A word's predictability in its context has a reliable influence on eye movements in reading.
This article reviews the extensive literature that has investigated this influence, focusing on …

People possess a great deal of knowledge about how the world works, and it is undoubtedly
true that adults use this knowledge when understanding and producing language. However …

The authors examined whether people can use their knowledge of the wider discourse
rapidly enough to anticipate specific upcoming words as a sentence is unfolding. In an event …

When a word is preceded by a supportive context such as a semantically associated word or
a strongly constraining sentence frame, the N400 component of the ERP is reduced in …

On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical
('scrambled') structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [eg, Hyönä & …

Predictive processing is a critical component of language comprehension, but exactly how
and why comprehenders generate lexical predictions remains to be determined. Here, we …

The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of current research on
cognitive and applied aspects of eye movements. The contents include peer-reviewed …

Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge of real-world events plays an important
role in guiding online language comprehension. The present study addresses the scope of …

Stimuli are easier to process when context makes them predictable, but does context-based
facilitation arise from preactivation of a limited set of relatively probable upcoming stimuli …

An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that
comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that …