Mental representations of everyday experience are rich, structured, and multimodal. In this
article we consider the adaptive pressures that led to human construction of such …

Ten years ago, researchers using event‐related brain potentials (ERPs) to study language
comprehension were puzzled by what looked like a Semantic Illusion: Semantically …

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 …

Eye tracking technology has become an increasingly popular methodology in language
studies. Using data from 27 journals in language sciences indexed in the Social Science …

More and more findings suggest a tight temporal coupling between (non-linguistic) socially
interpreted context and language processing. Still, real-time language processing accounts …

Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the
visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and …

Computational psycholinguistics is concerned with the development of computational
models of the cognitive mechanisms and representations that underlie language processing …

Expectation-based theories of language comprehension, in particular Surprisal Theory, go a
long way in accounting for the behavioral correlates of word-by-word processing difficulty …

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course and distribution of
brain activity while adults performed (1) a sequential learning task involving complex …

The processing difficulty of each word we encounter in a sentence is affected by both our
prior linguistic experience and our general knowledge about the world. Computational …