Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.

MJ Pickering, C Gambi - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

Do 'early'brain responses reveal word form prediction during language comprehension? A critical review

MS Nieuwland - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

MS Nieuwland, S Politzer-Ahles, E Heyselaar… - ELife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming
words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature …

[HTML][HTML] # EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments

YG Pavlov, N Adamian, S Appelhoff, M Arvaneh… - cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
There is growing awareness across the neuroscience community that the replicability of
findings about the relationship between brain activity and cognitive phenomena can be …

Investigating the time-course of phonological prediction in native and non-native speakers of English: A visual world eye-tracking study

A Ito, MJ Pickering, M Corley - Journal of Memory and Language, 2018 - Elsevier
We report a study using the “visual-world” paradigm that investigated (1) the time-course of
phonological prediction in English by native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers whose native …

Predicting syntactic structure

F Ferreira, Z Qiu - Brain Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Prediction in language processing has been a topic of major interest in psycholinguistics for
at least the last two decades, but most investigations focus on semantic rather than syntactic …

[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 …

Using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) to investigate second language learning

M Mottarella, CS Prat - The Routledge Handbook of Second …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Frequency-based, or quantitative, electroencephalography (qEEG) is an analytical approach
in which EEG signals are decomposed into different oscillatory frequencies. qEEG features …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction and error in early infant speech learning: A speech acquisition model

JS Nixon, F Tomaschek - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, statistical clustering models have emerged as a dominant model of
how infants learn the sounds of their language. However, recent empirical and …