Anticipation is an essential ability for the human cognitive system to survive in its
surrounding environment. The present article will review previous research on anticipatory …

This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in
human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic …

We evaluate the predictions of two theories of syntactic processing complexity, dependency
locality theory (DLT) and surprisal, against the Dundee Corpus, which contains the eye …

We address the task of computing vector space representations for the meaning of word
occurrences, which can vary widely according to context. This task is a crucial step towards …

There are three obvious differences between first and second language learners. First,
infants who are learning language are also engaged in learning about how the world works …

Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings.
Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the …

The rational analysis method, first proposed by John R. Anderson, has been enormously
influential in helping us understand high-level cognitive processes. The Probabilistic Mind is …

This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of
complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence …

When people read temporarily ambiguous sentences, there is often an increased
prevalence of regressive eye-movements launched from the word that resolves the …

A number of recent studies have demonstrated variants of the action–sentence compatibility
effect (ACE), wherein the execution of a motor response is facilitated by the comprehension …