ABSTRACT
During the past 35 years, higher language processes have been subjected to intensive study within an information-processing framework. This brief time span has witnessed remarkable progress in the discovery of basic phenomena of language comprehension; the identification of cognitive mechanisms underlying these phenomena; and the proposal of detailed, testable theories in this domain. Much of this progress has been driven by the development and application of behavioral methods for the scrutiny of people's comprehension of spoken and written language. These techniques have generated a steady stream of empirical evidence to challenge cognitive scientists.
