title: How long is now? The multiple timescales of language processing.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Psychology, Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada. honey@psych.utoronto.ca kathrin.muesch@utoronto.ca http://www.honeylab.org
authors: Christopher J
authors: CJ
authors: Honey
authors: Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. janice@princeton.edu hasson@princeton.edu http://hlab.princeton.edu
authors: Janice
authors: J
authors: Chen
authors: Department of Psychology, Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada. honey@psych.utoronto.ca kathrin.muesch@utoronto.ca http://www.honeylab.org
authors: Kathrin
authors: K
authors: Müsch
authors: Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. janice@princeton.edu hasson@princeton.edu http://hlab.princeton.edu
authors: Uri
authors: U
authors: Hasson
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012677:Sensation