The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

When listeners follow spoken instructions to manipulate real objects, their eye movements to
the objects are closely time locked to the referring words. We review five experiments …

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

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 …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

A major issue in understanding how language is implemented in the brain involves
understanding the use of language in language comprehension and production. However …

Abstract Ferreira and Clifton (1986, Experiment 1) found that readers experienced equal
difficulty with temporarily ambiguous reduced relatives clauses when the first noun was …

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations,
a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve …