A deep hierarchy of predictions enables online meaning extraction in a computational model of human speech comprehension.

Understanding speech requires mapping fleeting and often ambiguous soundwaves to meaning. While humans are known to exploit their capacity to contextualize to facilitate this process, how internal knowledge is deployed online remains an open question. Here, we present a model that extracts multiple...

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Main Authors: Yaqing Su, Lucy J MacGregor, Itsaso Olasagasti, Anne-Lise Giraud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002046