780
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
COMMENTARY

Prediction during sentence comprehension is more than a sum of lexical associations: the role of event knowledge

, &
Pages 597-601 | Received 27 Sep 2015, Accepted 28 Sep 2015, Published online: 29 Oct 2015

References

  • Chow, W., Smith, C., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2015). A ‘bag-of-arguments’ mechanism for initial verb predictions. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1066832
  • DeLong, K. A., Urbach, T. P. & Kutas, M. (2005). Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity. Nature Neuroscience, 8(8), 1117–1121. doi:10.1038/nn1504
  • Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H. & Pylkkänen, L. (2009). Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex. Cognition, 110(3), 293–321. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.09.008
  • Federmeier, K. D., Wlotko, E. W., De Ochoa-Dewald, E., & Kutas, M. (2007). Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing. Brain Research, 1146, 75–84. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.101
  • Fillmore, C. J. (1982). Frame semantics. In Linguistic Society of Korea (Ed.), Linguistics in the Morning Calm (pp. 111–137). Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company.
  • Hoeks, J. C. J., Stowe, L., & Doedens, G. (2004). Seeing words in context: The interaction of lexical and sentence level information during reading. Cognitive Brain Research, 19(1), 59–73. doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.10.022
  • Kamide, Y., Altmann, G. T. & Haywood, S. L. (2003). The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 49(1), 133–156. doi:10.1016/S0749-596X(03)00023-8
  • Kim, A., & Osterhout, L. (2005). The independence of combinatory semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Memory and Language, 52(2), 205–225. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2004.10.002
  • Kim, A., & Sikos, L. (2011). Conflict and surrender during sentence processing: An ERP study of syntax-semantics interaction. Brain and Language, 118(1–2), 15–22. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.03.002
  • Kim, A. E., & Gilley, P. M. (2013). Neural mechanisms of rapid sensitivity to syntactic anomaly. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 45. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00045
  • Kolk, H. H. J., Chwilla, D. J., Van Herten, M., & Oor, P. J. W. (2003). Structure and limited capacity in verbal working memory: A study with event-related potentials. Brain and Language, 85(1), 1–36. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00548-5
  • Kuperberg, G. R., Sitnikova, T., Caplan, D., & Holcomb, P. J. (2003). Electrophysiological distinctions in processing conceptual relationships within simple sentences. Cognitive Brain Research, 17(1), 117–129. doi:10.1016/S0926-6410(03)00086-7
  • Kutas, M., & Hillyard, S. (1984). Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association. Nature, 307, 161–163. doi: 10.1038/307161a0
  • Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review, 104(2), 211–240. doi:10.1037//0033-295X.104.2.211
  • MacDonald, M. C., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1994). The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution. Psychological Review, 101(4), 676–703. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.101.4.676
  • McRae, K., Hare, M., Elman, J. L., & Ferretti, T. (2005). A basis for generating expectancies for verbs from nouns. Memory & Cognition, 33(7), 1174–1184. doi:10.3758/BF03193221
  • Metusalem, R., Kutas, M., Urbach, T. P., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Elman, J. L. (2012). Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(4), 545–567. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.01.001
  • Trueswell, J. C., Tanenhaus, M., & Garnsey, S. M. (1994). Trueswell_Tanenhuas_Garnsey_1994.pdf. Journal of Memory and Language, 33(3), 285–318. doi: 10.1006/jmla.1994.1014
  • Van Dijk, T. A., & Kintsch, W. (1983). Strategies of discourse comprehension. New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Van Petten, C., & Luka, B. J. (2012). Prediction during language comprehension: Benefits, costs, and ERP components. International Journal of Psychophysiology : Official Journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, 83(2), 176–190. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.09.015
  • Zwaan, R. A, & Radvansky, G. A. (1998). Situation models in language comprehension and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 123(2), 162–185. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.123.2.162

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.