The ability to rapidly and systematically access knowledge stored in long‐term memory in
response to incoming sensory information—that is, to derive meaning from the world—lies at …

At least since the time of Aristotle, humans have been fascinated with trying to understand
how meaning is represented in what, in modern terms, has come to be known as semantic …

The ability to comprehend language dominates our species-specific activity.
Correspondingly, deficits in language function (eg, the dyslexias and aphasias) are …

The physical energy that we refer to as a word, whether in isolation or embedded in
sentences, takes its meaning from the knowledge stored in our brains through a lifetime of …

How long does it take the human mind to grasp the idea when hearing or reading a
sentence? Neurophysiological methods looking directly at the time course of brain activity …

Context represents a broad range of aspects, comprising for example the conversational
setting (including speaker and hearer), mutual knowledge, inter-and intratextual information …

Investigating how the brain accomplishes language comprehension is a particular challenge
compared to other areas of cognitive neuroscience. Animal models are of limited value …

Even a cursory consideration of language comprehension is likely to lead to several
conclusions about the psychological processes underlying comprehension. Perhaps most …

People routinely hear and understand speech at rates of 120–200 words per minute [1, 2].
Thus, speech comprehension must involve rapid, online neural mechanisms that process …

Neural oscillations track linguistic information during speech comprehension (Ding et al.,
2016; Keitel et al., 2018), and are known to be modulated by acoustic landmarks and …