The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, memory,
language, decision-making, and intelligence. Students examine major discipline-related …

Previously, the construct of situated conceptualization developed as an account of how
simulations of conceptual knowledge become situated (Barsalou, 2003a-b, 2005a-b, 2008a …

Semantic preview benefit in reading is an elusive and controversial effect because empirical
studies do not always (but sometimes) find evidence for it. Its presence seems to depend on …

The goal of this study was to investigate the use of the local and global contexts for incoming
words during listening comprehension. Local context was manipulated by presenting a …

Every day we read about or watch events in the world and can easily understand or
remember how long they last. What aspects of an event are retained in memory? And how …

How does knowledge of real-world events shape our understanding of incoming language?
Do temporal terms like “before” and “after” impact the online recruitment of real-world event …

Recent research has shown that language comprehension is guided by knowledge about
the organization of objects and events in long-term memory. We use event-related brain …

Recent studies on language processing indicate that language cognition is better
understood if assumed to be supported by a distributed intelligent processing system …

And I was proud to have him learn that I could f ly.(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little
Prince, 1943) In this short passage extracted from the famous novel by Saint-Exupery, the …