Perception and memory are imperfect reconstructions of reality. These reconstructions are
prone to be influenced by several factors, which may result in false memories. A false …

What readers comprehend and learn from their reading depends in part on the knowledge
that they bring to the text. In this chapter, the authors describe theoretical accounts of the role …

Despite their ever-increasing presence in everyday life, contracts remain notoriously
inaccessible to laypeople. Why? Here, a corpus analysis (n≈ 10 million words) revealed …

Individual differences in language abilities must be manifest by differences in brain
functioning. Thus, comprehensive theories of the biological basis of language should …

Individual-difference research on reading comprehension is challenging because reader
characteristics are as correlated with each other as they are with comprehension. This study …

This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate individual differences
in the neural underpinnings of sentence comprehension, with a focus on neural adaptability …

As the stream of experience unfolds, our memory system rapidly transforms current inputs
into long-lasting meaningful memories. A putative neural mechanism that strongly influences …

This study investigates reading comprehension in adult deaf and hearing readers. Using
correlational analysis and stepwise regression, we assess the contribution of English …

We examined the effects of argument-head distance in SVO and SOV languages (Spanish
and German), while taking into account readers' working memory capacity and controlling …

A positive relationship between prior knowledge and item memory is a consistent finding in
the literature. In the present study, we sought to determine whether this relationship extends …