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Jon A. Willits, PhD

Affiliations:	1997-2002	Psychology Department	University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, United States
	2002-2006	Psychology Department	University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
	2006-2012	Psychology Department	University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
	2012-2015	Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
	2015-2018	Psychology Department	University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
	2018-	Psychology Department	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Area:

Cognitive Science, Semantic Knowledge, Language Acquisition, Computational Modeling

Website:

http://languagestats.org/jonwillits/

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Parents

Curt Burgess	grad student	2002-2006	UC Riverside
Jenny R. Saffran	grad student	2006-2012	UW Madison
Mark S. Seidenberg	grad student	2006-2012	UW Madison
(Learning complex linguistic structure: The Simple Recurrent Network (SRN) as a model of nonadjacent dependency learning.)
Michael N. Jones	post-doc	2012-	Indiana University

Children

Philip A. Huebner	grad student		(Neurotree)
Lin Khern Chia	grad student	2016-	UIUC (Neurotree)
Andrew Z. Flores	grad student	2017-	UIUC (Neurotree)
Shufan Mao	grad student	2019-	UIUC (Neurotree)
Emily N Mech	grad student	2019-	UIUC (Neurotree)

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Publications

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Mao S, Huebner PA, Willits JA. (2023) Spatial versus graphical representation of distributional semantic knowledge. Psychological Review
Minor KS, Willits JA, Marggraf MP, et al. (2018) Measuring disorganized speech in schizophrenia: automated analysis explains variance in cognitive deficits beyond clinician-rated scales. Psychological Medicine. 1-9
Huebner PA, Willits JA. (2018) Structured Semantic Knowledge Can Emerge Automatically from Predicting Word Sequences in Child-Directed Speech. Frontiers in Psychology. 9: 133
Willits JA, Rubin T, Jones MN, et al. (2017) Evidence of disturbances of deep levels of semantic cohesion within personal narratives in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research
Willits JA, Amato MS, MacDonald MC. (2015) Language knowledge and event knowledge in language use. Cognitive Psychology. 78: 1-27
Baayen RH, Shaoul C, Willits J, et al. (2015) Comprehension without segmentation: a proof of concept with naive discriminative learning Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 31: 106-128
Rubin TN, Kievit-Kylar B, Willits JA, et al. (2014) Organizing the space and behavior of semantic models. Cogsci : ... Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference. 2014: 1329-1334
Willits JA, Seidenberg MS, Saffran JR. (2014) Distributional structure in language: contributions to noun-verb difficulty differences in infant word recognition. Cognition. 132: 429-36
Willits JA, Wojcik EH, Seidenberg MS, et al. (2013) Toddlers Activate Lexical Semantic Knowledge in the Absence of Visual Referents: Evidence from Auditory Priming. Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society On Infant Studies. 18

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