The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Machines have acquired language and learned to speak. This might be the impression one
gets when considering the remarkable improvements in sound quality of electronic devices …

Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online
sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic …

Studies of spoken word recognition have reliably shown that both younger and older adults'
recognition of acoustically degraded words is facilitated by the presence of a linguistic …

People born blind habitually experience linguistic utterances in the absence of visual cues.
Neuroimaging evidence suggests that congenitally blind individuals also activate “visual” …

It has long been debated whether non-native speakers can process sentences in the same
way as native speakers do or they suffer from certain qualitative deficit in their ability of …

Bilingual comprehension and production are intrinsically and explicitly linked in interpreting,
and especially in simultaneous interpreting. How is it possible to listen to, and produce …

Our research addresses the important question whether language influences cognition by
studying crosslinguistic differences in nonlinguistic visual search tasks. We investigated …

Three tasks were reported to examine the effect of ambiguity awareness on Chinese-
speaking English learners' use of prosody in resolving prepositional-phrase attachment …

This dissertation examines the influence of various extra-linguistic aspects on language
comprehension. While language comprehension is generally understood to be influenced …