I am an Assistant Professor at NINJAL in Tokyo, Japan. I study language comprehension in humans using a combination of theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches.
- Keywords: Language comprehension, working memory, syntax, categorial grammars
- Email: s-isono at ninjal
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Publications
Journal articles
- Isono, S. (2024). Category Locality Theory: A unified account of locality effects in language comprehension. Cognition 247, 105766. [paper]
- Isono, S. & Hirose, Y. (2023). Pre-verb reactivation of arguments in sentence processing. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1). [paper]
Proceedings
- Yoshida, R., Isono, S., Kajikawa, K., Someya, T., Sugimoto, Y., & Oseki, Y. (2025). If Attention Serves as a Cognitive Model of Human Memory Retrieval, What is the Plausible Memory Representation? To appear in ACL 2025. [paper]
- Isono, S.*, Kajikawa, K.*, Sugimoto, Y*, Asahara, M., & Oseki, Y. (2025). CCGによる日本語データのモデリング [Modeling Japanese EEG data with CCG]. NLP2025, Nagasaki, Japan. (*co-first) Conference committee special award [paper]
- Isono, S., Hasegawa, T., Kajikawa, K., Kono, K., Nakamura, S., & Oseki, Y. (2023). Formalizing argument structures with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 14213, 83–99. [paper]
- Isono, S. & Hirose, Y. (2022). Psycholinguistic evidence for severing arguments from the verb. Japanese/Korean linguistics, 29, 437-446. [paper]
Talks (under construction)
- Isono, S., Kajikawa, K., & Oseki, Y. (2024). 日本語大規模読み時間コーパスにおける記憶の負荷のCCGによるモデリング [Modeling memory load in a Japanese large-scale reading time corpus with CCG]. Best presentation award
Posters (under construction)
- Isono, S. (2024). Incremental processing with a bottom-up CCG parser. AMLaP 2024.
Theses
- Isono, S. (2025). Syntactic processing as dynamic logical inference under resource limitations. PhD Thesis, University of Tokyo. The First National High School Memorial Award
- Isono, S. (2022). On Processing and Representation of Verbs and Their Arguments. Master Thesis, University of Tokyo. The First National High School Memorial Award
Grants
- Grants-in-Aid for JSPS fellows (DC2) FY 2022-2024
Education
- PhD, Univesity of Tokyo, 2025
- MA, University of Tokyo, 2022
- Bachelor of Law, University of Tokyo, 2015
- Exchange student, University of Toronto, 2013-2014