Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Early language exposure is essential to developing a formal language system, but may not
be sufficient for communicating effectively. To understand a speaker's intention, one must …

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

Eye gaze is a window onto cognitive processing in tasks such as spatial memory, linguistic
processing, and decision making. We present evidence that information derived from eye …

Three experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with some
using a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball machine …

This paper investigates the effect of persona‐based information on implicit linguistic
perceptions of a sociolinguistic feature–the backed trap vowel. trap‐backing is associated …

Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading, but it is a very complex task consisting of
multiple component skills. A number of studies have tested the simple view of reading (SVR; …

Grammatical encoding is one of the earliest stages in linguistic encoding. One broadly
accepted view holds that grammatical encoding is primarily or exclusively affected by …

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …