Researchers have successfully tested and modeled the cognitive conception of language
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Recent interdisciplinary studies across cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational neuroscience successfully model and test the cognitive and mental representations underlying language processing.
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Event Knowledge Modulates Real-Time Mental Representations of Object State-Change.
2026 · cited by 1
Demonstrates how real-world event knowledge and mental representations modulate real-time language comprehension.
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Cognitive Pragmatics: Mental Processes Underlying Contextual Meaning Construction
2025 · cited by 1
Explores the mental processes and cognitive pragmatics underlying contextual meaning construction.
Cognitive linguistics approach to the representation of knowledge contents in college English textbooks.
2026 · cited by 0
Applies cognitive linguistic theory and image schema models to analyze the structural representation of knowledge.
Linguistics and human brain: a perspective of computational neuroscience.
2026 · cited by 0
Discusses how computational neuroscience formalizes linguistic structures into testable neural representation models.
From structure to sequence: A multinomial processing tree model of syntactic encoding.
2026 · cited by 0
Provides a formal computational implementation and multinomial processing tree model of syntactic encoding and hierarchical structure.