Anticipating words during spoken discourse comprehension: A large-scale, pre-registered replication study using brain potentials.

ABSTRACT: Numerous studies report brain potential evidence for the anticipation of specific words during language comprehension. In the most convincing demonstrations, highly predictable nouns exert an influence on processing even before they appear to a reader or listener, as indicated by the brain's neural response to a prenominal adjective or article when it mismatches the expectations about the upcoming noun. However, recent studies suggest that some well-known demonstrations of prediction may be hard to replicate. This could signal the use of data-contingent analysis, but might also mean that readers and listeners do not always use prediction-relevant information in the way that psycholinguistic theories typically suggest. To shed light on this issue, we performed a close replication of one of

SUBMITTER: Nieuwland MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7526661 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature