List of Figures |
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List of Tables |
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Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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1 Introduction |
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1.1 Working Memory in Theories of Sentence Comprehension |
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1.2 Prediction in Sentence Processing |
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1.3 Working Memory and Prediction as Explanations for Processing Difficulty |
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1.4 Current Beliefs about Constraints on Sentence Comprehension |
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1.5 Some Gaps in the Sentence Processing Literature |
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1.5.1 The Relative Scarcity of Computationally Implemented Models |
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1.5.2 A Focus on Average Behaviour and Neglect of Individual-Level Differences |
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1.5.3 The Absence of High-Precision Studies |
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1.5.4 Unclear Desiderata for a Good Model Fit |
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1.6 The Goals of This Book |
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1.6.1 Providing Open Source Model Code |
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1.6.2 Modelling Average Effects as Well as Individual Differences |
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1.6.3 Developing a Set of Modelling and Empirical Benchmarks for Future Model Comparison |
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2 Dependencies in Sentence Comprehension |
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2.1 Memory Processes in Sentence Comprehension |
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2.2 Dependency Completion in Sentence Processing |
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2.3 Subject-Verb Non-Agreement Dependencies |
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2.4 Subject-Verb Number Agreement |
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2.5 Reflexives and Reciprocals |
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2.5.1 Individual-Level Effects in the Dillon et al. Design |
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2.5.2 A Sensitivity Analysis on the Ungrammatical Agreement and Reflexives Conditions Using Informative Priors |
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3 The Core ACT-R-Based Model of Retrieval Processes |
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3.2 The Lewis and Vasishth (2005) Model |
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3.2.1 A Priori Predictions of the Model |
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3.2.2 Comparison of the LV05 Prediction Space with the Results of the Jager et al. Meta-analysis |
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3.3 A More Principled Approach to Parameter Estimation |
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3.3.1 Bayesian Parameter Estimation |
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3.3.2 Approximate Bayesian Computation |
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4 An Extension of the Core Model: Modelling Prominence and Multi-associative Cues |
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4.1 Incorporating Prominence and Multi-associative Cues |
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4.1.2 Multi-associative Cues |
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4.1.3 Implementation of Item Prominence and Multi-associative Cues |
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4.1.4 Multi-associative Cues |
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4.2 A Simulation of the Meta-analysis Studies |
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4.3.1 Distractor Prominence |
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4.3.2 Multi-associative Cues |
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4.A Key Terms and Concepts |
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4.B List of Experiments Included in the Simulations |
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5 An Extension of the Core Model: Modelling the Interaction of Eye-Movement Control and Parsing |
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5.1 The EMMA/ACT-R Reading Model |
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5.2 Replication of Salvucci (2001) |
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5.3 The Extended EMMA/ACT-R Model |
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5.4 Simulations on the Potsdam Sentence Corpus |
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5.5.1 Comparison with E-Z Reader |
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5.A Root-Mean-Square Deviation |
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5.B Linear Regression Analysis |
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6 Reanalysis and Underspecification in Sentence Comprehension: Modelling Eye Movements |
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6.2 Modelling Reanalysis: Memory and Expectation Processes in Parsing |
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6.2.1 Memory and Expectation in Relative Clauses |
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6.2.2 Simulation: Modelling the Staub (2010) Data |
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6.3 Modelling Underspecification: The Adaptive Interaction between Parsing, Eye-Movement Control, and Working Memory Capacity |
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6.3.1 Good-Enough Parsing |
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6.3.2 Simulation: Modelling the von der Malsburg and Vasishth (2013) Experiment |
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7 Competing Accounts of Interference in Sentence Processing |
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7.1 The Direct-Access Model |
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7.2 Comparing the Predictive Performance of the Models |
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7.2.1 Inhibitory Interference |
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7.2.2 Relative Clauses in Chinese |
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7.3 Encoding Interference in Agreement Attraction |
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7.3.1 An Evaluation of the Nairne Proposal |
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8 Modelling Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia |
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8.1 Theories and Models of Sentence Comprehension Deficits |
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178 | (9) |
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8.1.2 Reduction in Memory |
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8.1.3 Intermittent Deficiency |
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8.1.6 Lexical Integration Deficit |
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8.1.7 Lexical Access Deficits |
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8.1.8 A Comparison of Theories of Impaired Processing, and Their Relation to Theories of Unimpaired Processing |
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8.2 Modelling Individual-Level Differences |
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8.2.1 Mapping ACT-R Parameters to Sources of Deficits |
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8.3 Competing Models of Retrieval in Aphasia |
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8.3.2 Results and Discussion |
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9 Future Directions |
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9.1 Developing Implemented Computational Models |
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9.2 An Excessive Focus on Average Behaviour |
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9.3 Creating Higher-Precision Benchmark Data-Sets for Model Evaluation and Comparison |
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9.4 Developing Better Criteria for Evaluating Model Fit |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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