Studying musical and linguistic prediction in comparable ways: the melodic cloze probability method [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Prediction or expectancy is thought to play an important role in both music and language processing. However, prediction is currently studied independently in the two domains, limiting research on relations between predictive mechanisms in music and ...
Allison R. Fogel +6 more
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Filling the gap: Cloze probability and sentence constraint norms for 807 European Portuguese sentences. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2023 AbstractSentence processing is affected by the sentence context and word expectancy. To investigate sentence comprehension experimentally, it is useful to have sentence completion norms with both context constraint and word expectancy measures. In this study, two experiments were conducted to collect norms for completion of 807 European Portuguese ...
Frade S, Santi A, Raposo A.
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Cloze probability, predictability ratings, and computational estimates for 205 English sentences, aligned with existing EEG and reading time data. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2023 AbstractWe release a database of cloze probability values, predictability ratings, and computational estimates for a sample of 205 English sentences (1726 words), aligned with previously released word-by-word reading time data (both self-paced reading and eye-movement records; Frank et al., Behavior Research Methods, 45(4), 1182–1190.
de Varda AG, Marelli M, Amenta S.
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Sentence contexts and cloze probabilities for Brazilian Portuguese children and adolescents.
PLoS ONE, 2020 PurposeIn this study we investigated a set of 100 sentence contexts and their cloze probabilities to develop a database of linguistic stimuli for Brazilian Portuguese children and adolescents.
Natalia Freitas Rossi +6 more
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Overlapping dual ERP responses to low cloze probability sentence continuations. [PDF]
Psychophysiology, 2011 AbstractIn 2005, DeLong, Urbach, and Kutas took advantage of the a/an English indefinite article phonological alternation and the sensitivities of the N400 ERP component to show that readers can neurally preactivate individual words of a sentence (including nouns and their prenominal indefinite articles) in a graded fashion with a likelihood estimated ...
DeLong KA +3 more
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Linguistic Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Autism spectrum disorder has been argued to involve impairments in domain-general predictive abilities. There is strong evidence that individuals with ASD have trouble navigating the dynamic world due to an inability to predict the outcomes ...
Aimee O’Shea, Paul E. Engelhardt
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Cloze, Frequency, Surprisal, or Plausibility? A Comparative Analysis of Predictors for Local Ambiguity Resolution. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of garden‐path sentences by examining the influence of verb/structural bias, cloze probability, surprisal, and plausibility. Using self‐paced reading with yes/no comprehension questions, we analyzed a structurally diverse set of 11 types of ambiguous and unambiguous ...
Ceháková M, Chromý J.
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Probing Prediction-Related Processes in Language Using an EEG Word Stem Completion Paradigm. [PDF]
PsychophysiologyABSTRACT Humans comprehend language rapidly, with active prediction of upcoming words as a key mechanism. Studies using sentences have documented facilitations in behavior and brain activity (N400) when people encounter predictable words, and brain responses (anterior positivity) specific to prediction violations.
Chiu HS, Hubbard RJ, Federmeier KD.
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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Cassani G, Colombo M.
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Chinese Readers Process Word Class of Parafoveal Words During Sentence Reading. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract The present study aimed to investigate the parafoveal processing of word class in Chinese reading, focusing on how grammatical category consistency affects word recognition. The gaze‐contingent boundary paradigm was adopted in an eye‐tracking study. In each sentence, a parafoveal target word was replaced with three types of previews: identical
Qi Z, Xi Y, Pan J.
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