Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Need for cognition is conceptualized as an individual's intrinsic motivation to engage in and
enjoy effortful cognitive activities. Over the past three decades, there has been increasing …

Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language
outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present …

There remains little consensus about whether there exist meaningful individual differences
in syntactic processing and, if so, what explains them. We argue that this partially reflects the …

We test the hypothesis that language experience influences the cognitive mechanisms used
to interpret ambiguous pronouns like he or she, which require the context for interpretation …

The current study investigated how a contextual list signal influences comprehenders'
inference generation of upcoming discourse relations and whether individual differences in …

There is extensive evidence that people are sensitive to the statistical patterns of linguistic
elements at the phonological, lexical, and syntactic levels. However, much less is known …

In three experiments, we measured individual patterns of pronoun comprehension
(Experiments 1 and 2) and referential prediction (Experiment 3) in implicit causality (IC) …