In this paper we present a novel theory of the cognitive and neural processes by which
adults learn new spoken words. This proposal builds on neurocomputational accounts of …

Perceptual and cognitive processes have largely been inferred based on reaction times and
accuracies obtained from discrete responses. However, discrete responses are unlikely to …

Eye movements are now widely used to investigate cognitive processes during reading,
scene perception, and visual search. In this article, research on the following topics is …

Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language research between
rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this distinction is now blurred in many …

Scalar implicature has served as a test case for exploring the relations between semantic
and pragmatic processes during language comprehension. Most studies have used reaction …

In prevailing approaches to human sentence comprehension, the outcome of the word
recognition process is assumed to be a categorical representation with no residual …

How long does it take the human mind to grasp the idea when hearing or reading a
sentence? Neurophysiological methods looking directly at the time course of brain activity …

Two experiments investigated children's communicative perspective-taking ability. In
Experiment 1, 4-to 5-year-old children were tested on two referential communication tasks …

No one denies that people adapt what they say and how they interpret what is said to them,
depending on their interactive partners. What is controversial is when and how they do so …

Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the
visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and …