Indirect language comprehension requires decoding both the literal meaning and the
intended meaning of an utterance, in which pragmatic inference is involved. This study tests …

Ample evidence has shown facilitations of context-based prediction on language
comprehension. However, the influential effect of working memory capacity on this predictive …

To achieve successful communication, people should decode not only the literal meaning of
an utterance, but also the intended meanings conveyed by the speaker. In the present study …

The current study investigated how individual variability in working memory (WM) updating
affects real-time processing of thematic role assignment and word association during …

This study examined the effect of emotional context on the semantic memory of subsequent
emotional words during discourse comprehension in two eye-tracking experiments. Four …

Background Executive function (EF) plays a crucial role in children's reading. However,
previous studies were based on offline products of reading comprehension. Online research …

Purpose To elucidate how aging would affect the extent of semantic context use and the
reliance on semantic context measured with the Repeat–Recall Test (RRT). Methods A …

This study investigated the relationship between working memory (WM), semantic-encoding
(SE) ability, and reading comprehension (RC) within the domain of second language …

Presupposition refers to the non-explicit assumption or belief held by both the listener and
the speaker (the “common ground”). When encountering a presupposition message, the …

预设是指以交际双方的共同背景(共享的知识或信念) 为前提的, 听话者根据特定语言标记(触发
标记) 及其限定的对象(计算内容) 而推理出的非外显意义. 例如,“张明又触发标记发表了论文计算 …