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Segmental contributions to prosodic weight in processing English auxiliary contractions
It is widely recognized that the comprehension of spoken language proceeds through several stages: from auditory processin...
Exploring the role of sublexical information in speech perception and misperception
Volume 147, February 2026, 104726Author links open overlay panel, , , Highlights•Listeners use prior knowledge to predict ...
Evidence of cross-domain phase entrainment effects between nonspeech tones and speech sounds
Human listeners use event duration to accurately identify complex sounds such as speech and music. One hypothesized, supra...
Intermediate decisional and response states in lexical decision: evidence from electromyography and metacognitive confidence ratings
Volume 147, February 2026, 104728Author links open overlay panel, , Highlights•Confidence ratings and EMG reveal intermedi...
Knowing a translation pair by the cross-linguistic company it keeps: cross-linguistic context consistency shapes semantic overlap in bilingual conceptual representation
In the field of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, the term representation refers to “an encoding of some informatio...
Why are you telling me this? The availability and timing of relevance inferences
Part of communicating successfully involves recognising the intentions underlying what speakers choose to say (Grice, 1975...
On the interplay between maintenance systems in verbal working memory
Volume 148, April 2026, 104742Author links open overlay panel, , , Highlights•Two systems (a specific and a general) maint...
Morphemes in the wild: Modelling affix learning from the noisy landscape of natural text
Volume 148, April 2026, 104746Author links open overlay panel, , Highlights•We use a computational model to study how text...
Does perceptual learning for segmental phonotactics generalize across talkers?
Volume 148, April 2026, 104731Author links open overlay panel, Highlights•Listeners generalize perceptual learning for bip...
The semantics behind the inference: How first language quantifier systems shape scalar reasoning in second language learners
Research at the interface of semantics and pragmatics has advanced steadily since the field of Experimental Pragmatics beg...
Effects of specific negative emotions on the retrieval dynamics underlying recognition memory decisions
Negative (especially highly arousing) emotional stimuli tend to be retained longer in memory and retrieved more accurately...
What roles do constituents play in the identification of Chinese compound words? A meta-analytic review
Because compound words comprised of two (or more) constituents make up the majority of Chinese vocabulary, understanding h...
Hierarchical relations guide memory retrieval in sentence comprehension: Evidence from a local anaphor in Turkish
Hierarchical structure has long been considered the hallmark of human language syntax (Chomsky, 1957, Joshi et al., 1975, ...
Suspect-filler similarity: replicating distinctive features in police lineups
Volume 148, April 2026, 104744Author links open overlay panel, , , , Highlights•Lineup research is facilitated by cognitiv...
Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling
Volume 148, April 2026, 104748Author links open overlay panel, Highlights•Experimental investigation of context effects on...
Action and abstraction: Motor interference changes meaning in language understanding
Can the body shape meaning? Eight experiments (four preregistered) tested whether interfering with the motor system change...
Incremental alternative sampling as a lens into the temporal and representational resolution of linguistic prediction
We present incremental alternative sampling (IAS), a computational account of incremental language comprehension in which ...
Distractors serve as a reference point in the bias of Targets’ visual working memory
Emerging empirical evidence has demonstrated that visual working memory (VWM) representations are not totally independentl...
Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory
The animacy advantage in memory has been observed in free-recall (e.g., Bonin et al., 2015, Félix et al., 2019, Gelin et a...
Fluid intelligence correlates with working memory capacity for both real-world objects and simple-feature stimuli
Previous research has shown that individual differences in visual working memory performance strongly correlate with measu...
Shades of zero: Distinguishing impossibility from inconceivability
Some things are impossible. You cannot levitate a feather with your mind, no matter how hard you try. And yet, some things...
Dissociable frequency effects attenuate as large language model surprisal predictors improve
A long-standing core research agenda of psycholinguistics is to provide an account of the cognitive mechanism underlying h...
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement
Volume 143, August 2025, 104623Author links open overlay panel, , Highlights•Gender agreement attraction is attested in Cz...
Interference in the formation of filler-gap dependencies: Evidence from Hebrew relative clauses
Much research in sentence processing has shown that the formation of syntactic dependencies is susceptible to interference...
The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi
A well-established assumption across theories of sentence processing is that syntactic parsing happens incrementally by es...
Memory retrieval in discourse: Illusions of coherence during presupposition resolution
Volume 143, August 2025, 104637Author links open overlay panel, , Highlights•Discourse constraints are deployed in real-ti...
The interplay of animacy and thematic role in structural persistence
Models of human sentence production often propose a clear distinction between syntactic and semantic processes. We examine...
Bigger is not always better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics
When trained to place high probability on a training corpus, neural network language models can learn a surprising amount ...
Uncovering patterns of semantic predictability in sentence processing
A popularly held belief is that true friends can always finish each other’s … sandwiches. The remarkable ability for us to...
Serial position effects in spoken word production are determined by previous context: Evidence from aphasia
Volume 144, October 2025, 104652Author links open overlay panel, , , Highlights•In aphasic repetition we documented rarely...
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