In traditional theories of language comprehension, syntactic and semantic processing are
inextricably linked. This assumption has been challenged by the 'Semantic Illusion …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations,
a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve …

Distributional models represent a word through the contexts in which it has been observed.
They can be used to predict similarity in meaning, based on the distributional hypothesis …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 119 (4) of
Psychological Review (see record 2012-23932-001). Incorrect decay rates were provided in …

Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge of real-world events plays an important
role in guiding online language comprehension. The present study addresses the scope of …

The human conceptual system contains people's knowledge about the world. Rather than
containing holistic images of experience, the conceptual system represents components of …

We aimed to determine whether semantic relatedness between an incoming word and its
preceding context can override expectations based on two types of stored knowledge: real …

Sentence comprehension involves a host of highly interrelated processes, including
syntactic parsing, semantic composition, and pragmatic inferencing. In neuroimaging, a …

Our ability to speak, write, understand speech, and read is critical to our ability to function in
today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use …