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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…
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…
Marjolein Van Os, Jutta Kray, Vera Demberg
Introduction During speech comprehension, multiple sources of information are available to listeners, which are combined to guide the recognition process. Models of speech comprehension posit that when the acoustic speech signal is obscured, listeners rely more on information from other sources. However, these models…
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…
Roslyn Wong, Aaron Veldre, Sally Andrews
Previous investigations of whether readers make predictions about the full identity of upcoming words have focused on the extent to which there are processing consequences when readers encounter linguistic input that is incompatible with their expectations. To date, eye-movement studies have revealed inconsistent…
Victoria R. Poulton, Mante S. Nieuwland
Prediction-based theories of language comprehension assume that listeners predict both the meaning and phonological form of likely upcoming words. In alleged event-related potential (ERP) demonstrations of phonological prediction, prediction-mismatching words elicit a phonological mismatch negativity (PMN), a…
Elisabeth F. Sterner, Maximilian Stadler, Franziska Knolle
Prediction is a core feature of language, which is widely studied across research domains. The Munich Sentence (MuSe) database enhances reproducibility by providing sentence completion norms for 619 German sentences, including cloze probabilities and entropy estimates from up to 232 participants. Sentence completions…
Armando Quetzalcóatl Angulo-Chavira, Alejandra Mitzi Castellón-Flores, Alejandra Ciria, Natalia Arias-Trejo
Sentence-final completion tasks serve as valuable tools in studying language processing and the associated predictive mechanisms. There are several established sentence-completion norms for languages like English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish, each tailored to the language it was designed for and evaluated in. Yet…