A crucial part of understanding a sentence is to construct its syntactic structure. Without this,
it would be very difficult for language users to determine that sentences with different word …

The eye independently evolved over 40 times in nature (Fernald 1997), yet, strikingly all
animals with developed visual systems actively control their gaze using eye or head …

Although several theories of online syntactic processing assume the parallel activation of
multiple syntactic representations, evidence supporting simultaneous activation has been …

Through recording the streaming x-and y-coordinates of computer-mouse movements, we
report evidence that visual context provides an immediate constraint on the resolution of …

An event-related brain potential experiment was carried out to investigate on-line thematic
role assignment during sentence–picture matching in patients with Broca's aphasia …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of recent research that uses eye
movements to investigate both spoken language comprehension and language production …

Eye movements have been one of the most widely used response measures in studies of
written word recognition and sentence reading since the classic work of McConkie and …

Publisher Summary The most common type of overt interruption of fluent speech, or
disfluency, is the filled pause is in which filler interrupts production of an utterance. Speakers …

Research in language and space focuses on the mapping between linguistic descriptions
and spatial arrangements of objects, examining which linguistic properties are associated …

T he body is the conduit of experience into the mind and the final pathway through which
ideas have their effect in the world. Nothing gets into or out of the cognitive system (or the …