The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability

S Vasishth, D Mertzen, LA Jäger, A Gelman - Journal of Memory and …, 2018 - Elsevier
It is well-known in statistics (eg, Gelman & Carlin, 2014) that treating a result as publishable
just because the p-value is less than 0.05 leads to overoptimistic expectations of …

[HTML][HTML] Are words pre-activated probabilistically during sentence comprehension? Evidence from new data and a Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis using …

B Nicenboim, S Vasishth, F Rösler - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Several studies (eg, Wicha et al., 2003b; DeLong et al., 2005) have shown that readers use
information from the sentential context to predict nouns (or some of their features), and that …

Effects of speech rate, preview time of visual context, and participant instructions reveal strong limits on prediction in language processing

F Huettig, E Guerra - Brain Research, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a consensus among language researchers that people can predict upcoming
language. But do people always predict when comprehending language? Notions that …

Distinguishing integration and prediction accounts of ERP N400 modulations in language processing through experimental design

F Mantegna, F Hintz, M Ostarek, PM Alday, F Huettig - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Many theoretical accounts of prediction in language processing are based to a substantial
amount on experimental evidence from electrophysiological studies measuring N400 target …

Definitely saw it coming? The dual nature of the pre-nominal prediction effect

DS Fleur, M Flecken, J Rommers, MS Nieuwland - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
In well-known demonstrations of lexical prediction during language comprehension, pre-
nominal articles that mismatch a likely upcoming noun's gender elicit different neural activity …

Anticipating words during spoken discourse comprehension: A large-scale, pre-registered replication study using brain potentials

MS Nieuwland, Y Arkhipova, P Rodríguez-Gómez - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous studies report brain potential evidence for the anticipation of specific words
during language comprehension. In the most convincing demonstrations, highly predictable …

Prediction of phonological and gender information: An event-related potential study in Italian

A Ito, C Gambi, MJ Pickering, K Fuellenbach… - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Do people predict different aspects of a predictable word to the same extent? We tested
prediction of phonological and gender information by creating phonological and gender …

An exploratory data analysis of word form prediction during word-by-word reading

TP Urbach, KA DeLong, WH Chan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In 2005, we reported evidence indicating that upcoming phonological word forms—eg, kite
vs. airplane—were predicted during reading. We recorded brainwaves …

Knowledge-based and signal-based cues are weighted flexibly during spoken language comprehension.

G Kaufeld, A Ravenschlag, AS Meyer… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
During spoken language comprehension, listeners make use of both knowledge-based and
signal-based sources of information, but little is known about how cues from these distinct …

[HTML][HTML] The role of crosslinguistic differences in second language anticipatory processing: An event-related potentials study

JA Banon, C Martin - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study uses event-related potentials to investigate how crosslinguistic (dis)
similarities modulate anticipatory processing in the second language (L2). Participants read …