The literature on the electrophysiology of language comprehension has recently seen a very
prominent discussion of “semantic P600” effects, which have been observed, for example, in …

Recent results challenge and refine the prevailing view of the way language is represented
in the human brain. Syntactic knowledge and processing mechanisms that implement syntax …

This book is a considerably revised version of my 2004 doctoral dissertation from the
university of Nijmegen, entitled Transitivity: from semantics to structure. Everything stated in …

Real-time language comprehension is a principal cognitive ability and thereby relates to
central properties of the human cognitive architecture. Yet how do the presumably universal …

The core idea that we argued for in the target article was that grammatical processing in a
second language (L2) is fundamentally different from grammatical processing in one's native …

The present fMRI study aimed at identifying neural correlates of the syntax–semantics
interface in language comprehension. This was achieved by examining what we refer to as …

We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to directly compare the
hemodynamic responses associated with varying degrees of linguistic complexity with those …

Approaches to language processing have traditionally been formulated with reference to
general cognitive concepts (eg working memory limitations) or have based their …

The understanding of sentences involves not only the retrieval of the meaning of single
words, but the identification of the relation between a verb and its arguments. The way the …

Feeling of knowing (or expressed confidence) reflects a speaker's certainty or commitment to
a statement and can be associated with one's trustworthiness or persuasiveness in social …