, Wijnen F et al. Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2020 Jul;12(3):843-858. doi: 10.1111/tops.12381
Mascelloni M, Zamparelli R, Vespignani F, Gruber T, Mueller JL. Distinct Neural Processes for Memorizing Form and Meaning Within Sentences. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2019 Dec 5;13:412. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00412
Liu M, Koenig P, Mueller JL. Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German. Frontiers in Psychology. 2019 Mar 6;10:376. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00376
Mueller JL, Friederici AD, Maennel C. Developmental changes in automatic rule-learning mechanisms across early childhood. Developmental Science. 2019 Jan;22(1):e12700. doi: 10.1111/desc.12700
Winkler M, Mueller JL, Friederici AD, Maennel C. Infant cognition includes the potentially human-unique ability to encode embedding. Science Advances. 2018 Nov;4(11):eaar8334. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aar8334