TY - JOUR
T1 - How long is now? The multiple timescales of language processing
AU - Honey, Christopher J.
AU - Chen, Janice
AU - Müsch, Kathrin
AU - Hasson, Uri
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Christiansen & Chater (C&C) envision language function as a hierarchical chain of transformations, enabling rapid, continuous processing of input. Their notion of a "Now-or-Never" bottleneck may be elaborated by recognizing that timescales become longer at successive levels of the sensory processing hierarchy - that is, the window of "Now" expands. We propose that a hierarchical "process memory" is intrinsic to language processing.
AB - Christiansen & Chater (C&C) envision language function as a hierarchical chain of transformations, enabling rapid, continuous processing of input. Their notion of a "Now-or-Never" bottleneck may be elaborated by recognizing that timescales become longer at successive levels of the sensory processing hierarchy - that is, the window of "Now" expands. We propose that a hierarchical "process memory" is intrinsic to language processing.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X15000825
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X15000825
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 27561841
AN - SCOPUS:85021854226
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 39
SP - e77
JO - The Behavioral and brain sciences
JF - The Behavioral and brain sciences
ER -