Publications

Chen, E., Caplan, D., West, W.C. & Waters, G.S. (2006). Determinants of BOLD signal correlates of processing object-extracted relative clauses. Cortex, 42, 591-604.
Stanczak, L., Waters, G. & Caplan, D. (2006). Typicality-based learning and generalization in aphasia: two case studies of anomia. Aphasiology, 20, 374-383.
Caplan, D., Waters, G.S. & DeDe, G. (2006). Specialized verbal working memory for language comprehension. In A. Conway, J.M. Kane, A. Miyake, & J. Towse (Eds), Variations in working memory. Oxford University Press.
Caplan, D., & Waters, G.S. (2006). Language disorders in aging. In E. Bialystok & G. Craik (eds), Lifespan cognition: Mechanisms of change. Oxford University Press.
DeDe, G., Caplan, D., Kemtes, K., & Waters, G.S. (2005). The relationship between age, verbal working memory and language comprehension. Psychology and Aging, 19, 601-616.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (2005). The relationship between age, processing speed, working memory capacity and language comprehension. Memory, 13, 403-413.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (2004) The reliability and stability of verbal working memory measures. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 35, 550-564.
Waters, G.S., & Caplan, D. (2004) Individual differences in working memory capacity and on-line syntactic processing: Evidence from self-paced listening. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 129-164.
Waters, G.S., Caplan, D., Alpert, N. & Stanczak, L. (2003) Individual differences in rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension: Effects of working memory and speed of processing. NeuroImage, 101-112.
Caplan, D., Waters, G.S., & Alpert, N. (2003). Effects of age and speed of processing on rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. Human Brain Mapping, 19, 112-131.
Caplan, D. & Waters, G. (2003). On-line syntactic processing in aphasia: Studies with auditory moving window presentation. Brain & Language, 84, 222-249.
Waters, G.S., & Caplan, D. (2002). Verbal working memory and language comprehension. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers, Basingstoke, England.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (2002). Working memory and on-line syntactic processing in Alzheimer’s disease: Studies with auditory moving windows presentation. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, 289-311.
Caplan, D., Vijayan, S., Kuperberg, G., West, C., Waters, G., Greve, D., Dale, A.M. (2002). Vascular response to syntactic processing: an event-related fMRI study of relative clauses. Human Brain Mapping. 15, 26-38.
Yampolsky, S., Waters, G., Caplan, D., Matthies, M., & Chiu, P. (2002). Effects of acoustic degradation on syntactic processing: Implications for the nature of the resource system used in language processing. Brain and Cognition, 48, 617-625.
Titone, D., Wingfield, A., Caplan, D., Waters, G., & Prentice, K. (2001). Memory and encoding of spoken discourse following right hemisphere damage: Evidence from the auditory moving window (AMW) technique. Brain and Language, 77, 10-24.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (2001). Age, working memory and on-line syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. Psychology and Aging, 16, 128-144
Rochon, E., Waters, G.S., & Caplan, D. (2000). The relationship between measures of working memory and sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 43(2), 395-413.
Caplan, D., Alpert, N., Waters, G.S. & Oliveri, A. (2000) Activation of Broca’s area by Syntactic Processing under conditions of concurrent articulation Human Brain Mapping, 9, 65-71.
Caplan, D. & Waters, G.S. (1999). Issues regarding general and domain-specific resources. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 77-94.
Caplan, D., N., Alpert, N., & Waters, G.S. (1999). PET studies of sentence processing with auditory sentence presentation. Neuroimage, 9, 343-351.
Caplan, D. Alpert, N. & Waters, G.S. (1998). Effects of syntactic structure and propositional number on patterns of regional cerebral blood flow. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 541-552.
Waters, G.S., Rochon, E., & Caplan, D. (1998). Task demands and sentence comprehension in patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type. Brain and Language, 62, 361-397.
Caplan, D., Waters, G.S., & Hildebrandt, N. (1997). Determinants of sentence comprehension in aphasic patients in sentence-picture matching tests. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 40, 542-555.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (1997 ). Working memory and on-line sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26,377-400.
Leonard, C., Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (1997). The influence of contextual information on the resolution of ambiguous pronouns by younger and older adults. Applied Psycholinguistics, 18, 293-319
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (1996). The capacity theory of sentence comprehension: Critique of Just and Carpenter (1992). Psychological Review, 103, 761-772.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D.(1996). Processing resource capacity and the comprehension of garden path sentences. Memory and Cognition, 24, 342-355.
Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (1996). The measurement of verbal working memory capacity and its relation to reading comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 49, 51-79.
Waters, G.S., Caplan, D. & Rochon, E. (1995). Processing capacity and sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 12, 1-30.
Caplan, D. & Waters, G.S. (1995). Aphasic disorders of syntactic comprehension and working memory capacity. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 12, 637-649.
Caplan, D. & Waters, G.S. (1995). On the nature of the phonological output planning processes involved in verbal rehearsal: Evidence from aphasia. Brain and Language, 48, 191-220.
Caplan, D. & Waters, G.S. (1994). Articulatory length and phonological similarity in span tasks: A reply to Baddeley and Andrade. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 47, 1055-1062.
Rochon, E., Waters, G.S. & Caplan, D. (1994). Sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Language, 46, 329-349.
Waters, G., Rochon, E., & Caplan, D. (1992). The role of high-level speech planning in rehearsal: Evidence from patients with apraxia of speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 54-73.
Waters, G.S., Caplan, D., & Leonard, C. (1992). The role of phonology in reading comprehension: Implications of the effects of homophones on processing sentences with referentially dependent categories. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 44, 343-372.
Caplan, D., Rochon, E., & Waters, G.S. (1992). Articulatory and phonological determinants of word length effects in span tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 45, 177-192.
Waters, G.S., Caplan, D., & Hildebrandt, N. ( 1991) . On the structure of verbal short-term memory and its functional role in sentence comprehension: Evidence from neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 8, 81-126.
Bruck, M. & Waters, G.S. (1990). Effects of reading skills on component spelling skills. Applied Psycholinguistics, 11, 425-427.
Rochon, E., Caplan, D., & Waters, G.S. (1990). Short-term memory in patients with apraxia of speech: Implications for the nature and structure of the auditory verbal short-term memory system. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 5, 237-264.
Waters, G.S., & Meaney, M.J. (1989). Peer commentary on "Exercises in Behavioral Explanation" by Gerald M. Siegel. Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, 13, 10-11.
Waters, G.S., & Bruck, M. & Malus-Abramowitz, M. (1988). The role of linguistic and visual processes in spelling: A developmental study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 45, 400-421.
Waters, G.S., Caplan, D., & Hildebrandt, N. (1987). Working memory and written sentence comprehension. Attention and Performance XII, 531-555.
Hobbs, C., Crago, M. & Waters, G.S. (1987). The accuracy of parents and teachers judgment of Inuit children's hearing loss. Human Communication Canada, 11, 13-16.
Waters, G.S. Cognitive development in atypical children: A review. (1987). Canadian Journal of Psychology, 28, 77.
Waters, G.S., Bruck, M. & Seidenberg, M. S.(1985). Do children use similar processes to read and spell words? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 39, 511-530
Waters, G.S., Seidenberg, M.S., & Bruck, M. (1984). Children's and adults' use of spelling-sound information in three reading tasks. Memory and Cognition, 12(3), 293-305.
Doehring, D.G., Backman, J., & Waters, G.S. (1983). Theoretical models of reading disabilities: Past, Present, and Future. Topics in Learning and Learning Disabilities, 3(1), 84-94.