Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of
comprehension—has undeniable appeal. Speed reading has been an intriguing concept for …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from subjects as they read a series of
sentences, for which Bloom and Fischler (1980) had established the cloze probability for …

In a sentence reading task, words that occurred out of context were associated with specific
types of event-related brain potentials. Words that were physically aberrant (larger than …

The purpose of this review is to formulate a revised model of information processing that
takes into account recent research on memory storage, selective attention, effortful versus …

INTERACTIVE MODELS OF READING appear to provide a more accura conceptualization
of reading performance than do strictly top-dow or bottom-up models. When combined with …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic
ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations …

Despite the numerous examples of anticipatory cognitive processes at micro and macro
levels in many animal species, the idea that anticipation of specific words plays an integral …