The good-enough language processing approach emphasizes people's tendency to
generate superficial and even inaccurate interpretations of sentences. At the same time, a …

Context processing in language comprehension is multifaceted and dynamic, influencing
multiple stages of sensory, perceptual, and higher-order cognitive processing. A wealth of …

According to an influential account of aging effects on reading, older adults (65+ years)
employ a more “risky” reading strategy compared to young adults (18–30 years), in which …

Previous eye-tracking work has yielded inconsistent evidence regarding whether readers
spend more or less time encoding focused information compared with information that is not …

Breaking through the boundaries of traditional psycholinguistics textbooks, The Psychology
of Language: An Integrated Approach takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that …

Participation in the discourse world in its varied forms is essential to effective functioning
throughout the adult lifespan. Adult development is characterized by multidimensional …

Psycholinguistic studies of focus processing have yielded varying results regarding how
focus affects language processing. We report the results of an event-related potential (ERP) …

In a continuous discourse, the importance of information can be conveyed both implicitly and
explicitly. Global discourse hierarchy can convey importance implicitly, such that information …

Two eye-tracking experiments examined the effects of sentence structure on the processing
of complement coercion, in which an event-selecting verb combines with a complement that …

Purpose: When listening to speech under adverse conditions, older adults, even with “age-
normal” hearing, face challenges that may lead to poorer speech recognition than their …