The literature on the electrophysiology of language comprehension has recently seen a very
prominent discussion of “semantic P600” effects, which have been observed, for example, in …

Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

Language-related event-related potential (ERP) components such as the N400 have
traditionally been associated with linguistic or cognitive functional interpretations. By …

The functional interpretation of two salient language-sensitive ERP components–the N400
and the P600–remains a matter of debate. Prominent alternative accounts link the N400 to …

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 …

In the rapidly changing circumstances of our increasingly digital world, reading is also
becoming an increasingly digital experience: electronic books (e-books) are now outselling …

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 …

The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during
incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other …

The entrainment of slow rhythmic auditory cortical activity to the temporal regularities in
speech is considered to be a central mechanism underlying auditory perception. Previous …

This paper demonstrates systematic cross-linguistic differences in the electrophysiological
correlates of conflicts between form and meaning (“semantic reversal anomalies”). These …