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

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 Neuroscience publication by DeLong, Urbach and Kutas, who observed a graded modulation of electrical brain potentials (N400)...

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Main Authors: Nieuwland, MS, Politzer-Ahles, S, Heyselaar, E, Segaert, K, Darley, E, Kazanina, N, Wolfsthurn, SVGZ, Bartolozzi, F, Kogan, V, Ito, A, Mézière, D, Barr, DJ, Rousselet, GA, Ferguson, HJ, Busch-Moreno, S, Fu, X, Tuomainen, J, Kulakova, E, Husband, EM, Donaldson, DI, Kohút, Z, Rueschemeyer, S-A
Format: Journal article
Published: eLife Sciences Publications 2018