We review previous research showing that representations formed during language
processing are sometimes just “good enough” for the task at hand and propose the “online …

We address two important questions about the relationship between theoretical linguistics
and psycholinguistics. First, do grammatical theories and language processing models …

Understanding the processes that permit us to extract meaning from spoken or written
linguistic input requires elucidating how, when, and where in the brain sentences and …

The electrophysiology of language comprehension has long been dominated by research
on syntactic and semantic integration. However, to understand expressions like “he did it” or …

Five experiments used ERPs and eye tracking to determine the interplay of word-level and
discourse-level information during sentence processing. Subjects read sentences that were …

At least since the time of Aristotle, humans have been fascinated with trying to understand
how meaning is represented in what, in modern terms, has come to be known as semantic …

Previous work has shown that the N400 ERP component is elicited by all words, whether
presented in isolation or in structured contexts, and that its amplitude is modulated by …

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have revealed multiple mechanisms by which
contextual constraints impact language processing. At the same time, little work has …

In this event-related brain potentials (ERPs) study, we explored the possibility to selectively
track referential ambiguity during spoken discourse comprehension. Earlier ERP research …

An event-related potentials (ERPs) study examined word-to-text integration processes
across sentence boundaries. In a two-sentence passage, the accessibility of a referent for …