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Andrea E. Martin
I argue that cue integration, a psychophysiological mechanism from vision and multisensory perception, offers a computational linking hypothesis between psycholinguistic theory and neurobiological models of language. I propose that this mechanism, which incorporates probabilistic estimates of a cue's reliability, might…
Zoha Deldar, Carlos Gevers-Montoro, Ali Khatibi, Ladan Ghazi-Saidi
Language processing involves other cognitive domains, including Working Memory (WM). Much detail about the neural correlates of language and WM interaction remains unclear. This review summarizes the evidence for the interaction between WM and language obtained via functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in the…
Peter Hagoort
A neurobiological model of language is discussed that overcomes the shortcomings of the classical Wernicke-Lichtheim-Geschwind model. It is based on a subdivision of language processing into three components: Memory, Unification, and Control. The functional components as well as the neurobiological underpinnings of the…
Evelina Fedorenko
What role does domain-general cognitive control play in understanding linguistic input? Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working memory resources are sometimes recruited during language comprehension, many aspects of this relationship remain elusive. For example, how…
Philippe Blache
Most architectures and models of language processing have been built upon a restricted view of language, which is limited to sentence processing. These approaches fail to capture one primordial characteristic: efficiency. Many facilitation effects are known to be at play in natural situations such as conversation…
Friedemann Pulvermüller, Yury Shtyrov, Olaf Hauk
How long does it take the human mind to grasp the idea when hearing or reading a sentence? Neurophysiological methods looking directly at the time course of brain activity indexes of comprehension are critical for finding the answer to this question. As the dominant cognitive approaches, models of serial/cascaded and…
Ulrich Ansorge, Diane Baier, Soonja Choi
How does the language we speak affect our perception? Here, we argue for linguistic relativity and present an explanation through “language-induced automatized stimulus-driven attention” (LASA): Our respective mother tongue automatically influences our attention and, hence, perception, and in this sense determines what…
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Linguistics needs to embrace all the way down a key feature of language: its diversity. In this paper, we build on recent experimental findings and theoretical discussions about the neuroscience and the cognitive science of linguistic variation, but also on proposals by theoretical biology, to advance some future…
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts, Johann-Mattis List, Curtis Puryear + 2 more
'Curtis Puryear' 'Ryan Drabble' 'Kristen A. Lindquist'] Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propose that language offers a unique window into psychology. After briefly summarizing the legacy of language…
Pablo Contreras Kallens, Morten H. Christiansen
Traditional accounts of language postulate two basic components: words stored in a lexicon, and rules that govern how they can be combined into meaningful sentences, a grammar. But, although this words-and-rules framework has proven itself to be useful in natural language processing and cognitive science, it has also…
Steven C. Schwering, Maryellen C. MacDonald
This article reviews current models of verbal working memory and considers the role of language comprehension and long-term memory in the ability to maintain and order verbal information for short periods of time. While all models of verbal working memory posit some interaction with long-term memory, few have…
Robyn Carston
First, the wide applicability of the relevance-theoretic pragmatic account of how new (ad hoc) senses of words and new (ad hoc) words arise spontaneously in communication/comprehension is demonstrated. The lexical pragmatic processes of meaning modulation and metonymy are shown to apply equally to simple words, noun to…
Martin J. Pickering, Kristof Strijkers
Standard models of lexical production assume that speakers access representations of meaning, grammar, and different aspects of sound in a roughly sequential manner (whether or not they admit cascading or interactivity). In contrast, we review evidence for a parallel activation model in which these representations are…
Mike A. Sharwood Smith
The focus of the current topic is the analysis and interpretation of second language (L2) and multilingual data. Looking at data from speakers who have learned their additional languages after the mother tongue has become well established is of special interest. It advances our knowledge about how different language…
Nicolas Stefaniak, Stéphanie Caillies, Ferenc Kemény
It is becoming increasingly clear that language at least partially depends on learning and memory processes, which have been conceptualized somewhat differently according to areas of research. Automatic processes have often been thought of in terms of statistical learning, implicit learning, or procedural learning and…
Brita Elvevåg, Alex S. Cohen, Maria K. Wolters, Heather C. Whalley + 4 more
'Viktoria‐Eleni Gountouna' 'Ksenia A. Kuznetsova' 'Andrew R. Watson' 'Kristin K. Nicodemus'] The National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Initiative “calls for the development of new ways of classifying psychopathology based on dimensions of observable behavior.” As a result of this…
Nikola A. Kompa, Jutta L. Mueller
Recent scholarship emphasizes the scaffolding role of language for cognition. Language, it is claimed, is a cognition-enhancing niche ([36]), a programming tool for cognition ([88]), even neuroenhancement ([50]) and augments cognitive functions such as memory, categorization, cognitive control, and meta-cognitive…