So Cloze yet so Far: N400 Amplitude is Better Predicted by Distributional Information than Human Predictability Judgements. (arXiv:2109.01226v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

More predictable words are easier to process - they are read faster and
elicit smaller neural signals associated with processing difficulty, most
notably, the N400 component of the event-related brain potential. Thus, it has
been argued that prediction of upcoming words is a key component of language
comprehension, and that studying the amplitude of the N400 is a valuable way to
investigate the predictions we make. In this study, we investigate whether the
linguistic predictions of computational language models or …

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