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 …

Scanning of the visual scene is an important selective process in visual perception. In this
article we argue that eye-movement data provide an excellent on-line indication of the …

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 …

Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic
ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations …

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

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

A great deal of psycholinguistic research has focused on the question of how adults interpret
language in real time. This work has revealed a complex and interactive language …

In this chapter, we add some considerations to existing theories of text, moving beyond the
notions of text base and situation model to outline a theory of documents. The essential idea …

While much work has been done investigating the role of context in the incremental
processing of syntactic indeterminacies, relatively little is known about online semantic …

A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition,
including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently …