This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in
human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic …

Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings.
Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the …

The surprisal of a word on a probabilistic grammar constitutes a promising complexity metric
for human sentence comprehension difficulty. Using two different grammar types, surprisal is …

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

There is now considerable evidence that human sentence processing is expectation based:
As people read a sentence, they use their statistical experience with their language to …

Spoken language comprehension is known to involve a large left-dominant network of fronto-
temporal brain regions, but there is still little consensus about how the syntactic and …

We report an investigation of aging and individual differences in binding information during
sentence understanding. An age-continuous sample of adults (N= 91), ranging from 18 to 81 …

Neural attention mechanism has achieved many successes in various tasks in natural
language processing. However, existing neural attention models based on a densely …

What theories best characterise the parsing processes triggered upon encountering
ambiguity, and what effects do these processes have on eye movement patterns in reading …

When people read temporarily ambiguous sentences, there is often an increased
prevalence of regressive eye-movements launched from the word that resolves the …