Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over
time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from …

Although the sentences that we hear or read have meaning, this does not necessarily mean
that they are also true. Relatively little is known about the critical brain structures for, and the …

What do neuroscientists talk about when they talk about language? We talk, it seems, about
the ability to use words (or signs, if our language is one of the sign languages of the deaf) …

Rumbaugh et al.(1) claim to have demonstrated language use-reading and sentence
completion-in a chim-panzee named Lana. Since numerous investigators arenow studying …

The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception,
attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific …

Mounting research evidence from the sciences, the humanitics, and the visual arts prompts
this call for a reassessment of some of the basic operating principles of language study …

In this chapter I review the evidence for the Comprehension Hypothesis in oral language
and literacy, and discuss the possibility that the Compre hension Hypothesis provides a …

This is a stimulating and timely collection of papers by a number of psychologists who are
active in the study ofcognition. In fact, their work represents a new field that is coming to be …

In the online News story “Play it again, robot”(21 March, Gonzo Scientist series, www.
sciencemag. org/sciext/gonzoscientist/), J. Bohannon imprecisely described the Turing test …