...Ann E. Nordmeyer; Michael C. Frank; Francis Mollica Negation is a fundamental element of language and logical systems, but processing negative sentences can be challenging. Early investigations suggested that this difficulty was due to the representational challenge of adding an additional logical...

...I Made Sena Darmasetiyawan; Ben Ambridge; Dermot Lynott Semantics-based approaches to syntax hold that the basic units of language are constructions: form-meaning pairings that have meanings in and of themselves. The aim of the present study was to test this claim using a previously-unstudied...

...Nina Keith; Kristine Hartwig; Tobias Richter; Yoel Inbar The use of masculine generics (i.e., grammatically masculine forms that refer to both men and women) is prevalent in many languages but has been criticized for potentially triggering male bias. Empirical evidence for this claim exists...

... under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. replication perception language top-down effects erp eeg p100 p200 n400...

.../ . tip-of-the-tongue word production psycholinguistics metacognition cognition memory language A tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state is the phenomenon that leaves a speaker feeling like a word is on the tip of the tongue, but the word is far enough out of reach that it is inarticulable. TOT...

...Laura Maffongelli; Alessandro D’Ausilio; Luciano Fadiga; Moritz M. Daum; Rolf Zwaan; Martin Fischer Language and action share similar organizational principles. Both are thought to be hierarchical and recursive in nature. Here we address the relationship between language and action from...

... items as more likely to be true than abstractly worded ones (the linguistic truth effect ; Hansen & Wänke, 2010 ). If minor language differences affect truth judgements, ultimately they could influence more consequential political, legal, health, and interpersonal choices. This Registered Report...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . language psycholinguistics eye-tracking pragmatics scalar implicature A substantial part of language comprehension is inferring messages that were not explicitly said. One of the most intensely investigated types of such inferences is scalar inference...

... ideophones language ERP iconicity individual differences Iconicity, or the resemblance-based mapping between aspects of form and meaning, has long been marginalised in linguistic research due to the predominance of arbitrariness, where there is no connection between the form of a word and aspects...