Comprehension priming as rational expectation for repetition: Evidence from syntactic processing

Cognition

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-56

  Myslín, Mark ^a   Levy, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation; Priming; Probabilistic models of cognition; Psycholinguistics; Rational analysis; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPECTATION; FORWARD MASKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; READING; REPETITION PRIMING; VIGNETTE; TIME FACTOR;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84947754598     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.10.021     Document Type: Article

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