Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

G Tuckute, A Sathe, S Srikant, M Taliaferro… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Transformer models such as GPT generate human-like language and are predictive of
human brain responses to language. Here, using functional-MRI-measured brain responses …

Fixations in the visual world paradigm: Where, when, why?

JS Magnuson - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2019 - Springer
Over the last 25 years, the visual world paradigm has enabled discoveries and theoretical
advances in spoken language processing. However, the intuitive interpretation of fixations in …

Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods

VN Pescuma, D Serova, J Lukassek… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register:
Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412), we assess the …

Retrieval (N400) and integration (P600) in expectation-based comprehension

C Aurnhammer, F Delogu, M Schulz, H Brouwer… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Expectation-based theories of language processing, such as Surprisal theory, are supported
by evidence of anticipation effects in both behavioural and neurophysiological measures …

Computational psycholinguistics

MW Crocker - The handbook of computational linguistics and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Computational psycholinguistics is concerned with the development of computational
models of the cognitive mechanisms and representations that underlie language processing …

Neurobehavioral correlates of surprisal in language comprehension: A neurocomputational model

H Brouwer, F Delogu, NJ Venhuizen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Expectation-based theories of language comprehension, in particular Surprisal Theory, go a
long way in accounting for the behavioral correlates of word-by-word processing difficulty …

How well does surprisal explain N400 amplitude under different experimental conditions?

JA Michaelov, BK Bergen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04844, 2020 - arxiv.org
We investigate the extent to which word surprisal can be used to predict a neural measure of
human language processing difficulty-the N400. To do this, we use recurrent neural …

[图书][B] Communicative efficiency

N Levshina - 2022 - books.google.com
All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book
shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making …

Creating effective marketing messages through moderately surprising syntax

AS Atalay, SE Kihal, F Ellsaesser - Journal of Marketing, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Language is critical to the effectiveness of marketing messages. Achieving a desired
outcome requires arranging words to formulate a message (ie, syntax), but this task is not …

What's new? A comprehension bias in favor of informativity

H Rohde, R Futrell, CG Lucas - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Language is used as a channel by which speakers convey, among other things,
newsworthy and informative messages, ie, content that is otherwise unpredictable to the …