Do domain-general executive resources play a role in linguistic prediction? Re-evaluation of the evidence and a path forward

R Ryskin, RP Levy, E Fedorenko - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Most current accounts of language comprehension agree on a role for prediction, but they
disagree on the importance of domain-general executive resources in predictive behavior. In …

A tale of two positivities and the N400: Distinct neural signatures are evoked by confirmed and violated predictions at different levels of representation

GR Kuperberg, T Brothers, EW Wlotko - Journal of cognitive …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
It has been proposed that hierarchical prediction is a fundamental computational principle
underlying neurocognitive processing. Here, we ask whether the brain engages distinct …

ERPs reveal individual differences in morphosyntactic processing

D Tanner, JG Van Hell - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
We investigated individual differences in the neural substrates of morphosyntactic
processing among monolingual English speakers using event-related potentials (ERPs) …

[HTML][HTML] The P600-as-P3 hypothesis revisited: Single-trial analyses reveal that the late EEG positivity following linguistically deviant material is reaction time aligned

J Sassenhagen, M Schlesewsky… - Brain and language, 2014 - Elsevier
The P600, a late positive ERP component following linguistically deviant stimuli, is
commonly seen as indexing structural, high-level processes, eg of linguistic (re) analysis. It …

Cognitive control mediates age-related changes in flexible anticipatory processing during listening comprehension

S Dave, T Brothers, LJ Hoversten, MJ Traxler… - Brain Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective listening comprehension not only requires processing local linguistic input, but also
necessitates incorporating contextual cues available in the global communicative …

Individual differences reveal stages of L2 grammatical acquisition: ERP evidence

D Tanner, J McLaughlin, J Herschensohn… - Bilingualism …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Here we report findings from a cross-sectional study of morphosyntactic processing in native
German speakers and native English speakers enrolled in college-level German courses …

Cognitive control ability mediates prediction costs in monolinguals and bilinguals

M Zirnstein, JG van Hell, JF Kroll - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we examined the role that cognitive control and language regulation ability play
in mediating readers' susceptibility to prediction error costs when reading in the native …

Brain-based individual differences in online L2 grammatical comprehension

D Tanner, K Inoue, L Osterhout - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the impact of a range of individual
difference measures related to L2 learning on proficient L1 Spanish–L2 English bilinguals' …

Language ERPs reflect learning through prediction error propagation

H Fitz, F Chang - Cognitive Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide a window into how the brain is processing
language. Here, we propose a theory that argues that ERPs such as the N400 and P600 …

Multiple influences of semantic memory on sentence processing: Distinct effects of semantic relatedness on violations of real-world event/state knowledge and …

M Paczynski, GR Kuperberg - Journal of memory and language, 2012 - Elsevier
We aimed to determine whether semantic relatedness between an incoming word and its
preceding context can override expectations based on two types of stored knowledge: real …