Children who generate and update verbal predictions have larger vocabularies, suggesting
that prediction may be a mechanism that supports language learning. We hypothesize that …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

The proposal that probabilistic inference and unconscious hypothesis testing are central to
information processing in the brain has been steadily gaining ground in cognitive …

People express emotion using their voice, face and movement, as well as through abstract
forms as in art, architecture and music. The structure of these expressions often seems …

Two experiments assessed the extent to which grammatical gender provides a predictive
basis for bilinguals' judgments about perceptual gender. In both experiments, French …

Attending is a cognitive process that incorporates a person's knowledge, goals, and
expectations. What we perceive when we attend to one thing is different from what we …

Most children can produce a few words by the end of their first year and rapidly acquire
almost 30 times as many words in the following year. Although this general pattern remains …

The present research contributes to the debate in cognitive sentence on the relationship
between language and perception by comparing Mongolian and Chinese speakers' color …

For over 300 years, the humble triangle has served as the paradigmatic example of the
problem of abstraction. How can we have the idea of a general triangle even though every …

Understanding spoken language requires analysis of the rapidly unfolding speech signal at
multiple levels: acoustic, phonological, and semantic. However, there is not yet a …