Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension
Mante S. Nieuwland; Stephen Politzer‐Ahles; Evelien Heyselaar; Katrien Segaert; Emily Darley; Nina Kazanina; Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn; Federica Bartolozzi · 2018 · eLife
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Abstract
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) to nouns and preceding articles by the probability that people use a word to continue the sentence fragment (‘cloze’). In our direct replication study spanning 9 laboratories (N=334), pre-registered replication-analyses and exploratory Bayes factor analyses successfully replicated the noun-results
Abstract by Mante S. Nieuwland; Stephen Politzer‐Ahles; Evelien Heyselaar; Katrien Segaert; Emily Darley; Nina Kazanina; Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn; Federica Bartolozzi, eLife (2018) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.7554/elife.33468