Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

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 …

We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Infants in the early stages of word learning have difficulty learning lexical neighbors (ie word
pairs that differ by a single phoneme), despite their ability to discriminate the same contrast …

Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is
mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a …

Categorical perception (CP) is likely the single finding from speech perception with the
biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known …

Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may never be uttered the same way twice.
As listeners, we regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders, and accents …

In prevailing approaches to human sentence comprehension, the outcome of the word
recognition process is assumed to be a categorical representation with no residual …

Thirty years of research has uncovered the broad principles that characterize spoken word
processing across listeners. However, there have been few systematic investigations of …