A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed. The
theory proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the …

The automatic disambiguation of word senses hasbeen an interest and concern since the
earliest days of computer treatment of language in the 1950s. Sense disambiguation is an" …

In contrast to expectation-based, predictive views of discourse comprehension, a model is
developed in which the initial processing is strictly bottom-up. Word meanings are activated …

What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering
neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of …

Discourse and Context in Language Teaching supports teachers who wish to implement a
communicative approach in their classroom. This book recommends that language teachers …

Concepts can be represented by distributed pat-terns of activity in networks of neuron-like
units. One advantage of this kind oi representation is that it leads to automatic …

A new conceptual framework and a minimization principle together provide an
understanding of computation in model neural circuits. The circuits consist of nonlinear …

This paper describes the structure-mapping engine (SME), a program for studying
analogical processing. SME has been built to explore Gentner's structure-mapping theory of …

A set of hypotheses is formulated for a connectionist approach to cognitive modeling. These
hypotheses are shown to be incompatible with the hypotheses underlying traditional …

This target article presents a new computational theory of explanatory coherence that
applies to the acceptance and rejection of scientific hypotheses as well as to reasoning in …