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Cory Shain, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell + 1 more
Title: Significance The difficulty of comprehending words in context is related to their predictability, but what cognitive processes do these predictability effects reflect? In one view, predictability effects reflect facilitation due to anticipatory processing of predictable words. This view predicts a linear effect…
Roslyn Wong, Erik D. Reichle, Aaron Veldre
Historically, prediction during reading has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive processing mechanism given the inherently generative nature of language, which allows upcoming text to unfold in an infinite number of possible ways. This article provides an accessible and comprehensive review of the…
Adrielli Tina Lopes Rego, Joshua Snell, Martijn Meeter, Ronald van den Berg
'Ronald van den Berg'] Although word predictability is commonly considered an important factor in reading, sophisticated accounts of predictability in theories of reading are lacking. Computational models of reading traditionally use cloze norming as a proxy of word predictability, but what cloze norms precisely…
Emily L. Coderre, Elizabeth O’Donnell, Emme O’Rourke, Neil Cohn
Predictability is known to modulate semantic processing in language, but it is unclear to what extent this applies for other modalities. Here we ask whether similar cognitive processes are at play in predicting upcoming events in a non-verbal visual narrative. Typically developing adults viewed comics sequences in…
James A. Michaelov, Megan D. Bardolph, Cyma K. Van Petten, Benjamin K. Bergen + 1 more
'Benjamin K. Bergen' 'Seana Coulson'] Title: Abstract Theoretical accounts of the N400 are divided as to whether the amplitude of the N400 response to a stimulus reflects the extent to which the stimulus was predicted, the extent to which the stimulus is semantically similar to its preceding context, or both. We use…
Andrea Gregor de Varda, Marco Marelli, Simona Amenta
We release a database of cloze probability values, predictability ratings, and computational estimates for a sample of 205 English sentences (1726 words), aligned with previously released word-by-word reading time data (both self-paced reading and eye-movement records; Frank et al., Behavior Research Methods, 45(4)…
Jieun Song, Byungjun Kim, Minjeong Kim, Paul Iverson
Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a large Korean sentence set with varying degrees of semantic predictability that can be used for testing speech recognition and lexical processing. Method: Sentences differing in the degree of final-word predictability (predictable, neutral, and anomalous) were…
Anastasiya Lopukhina, Konstantin Lopukhin, Anna Laurinavichyute, Claudio Mulatti
'Claudio Mulatti'] During reading or listening, people can generate predictions about the lexical and morphosyntactic properties of upcoming input based on available context. Psycholinguistic experiments that study predictability or control for it conventionally rely on a human-based approach and estimate…
Jonathan E. Peelle, Ryland L. Miller, Chad S. Rogers, Brent Spehar + 2 more
'Mitchell S. Sommers' 'Kristin J. Van Engen'] In everyday language processing, sentence context affects how readers and listeners process upcoming words. In experimental situations, it can be useful to identify words that are predicted to greater or lesser degrees by the preceding context. Here we report completion…
Bruno Bianchi, Gastón Bengolea Monzón, Luciana Ferrer, Diego Fernández Slezak + 2 more
'Diego Fernández Slezak' 'Diego E. Shalom' 'Juan E. Kamienkowski'] When we read printed text, we are continuously predicting upcoming words to integrate information and guide future eye movements. Thus, the Predictability of a given word has become one of the most important variables when explaining human behaviour and…
Pratik Bhandari, Vera Demberg, Jutta Kray
Previous studies have shown that at moderate levels of spectral degradation, semantic predictability facilitates language comprehension. It is argued that when speech is degraded, listeners have narrowed expectations about the sentence endings; i.e., semantic prediction may be limited to only most highly predictable…
Federica Magnabosco, Olaf Hauk
We used eye-tracking during natural reading to study how semantic control and representation mechanisms interact for the successful comprehension of sentences, by manipulating sentence context and single-word meaning. Specifically, we examined whether a word’s semantic characteristic (concreteness) affects first…
Aimee O’Shea, Paul E. Engelhardt, Jayanthi Sasisekaran, Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova
'Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova'] Background: Autism spectrum disorder has been argued to involve impairments in domain-general predictive abilities. There is strong evidence that individuals with ASD have trouble navigating the dynamic world due to an inability to predict the outcomes of particular events. There is also…