How do general-purpose cognitive abilities affect language processing and comprehension?
Recent research emphasises a role for cognitive control—also called executive function (…

… of cognitive control in sentence … cognitive-control tasks that do not involve syntactic material,
and that populations with poor cognitive control have difficulty overriding early processing …

… cognitive control may not always be necessary for accurate comprehension. We tested whether
cognitive control recruitment for language processing is … differences in cognitive control, …

… relating sentence processing patterns with cognitive control … the use of cognitive control during
sentence processing. Overall, … the real time processing of OR sentences. This interference …

… the cognitive processes that these tasks are intended to tap, we chose to include separate
measures of working-memory capacity and of cognitive control in … during sentence processing. …

… We found that sentence processing is constrained both by the complexity of syntactic
structure and by the reader's cognitive control ability. For readers with higher control abilities, as …

… In this study, we examined whether sentence generation recruits cognitive control regions
more than word generation, and whether this recruitment is heightened under phonological …

… valuable evidence that cognitive-control engagement influences on-… cognitive control
contributes to sentence processing. We provide a novel test of the hypothesis that cognitive control …

… LIFG in Sentence Processing section, … Cognitive Control and Language Abilities, we explore
and defend this hypothesis. Most research on individual differences in sentence processing …

… of general cognitive control mechanisms for the syntactic processing of sentences. In … of six
new experiments that explore the cognitive control abilities of both healthy adults and patients …