A variety of psychological and physical phenomena elicit variations in the diameter of pupil
of the eye. Changes in pupil size are mediated by the relative activation of the sphincter …

It has been known since at least the 1960s that small changes in pupil diameter in response
to a mental task are indicative of processing effort associated with this task. More recently …

Abstract Language processing is cognitively demanding, requiring attentional resources to
efficiently select and extract linguistic information as utterances unfold. Previous research …

Pupil dilation has been associated with the effort required to perform various cognitive tasks.
At the lexical level, some studies suggest that this neurophysiological measure would …

Ambiguous words can have related meanings (polysemes, eg, newspaper) or unrelated
meanings (homonyms, eg, bat). Here we examined the processing of both types of …

This study used a word dictation task to examine the influence of a variety of factors on word
writing production: cognate status (cognate vs. non-cognate words), orthographic (OS) and …

Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show certain characteristics in
visual attention. These may generate differences with non-autistic children in the integration …

Previous research has shown that the direction of the cognate facilitation effect (CFE) can
disappear if identical cognate words are removed from the stimulus list while keeping task …

We investigated linguistic knowledge of subjunctive mood in heritage speakers of Spanish
who live in a long-standing English-Spanish bilingual community in Albuquerque, New …

We investigated how two cues to contrast—beat gesture and contrastive pitch accenting—
affect comprehenders' cognitive load during processing of spoken referring expressions. In …