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 …

Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the
way we think? How can we improve our memory? Fundamentals of Cognition, third edition …

We performed an exhaustive meta-analysis of 73 peer-reviewed journal articles on syntactic
priming from the seminal Bock (1986) paper through 2013. Extracting the effect size for each …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Recent work has suggested that readers' initial and incorrect interpretation of temporarily
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences (eg, Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira …

This paper contains an overview of language processing that can be described as “good
enough”,“underspecified”, or “shallow”. The central idea is that a nontrivial proportion of …

The present study addresses the questions of (a) whether Korean learners of English show
sensitivity to subject–verb agreement violations in an eye-tracking paradigm, and (b) how …

Non-native speakers have lower linguistic competence than native speakers, which renders
their language less reliable in conveying their intentions. We suggest that expectations of …

This article addresses the question of whether the human parsing mechanism (HPM)
derives sentence meaning always from representations that are computed algorithmically or …