During communication, speakers and listeners need the mechanisms of executive control to
organize thoughts and actions along internal goals. Speakers may use executive functions …

Monitoring is an aspect of executive control that entails the detection of errors and the
triggering of corrective actions when there is a mismatch between competing responses or …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …

The P600, a late positive ERP component following linguistically deviant stimuli, is
commonly seen as indexing structural, high-level processes, eg of linguistic (re) analysis. It …

Understanding the processes that permit us to extract meaning from spoken or written
linguistic input requires elucidating how, when, and where in the brain sentences and …

In the language domain, most studies of error monitoring have been devoted to language
production. However, in language perception, errors are made as well and we are able to …

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and
morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for …

According to embodied theories, the symbols used by language are meaningful because
they are grounded in perception, action, and emotion. In contrast, according to abstract …

Semantics and syntax are core components of language. The prevailing view was that
processing of word meaning and syntactic processing happens in isolation from other …