This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of
complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 119 (4) of
Psychological Review (see record 2012-23932-001). Incorrect decay rates were provided in …

We explore the implications of an event-based expectancy generation approach to
language understanding, suggesting that one useful strategy employed by comprehenders …

Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge of real-world events plays an important
role in guiding online language comprehension. The present study addresses the scope of …

A central question for psycholinguistics concerns the role of grammatical constraints in
online sentence processing. Many current theories maintain that the language processing …

Anticipation is an essential ability for the human cognitive system to survive in its
surrounding environment. The present article will review previous research on anticipatory …

Four experiments are presented in which adults learned to comprehend a new syntactic
construction in their native language. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrate that adults quickly …

The authors used 2 “visual-world” eye-tracking experiments to examine lexical access using
Dutch constructions in which the verb did or did not place semantic constraints on its …

This paper introduces a special issue of Cognitive Science initiated on the 25th anniversary
of the publication of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), a two‐volume work that …

The human conceptual system contains people's knowledge about the world. Rather than
containing holistic images of experience, the conceptual system represents components of …