Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent
semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the …

This article shows how language processing is intimately tuned to input frequency.
Examples are given of frequency effects in the processing of phonology, phonotactics …

En el presente trabajo se aborda el tema de la lectura y su relación directa con la
comprensión, entendiéndose la importancia de la lectura dentro del campo educativo y …

Theory of mind, or" mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about
beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by …

Fiction literature has largely been ignored by psychology researchers because its only
function seems to be entertainment, with no connection to empirical validity. We argue that …

The goal of this chapter is to provide the foundation toward develo** a more
comprehensive model of reading comprehension. To this end, seven prominent …

Stories are used extensively for human communication; both the comprehension and
production of oral and written narratives constitute a fundamental part of our experience …

In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between
the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic features of the words within a …

En este artículo se exponen las bases teóricas de una concepción integral de la
comprensión de textos escritos, denominada Teoría de la Comunicabilidad. Esta …

Effective second language vocabulary acquisition is particularly important for English as a
foreign language (EFL) learners who frequently acquire impoverished lexicons despite …