Roberto G. de Almeida

Professor
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Office: SP-245.01 (Loyola Campus)
Department of Psychology
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
Concordia University
Montréal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6
Phone 514-848-2424 - ext. 2232
Fax 514-848-4545
roberto.dealmeida[at]concordia.ca 
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Research Interests

My interests are in cognitive science, and in particular on the nature of mental representations (i.e., how the mind/brain represents information; more specifically, 'semantic' or 'conceptual' representations), psycholinguistics (mostly on verb meaning and its role in sentence  comprehension) and interfaces between linguistic and conceptual systems, and between language and vision. My empirical and theoretical research investigates more specific issues within these areas all aiming to understand how the brain represents semantic/conceptual content.
For publications organized by topic, go to Research > Publications
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Books
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Gleitman, L. (Eds.) (2018). On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at its Core. Oxford University Press.  [link to Oxford]
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  • de Almeida, R. G. & Manouilidou, C. (Eds.) (2015). Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. New York: Springer.  [link to Springer]

Journal Special Issues
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Buchanan, L. (forthcoming). The representation and processing of morphologically complex words. A special issue of The Mental Lexicon ​in honor of Gary Libben. [description][submission]

  • Ibaños, A. M. & de Almeida, R. G. (Eds.) (2016). Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Evidentiality. Special issue of the journal Letras de Hoje. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2016.3​

Papers​
  • Antal., C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2024). Grasping the concept of an object at a glance: Category information accessed by brief dichoptic presentation. Cognitive Science, 48 (10), e70002 ​[link to article]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Gallant, J., Antal, C., & Libben, G. (2024). Semantic access of ambiguous word roots cannot be stopped by affixation — not even in sentence contexts: Evidence from eye tracking and the maze task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [link to article]
  • Salehi, K. & de Almeida, R. G. (2024, submitted). Form, then meaning, in visual word recognition: Evidence from a dichoptic word-picture relatedness task.​
  • Ungerer, T., Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2024, submitted). Sneezing the napkin off the table: Understanding grammatically creative, coerced sentences in real time.
  • de Almeida, R. G., Antal, C., & Salehi, K. (2024, submitted). Early morpho-orthographic and semantic effects in word recognition: Evidence from a foveal-splitting dichoptic paradigm with anaglyphs.
  • Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2024, submitted). Aptness, familiarity, concreteness, and linguistic variables for 300 two-word metaphor combinations in context and in isolation.
  • Antal., C., Johns, B. T., & de Almeida, R. G. (2024, submitted). The effect of contextual and semantic diversity in lexical and conceptual access: Evidence from a picture-word semantic congruency task.
  • ​Ungerer, T. & de Almeida, R. G. (2024). Context affects the comprehension of implicit arguments. Evidence from the maze task. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ​Rotterdam: Cognitive Science Society. [link to article]
  • Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2023). Early birds can fly: Awakening the literal meaning of conventional metaphors further downstream. Metaphor and Symbol [link to article]
  • Antal, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2023). The units of gating and access to lexical representations during spoken word recognition. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney: Cognitive Science Society. [link to article]
  • Salehi, K. & de Almeida, R. G.  (2023). Semantic access to constituents of compounds and pseudocompounds: Evidence from dichoptic presentation. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney: Cognitive Science Society. [link to article]
  • Antal., C., de Almeida, R. G., & Johns, B. T. (2022). Which semantic properties of a feature affect access to an object concept? In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2364-2371). Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society. [.pdf][link to article]
  • Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Indeterminate and enriched propositions in context linger: Evidence from an eye-tracking false memory paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 4376(12), 1-9 [link to article]
  • Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Can you mend a broken heart? Awakening conventional metaphors in the maze. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29​, 253-261. [.pdf][link to article]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Mobayyen, F., Antal, C., Kehayia, E., Nair, V., & Schwartz, G. (2021). Category-specific verb-semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from static and dynamic action naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38 (1), 1-26.  [.pdf] [link to journal]
  • Roncero, C., de Almeida, R. G., Pissani, L., & Patalas, I. (2021). A metaphor is not like a simile: reading-time evidence for distinct interpretations for negated tropes. Metaphor and Symbol, 36 (2), 85-98. [.pdf] [link to journal]
  • de Almeida, R. G., & Antal, C. (2021). How can semantics avoid the troubles with the analytic/synthetic distinction? In S. Löbner et al. (Eds.) Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. New York: Springer.​ [.pdf] [book]
  • Riven, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Context breeds false memories for indeterminate sentences. Frontiers in Psychology 12:616065. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616065 [link to article]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Dumassais, S., & Antal, C. (2020) Morphological parsing by foveal split: Evidence from Anaglyphs. In S. Deninson, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3055-3061). Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society.[.pdf ]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Di Nardo, J., Antal, C., & von Grünau, M.W. (2019). Understanding events by eye and ear: Agent and verb drive non-anticipatory eye movements in dynamic scenes. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:2162  [link to article]
  • Patalas, I. & de Almeida, R. G. (2019). Interpreting metaphors in real-time: cross-modal evidence for exhaustive access. In In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2530-2536). Montreal, QC: Cognitive Science Society. [.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2018) A Fodor's guide to Cognitive Science. [.pdf] [link to book]
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Lepore, E. (2018). Semantics for a module. [.pdf] [link to book]
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2018) Composing meaning and thinking. In G. Preyer (ed.) Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.  [.pdf] [link to book]
  • Ashby, J., Roncero, C., de Almeida, R. G., & Agauas, S. (2018). The early processing of metaphors and similes: evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (1), 161-168. [.pdf] [link to article]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Riven, L., Manouilidou, C., Lungu, O., Dwivedi, V., Jarema, G., & Gillon, B. (2016). The neuronal correlates of indeterminate sentence interpretation: an fMRI study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10: 614. [link to article]
  • Roncero, C., de Almeida, R. G., Martin, D., & de Caro, M. (2016). Aptness predicts metaphor preference in the lab and on the Internet.  ​Metaphor & Symbol, 31, 31-46. [.pdf] [link to article]
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Manouilidou, C. (2015). The study of verbs in cognitive science. In R. G. de Almeida & C. Manouilidou (Eds.), Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. New York: Springer. [.pdf] [link to article] [link to book]
  • Roncero, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2015). Semantic properties, aptness, familiarity, conventionality, and interpretive diversity scores for 84 metaphors and similes. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 800-812  [.pdf] [link to journal]
  • Roncero, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2014). The importance of being apt: Metaphor comprehension in Alzheimer's disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8  [link to article]
  • Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2013). Processing correlates of verb typologies: Investigating internal strucutre and argument realization. Linguistics, 51, 767-792. [.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Riven, L. (2012). Indeterminacy and coercion effects: Minimal representations with pragmatic enrichment. In A. M. Di Sciullo (Ed.). Towards a biolinguistic understanding of grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Manouilidou, C., Roncero, C., Riven, L. (2010). Three tales of semantic decomposition: Causatives, coercion, and metaphors. In A. Franca & M. Maia (Eds.). Papers in Psycholinguistics. Rio de Janeiro: Imprinta. [.pdf]
  • Leitão, M. M., Gadelha, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2010). Looking for coercion effects in Brazilian Poruguese. In A. Franca & M. Maia (Eds.). Papers in Psycholinguistics. Rio de Janeiro: Imprinta. [.pdf] 
  • Pollatsek, A., Drieghe, D., Stockall, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2010). The interpretation of ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence context. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 88-94. [ .pdf]
  • Manouilidou, C., de Almeida, R. G., Schwartz, G., & Nair, N. P. V. (2009). Thematic roles in Alzheimer’s disease: Hierarchy violations in psychological predicates. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 167-186. [.pdf]
  • Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009). Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer's disease. In S. Featherston & S. Winkler (Eds.). The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics, vol. 1: Process. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. [.pdf]
  • Derwing, B. L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009). Non-chronometric experiments in linguistics. In Eddington, D. (Ed.). Experimental and Quantitative Linguistics. Munich: Lincom. [.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Dwivedi, V. D. (2008). Coercion without lexical decomposition: Type-shifting effects revisited. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 53, 301-328. [.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2007). Cognitive science as paradigm of interdisciplinarity: The case of lexical concepts. In J. Audy & M. Morosini (Eds.) Interdisciplinarity in Science and at the University. Porto Alegre, EdiPUCRS. [.pdf] 
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2006). On the status of "linguistic psychology" and the language faculty. In G. Wiebe, G. Libben, T. Priestly, R. Smyth, & S. Wang (Eds.), Phonology, Morphology, and the Empirical Imperative: Papers in Honour of Bruce Derwing . Taipei: Crane Publishing [ .pdf]
  • Mobayyen, F. & de Almeida, R. G. (2005). The influence of semantic and morphological complexity of verbs on sentence recall: Implications for the nature of conceptual representation and category-specific deficits. Brain and Cognition, 57, 168-171. [ .pdf]
  • Lacroix, G. L., Constantinescu, I., Cousineau, D., de Almeida, R. G., Segalowitz, N., & von Grunau, M. W. (2005). Attentional blink differences between adolescent dyslexic and normal readers. Brain and Cognition, 57, 115-119. [ .pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (2005). Changing morphological structures: The effect of sentence context on the interpretation of structurally ambiguous English trimorphemic words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 373-394. [.pdf ] [ Also in: R. Frost, J. Grainger & K. Rastle (Eds.) Current Issues in Morphological Processing. London: Psychology Press]
  • Derwing, B. L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2005). Métodos experimentais em lingüística. In M. Maia & I. Finger (Eds.), Processamento da Linguagem. Pelotas: Educat. [ .pdf]
  • Lacroix, G., Segalowitz, N., von Grünau, M. W., Gunrsey, R., G. de Almeida, R. G., Borokhovski, E., Wada, N., & Constantinescu, I. (2005). Sciences cognitives appliquées et habiletés langagières de base. In Pierre, S. (Ed.) Developpement, Integration et Evaluation des Technologies de Formation et D'apprentissage-- D.I.V.A. Montreal, Presses Internationales Polytechnique. [.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2004). The effect of context on the processing of type-shifting verbs. Brain and Language, 90, 249-261.[.pdf]
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (2002) Compound prelexical decomposition: Evidence from a masked priming paradigm. Folia Linguistica, 36, 97-115. [.pdf].
  • Segalowitz, N. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Conceptual representation of verbs in bilinguals: Semantic field effects and a second language performance paradox. Brain and Language, 81, 517-531. [.pdf].
  • Libben, G. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Is there a morphological parser? In S. Bendjaballah, W. U. Dressler, O. E. Pfeiffer & M. D. Voeikova (Eds.) Morphology 2000. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [.pdf].
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2001). Conceptual deficits without features: A view from atomism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(3): 482-483. [.pdf].
  • de Almeida, R. G. (1999) What do category-specific semantic deficits tell us about the representation of lexical concepts? Brain and Language, 68, 241-248. [.pdf].
  • Libben, G., Derwing, B., & de Almeida, R. G. (1999) Ambiguous novel compounds and models of morphological parsing. Brain and Language, 68, 378-386. [.pdf].


Recent Teaching
  • 2024-2025, Fall: ​Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Concepts (PSYC 463/725)
  • 2023-2024, Fall: ​Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Concepts (PSYC 463/725)
  • 2022-2023, Fall: ​Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Concepts (PSYC 463/725)
  • 2021-2022, Fall: ​Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Concepts (PSYC 463/725)
  • 2020-2021, Fall: ​Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Concepts (PSYC 463/725)
  • 2019-2020, Fall: Concepts (PSYC 463/725); Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364)
  • 2018-2019, Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Language (PSYC 465)
  • 2017-2018, Fall & Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Fall: Language (PSYC 465)
  • 2016-2017, Fall & Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Memory & Attention (PSYC 465)
  • 2015-2016, Fall & Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Fall: Language (PSYC 465)
  • 2014-2015, Fall: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Language (PSYC 465) [Moodle]
  • 2013-2014, Fall & Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Concepts (PSYC 463/725)
  • 2012-2013, Fall & Winter: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Language (PSYC 465)
  • 2011-2012, Winter: Making Sense (PSYC 465M) [Moodle]
  • 2010-2011, Fall: Fundamentals of Cognition (PSYC 364); Winter: Language (PSYC 465) [Moodle]
  • 2009-2010, Winter: Cognitive Neuroscience of Concepts and Categories (PSYC 725) [Moodle]
  • 2009-2010, Fall: Concepts & Categories (PSYC 463) [access via Moodle]
Selected Invited Talks
  • Humboldt University, Berlin, CARLA Workshop, August 2022
  • McMaster University, Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series, February 2022
  • Concordia University, Psychology Colloquium, September 2021
  • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Psychology, November 2019
  • Universidade de Lisboa, Mind/Brain College, Cognitive Science Innaugural talk, September 2018
  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, September 2018
  • Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Pragmatics Day, March 2015
  • Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, November 2013
  • Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, October, 2012
  • Rutgers University, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, December, 2011
  • University of Stuttgart, Conference on Logical Metonymy, September, 2011
  • University of Lisbon, Centro de Lingüística, October, 2010
  • University of Oslo, Workshop on Word Meaning, August, 2010
  • Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Biolinguistics Conference,  May 2010
  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Psycholinguistics congress,  March 2010 
Selected Conference Presentations
  • Antal, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2022). Does semantic composition rely on predicate decomposition? Contrasting resultatives and depictives. Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application Conference. August 22-24th, Berlin.
  • Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2022). What happens to the literal meanings of metaphors? A review and a "minimalist" proposal. Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application Conference. August 22-24th, Berlin.
  • Martin, D., de Almeida, R. G., Pissani, L., & Gratton, J. (2022). Enhanced visual-linguistic interaction in children within the autism spectrum: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm with dynamic scenes. 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. July 27-30th, Toronto.
  • Antal, C., de Almeida, R. G., & Johns, B. T. (2022). Access to object concepts is modulated by usage-based properties of feature labels. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science.  Halifax, July 18-20.
  • Antal, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). When you recognize a dog, you also know it’s an animal: Evidence from rapid object categorization using anaglyphs. Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application Conference​. September 16-17th, Online.
  • Antal, C., Trankarov, D., Salehi, K., Falcone, A. R., Pissani, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Understanding implausible passives in aphasia: Algorithmic and heuristic processes compete. 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference. October 5-8th. Online.
  • Antal, C., Falcone, A. R., Pissani, L., Salehi, K., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Indeterminate sentences in aphasia: Investigating coercion and the nature of compositionality. 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference. October 5-8th. Online.
  • Salehi, K., Antal, C., Falcone, A. R., Pissani, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Undoable: Computing hierarchical morphological structures in aphasia. 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference. October 5-8th. Online. 
  • Pissani, L., Antal, C., Salehi, K., Falcone, A. R., & de Almeida, R. G. (2021). Where in the brain is “pragmatics”? The case of verbal metaphors in aphasia. 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference. October 5-8th. Online.
  • Antal, C., de Almeida, R. G., & Sharp, J. (2020). The units of gating: A methodological investigation on spoken-word recognition. Words in the World (WoW) International Conference. October 16-18th. Online.
  • ​Pissani, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2019). What happened to literal meaning? A minimalist account of metaphor interpretation. Metaphor Festival 2019. Amsterdam, August 28-31.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Antal, C. (2019). Metaphor interpretation, analyticity, and compositionality: A view from atomism. Metaphor Festival 2019. Amsterdam, August 28-31.
  • Patalas, I. & de Almeida, R. G. (2019). Tracing the time-course of metaphor interpretation: cross-modal evidence for dual access. Metaphor Festival 2019. Amsterdam, August 28-31.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Dumassais, S. (2019). Neither ipsilateral nor contralateral advantage for early compound decomposition: Evidence from anaglyphs. 11th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Helsinki, August 20-22. [SNL travel award for Dumassais]
  • de Almeida, R. G., Di Nardo, J. & Antal, C. (2019). Talking about what we see: Eye movements in dynamic scenes are not under the control of linguistic stimuli. 20th European Conference on Eye Movements. Alicante, Spain, August 18-22.
  • Antal, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2019). False memories of enriched sentences in context: evidence from an eye-tracking recognition probe paradigm. 20th European Conference on Eye Movements. Alicante, Spain, August 18-22
  • Antal, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2019). Composing indeterminate event information in context: Evidence from an eye-tracking memory paradigm. 41st annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, July 24-27.
  • ​de Almeida, R. G., Mobayyen, F., Kehayia, E., Antal, C., Nair, V., & Schwartz, G. (2019). Category-specific verb-semantic naming deficits in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from a dynamic action-naming task. 41st annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, July 24-27
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Antal, C. (2018). Why atomism? 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Edmonton, Canada, September 25-28.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (2018). The barking tree: Eye-tracking evidence for early access to semantically ambiguous lexical roots in sentences. 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Edmonton, AB, September 25-28.
  • Antal, C., Turbide, J., & de Almeida, R. G. (2017). Verb deficits in Alzheimer’s disease and aphasia: argument-structure and thematic-hierarchy effects. Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Baltimore, MD, November 7-10.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2016). On the mapping between language and concepts: doing away with analiticity. Talk at the conference Cognitive Structures 2016: Linguistics, Philosophical, and Psychological Perspectives. Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, September 15-17.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2016) Compositionality and imagination. Annual conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. London, UK, August 16-18.
  • Riven, L., de Almeida, R. G., & Segalowitz, N. S. (2015). Does cognitive load dissociate syntactic heuristic processing streams? Evidence from first and second language speakers. Workshop on Psycho- and Neurolinguistic approaches to the grammar-lexicon distinction. Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-3.
  • Martin, D. & de Almeida, R. G. (2015). Enhanced local processing in Autism: Evidence from eye-tracking dynamic events. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science 25th Annual Meeting. Ottawa, June.
  • Riven, L., de Almeida, R. G., & Segalowitz, N. S. (2014). First and second language speakers use distinct processing strategies when (mis)interpreting implausible passive sentences. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences(CSBBCS). Toronto, July.
  • Roncero, C., & de Almeida, R.G. (2014). Alike or different: Comparing the online processing of metaphors and similes. 24th Annual Meeting of Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).  Toronto, July.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2013). Recursion and cognitive architecture. Talk given at the Conference on Recursion in Brazilian Languages and Beyond. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August.
  • Ashby, J., Roncero, C., & de Almeida, R. G. (2013). The Eyes are (like) windows: Eye movements during metaphor and simile processing. 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Washington, DC, May.
  • Riven*, L. & de Almeida, R. G. (2011). Context breeds false recognition for indeterminate sentences. Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (AMLaP). Paris, September.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2011). Minimal copular metaphors. Paper presented at the 4th Conference on Metaphors in Language and Thought. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, October.
  • Di Nardo, J. & de Almeida, R. G. (2010). Looking for objects of verbs in true scenes: visual and linguistic context effects. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) conference. York, England, September.
  • Roncero, C., Ashby, J. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009). Metaphors need no explanations. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, November.
  • Pollatsek, A., Drieghe, D., Stockall, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2009) The interpretation of ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence context. 6th International Morphology Conference. Turku, Finland, June.
  • Manouilidou, C. & de Almeida, R. G. (2009). On the psychological reality of verb typologies. Paper presented at the Verb Typologies conference. Ghent, Belgium, February.
  • Stockall, L, de Almeida, R. G., von Grünau, M. W., Guay , A., Petropoulou, A. & Sodo, D. (2008). Early compound constituent processing by the two hemispheres: Behavioral and MEG evidence. Paper presented at the International Morphology Meeting. Vienna, February.
  • Manouilidou, C., de Almeida, R. G., Nair , V., & Schwartz, G. (2008). Verb thematic roles and thematic hierarchy: Evidence from the performance of Alzheimer's Patients. Paper presented at Linguistic Evidence Conference. Tübingen,  Germany, January.
  • Di Sciullo, A-M., de Almeida, R.G., Manouilidou, C., & Dwivedi, V.D. (2007). This poster reads clearly: Processing English middle constructions. Poster presented at the at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing conference. Turku, Finland, August 25.
  • Roncero, C., Smyth, R., Kennedy, J.M., & de Almeida, R. G. (2007) Online processing differences between metaphors and similies. Poster presented at the at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing conference. Turku, Finland, August 24.
  • Libben, G., Borgwaldt, S., Bolger, P., Kemps, R., de Almeida, R. G. (2007). Ambiguous roots in context. Paper presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Morphological Processing. Marseille, July.
  • Lacroix, G. L., Constantinescu, I., Segalowitz, N., de Almeida, R. G., & von Grünau, M. W. (2006). The relation between semantic memory and attentional blink. 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Houston, TX, November.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Dwivedi, V. (2006) Are lexical causatives semantically complex? Evidence from sentence recall and acceptability judgment. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, October.
  • de Almeida, R. G., Novaes, C., & Libben, G. (2006). Processing unambiguous trimorphemic words in (Brazilian) Portuguese. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, October.
  • Mobayyen, F., de Almeida, R. G., Kehayia, E., Schwartz, G., & Nair, V. (2006). The organization of semantic memory: Evidence from an investigation of verb-specific semantic dissociations in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, October.
  • de Almeida, R. G., Houston, S., Kehayia, E., & Libben, G. (2006). Processing ambiguous trimorphemic words in context: Evidence from aphasia. Paper presented at the VII Science of Aphasia conference. Alghero, Italy, August.
  • de Almeida, R. G., Di Nardo, J., & von Grünau, M. W. (2005). Understanding sentences in dynamic scenes: probing the locus of the interaction between language and vision. Talk given at the 13 th European Conference on Eye Movements. Bern, Switzerland, August.
  • Borgwaldt, S., de Almeida, R. G., Kemps, R., & Libben, G. (2005). Barking up the wrong tree: pre-lexical morphological parsing in sentences. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science. Montreal, June.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (2004). Type-shifting verbs and semantic (de)composition. Paper presented at the (Language) Interfaces conference. Pescara, Italy, July.
  • de Almeida, R. G., Madon, Z., van de Velde, C., Di Nardo, J., Godfrey, J., & von Grünau, M. W., (2004). Verb-driven shifts of attention during sentence comprehension and dynamic scene processing. Journal of Vision, 4 (8), 828a.
  • de Almeida, R. G., van de Velde, C., von Grünau, M. W., &   Galera, C. (2003). (Eye-)tracking the time course of visual and linguistic integration: the effect of verb-conceptual restrictions. Journal of Vision, 3 (9), 308a.
  • de Almeida, R. G., van de Velde, C., von Grunau, M. W., Galera, C., Madon, Z., & Godfrey, J. (2003). The interaction between verbs and objects in a modular architecture. Poster presented at the 12th European Conference on Eye Movements. Dundee, Scotland, August.
  • Fernandez, E., Fodor, J. D., de Almeida, R. G., Bradley, D. & Quinn, D. (2003). Relative clause attachment in Canadian French: Prosodic boundary or F0-matching? Poster presented at the Sixteenth CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, March.
  • Mobayyen, F. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Memory for verbs: Recall as a function of semantic and morphological complexity. Poster presented at the Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Banff, October.
  • Constantinescu, I., & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Sentence processing in learning disabled adolescents: The effect of verb transitivity preference. Poster presented at the Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET) conference. Montreal, June.
  • Mobayyen, F. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). Semantic memory organization for verbs: Proactive Interference as a function of content and structure. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science. Vancouver, June.
  • van de Velde, C., de Almeida, R. G., von Grunau, M. W., & Galera, C. (2002). Tracking the time course of visual-linguistic integration: Verbs in search of their objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science. Vancouver, June.
  • Constantinescu, I. & de Almeida, R. G. (2002). The effect of verb transitivity preferences in sentence comprehension by LD readers. Poster presented at the Fifteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 22.
  • de Almeida, R. G., van de Velde, C., von Grunau, M. W., & Galera, C. (2001) Looking at objects of verbs: Visual representations help only post-linguistic operations during sentence comprehension. Paper presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing conference. Saarbrucken, Germany, September 19.
  • Constantinescu, I. & de Almeida, R. G. (2001) Verb processing during sentence comprehension by LD adolescents. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science Conference. Quebec City, June 25.
  • Turbide, J. & de Almeida, R. G. (2001) Sentence propositional complexity as a probe into the nature of causative concepts. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science Conference. Quebec City, June 25.
  • Libben, G. & de Almeida R. G. (2001) Activation and conflict resolution in prelexical morphological parsing. Paper presented at the Morphology Workshop, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 13.
  • van de Velde, C., de Almeida, R. G., Galera, C., von Grunau, M. W. (2001). Monitoring saccades during a visual search task to uncover the time-course of visual-linguistic integration. Poster presented at ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) Annual Meeting. Fort Lauderdale, May 2.
  • Libben, G. & de Almeida, R. G. (2000). Ambiguous suffixed words and the architecture of the mental lexicon. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Alberta Linguistic Society. Banff, October 28.
  • de Almeida, R. G., van de Velde, C., Galera, C., & von Grunau, M. (2000). Looking for objects of verbs: the use of visual information in the access to conceptual-structure representations. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montreal, October 18. 
  • Tesolin, S. B. & de Almeida, R. G. (2000).Accessing arguments and conceptual fillers of verbs. Poster presented at the Second International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montreal, October 18.
  • Segalowitz, N. & de Almeida, R. G. (2000). Lexical-conceptual representation in bilinguals: semantic field effects in verb categorization. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montreal, October 19.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (2000). Resolving morphological ambiguity in sentence context. Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing conference. University of Leiden, The Netherlands, September 20.
  • de Almeida, R. G., & Libben, G. (2000) The effect of constituent disruption in English compound recognition. 9th International Morphology Meeting, Workshop on Compound Processing. University of Vienna, Austria, February.
  • McEwen, S., Libben, G., & de Almeida (1999) Do we really access multimorphemic representations during word recognition? Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS) conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton, August.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (1998) Lexical Concepts do not Decompose: Evidence from Verbs. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference. Freiburg, Germany, September.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Libben, G. (1998) Morphological Decomposition: Effects of Semantic Ambiguity and Affixation. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference. Freiburg, Germany, September.
  • de Almeida, R. G. (1998) Causatives and Lexical Atomism. Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Meeting. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, May.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Fodor, J. A. (1998) Lexical Concepts in Sentence Comprehension: Evidence for Nondecompositionality. Eleventh Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New Brunswick, NJ, March.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Fodor, J. A. (1996-b). Still looking for structural complexity effects in lexical concepts. In G. W. Cottrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • de Almeida, R. G. & Fodor, J. A. (1996-a) Looking for structural complexity effects in lexical concepts. Ninth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY, March.
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