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 …

Efforts to understand the brain bases of language face the Mapping Problem: At what level
do linguistic computations and representations connect to human neurobiology? We review …

Brain activity in numerous perisylvian brain regions is modulated by the expectedness of
linguistic stimuli. We leverage recent advances in computational parsing models to test what …

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 …

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 …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …

'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct... as innate to us as flying is to
geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's …

Gestures are seemingly trivial, but actually they are interesting and crucial components of
language. By studying them, in conjunction with language (not in isolation), we gain new …

A parallel distributed processing model of visual word recognition and pronunciation is
described. The model consists of sets of orthographic and phonological units and an …

Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over
time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from …