Most current accounts of language comprehension agree on a role for prediction, but they
disagree on the importance of domain-general executive resources in predictive behavior. In …

The ability to correctly interpret complex syntax and long sentences is gradually impaired as
people age. Typical ageing is characterised by working memory deficits, which are thought …

Healthy ageing leads to changes in the brain that impact upon sensory and cognitive
processing. It is not fully clear how these changes affect the processing of everyday spoken …

An unresolved issue in social perception concerns the effect of perceived ethnicity on
speech processing. Bias-based accounts assume conscious misunderstanding of native …

Proponents of good-enough processing suggest that readers often (mis) interpret certain
sentences using fast-and-frugal heuristics, such that for non-canonical sentences (eg, The …

Effective listening comprehension not only requires processing local linguistic input, but also
necessitates incorporating contextual cues available in the global communicative …

There is an apparent disparity between the fields of cognitive audiology and cognitive
electrophysiology as to how linguistic context is used when listening to perceptually …

Public Significance Statement The ability to segment unspaced text into words is
fundamental for reading in writing systems that do not use spaces to indicate the boundaries …

One core question in studies of language processing is the extent to which interlocutors
engage in real-time communicative perspective-taking. Current evidence suggests that both …

Normal aging has variable effects on language comprehension, perhaps because
comprehension mechanisms vary in their dependence on network structure versus network …