Recent studies of eye movements in reading and other information processing tasks, such
as music reading, typing, visual search, and scene perception, are reviewed. The major …

This article reviews research on the use of situation models in language comprehension and
memory retrieval over the past 15 years. Situation models are integrated mental …

Despite the numerous examples of anticipatory cognitive processes at micro and macro
levels in many animal species, the idea that anticipation of specific words plays an integral …

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

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

Three eye-tracking experiments investigated ambiguity resolution in sentences containing
adjunct modifiers. The experiments tested readers' response to sentences that began with a …

Connectives are cohesive devices that signal the relations between clauses and are critical
to the construction of a coherent representation of a text's meaning. The authors investigated …

The nature of working memory operation during complex sentence comprehension was
studied by means of eye-tracking methodology. Readers had difficulty when the syntax of a …

Publisher Summary Most notably, comprehension necessitates the application of prior
knowledge in combination with the encoding of information currently in discourse focus …

We argue that different theories of text comprehension give the use of world knowledge
different degrees of importance. Although all acknowledge it as a major feature of …