Rob Hartsuiker

Rob Hartsuiker’s publications

Papers nobody every cites (n = 4) - and why I think that’s unfortunate.


Collina, S., Seurinck, R., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2014) Inside the syntactic box: the neural correlates of the functional and positional level in covert sentence production. PLOS One, 9, e106122.  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106122 Times cited: 0.

    >>This was an attempt to use fMRI to study the neural correlates of sentence production in a strongly theory-driven manner, namely on the basis of a two-stage account of sentence production that distinguished between a functional and positional level. 


Severens, E., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2009). Is there a lexical bias effect in comprehension monitoring? Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 910-927. DOI: 10.1080/01690960902775517  Times cited:  2

    >>An ERP-experiment with very clear data on a topic - "semantic P600s"  - that has generated a tremendous amount of discussion in the field. Unfortunately, and I must admit much to my surprise, this paper has never been  picked up by the field.


Boland, H. T., Hartsuiker, R. J., Pickering, M. J., & Postma, A. (2005). Repairing inappropriately specified utterances:  Revision or restart? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 472-477. DOI: 10.3758/BF03193790  Times cited: 5.

    >>If we detect that our utterance is not specific enough - or rather too specific given the context - how do we change it? Do we start planning from scratch, or can we make revisions to an internal representation? This paper argues for the latter. The question of how we repair our speech errors seems important to me and this study used what I thought was a promising paradigm to address this issue.


Hartsuiker, R. J. (2002). The addition bias in Dutch and Spanish phonological speech errors:  the role of structural context. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 61-96. DOI: 10.1080/01690960042000193. Time cited: 10.

    >>I worked on this paper for several years as a  post-doc - it not only involved extensive speech error analyses, but also the implementation of a computational model, inspired by the work of Dell (1988). The paper argues that speech error patterns depend on statistical properties of the language (such as the frequency of consonant clusters) and demonstrates this mechanism by simulation.