Psycholinguists define spoken word recognition (SWR) as, roughly, the processes
intervening between speech perception and sentence processing, whereby a sequence of …

This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are
acquired and how they affect children's later reading and writing achievement. With a unique …

Human perception, cognition, and action requires fast integration of bottom-up signals with
top-down knowledge and context. A key theoretical perspective in cognitive science is the …

Variation in the pronunciation of spoken words constitutes one of the primary challenges to
theories of Spoken Word Recognition (SWR). In this paper we examine the processing and …

Whether top-down feedback modulates perception has deep implications for cognitive
theories. Debate has been vigorous in the domain of spoken word recognition, where …

Recognizing familiar words quickly and accurately facilitates learning new words, as well as
other aspects of language acquisition. This study used the visual world paradigm with …

Partial speech input is often understood to trigger rapid and automatic activation of
successively higher-level representations of words, from sound to meaning. Here we show …

Computational modeling and eye‐tracking were used to investigate how phonological and
semantic information interact to influence the time course of spoken word recognition. We …

Comprehending action words often engages similar brain regions to those involved in
perceiving and executing actions. This finding has been interpreted as support for grounding …

We investigated whether fluent language production is associated with greater skill in
resolving lexical competition during spoken word recognition and ignoring irrelevant …