Introduction: What’s happening in the brains of two people having a conversation? One
reasonable guess is that in the fMRI scanner we’d see most of their brains light up. Another is …

When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to utterances
whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the identity of the speaker …

In two experiments, we examined the recent claim (Stewart, Pickering, & Sanford, 2000) that
verb-based implicit causality information is used during sentence–final clausal integration …

Language comprehension looks pretty easy. You pick up a novel and simply enjoy the plot,
or ponder the human condition. You strike a conversation and listen to whatever the other …

Jescheniak and Levelt (Jescheniak, J.-D., Levelt, WJM 1994. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 20 (4), 824–843) have suggested that the speed …

The use of computer simulations in education and training can have substantial advantages
over other approaches. In comparison with alternatives such as textbooks, lectures, and …

This article reports work on two aspects of learning with simulations. The first is the
development of an account of the learning processes implicated in learning with computer …

Insults always sting, but the context in which they are delivered can make the effects even
worse. Here we test how the brain processes insults, and whether and how the neurocognitive …

JOS JA VAN BERKUM AND MANTE S. NIEUWLAND of the world, as such enriching their
mental map of the here and now, as well as of pos si ble, past, or future states of affairs, in …

Results In all, our brain imaging findings show that opinion poll statements incrementally
unlock the relevant attitudes, and that the neural processing of attitude-inconsistent words goes …