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 …

During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

Most current accounts of language comprehension agree on a role for prediction, but they
disagree on the importance of domain-general executive resources in predictive behavior. In …

To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

The amplitude of the N400—an event‐related potential (ERP) component linked to meaning
processing and initial access to semantic memory—is inversely related to the incremental …

There remains little consensus about whether there exist meaningful individual differences
in syntactic processing and, if so, what explains them. We argue that this partially reflects the …

We argue that the educational and psychological sciences must embrace the diversity of
reading rather than chase the phantom of normal reading behavior. We critically discuss the …

The current study reports the effects of accumulating contextual constraints on neural indices
of lexico-semantic processing (ie, effects of word frequency and orthographic neighborhood) …

Effective language understanding is crucial to maintaining cognitive abilities and learning
new information through adulthood. However, age-related declines in working memory …