Events make up much of our lived experience, and the perceptual mechanisms that
represent events in experience have pervasive effects on action control, language use, and …

The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

Word embeddings are real-valued word representations able to capture lexical semantics
and trained on natural language corpora. Models proposing these representations have …

Word co‐occurrence patterns in language corpora contain a surprising amount of
conceptual knowledge. Large language models (LLMs), trained to predict words in context …

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 …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Publisher Summary In 1994, there were only two dominant noninvasive techniques to offer
insight about the functional organization of language from its brain bases: the behavior of …

We recorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) while participants read sentences, some
of which contained an anomalous word. In the critical sentences (eg, The meal was …

This study investigates outcomes of deliberate learning on vocabulary acquisition in a
second language (L2). Acquisition of 48 pseudowords was measured using the lexical …