Despite its many twists and turns, the arc of cognitive science generally bends toward
progress, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature. By glancing at the last few decades of …

Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine
how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a …

Abstract Words that are more surprising given context take longer to process. However, no
incremental parsing algorithm has been shown to directly predict this phenomenon. In this …

Abstract The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) is a powerful experimental paradigm for
language research. Listeners respond to speech in a “visual world” containing potential …

Inspired by early proposals in philosophy, dominant accounts of language posit a central
role for mutual knowledge, either encoded directly in common ground, or approximated …

Semantic memory encompasses one's knowledge about the world. Distributional semantic
models, which construct vector spaces with embedded words, are a proposed framework for …

In a series of sentence–picture verification studies we contrasted, for example,“… choose
the balloon with “… inflate the balloon” and “… the inflated balloon” to examine the degree …

Rapid technological advancements have led to a significant progress in research methods
for cognitive sciences. Today scientists can use various neurophysiological methods to …

Foreign accents can vary considerably in the degree to which they deviate from the listener's
native accent, but little is known about how the relationship between a speaker's accent and …

The development of technology has led to significant advances in applied research methods
in the cognitive sciences. Eye tracking (oculography) is among the methods available for …