This review provides an introduction to two eyetracking measures that can be used to study
cognitive development and plasticity: pupil dilation and spontaneous blink rate. We begin by …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional
frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a …

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 …

Accounts of comprehension failure, whether in the case of readers with poor skill or when
syntactic complexity is high, have overwhelmingly implicated working memory capacity as …

It is well known that sentences containing object-extracted relative clauses (eg, The reporter
that the senator attacked admitted the error) are more difficult to comprehend than sentences …

The goal of this study was to explain individual differences in both native and non‐native
listening comprehension; 121 native and 113 non‐native speakers of Dutch were tested on …

Page 1 Readability: Text and Context Alan Bailin and Ann Grafstein Page 2 Readability:
Text and Context Page 3 Also by Alan Bailin THE CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF …

Approaches to language processing have traditionally been formulated with reference to
general cognitive concepts (eg working memory limitations) or have based their …