Expectation violations signal goals in novel human communication

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1)

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

Abstract Communication, often grounded in shared expectations, faces challenges when a Sender and Receiver lack common linguistic background. Our study explores how people instinctively turn to the fundamental principles of physical world overcome such barriers. Specifically, through an experimental game which Senders convey messages via trajectories, we investigate they develop novel strategies without relying on cues. We build computational model based principle expectancy violations set universal priors derived from movement kinetics. The replicates participant-designed with high accuracy shows its core variable—surprise—predicts Receiver’s physiological neuronal responses brain areas processing expectation violations. This work highlights adaptability human communication, showing surprise can be powerful tool forming new communicative language.

Language: Английский

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Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines

Annual Review of Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(1), P. 277 - 301

Published: April 26, 2024

It has long been argued that only humans could produce and understand language. But now, for the first time, artificial language models (LMs) achieve this feat. Here we survey new purchase LMs are providing on question of how is implemented in brain. We discuss why, a priori, might be expected to share similarities with human system. then summarize evidence represent linguistic information similarly enough enable relatively accurate brain encoding decoding during processing. Finally, examine which LM properties—their architecture, task performance, or training—are critical capturing neural responses review studies using as silico model organisms testing hypotheses about These ongoing investigations bring us closer understanding representations processes underlie our ability comprehend sentences express thoughts

Language: Английский

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Predictive Use of Grammatical Gender During Noun Phrase Decoding: An Eye-Tracking Study With German Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 68(3), P. 1056 - 1074

Published: Feb. 6, 2025

Purpose: Predictive language comprehension has become a major topic in psycholinguistic research. The study described this article aims to investigate if German children with developmental disorder (DLD) use grammatical gender agreement predict the continuation of noun phrases same way as it been observed for typically developing (TD) children. also seeks differentiate between specific and general deficits predictive processing by exploring anticipatory semantic information. Additionally, research examines whether information varies speed stimulus presentation. Method: included 30 DLD (average age = 8.7 years) 26 TD 8.4 who participated visual-world eye-tracking study. Noun phrases, consisting an article, adjective, noun, were presented that matched only one two target pictures. contained cue, combination both, or none these cues. cues provided and/or adjective could be used identify picture before itself was presented. Results: Both groups, those DLD, utilized strategies response when decoding phrases. However, able consider at slower speech rate, even then, their certainty remained below typical level age. Conclusion: Based on findings, discusses potential relevance prediction framework explaining well clinical implications results.

Language: Английский

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Predicting the next sentence (not word) in large language models: What model-brain alignment tells us about discourse comprehension

Science Advances, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(21)

Published: May 23, 2024

Current large language models (LLMs) rely on word prediction as their backbone pretraining task. Although is an important mechanism underlying processing, human comprehension occurs at multiple levels, involving the integration of words and sentences to achieve a full understanding discourse. This study by using next sentence (NSP) task investigate mechanisms discourse-level comprehension. We show that NSP enhanced model’s alignment with brain data especially in right hemisphere demand network, highlighting contributions nonclassical regions high-level understanding. Our results also suggest can enable model better capture performance encode contextual information. demonstrates inclusion diverse learning objectives leads more human-like representations, investigating neurocognitive plausibility tasks LLMs shed light outstanding questions neuroscience.

Language: Английский

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The role of general cognitive skills in integrating visual and linguistic information during sentence comprehension: individual differences across the lifespan

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Aug. 1, 2024

Abstract Individuals exhibit massive variability in general cognitive skills that affect language processing. This is partly developmental. Here, we recruited a large sample of participants (N = 487), ranging from 9 to 90 years age, and examined the involvement nonverbal processing speed (assessed using visual auditory reaction time tasks) working memory forward backward Digit Span world task. Participants saw two objects on screen heard sentence referred one them. In half sentences, target object could be predicted based verb-selectional restrictions. We observed evidence for anticipatory predictable compared non-predictable trials. Visual had main effects comprehension facilitated predictive processing, as evidenced by an interaction. only weak comprehension. Age nonlinear effect (younger adults responded faster than children older adults), but it did not differentially modulate non-predictive nor memory. Our results contribute delineating are involved language-vision interactions.

Language: Английский

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Predictive Processing Among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder During Online Language Comprehension: A Preliminary Systematic Review

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 6, 2025

Language: Английский

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Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 142, P. 104603 - 104603

Published: Jan. 18, 2025

Language: Английский

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Emotional valence, cloze probability, and entropy: Completion norms for 403 French sentences

Behavior Research Methods, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 57(2)

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Language: Английский

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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106111 - 106111

Published: March 1, 2025

Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work patients with left hemisphere damage highlighted the left-hemispheric dominance functions. However, is not confined to hemisphere. Hence, some researchers associate auditory asymmetries: slow temporal fine spectral acoustic information preferentially processed right regions, while faster primarily handled by regions. Other scholars posit that relates more linguistic processing, particularly for speech-like stimuli. We argue these seemingly distinct accounts are interdependent. Linguistic analysis of relies on top-down processes, such as predictive coding dimension-selective attention, which enhance lateralized engaging left-lateralized sensorimotor networks. Our review highlights weaker simple sounds, stronger strongest meaningful speech. Evidence shows selective attention lateralization. illustrate processes rely networks provide insights into role processing.

Language: Английский

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Wie Kinder mit Sprachentwicklungsstörungen das grammatische Genus im prädiktiven Sprachverstehen nutzen

Sprache · Stimme · Gehör, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 14, 2025

Abstract The article addresses predictive language comprehension in children with development disorders (DLD). It shows that these have difficulties utilizing grammatical gender cues. While healthy do this effectively, SES are limited their abilities. emphasizes the need to develop diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions promote use of knowledge.

Language: Английский

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