Recent studies indicate that the human brain attends to and uses grammatical gender cues
during sentence comprehension. Here, we examine the nature and time course of the effect …

We review previous research showing that representations formed during language
processing are sometimes just “good enough” for the task at hand and propose the “online …

Vector‐based models of word meaning have become increasingly popular in cognitive
science. The appeal of these models lies in their ability to represent meaning simply by …

The authors examined whether people can use their knowledge of the wider discourse
rapidly enough to anticipate specific upcoming words as a sentence is unfolding. In an event …

This book, which represents a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, is concerned with
the representation and interpretation of pronominal elements and focuses on issues at the …

Publisher Summary In 1994, there were only two dominant noninvasive techniques to offer
insight about the functional organization of language from its brain bases: the behavior of …

In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension
system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence …

Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …

When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to
utterances whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the identity of the …

This study investigated the effects of combined semantic and syntactic violations in relation
to the effects of single semantic and single syntactic violations on language-related event …