Lexical prediction in language comprehension: A replication study of grammatical gender effects in Dutch

AR Kochari, M Flecken - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
An important question in predictive language processing is the extent to which prediction
effects can reliably be measured on pre-nominal material (eg articles before nouns). Here …

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 …

[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 …

How robust are prediction effects in language comprehension? Failure to replicate article-elicited N400 effects

A Ito, AE Martin, MS Nieuwland - Language, Cognition and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Current psycholinguistic theory proffers prediction as a central, explanatory mechanism in
language processing. However, widely-replicated prediction effects may not mean that …

Syntactic gender and semantic expectancy: ERPs reveal early autonomy and late interaction

TC Gunter, AD Friederici, H Schriefers - Journal of cognitive …, 2000 - direct.mit.edu
This experiment explored the effect of semantic expectancy on the processing of
grammatical gender, and vice versa, in German using event-related-potentials (ERPs) …

The mechanisms of prediction updating that impact the processing of upcoming word: An event-related potential study on sentence comprehension.

JM Szewczyk, Z Wodniecka - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
One of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the presence of predictions in language
comprehension comes from event-related potential (ERP) studies which show that …

The costs of being certain: Brain potential evidence for linguistic preactivation in sentence processing

D Freunberger, D Roehm - Psychophysiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Prediction in sentence comprehension is often investigated by measuring the amplitude of
the N400 ERP component to words that are more or less predictable from their preceding …

Prediction in language comprehension beyond specific words: An ERP study on sentence comprehension in Polish

JM Szewczyk, H Schriefers - Journal of Memory and Language, 2013 - Elsevier
Recently, several ERP studies have shown that the human language comprehension
system anticipates words that are highly likely continuations of a given text. However, it …

Predicting language: MEG evidence for lexical preactivation

S Dikker, L Pylkkänen - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
It is widely assumed that prediction plays a substantial role in language processing.
However, despite numerous studies demonstrating that contextual information facilitates …

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 …