ABSTRACT
The study of language understanding, as Dom Massaro observes, is well-suited to an information integration framework. One theme of the diverse experimental studies in this chapter is multiple determination. Listening involves a continuous, complex stream of stimulus information, accompanied by a continuous stream of decisions to determine what was said and what it means. Each successive decision typically depends on multiple cues, including auditory stimulation and nonauditory context. The unconscious ease of understanding what we hear masks a complex system of information integration.
