When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

Why do comprehenders process repeated stimuli more rapidly than novel stimuli? We
consider an adaptive explanation for why such facilitation may be beneficial: priming is a …

Abstract Language comprehension requires successfully navigating linguistic variability.
One hypothesis for how listeners manage variability is that they rapidly update their …

In prevailing approaches to human sentence comprehension, the outcome of the word
recognition process is assumed to be a categorical representation with no residual …

Humans exhibit garden path effects: When reading sentences that are temporarily
structurally ambiguous, they slow down when the structure is disambiguated in favor of the …

During listening comprehension, the identification of individual words can be strongly
influenced by properties of the preceding context. While sentence context can facilitate both …

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 …

This study provides evidence for implicit learning in syntactic comprehension. By
reanalyzing data from a syntactic priming experiment (Thothathiri & Snedeker, 2008), we …

Prediction‐based processes appear to play an important role in language. Few studies,
however, have sought to test the relationship within individuals between prediction learning …

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 …