The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

The ability to combine individual concepts of objects, properties, and actions into complex
representations of the world is often associated with language. Yet combinatorial event-level …

Abstract Language is used as a channel by which speakers convey, among other things,
newsworthy and informative messages, ie, content that is otherwise unpredictable to the …

According to cue-based retrieval theories of sentence comprehension, establishing the
syntactic dependency between a verb and the grammatical subject is susceptible to …

Most words in natural languages are polysemous; that is, they have related but different
meanings in different contexts. This one‐to‐many mapping of form to meaning presents a …

The language production system continually learns. The system adapts to recent
experiences while also reflecting the experience accumulated over the lifetime. This article …

Prior research has explored the ability of computational models to predict a word semantic fit
with a given predicate. While much work has been devoted to modeling the typicality relation …

Sentence comprehension-the way we process and understand spoken and written
language-is a central and important area of research within psycholinguistics. This book …

This paper discusses methodological issues related to the implementation of experimental
studies that investigate the processing of literal and metaphorical expressions. The first and …

The results of a self-paced reading study with advanced German, Dutch and French second
language (L2) learners of English showed that their online comprehension of early closure …