Do 'early'brain responses reveal word form prediction during language comprehension? A critical review

MS Nieuwland - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Current theories of language comprehension posit that readers and listeners routinely try to
predict the meaning but also the visual or sound form of upcoming words. Whereas most …

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 …

A tale of two positivities and the N400: Distinct neural signatures are evoked by confirmed and violated predictions at different levels of representation

GR Kuperberg, T Brothers, EW Wlotko - Journal of cognitive …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
It has been proposed that hierarchical prediction is a fundamental computational principle
underlying neurocognitive processing. Here, we ask whether the brain engages distinct …

Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: Evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials

MS Nieuwland, DJ Barr, F Bartolozzi… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Composing sentence meaning is easier for predictable words than for unpredictable words.
Are predictable words genuinely predicted, or simply more plausible and therefore easier to …

[HTML][HTML] Event-related potentials index lexical retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) during language comprehension

F Delogu, H Brouwer, MW Crocker - Brain and cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
The functional interpretation of two salient language-sensitive ERP components–the N400
and the P600–remains a matter of debate. Prominent alternative accounts link the N400 to …

[HTML][HTML] Context-based facilitation of semantic access follows both logarithmic and linear functions of stimulus probability

JM Szewczyk, KD Federmeier - Journal of memory and language, 2022 - Elsevier
Stimuli are easier to process when context makes them predictable, but does context-based
facilitation arise from preactivation of a limited set of relatively probable upcoming stimuli …

[KİTAP][B] Meaning in the brain

G Baggio - 2018 - books.google.com
An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) in expectation-based comprehension

C Aurnhammer, F Delogu, M Schulz, H Brouwer… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Expectation-based theories of language processing, such as Surprisal theory, are supported
by evidence of anticipation effects in both behavioural and neurophysiological measures …

Going the extra mile: Effects of discourse context on two late positivities during language comprehension

T Brothers, EW Wlotko, L Warnke… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
During language comprehension, online neural processing is strongly influenced by the
constraints of the prior context. Although the N400 event-related potential (ERP) response …

Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing

EU Morgan, A Van der Meer, M Vulchanova… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2020 - Springer
According to traditional linguistic theories, the construction of complex meanings relies firmly
on syntactic structure-building operations. Recently, however, new models have been …