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	Language Processing & Eyetracking Lab
Welcome! Welcome to the Language Processing Lab. The lab is directed by Bill Levine and located in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. The research in the lab is generally in the area of human cognition, more specifically in the area of language comprehension, especially reading. The research can be grouped according to three (overlapping) questions. (1) What are the representations and processes that underlie comprehension of referring expressions, such as pronouns and fuller noun phrases? (2) How do basic cognitive processes feed into comprehension processes? (3) How does readers' knowledge about the way stories are organized and told shape their mental representations of narratives, and what kinds of inferences do they draw while reading? There are currently three major lines of inquiry in the lab, described briefly below: How do readers represent information that is no longer correct, has been revised, has been negated, and so on? (This research is currently funded by National Science Foundation Grant BCS-0617419.) How do readers process temporal information and information related to a character's goals in narratives, and how is this related to the experience of suspense? (This research was funded by National Institutes of Health Grant 1R03MH067725-01A1 from 2004 to 2006.) What individual differences (e.g., working memory, reading skill) are related to the likelihood that readers will make elaborative inferences while reading? To learn more about these projects, and some of the others that will be starting soon, click on the Research link. You can also learn more about the People who are doing this research, and you can look at some of the Papers in which this and prior research has been reported. If you are interested in working the lab as a undergraduate research assistant, please click here.