What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Language And Cognition

"A cognitive scientist looking at [scholar Stephen] Booth's explanation of Shakespearean effects would spot many concepts from her own discipline. Those include priming - when, after hearing a word, we tend more readily to recognize words that are related to it; expectation - the influence of higher-level reasoning on word recognition; and depth of processing - how varying levels of attention affect the extent of our engagement with a statement. (Shallow processing explains our predisposition to