We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Recently, researchers have measured hand movements en route to choices on a screen to
understand the dynamics of a broad range of psychological processes. We review this …

We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in
the study of language, Zipf's 75-y-old theory that word length is primarily determined by …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a new and increasingly widespread brain imaging
technique, particularly suitable for young infants. The laboratories of the McDonnell …

In addition to providing an account of the empirical facts of language, a theory that aspires to
account for language as a biologically based human faculty should seek a graceful …

The role of interference as a primary determinant of forgetting in memory has long been
accepted, however its role as a contributor to poor comprehension is just beginning to be …

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant
information. The present study aimed to identify how processing linguistic ambiguity during …

Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing
that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and …