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

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

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 Neuroscience publication by DeLong, Urbach and Kutas, who observed a graded modulation of electrical brain potentials (N400)...

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Main Authors: Mante S Nieuwland, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Evelien Heyselaar, Katrien Segaert, Emily Darley, Nina Kazanina, Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, Federica Bartolozzi, Vita Kogan, Aine Ito, Diane Mézière, Dale J Barr, Guillaume A Rousselet, Heather J Ferguson, Simon Busch-Moreno, Xiao Fu, Jyrki Tuomainen, Eugenia Kulakova, E Matthew Husband, David I Donaldson, Zdenko Kohút, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer, Falk Huettig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-04-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
language comprehension
prediction
N400
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/33468

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