All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

There is general agreement within the neuroscience and cognitive-science communities that
complex multidimensional stimuli are represented and processed in at least partially …

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 …

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 …

There is still much debate about the nature of the experiential and maturational changes that
take place during childhood to bring about the sophisticated language abilities of an adult …

This study investigates whether and how individual differences modulate the adult second
language (L2) processing of syntactic ambiguities. In a linear mixed regression analysis, we …

One central question in sentence processing concerns the relationship between knowledge
of language and the way this knowledge is put to use. This relationship between …

There is a wealth of evidence showing that increasing the distance between an argument
and its head leads to more processing effort, namely, locality effects; these are usually …

The processing load of sentences with different word orders in the Kaqchikel Mayan
language was investigated using event-related potentials. We observed a P600 for subject …

Understanding what we read requires constructing a representation of each sentence's
syntactic structure and meaning. We are generally not consciously aware of the complex …