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Comprehension effort as the cost of inference

2025-06-18

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<p>As you read this text, word by word, you build an understanding of its meaning. What cognitive mechanisms underlie this ability? An influential approach to answering this question comes from viewing comprehension as probabilistic inference over potential interpretations given linguistic input. Motivated within this perspective, a wealth of previous literature in psycholinguistics has focused on an important emp...

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f9139b71-9969-549f-85ee-a0dcc5244d69
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10.31234/osf.io/2498w_v1
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