Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

In this paper we address the question of how to render sequence-level networks better at
handling structured input. We propose a machine reading simulator which processes text …

" A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times
bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it …

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT have shown
remarkable capacities in comprehending and producing language. However, their internal …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The domain of “folk-economics” consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by
laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as, for example, the causes of the …

Linguistic processing, especially syntactic processing, is often considered a hallmark of
human cognition; thus, the domain specificity or domain generality of syntactic processing …

Functionalist typologists have long argued that pressures associated with language usage
influence the distribution of grammatical properties across the world's languages …

In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self …