Research

My CV as of March 2024

My google scholar which is likely to be less accurate but more up-to-date

Research Areas

This is a selection of publication and presentations grouped by research topic.

Pragmatic communication and convention formation

  • Veronica Boyce, Robert Hawkins, Noah Goodman, Michael Frank. Thick feedback facilitates referential coordi- nation in larger groups. CAMP 5. 2023. Slides

  • Veronica Boyce, Michael Frank. Communicative reduction in referring expressions within a multi-player negotiation game. CogSci. 2023. Paper Poster

  • Veronica Boyce, Robert Hawkins, Noah Goodman, Michael Frank. Two’s company, but six is a crowd: emergence of conventions in multiparty communication games. CogSci. 2022. Paper Slides

  • Jess Mankewitz, Veronica Boyce, Brandon Waldon, Georgia Loukatou, Dhara Yu, Jesse Mu, Noah Goodman, Michael Frank. Multi-party referential communication in complex strategic games. Meaning in Context: Pragmantic Communication in Humans and Machines workshop. NeurIPS. 2021. Paper

Replication theory & meta-analysis

  • Veronica Boyce, Maya Mathur, Michael Frank. Eleven years of student replication projects provide evidence on the correlates of replicability in psychology. 2023. Pre-print

  • Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, Anjie Cao, Michael Frank. Conducting developmental research online v. in- person: A meta-analysis. 2022. Pre-print

Maze: method for sentence processing

  • Documentation on A-maze

  • Veronica Boyce, Roger Levy. A-maze of Natural Stories: Comprehension and surprisal in the Maze task. Glossa Psycholinguistics. 2023. Paper

  • Veronica Boyce, Richard Futrell, Roger Levy. Maze Made Easy: Better and easier measurement of incremental processing difficulty. Journal of Memory and Language. 2020. Paper

  • Veronica Boyce, Roger Levy. A-maze of Natural Stories: Texts are comprehensible using the Maze task. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference. Talk. 2020. Slides Recorded talk (first ~30 minutes)

Processing of gendered-pronouns

  • Till Poppels, Veronica Boyce, Chelsea Ajunwa, Titus von der Malsburg, Roger Levy. Bias against ‘she’ pronouns can be rapidly overcome by changing event expectations. CUNY 34 2021. Slides

  • Veronica Boyce, Titus von der Malsburg, Till Poppels, Roger Levy. Remember ‘him’, forget ‘her’: Gender bias in the comprehension of pronominal referents. CUNY 32. 2019. Slides

  • Veronica Boyce, Titus von der Malsburg, Till Poppels, Roger Levy. Female gender is consistently under-expressed in pronoun production and under-inferred in comprehension. LSA 2019 Annual Meeting. 2019. Poster

  • Veronica Boyce, Titus von der Malsburg, Till Poppels, Roger Levy. Implicit gender biases in the production and comprehension of pronominal references. CUNY 31. 2018. Poster