A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition,
including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently …

Studies monitoring eye-movements in scenes containing entities have provided robust
evidence for incremental reference resolution processes. This paper addresses the less …

We explore the implications of an event-based expectancy generation approach to
language understanding, suggesting that one useful strategy employed by comprehenders …

Speakers in conversation routinely engage in audience design. That is, they construct their
utterances to be understood by particular addressees. Standard accounts of audience …

We report three eye-movement experiments that investigated whether alternative syntactic
analyses compete during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Previous research (Traxler …

This thesis takes up the problem of syntactic comprehension, or parsing—how an agent
(human or machine) with knowledge of a specific language goes about inferring the …

We introduce symbolic dynamics to cognitive scientists with the aim of furthering constructive
debate on representation. Symbolic dynamics is a mathematical framework in which both …

A self-paced reading experiment investigated processing of sentences containing a noun-
phrase that could temporarily be mistaken as the direct-object argument of a verb in a …

Sedivy (2002) proposed that using only and prior referential context to specify contrastive
focus can guide the parsing of relative clause ambiguities. We report two studies …

采用自定速移动视窗技术, 探讨语义关联性和句法歧义性对汉语直接宾语, 宾语小句类暂时句法
歧义句理解加工的影响. 结果发现: 语义关联性和句法歧义性对歧义区和解歧区的阅读时间有 …