Let's start from scratch in thinking about what memory is for, and consequently, how it works.
Suppose that memory and conceptualization work in the service of perception and action. In …

Thematic roles are typically viewed as slot and filler m echanisms in which the slots are
devoid of content, or the content is limited to a few syntactically relevant features. This …

Investigators of language understanding have made a number of idealizations in order to
study it, but many of these idealizations have turned into dogmas—convictions that are …

Abstract language comprehension is a creative act; there is little that is transparent between
words and meaning/instead, meaning is the result of a creative, constructive process/begin …

This introduction reviews some history of how lexical representations have come to play an
important role in sentence processing research. It discusses a number of issues related to …

Visual cognition depends critically on the moment-to-moment orientation of gaze. Gaze is
changed by saccades, rapid eye movements that orient the fovea over targets of interest in a …

Utilizing video camera eye tracking technology, an experimental system has been
developed to track the eye of a person viewing a head-mounted display (HMD). The HMD …

Many formal approaches to language place strong limits on the nature of information
pertaining to the context of an utterance that are relevant for representing linguistic form, and …

This study evaluates the effects of a very specific aspect of discourse context, that of contrast
among discourse entities. An eyetracking methodology monitoring eye movements to real …

Results Fig. 1 shows data from 4 subjects. Analyses showed that unmarked competitors
reliably delayed recognition for marked targets (t (3)= 3.75, p<. 02), but marked competitors …