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Semantic Surprise Predicts the N400 Brain Potential

2022-05-31

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Language is central to human life; however, how our brains derive meaning from language is still not well understood. A commonly studied electrophysiological measure of on-line meaning related processing is the N400 component, the computational basis of which is still actively debated. Here, we test one of the recently proposed, computationally explicit hypotheses on the N400 – namely, that it reflects surprise wi...

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Literature Corpus work: 0c247271-030e-5198-9c24-d73e39aa767a
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.31.494099

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