Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Today's probabilistic language generators fall short when it comes to producing coherent
and fluent text despite the fact that the underlying models perform well under standard …

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT have shown
remarkable capacities in comprehending and producing language. However, their internal …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We
investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word prediction, derived from …

The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis posits a preference among language
users for utterances structured such that information is distributed uniformly across a signal …

Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …

Spoken language production involves selecting and assembling words and syntactic
structures to convey one's message. Here we probe this process by analyzing natural …