Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political
propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect …

Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills,
but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …

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 …

In traditional theories of language comprehension, syntactic and semantic processing are
inextricably linked. This assumption has been challenged by the 'Semantic Illusion …

Let's start from scratch in thinking about what memory is for, and consequently, how it works.
Suppose that memory and conceptualization work in the service of perception and action. In …

People comprehend utterances rapidly and without conscious effort. Traditional theories
assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived …

Research on language comprehension has focused on the resolution of syntactic
ambiguities, and most studies have employed garden-path sentences to determine the …

This is a Classic Edition of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning textbook on the development of
language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997, and now includes a new …

Ferreira and colleagues argued that the language comprehension system creates syntactic
and semantic representations that are merely 'good enough'(GE) given the task that the …