title: Language Processing as Cue Integration: Grounding the Psychology of Language in Perception and Neurophysiology.
abstract: I argue that cue integration, a psychophysiological mechanism from vision and multisensory perception, offers a computational linking hypothesis between psycholinguistic theory and neurobiological models of language. I propose that this mechanism, which incorporates probabilistic estimates of a cue's reliability, might function in language processing from the perception of a phoneme to the comprehension of a phrase structure. I briefly consider the implications of the cue integration hypothesis for an integrated theory of language that includes acquisition, production, dialogue and bilingualism, while grounding the hypothesis in canonical neural computation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: Andrea E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Martin
keywords: cue integration; cue-based retrieval; language comprehension; neurobiology of language; sentence processing