Reviewed are studies using event‐related potentials to examine when and how sentence
context information is used during language comprehension. Results suggest that, when it …

Despite strong evidence for prediction during language comprehension, the underlying
mechanisms, and the extent to which they are specific to language, remain unclear. Re …

During sentence comprehension, older adults are less likely than younger adults to predict
features of likely upcoming words. A pair of experiments assessed whether such differences …

Because context has a robust influence on the processing of subsequent words, the idea
that readers and listeners predict upcoming words has attracted research attention, but …

Contextual information influences multiple aspects of language comprehension extended
over time. To determine how age‐related changes impact normal comprehension, effects of …

Older adults (as a group) are less likely than younger adults to engage in an anticipatory
mode of language comprehension, failing to successfully preactivate information about …

Predictive processing is a core component of normal language comprehension, but the
brain may not engage in prediction to the same extent in all circumstances. This study …

From the perspective of a person trying to understand a sentence, language is a continuous
flow of information distributed over time. Somehow, the listener translates this stream of …

Language comprehension looks pretty easy. You pick up a novel and simply enjoy the plot,
or ponder the human condition. You strike a conversation and listen to whatever the other …

Normal aging brings increased richness in knowledge and experience as well as declines in
cognitive abilities. Event‐related brain potential (ERP) studies of language comprehension …