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 …

A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language comprehension

M Heilbron, K Armeni, JM Schoffelen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating information-theoretic measures of word prediction in naturalistic sentence reading

C Aurnhammer, SL Frank - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
We review information-theoretic measures of cognitive load during sentence processing that
have been used to quantify word prediction effort. Two such measures, surprisal and next …

Delta-band neural responses to individual words are modulated by sentence processing

S Slaats, H Weissbart, JM Schoffelen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
To understand language, we need to recognize words and combine them into phrases and
sentences. During this process, responses to the words themselves are changed. In a step …

Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex

C Shain, IA Blank, E Fedorenko, E Gibson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

[BOOK][B] The oscillatory nature of language

E Murphy - 2020 - books.google.com
" Introduction There are numerous neurobiological models of language, ranging from those
concerned with speech perception, white matter structure, and the function of dorsal and …

Bayesian surprise predicts human event segmentation in story listening

M Kumar, A Goldstein, S Michelmann… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Event segmentation theory posits that people segment continuous experience into discrete
events and that event boundaries occur when there are large transient increases in …

[HTML][HTML] Brain activity reflects the predictability of word sequences in listened continuous speech

M Koskinen, M Kurimo, J Gross, A Hyvärinen, R Hari - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural speech builds on contextual relations that can prompt predictions of upcoming
utterances. To study the neural underpinnings of such predictive processing we asked 10 …

Creating effective marketing messages through moderately surprising syntax

AS Atalay, SE Kihal, F Ellsaesser - Journal of Marketing, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Language is critical to the effectiveness of marketing messages. Achieving a desired
outcome requires arranging words to formulate a message (ie, syntax), but this task is not …

Inefficient speech-motor control affects predictive speech comprehension: Atypical electrophysiological correlates in stuttering

S Gastaldon, P Busan, G Arcara, F Peressotti - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Listeners predict upcoming information during language comprehension. However, how this
ability is implemented is still largely unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis proposing that …