In the single-store model of memory, the enhanced recall for the last items in a free-recall
task (ie, the recency effect) is understood to reflect a general property of memory rather than …

The authors show that verb aspect influences the activation of event knowledge with 4 novel
results. First, common locations of events (eg, arena) are primed following verbs with …

We report three correlation studies, which investigate the hypothesis that individual
differences in the capacity of a semantic short-term memory (STM) component in working …

This study examines whether interpreters have better working memory (WM) than non-
interpreters, taking into account different WM components and the potential modulatory …

The active maintenance of sentence meaning in working memory was investigated using
event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) coherences. Participants read a sentence …

Anaphora is a common, universal, and critical aspect of communication. For quite some
time, linguists and psycholinguists have applied introspective and behavioral techniques to …

This study investigated cognitive and neural processes involved in gap filling during on-line
sentence comprehension. Electroencephalogram (EEG) coherences were used to …

Purpose The study aims to examine whether individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) have reading comprehension difficulties, and if they do, which cognitive …

We use event-related brain potential (ERP) methodology to examine the influence of the
linguistic markers literally speaking and figuratively speaking on the comprehension of …

Idiomatic expressions such as kick the bucket or go down a storm can differ on a number of
internal features, such as familiarity, meaning, literality, and decomposability, and these …