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 …

Four central questions about prediction in language processing

F Huettig - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension

C Shain, IA Blank, M van Schijndel, W Schuler… - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher …

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 …

Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world

F Huettig, E Janse - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Several mechanisms of predictive language processing have been proposed. The possible
influence of mediating factors such as working memory and processing speed, however, has …

Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1: What is different?

E Kaan - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
There is ample evidence that native speakers anticipate upcoming information at various
levels during sentence comprehension. In contrast, some studies on late second-language …

Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not

F Huettig, N Mani - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Some recent theoretical accounts in the cognitive sciences suggest that prediction is
necessary to understand language. Here we evaluate this proposal. We consider arguments …

Predicting syntactic structure

F Ferreira, Z Qiu - Brain Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Prediction in language processing has been a topic of major interest in psycholinguistics for
at least the last two decades, but most investigations focus on semantic rather than syntactic …

So that's what you meant! Event-related potentials reveal multiple aspects of context use during construction of message-level meaning

EW Wlotko, KD Federmeier - NeuroImage, 2012 - Elsevier
Factors that modulate the influence of contextual information on semantic processing in
language comprehension have been thoroughly investigated with the N400 component of …

Time for prediction? The effect of presentation rate on predictive sentence comprehension during word-by-word reading

EW Wlotko, KD Federmeier - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
Predictive processing is a core component of normal language comprehension, but the
brain may not engage in prediction to the same extent in all circumstances. This study …