Research outputs

Publications & Talks

Publications

2025 · Submitted

Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference

Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang, & Cory Shain.

2025 · Manuscript in preparation

Repetition increases signal in self-paced reading experiments

Erxiao Wang & Cory Shain.

Talks

March 26–28, 2026 · Talk

Sentence processing is surprisingly robust to verbatim repetition

Erxiao Wang, Ekaterina S. Ivshina, Yuhan Zhang, & Cory Shain.

The 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

November 14–16, 2025 · Talk

Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference

Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang, & Cory Shain.

The 8th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, University of California, Davis.

Posters

November 14–18, 2026 · Poster

Distinct temporal profiles in middle frontal gyrus (MFG) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) during naturalistic comprehension

Erxiao Wang, Yuhan Zhang, Sasidhar Madugula, Erin M. Kunz, Christina Vo, Donald T. Avansino, Ryan Wang, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Irmak Ergin, Ricky Ricardo Rojas, Leigh Hochberg, Laura Gwilliams, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis R. Willett, & Cory Shain.

Neuroscience 2026, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Abstract 6815.

November 14–18, 2026 · Poster

Intracortical evidence for functional dissociation from word encoding to meaning integration within the language network

Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang, Sasidhar Madugula, Erin M. Kunz, Christina Vo, Donald T. Avansino, Ryan Wang, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Irmak Ergin, Ricky Ricardo Rojas, Laura Gwilliams, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis R. Willett, & Cory Shain.

Neuroscience 2026, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Abstract 6880.

August 2025 · Poster

The effects of real-world novelty exposure on episodic memory specificity across development

S. L. Benear, Erxiao Wang, & Catherine A. Hartley.

Cognitive Science Society Conference, San Francisco, California.

March 26–28, 2025 · Poster

Distance to plausible alternatives predicts acceptability ratings in comparative illusion

Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang, & Cory Shain.

The 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, Maryland.

May 2023 · Poster

Two number systems with bilinguals and monolinguals: An ERP study of code-switching

E. Oh, Erxiao Wang, W. Xiong, M. Cha, & Peter Gordon.

Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

May 2023 · Poster

Numerical cognition in Mandarin-speaking children

Z. Cao, W. Xiong, T. Liu, Erxiao Wang, X. Zhou, Y. Chang, S. Gao, J. E. Tang, & Peter Gordon.

Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.