E Yee, EG Chrysikou… - The Oxford Handbook of …, 2013 - books.google.com
Semantic memory refers to general knowledge about the world, including concepts, facts, and beliefs (eg, that a lemon is normally yellow and sour or that Paris is in France). How is …
It is well known that real-time human language processing is highly incremental and context- driven, and that the strength of a comprehender's expectation for each word encountered is …
Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …
When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …
P Hagoort - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
A neurobiological model of language is discussed that overcomes the shortcomings of the classical Wernicke-Lichtheim-Geschwind model. It is based on a subdivision of language …
RL Lewis, S Vasishth - Dictionary of World Philosophy, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
We present a detailed process theory of the moment-by-moment working-memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension. The theory is …
E Gibson, L Bergen… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Sentence processing theories typically assume that the input to our language processing mechanisms is an error-free sequence of words. However, this assumption is an …
This evolutionary and cognitive theory of humor seeks to reveal the complex science behind why we crack up.“A sophisticated analysis... written with clarity, good cheer, and, of course …
We describe a “centipede's dilemma” that faces the sciences of human interaction. Research on human interaction has been involved in extensive theoretical debate, although the vast …