Scanning of the visual scene is an important selective process in visual perception. In this
article we argue that eye-movement data provide an excellent on-line indication of the …

Recent decades have ushered in tremendous progress in understanding the neural basis of
language. Most of our current knowledge on language and the brain, however, is derived …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic
ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations …

This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational
linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of …

Abstract Ferreira and Clifton (1986, Experiment 1) found that readers experienced equal
difficulty with temporarily ambiguous reduced relatives clauses when the first noun was …

The time-course with which readers use event-specific world knowledge (thematic fit) to
resolve structural ambiguity was explored through experiments and implementation of …

While much work has been done investigating the role of context in the incremental
processing of syntactic indeterminacies, relatively little is known about online semantic …

The problems of access—retrieving linguistic structure from some mental grammar—and
disambiguation—choosing among these structures to correctly parse ambiguous linguistic …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …