Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.

MJ Pickering, C Gambi - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

Eye tracking measures for studying language comprehension deficits in aphasia: A systematic search and sco** review

S Sharma, H Kim, H Harris, A Haberstroh… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - pubs.asha.org
Aim The aim of this sco** review is to identify the eye tracking paradigms and eye
movement measures used to investigate auditory and reading comprehension deficits in …

Lexical leverage: Category knowledge boosts real‐time novel word recognition in 2‐year‐olds

A Borovsky, EM Ellis, JL Evans… - Developmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research suggests that infants tend to add words to their vocabulary that are
semantically related to other known words, though it is not clear why this pattern emerges. In …

Where are the cookies? Two-and three-year-olds use number-marked verbs to anticipate upcoming nouns

C Lukyanenko, C Fisher - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
We tested toddlers' and adults' predictive use of English subject–verb agreement.
Participants saw pairs of pictures differing in number and kind (eg, one apple, two cookies) …

Semantic structure in vocabulary knowledge interacts with lexical and sentence processing in infancy

A Borovsky, EM Ellis, JL Evans, JL Elman - Child development, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although the size of a child's vocabulary associates with language‐processing skills, little is
understood regarding how this relation emerges. This investigation asks whether and how …

Learning to predict or predicting to learn?

H Rabagliati, C Gambi, MJ Pickering - Language, Cognition and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Humans complete complex commonplace tasks, such as understanding sentences, with
striking speed and accuracy. This expertise is dependent on anticipation: predicting …

Predictors of verb-mediated anticipatory eye movements in the visual world.

F Hintz, AS Meyer, F Huettig - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Many studies have demonstrated that listeners use information extracted from verbs to guide
anticipatory eye movements to objects in the visual context that satisfy the selection …

Beyond associations: Sensitivity to structure in pre-schoolers' linguistic predictions

C Gambi, MJ Pickering, H Rabagliati - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
One influential view of language acquisition is that children master structural generalizations
by making and learning from structure-informed predictions. Previous work has shown that …

Of Mouses and Mans: A Test of Errorless Versus Error‐Based Learning in Children

M Waller, D Yurovsky, N Nozari - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For both adults and children, learning from one's mistakes (error‐based learning) has been
shown to be advantageous over avoiding errors altogether (errorless learning) in …

Do children use multi‐word information in real‐time sentence comprehension?

R Abu‐Zhaya, I Arnon, A Borovsky - Cognitive science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Meaning in language emerges from multiple words, and children are sensitive to multi‐word
frequency from infancy. While children successfully use cues from single words to generate …