Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

Current theories of language comprehension posit that readers and listeners routinely try to
predict the meaning but also the visual or sound form of upcoming words. Whereas most …

Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

It has been proposed that hierarchical prediction is a fundamental computational principle
underlying neurocognitive processing. Here, we ask whether the brain engages distinct …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

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 …

Speech processing is highly incremental. It is widely accepted that human listeners
continuously use the linguistic context to anticipate upcoming concepts, words, and …

ERP studies produce large spatiotemporal data sets. These rich data sets are key to
enabling us to understand cognitive and neural processes. However, they also present a …

Speech comprehension requires rapid online processing of a continuous acoustic signal to
extract structure and meaning. Previous studies on sentence comprehension have found …

Theoretical accounts of the N400 are divided as to whether the amplitude of the N400
response to a stimulus reflects the extent to which the stimulus was predicted, the extent to …