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Onnis, Luca; Lim, Alfred; Cheung, Shirley; Huettig, Falk – Cognitive Science, 2022
Prediction is one characteristic of the human mind. But what does it mean to say the mind is a "prediction machine" and "inherently forward looking" as is frequently claimed? In natural languages, many contexts are not easily predictable in a forward fashion. In English, for example, many frequent verbs do not carry unique…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Task Analysis