Gabrieli Laboratory

Jared Novick, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Office: 46-4037D

Telephone: (617) 324-2175

bio

Jared received his A.M. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked jointly with John Trueswell and Sharon Thompson-Schill. Primarily, his research is concerned with integrating the psycholinguistic literature on sentence comprehension with the neurocognitive literature on cognitive control; in particular, he is interested in understanding the contributions of Broca's area to syntactic processing. To address these issues, Jared has combined methodologies from conventionally distinct traditions, applying psycholinguistic techniques that allow for fine-grained analyses of the time-course of comprehension, including eye-tracking during scene perception as it relates to spoken language processing, and neuropsychological approaches to understanding cognitive control abilities within both parsing and non-parsing domains in patients with restricted damage to prefrontal cortex. Currently, he is beginning to explore many of these issues using functional neuroimaging techniques.

While this work details Jared's academic life, he "harbors a secret desire to open a bookstore/ice cream shop in La Jolla, CA" (as one friend puts it). His favorite ice cream shop is Halo's Pub in Princeton, NJ and he frequents independent bookstores wherever he can find them. His dogs, Olive and Cosmo, would probably enjoy Halo's ice cream too if they were allowed to have it.

selected publications

Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (in prep). Individual differences in conflict resolution and parsing: Correlated variation in syntactic ambiguity resolution abilities in listening and reading modalities.

Bedny, M., Novick, J.M., Kan, I., Trueswell, J.C., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (in prep). The role of LIFG in cognitive control, language production, and language comprehension: A single-case study.

Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Cognitive control and parsing: Re-examining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(3), 263-281.

Novick, J.M., Kim, A.E., and Trueswell, J.C. (2003). Studying the grammatical aspects of word recognition: Lexical priming, parsing and syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Psychlinguistic Research, 32(1), 57-75.

Tagamets M.A., Novick J.M., Chalmers M.L., and Friedman R.B. (2000). A parametric approach to orthographic processing in the brain: An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(2), 1-17.

conference proceedings (published abstracts, both paper and poster presentations)

Novick, J.M., January, D., Trueswell, J.C., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2004). Prefrontal cortex and the role of selectional processes in language comprehension: Frogs, napkins, and Broca's area. Presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD.

Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., January, D., and Thompson-Schill, .SL. (2004). Garden-path recovery and cognitive control: the role of conflict resolution in parsing. Presented at the Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., January, D., and Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2004). The role of conflict resolution in parsing: Individual differences in syntactic ambiguity resolution and executive control. Presented at the Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Aix-en Provence, France.

Trueswell, J.C., Gleitman, L.R., Novick, J.M., Choi, Y., and January, D. (2004). Referential scene contributions to structure, revisited. Presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Novick, J.M. and Trueswell, J.C. (2002). Nipping spoken garden-paths in the bud: Lexical priming of argument structure during auditory language comprehension. Presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

Arnold, J., Brown-Schmidt, S., Novick, J.M., and Trueswell, J.C. (2001). Rely on What's Reliable: Children's Use of Gender and Order-of-Mention in Pronoun Comprehension. Presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA.

Arnold, J., Novick, J.M., Brown-Schmidt, S., Eisenband, J., and Trueswell, J.C. (2000). Knowing the difference between girls and boys: The use of gender during on-line pronoun comprehension in young children. Presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Kim, A.E., Trueswell, J.C., and Novick, J.M. (2000). Fast priming of lexical argument structure in nouns and verbs. Presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, La Jolla, CA.

Hanna, J.E., Trueswell, J.C., Tanenhaus, M.K., and Novick, J.M. (1997). Consulting Common Ground During Referential Interpretation. In M.G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Presented at the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto, CA. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

colloquia, invited talks and presentations

The role of LIFG and cognitive control in sentence comprehension. Special Cognitive Colloquium, Psychology Department, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2005.

Broca's area and the role of selectional processes in language comprehension. National Science Foundation Review Committee for the Rutgers-Penn-Columbia-London Consortium for the Science of Learning Center, Piscataway, NJ, 2004.

Using Eye-Tracking to Study Spoken Language Processing: Theoretical and Clinical Implications (Symposium). Presented at the Convention for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2004.