The present research assessed and compared the abilities of 27 learning disabled twelve-year-olds, 27 academically achieving age controls, 10 academically achieving seven- to eight-year-olds, and 10 ...

Subjects paraphrased 72 sentences that surreptitiously included 12 syntactically ambiguous critical sentences. The subjects then judged the likelihood of obtaining each interpretation of other ...

For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...

Ambiguity is often perceived as a source of confusion and discomfort, but it holds a surprising power to influence our thinking, creativity, and resilience. In a world that increasingly values clarity ...

When we use language, it seems so easy to understand what other people are saying that it is hard to appreciate the complexity of the act of carrying on a conversation. Obviously, we miscommunicate at ...

Difficulty with complex sentence processing could be a clue that someone may develop Alzheimer’s. Older people with mild cognitive impairment, especially when characterized by episodic memory loss, ...