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The Road Not Taken: Unsaid Word Alternatives are Represented in the Brain

2025-11-10

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Human language allows multiple ways to express the same thought, implying that several lexical alternatives may exist in parallel before a single word is spoken or heard. We test the multiple alternatives-co-activation hypothesis by combining high-density ECoG during spontaneous dialogue with behavioral paradigms and ranked next-word predictions from large language models (LLMs). Behaviorally, words that LLMs rank...

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Literature Corpus work: 3b801ff2-4c6e-5e70-8b91-e6121e3c6f89
DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.09.687421

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