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 …

A cortical network for semantics:(de) constructing the N400

EF Lau, C Phillips, D Poeppel - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2008 - nature.com
Measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) has been fundamental to our understanding of
how language is encoded in the brain. One particular ERP response, the N400 response …

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 …

Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension

H Brouwer, H Fitz, J Hoeks - Brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
In traditional theories of language comprehension, syntactic and semantic processing are
inextricably linked. This assumption has been challenged by the 'Semantic Illusion …

[图书][B] Language and cognition in bilinguals and multilinguals: An introduction

AMB De Groot - 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

Limits on lexical prediction during reading

SG Luke, K Christianson - Cognitive psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Efficient language processing may involve generating expectations about upcoming input.
To investigate the extent to which prediction might facilitate reading, a large-scale survey …

Neural speech tracking in the theta and in the delta frequency band differentially encode clarity and comprehension of speech in noise

O Etard, T Reichenbach - Journal of Neuroscience, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Humans excel at understanding speech even in adverse conditions such as background
noise. Speech processing may be aided by cortical activity in the delta and theta frequency …

A look around at what lies ahead: Prediction and predictability in language processing

M Kutas, KA DeLong, NJ Smith - … in the brain: Using our past to …, 2011 - books.google.com
Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …

A predictive coding framework for rapid neural dynamics during sentence-level language comprehension

AG Lewis, M Bastiaansen - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
There is a growing literature investigating the relationship between oscillatory neural
dynamics measured using electroencephalography (EEG) and/or magnetoencephalography …

A beautiful day in the neighborhood: An event-related potential study of lexical relationships and prediction in context

S Laszlo, KD Federmeier - Journal of memory and language, 2009 - Elsevier
Two related questions critical to understanding the predictive processes that come online
during sentence comprehension are (1) what information is included in the representation …