In filler-gap sentences, a phrase ('filler') is separated by intervening words from a
subsequent phrase ('gap') with which it is integrated. The filler-gap interval provides a useful …

This study investigated cognitive and neural processes involved in gap filling during on-line
sentence comprehension. Electroencephalogram (EEG) coherences were used to …

The active maintenance of sentence meaning in working memory was investigated using
event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) coherences. Participants read a sentence …

The effects of sentential context and semantic memory structure during on-line sentence
processing were examined by recording event-related brain potentials as individuals read …

In behavioral studies on sentence comprehension, much evidence indicates that shorter
dependencies are preferred over longer dependencies, and that longer dependencies incur …

In two experiments, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and cued-recall performance
measures were used to examine the consequences of semantic congruity and repetition on …

In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension
system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence …

Studies of working memory demonstrate that some forms of information are retrieved by a
content-addressable mechanism (McElree & Dosher, 1989; McElree, 1996, 1998), whereas …

In this paper, I argue that the retrieval of filler-phrases in syntactic filler-gap dependencies is
facilitated by encoding more information in the filler-phrase. Three self-paced reading …

Filler-‐gap dependencies make strong demands on working memory in language
comprehension because they cannot always be immediately resolved. In a series of three …