Probabilistic methods are providing new explanatory approaches to fundamental cognitive
science questions of how humans structure, process and acquire language. This review …

Against a background of recent progress in developmental neuroscience, some of which
has been taken as challenging to the modularity hypothesis of, this article contrasts two …

People's motivational states--their wishes and preferences--influence their processing of
visual stimuli. In 5 studies, participants shown an ambiguous figure (eg, one that could be …

In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between
the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic features of the words within a …

Children quickly acquire basic grammatical facts about their native language. Does this
early syntactic knowledge involve knowledge of words or rules? According to lexical …

The Gricean Maxim of Quantity is believed to govern linguistic performance. Speakers are
assumed to provide as much information as required for referent identification and no more …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 32 (2) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2007-16796-001) …

Real-time cognition is best described not as a sequence of logical operations performed on
discrete symbols but as a continuously changing pattern of neuronal activity. The continuity …

The mapping of phonetic information to lexical representations in second-language (L2)
listening was examined using an eyetracking paradigm. Japanese listeners followed …

Two studies investigated the interaction between utterance and scene processing by
monitoring eye movements in agent–action–patient events, while participants listened to …