The processes tapped by the widely-used word association (WA) paradigm remain a matter
of debate: while some authors consider them as driven by lexical co-occurrences, others …

Our knowledge of events and situations in the world plays a critical role in our ability to
understand what is happening around us, to predict what might happen next, and to …

Abstract Knowledge about word and object meanings can be organized taxonomically
(fruits, mammals, etc.) on the basis of shared features or thematically (eating breakfast …

This paper presents the results of a large-scale evaluation study of window-based
Distributional Semantic Models on a wide variety of tasks. Our study combines a broad …

It has been proposed that people can generate probabilistic predictions at multiple levels of
representation during language comprehension. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) …

This paper empirically raises and examines the question of 'conceptual control': To what
extent are competent thinkers able to reason properly with new senses of words? This …

As adults, we draw upon our ample knowledge about the world to support such vital
cognitive feats as using language, reasoning, retrieving knowledge relevant to our current …

Comprehenders can use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly,
but recent findings suggest that salient information about argument roles may not impact …

Classic accounts of lexical organization posit that humans are sensitive to environmental
frequency, suggesting a mechanism for word learning based on repetition. However, a …

In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal
case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences …