Group of Language Cycles,
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
RESEARCH
Publications
Lo, Chia-Wen, Mark Anderson, Lena Henke, & Lars Meyer. (2023). Periodic fluctuations in reading times reflect multi-word chunking. Scientific Reports 13:18522. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-45536-y
Lo, Chia-Wen, Lena Henke, Jordi Martorell, & Lars Meyer. (2023). When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. doi: 10.1038/s41583-023-00738-1
Lo, Chia-Wen, Tzu-Yun Tung, Alan Hezao Ke, & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2022). Hierarchy, not lexical regularity, modulates low-frequency neural synchrony during language comprehension. Neurobiology of Language. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00077
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2021). EEG Correlates of Long-Distance Dependency Formation in Mandarin Wh-Questions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15:591613. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.591613
Conference Proceedings
Invited Talks
Zhu, Jian, Zuoyu Tian, Yadong Liu, Cong Zhang, & Chia-Wen Lo. (2022, December). Bootstrapping meaning through listening: Unsupervised learning of spoken sentence embeddings. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. [link]
Chia-Wen Lo. (2023, December). How brain rhythms shape language processing? The temporal structure of syntax. Introduction of Neurolinguistics (taught by Dr. Chia-Hsuan Liao), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Lena Henke, Chia-Wen Lo, Lorenzo Titone, & Lars Meyer. (2023, November). Language cycles - How brain rhythms shape language? Institute Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2023, July). The temporal structure of syntax. Colloquium, Computational
Psycholinguistics Tokyo (CPT), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2022, November). Project Presentation. Lab talk (virtually), Dr. Nai Ding’s lab, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Lena Henke, Yulia Lamekina, Chia-Wen Lo, Katharina Menn, & Lars Meyer. (2022, November). How neural timing constrains language (processing) from the inside out? Institute Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. [abstract]
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2018, April). EEG correlates of covert dependency formation in Mandarin wh-questions. Grad Student Colloquium, University of Michigan. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen, Mark Anderson, Lorenzo Titone, & Lars Meyer. (2023, November). Are syntactic dependencies optimized for periodic neurobiological sampling? Large-scale analysis on the Universal Dependencies corpus. Talk presented at the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL 2023). Zurich, Switzerland.
Lo, Chia-Wen, Lena Henke, & Lars Meyer. (2023, October). The Cognitive Throttle of Language: Exploring the Limits of Information Processing. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023). Marseille, France. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen, Mark Anderson, Lorenzo Titone, & Lars Meyer. (2023, August). Are syntactic dependencies optimized for periodic neurobiological sampling? Large-scale autocorrelation analysis on the Universal Dependencies corpus. Talk presented at the workshop Internal and External Pressures Shaping Language in the 34th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI). Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Lo, Chia-Wen & Lars Meyer. (2022, October). Do Segment Boundaries Disrupt the Processing of Non-Adjacent Dependencies? Evidence from Neural Frequency Tagging and ERPs. Poster presented at The 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen, Mark Anderson, Lena Henke, & Lars Meyer. (2022, October). Periodic Chunking of Language: Rhythmic Neuronal Processing Mirrored in Self-Paced Reading? Poster presented at The 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lars Meyer, Mark Anderson, Lena Henke, & Chia-Wen Lo. (2022, April). Periodic Chunking of Language: Rhythmic Neuronal Processing Mirrored in Self-Paced Reading? Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2022). San Francisco, California, USA.
Lo, Chia-Wen, Chih Yeh, & Lars Meyer. (2022, April). Do Segment Boundaries Disrupt the Processing of Non-Adjacent Dependencies? Evidence from Neural Frequency Tagging and ERP. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2022). San Francisco, California, USA. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2020, October). Testing semantic compositionality in low-frequency neural oscillations. Poster presented at The 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2020). Virtually. (Graduate Student Abstract Merit Award - Honorable Mention) [abstract] [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2020, September). Lexical representation doesn't fully capture low-frequency neural oscillations during sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2020). Virtually. [abstract] [OSF] [YouTube]
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2020, March). Testing temporal boundaries of composition in low-frequency neural oscillations. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (CUNY 2020). Virtually. [abstract] [pdf] [CUNY OSF] [YouTube]
Lo, Chia-Wen, Tzu-Yun Tung, Alan Ke, & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2019, August). Cortical tracking of Mandarin structures. Poster presented at The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019). Helsinki, Finland. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2018, August). A simulation-based approach to statistical power with ERPs. Poster presented at The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2018). Québec City, Canada. [pdf], [code]
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2018, March). EEG correlates of covert dependency formation in Mandarin wh-questions. Poster presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (CUNY 2018). UC Davis, California, USA. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (2017, November). EEG correlates of covert dependency formation in Mandarin wh-questions. Poster presented at The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2017). Baltimore, MD, USA. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2016, October). Unifying intervention effects in Mandarin wh-construal blocking. Poster presented at Semantics and Syntax Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies (SSWAMP 2016). Northwestern University, IL, USA. [pdf]
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2013, April). Blocking in Chinese Eventuality Counting Expressions: An Experimental Investigation. The 9th Workshop on Formal Syntax & Semantics (FOSS-9), National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2012, February). Empirical Evidence for the Effect of Eventuality Counting Expressions on Covert Dependencies. Linguistic Evidence 2012, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Lo, Chia-Wen. (2010, November). Metonymy and Teaching in Tang Poetry. The 11th National Conference on Linguistics, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Conference Presentations
Papers in preparation
Nikos Chalas, Lars Meyer, Chia-Wen Lo, Hyojin Park, Daniel S. Kluger, Omid Abbasi, Christoph Kayser, Robert Nitsch, Joachim Gross. (Under review). Dissociating endogenous and exogenous delta activity during natural speech comprehension. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.01.578181
Lo, Chia-Wen & Lars Meyer. (In prep). Segment Boundaries Disrupt Dependency Processing in an Artificial Grammar: Reconciling Incremental Processing and Discrete Sampling. MPI-CBS ms.
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (In prep). Testing temporal boundaries of composition in low-frequency neural oscillations. University of Michigan ms.
Lo, Chia-Wen & Jonathan R. Brennan. (In prep). Testing semantic compositionality in low-frequency neural oscillations. University of Michigan ms.