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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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Age-related reduction of adaptive brain response during semantic integration is associated with gray matter reduction. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 While aging is associated with increased knowledge, it is also associated with decreased semantic integration. To investigate brain activation changes during semantic integration, a sample of forty-eight 25-75 year-old adults read sentences with high ...
Zude Zhu +6 more
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Cloze enough? Hemodynamic effects of predictive processing during natural reading
NeuroImage, 2021 Evidence accrues that readers form multiple hypotheses about upcoming words. The present study investigated the hemodynamic effects of predictive processing during natural reading by means of combining fMRI and eye movement recordings.
Sarah Schuster +5 more
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Cloze probability does not only affect N400 amplitude: The case of complex prepositions [PDF]
Psychophysiology, 2008 AbstractCloze‐probability levels are inversely correlated with N400 amplitude, indicating an easier integration for expected words in semantic‐pragmatic contexts. Here we exploited the prespecified standard order of complex prepositions and measured the ERPs time‐locked to the last preposition in sentences in which complex prepositions were presented ...
N. Molinaro +4 more
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N-gram probability effects in a cloze task [PDF]
The Mental Lexicon, 2014 What knowledge influences our choice of words when we write or speak? Predicting which word a person will produce next is not easy, even when the linguistic context is known. One task that has been used to assess context dependent word choice is the fill-in-the-blank task, also called the cloze task.
Cyrus Shaoul +2 more
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Language Models Explain Word Reading Times Better Than Empirical Predictability
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 Though there is a strong consensus that word length and frequency are the most important single-word features determining visual-orthographic access to the mental lexicon, there is less agreement as how to best capture syntactic and semantic factors. The
Markus J. Hofmann +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Prior studies on language processing in aging have shown that older adults experience integration difficulties for contextually unpredictable target words (as indicated by low cloze probabilities in prior ratings), and that such comprehension ...
Katja I. Häuser +5 more
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