Product Description: This highly accessible volume is the first new book on cognitive inhibition in over 10 years. It covers the broad range of cognition, from attention and performance through memory and language, from development and aging through pathology and psychopathology...read more

Product Description: A presentation of research in the study of comprehension and discourse processes - lexically ambiguous words, how they are accessed, and how meaning is derived. Investigators describe the state of knowledge and theory regarding the role that words play in comprehension...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Resolving Semantic Ambiguity arrrays the work of leading theorists on the issues surrounding the meaning and interpretation of ambiguous text. The chapters are organized around three major themes: (1) retrieval, (2) representation of words, and (3) text as a context...read more