Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

Current theories of language comprehension posit that readers and listeners routinely try to
predict the meaning but also the visual or sound form of upcoming words. Whereas most …

During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …

Theories of reading comprehension have widely predicted a role for syntactic skills, or the
ability to understand and manipulate the structure of a sentence. Yet, these theories are …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Speech processing is highly incremental. It is widely accepted that human listeners
continuously use the linguistic context to anticipate upcoming concepts, words, and …

When listening to spoken narratives, we must integrate information over multiple, concurrent
timescales, building up from words to sentences to paragraphs to a coherent narrative …

Literacy has many obvious benefits: it exposes the reader to a wealth of new information and
enhances syntactic knowledge. However, we argue that literacy has an additional, often …