Executive functions demonstrate variable developmental and aging profiles, with protracted
development into early adulthood and declines in older age. However, relatively few studies …

10.7554/eLife.33468.001 Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the
phonological form of upcoming words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction …

Composing sentence meaning is easier for predictable words than for unpredictable words.
Are predictable words genuinely predicted, or simply more plausible and therefore easier to …

Counterfactual reasoning is valid reasoning arising from premises that are true in a hypothetical
model, but false in actuality. Investigations of counterfactuals have concentrated on …

… Ferguson a b , Napoleon Katsos c … Ferguson and Breheny show that common, complex
mental state inferences that do not display these factors can be accessed spontaneously and …

The ability to update our current knowledge using contextual information is a vital process
during every-day language comprehension. To understand a negated statement, readers are …

A well-established finding in the simulation literature is that participants simulate the positive
argument of negation soon after reading a negative sentence, prior to simulating a scene …

Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the
nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational. Recent …

During language comprehension, information about the world is exchanged and processed.
Two essential ingredients of everyday cognition that are employed during language …

Research has demonstrated a link between perspective taking and working memory. Here
we used eye tracking to examine the time course with which working memory load (WML) …