Publications

Arkhipova, Y., Lopopolo, A., Vasishth, S., & Rabovsky, M. (2025). When Meaning Matters Most: Rethinking Cloze Probability in N400 Research. bioRxiv, 2025-04.

Hodapp, A., Lindborg, A., & Rabovsky, M. (in revision). Bayesian semantic surprise based on different types of regularities predicts the N400 and P600 brain signals. Manuscript in revision for NeuroImage.  Link to bioRxiv.

Rabovsky, M., Lopopolo, A., & Schad, D.J. (in revision). Interindividual differences in predicting words versus sentence meaning: Explaining N400 amplitudes using large-scale neural network models. Manuscript in revision for Cognition.

Stone, K., & Rabovsky, M. (2025). The role of syntactic and semantic cues in preventing temporary illusions of plausibility. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-27.

Contier, F., Höger, M., & Rabovsky, M. (2025). The P600 during sentence reading predicts behavioral and neural markers of recognition memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-20.

Contier, F., Wartenburger, I., Weymar, M., & Rabovsky, M. (2024). Are the P600 and P3 ERP components linked to the task‐evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity?. Psychophysiology, 61(7), e14565. Link.

Hodapp, A., & Rabovsky, M. (2024). Error-based implicit learning in language: the effect of sentence context and constraint in a repetition paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(6), 1048-1070. Link to bioRxiv.

Lopopolo, A., Fedorenko, E., Levy, R., & Rabovsky, M. (2024). Cognitive computational neuroscience of language: Using computational models to investigate language processing in the brain. Neurobiology of Language. Link.

Lopopolo, A. & Rabovsky, M. (2024). Tracking lexical and semantic prediction error underlying the N400 using artificial neural network models of sentence processing. Neurobiology of Language. Link.

Eiserbeck, A., Enge, A., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2024). Distrust Before First Sight: Knowledge- and Appearance-Based Effects of Trustworthiness on the Visual Consciousness of Faces. Consciousness and Cognition, 117, 103629. Link to bioRxiv.

Stone, K., Khaleghi, N., & Rabovsky, M. (2023). The N400 is elicited by meaning changes but not synonym substitutions: Evidence from Persian phrasal verbs. Cognitive Science, 47(12), e13394. Link to preprint on OSF.

Arana, S., Hagoort, P., Schoffelen, J.-M.*, & Rabovsky, M.* (2023). Perceived similarity as a window into representations of integrated sentence meaning. Behavior Research Methods.

Lindborg, A.*, Musiolek, L.*, Ostwald, D., & Rabovsky, M. (2023). Semantic surprise predicts the N400 brain potential. NeuroImage: Reports, 3(1), 100161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2023.100161

Rabovsky, M. (2023). Neural underpinnings of semantic processing. In Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation, edited by M. Grimaldi, E. Brattico, & Y. Shtyrov, 527-550. New York: Springer Nature.

Schad, D.J. & Rabovsky, M. (2023). Social-distancing induced deceleration can enhance subjective well-being. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12414

Liu, S., Rabovsky, M., & Schad, D.J. (2023). Spontaneous mind wandering impairs model based decision making. PLOS ONE, 18(1): e0279532. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279532

Contier, F., Weymar, M., Wartenburger, I., & Rabovsky, M. (2022). Sustained attention as measured by RT variability is a strong modulator for the P600, but not the N400. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(12), 2297-2310. Link to preprint.

Eiserbeck, A., Enge, A., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2022). Electrophysiological Chronometry of Graded Consciousness during the Attentional Blink. Cerebral Cortex, 32(6), 1244-1259. Link.

Hodapp, A. & Rabovsky, M. ( 2021). The N400 ERP component reflects an error-based implicit learning signal during language comprehension. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(9), 7125-7140. Link.

Lopopolo, A. & Rabovsky, M. (2021). Predicting the N400 ERP component using the Sentence Gestalt model trained on a large scale corpus. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49x8z7bm

Lindborg, A. & Rabovsky, M. (2021). Meaning in brains and machines: Internal activation update in large scale language model partially reflects the N400 brain potential. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d71c9sj

Rabovsky, M., Schad, D.J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Semantic richness and density effects on language production: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(3), 508-517. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000940 Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/509000v2

Rabovsky, M. (2020). Change in a probabilistic representation of meaning can account for N400 effects on articles: A neural network model. Neuropsychologia, 143, 107466.

Rabovsky, M., & McClelland, J. L. (2020). Quasi-compositional mapping from form to meaning: a neural-network based approach to capturing neural responses during language comprehension. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 375: 20190313.

Schad, D.J., Rapp, M.A., Garbusow, M., Nebe, S., Sebold, M., Obst, E., Sommer, C., Deserno, L., Rabovsky, M., Friedel, E., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Wittchen, H.-U., Zimmermann, U.S., Walter, H., Sterzer, P., Smolka, M.N., Schlagenhauf, F., Heinz, A., Dayan, P., & Huys, Q.J.M. (2020). Dissociating neural learning signals in human sign- and goal-trackers. Nature Human Behavior, doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0765-5

Weller, P., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). Semantic knowledge promotes conscious awareness of visual objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 1216-1226.

Rabovsky, M., Conrad, M., Álvarez, C.J., Paschke-Goldt, J., & Sommer, W. (2019). Attentional modulation of orthographic neighborhood effects during reading: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in a psychological refractory period paradigm. PLOS ONE, 14(1): e0199084. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199084

Rabovsky, M., Hansen, S.S., & McClelland, J.L. (2018). Modelling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 693-705.

Baum, J.A.*, Rabovsky, M.*, Rose, S.B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip. Emotion. doi: 10.1037/emo0000545

Rabovsky, M., Schad, D.J., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Language production is facilitated by semantic richness, but inhibited by semantic density: Evidence from picture naming. Cognition, 146, 240-244.

Rabovsky, M., Stein, T., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Access to awareness for faces during continuous flash suppression is not modulated by affective knowledge. PLOS ONE, 11(4):e0150931.

Rabovsky, M., Hansen, S.S., & McClelland, J.L. (2016). N400 amplitudes reflect change in a probabilistic representation of meaning: Evidence from a connectionist model. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp 2045-2050. Cognitive Science Society: Austin: TX.

Rabovsky, M. & McRae, K. (2014). Simulating the N400 ERP component as semantic network error: Insights from a feature-based connectionist attractor model of word meaning. Cognition, 132(1), 68-89.

Suess, F., Rabovsky, M., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2014). Perceiving emotions in neutral faces: expression processing is biased by affective person knowledge. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1-6.

Rabovsky, M., Sommer, W. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Implicit word learning benefits from semantic richness: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 38(4), 1076-1083.

Rabovsky, M., Sommer, W. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Depth of conceptual knowledge modulates visual processes during word reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 990-1005.

Rabovsky, M., Sommer, W. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2012). Time course of semantic richness effects in visual word recognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:11.

Rabovsky, M., Álvarez, C. J., Hohlfeld, A. & Sommer, W. (2008). Is lexical access autonomous? Evidence from combining overlapping tasks with recording event-related brain potentials. Brain Research, 1222, 156-165.