Probabilistic methods are providing new explanatory approaches to fundamental cognitive
science questions of how humans structure, process and acquire language. This review …

To make sense of the world around us, we must be able to segment a continual stream of
sensory inputs into discrete events. In this review, I propose that in order to comprehend …

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 …

This article presents a theory of visual word recognition that assumes that, in the tasks of
word identification, lexical decision, and semantic categorization, human readers behave as …

A word‐by‐word human sentence processing complexity metric is presented. This metric
formalizes the intuition that comprehenders have more trouble on words contributing larger …

According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality
and irrationality is fundamental to many aspects of human life including the law, mental …

Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings.
Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 114 (3) of
Psychological Review (see record 2007-10421-013). In Table 13, the data should indicate …

It is proposed that the cognitive system imposes patterns on the world according to a
simplicity principle: Choose the pattern that provides the briefest representation of the …