Many previous studies have shown that predictable words are read faster and lead to
reduced neural activation, consistent with a model of reading in which words are activated in …

It is widely assumed that prediction plays a substantial role in language processing.
However, despite numerous studies demonstrating that contextual information facilitates …

To a crucial extent, the efficiency of reading results from the fact that visual word recognition
is faster in predictive contexts. Predictive coding models suggest that this facilitation results …

Current theories of language comprehension posit that readers and listeners routinely try to
predict the meaning but also the visual or sound form of upcoming words. Whereas most …

There is broad agreement that context-based predictions facilitate lexical-semantic
processing. A robust index of semantic prediction during language comprehension is an …

Readers and listeners actively predict upcoming words during language processing. These
predictions might serve to support the unification of incoming words into sentence context …

Readers may use contextual information to anticipate and pre-activate specific lexical items
during reading. However, prior studies have not clearly dissociated the effects of accurate …

Despite the numerous examples of anticipatory cognitive processes at micro and macro
levels in many animal species, the idea that anticipation of specific words plays an integral …

Typical adults read remarkably quickly. Such fast reading is facilitated by brain processes
that are sensitive to both word frequency and contextual constraints. It is debated as to …

The N400 component's amplitude is standardly reduced for predictable words. But it is not
clear whether this reduction truly reflects preactivation of the critical word or whether it just …