Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

As one of the most specific, yet most diverse of human behaviors, language is shaped by
both genomic and extra-genomic evolution. Sharing methods and models between these …

The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during
incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other …

A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms
of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in …

Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

Languages differ in how they mark the dependencies between verbs and arguments, eg, by
case. An eye tracking and EEG picture description study examined the influence of case …

Memory formation involves the synchronous firing of neurons in task-relevant networks, with
recent models postulating that a decrease in low-frequency oscillatory activity underlies …

The current research investigated structural priming in Tagalog, a symmetrical voice
language containing rich verbal morphology that results in changes in mapping between …

Human language relies on a rich cognitive machinery, partially shared with other animals.
One key mechanism, however, decomposing events into causally linked agent–patient …

In recent years, the field of psycholinguistics has seen an increased focus on the study of
typologically diverse languages. Expanding cross-linguistic coverage is critical to tease …