Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These map**s are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

A major goal of psycholinguistic theory is to account for the cognitive constraints limiting the
speed and ease of language comprehension and production. Wide-ranging evidence …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT have shown
remarkable capacities in comprehending and producing language. However, their internal …

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 …

Sentence processing theories typically assume that the input to our language processing
mechanisms is an error-free sequence of words. However, this assumption is an …

The recent study of overt attention during complex scene viewing has emphasized
explaining gaze behavior in terms of image properties and image salience independently of …