Prediction during language comprehension: what is next?

R Ryskin, MS Nieuwland - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023‏ - cell.com
Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

Multimodal language processing in human communication

J Holler, SC Levinson - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019‏ - cell.com
The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

What BERT is not: Lessons from a new suite of psycholinguistic diagnostics for language models

A Ettinger - Transactions of the Association for Computational …, 2020‏ - direct.mit.edu
Pre-training by language modeling has become a popular and successful approach to NLP
tasks, but we have yet to understand exactly what linguistic capacities these pre-training …

Semantic memory: A review of methods, models, and current challenges

AA Kumar - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2021‏ - Springer
Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.

MJ Pickering, C Gambi - Psychological bulletin, 2018‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

What do we mean by prediction in language comprehension?

GR Kuperberg, TF Jaeger - Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

MS Nieuwland, S Politzer-Ahles, E Heyselaar… - ELife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming
words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature …

Modelling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

M Rabovsky, SS Hansen, JL McClelland - Nature human behaviour, 2018‏ - nature.com
The N400 component of the event-related brain potential has aroused much interest
because it is thought to provide an online measure of meaning processing in the brain …

An integrated theory of language production and comprehension

MJ Pickering, S Garrod - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic

NJ Smith, R Levy - Cognition, 2013‏ - Elsevier
It is well known that real-time human language processing is highly incremental and context-
driven, and that the strength of a comprehender's expectation for each word encountered is …