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 ...

Researchers find that comprehension is related to predicting sentence structure in real time. Notably, different languages guide prediction in different ways. People often seem to understand language ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Sensory information flowing into our brains ...