Abstract Language use in conversation is fundamentally incremental, and is guided by the
representations that interlocutors maintain of each other's knowledge and beliefs. While …

Over the last decades a divide seems to have emerged in the cognitive sciences between
embodied and symbolic approaches to language understanding. Embodied approaches …

During an individual's normal interaction with the environment and other humans, visual and
linguistic signals often coincide and can be integrated very quickly. This has been clearly …

Incremental language processing means that listeners confront temporary ambiguity about
how to structure the input, which can generate misinterpretations. In four “visual-world” …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

2.1 BACKGROUND Within the community of researchers interested in understanding how
humans process sentences, it has long been evident that there are important insights to be …

Against a background of recent progress in developmental neuroscience, some of which
has been taken as challenging to the modularity hypothesis of, this article contrasts two …

Our ability to speak, write, understand speech, and read is critical to our ability to function in
today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use …

Abstract Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems excel at diverse tasks, from image
classification to strategy games, even outperforming humans in many of these domains …

Plausibility violations resulting in impossible scenarios lead to earlier and longer lasting eye
movement disruption than violations resulting in highly unlikely scenarios (K. Rayner, T …