Nieuwland, Mante, Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Heyselaar, Evelien, Segaert, Katrien, Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, Sarah, Bartolozzi, Federica, Kogan, Vita, Ito, Aine, Meziere, Diane, Barr, Dale, and others. (2018) Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension. eLife, 7 . Article Number e33468. ISSN 2050-084X. (doi:10.7554/eLife.33468) (KAR id:66789)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33468 |
Abstract
Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature Neuroscience publication by DeLong, Urbach and Kutas, who observed a graded modulation of electrical brain potentials (N400) to nouns and preceding articles by the probability that people use a word to continue the sentence fragment (‘cloze’). In our direct replication study spanning 9 laboratories (N=334), pre-registered replication-analyses and exploratory Bayes factor analyses successfully replicated the noun-results but, crucially, not the article-results. Pre-registered single-trial analyses also yielded a statistically significant effect for the nouns but not the articles. Exploratory Bayesian single-trial analyses showed that the article-effect may be non-zero but is likely far smaller than originally reported and too small to observe without very large sample sizes. Our results do not support the view that readers routinely pre-activate the phonological form of predictable words.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.7554/eLife.33468 |
Projects: | Tracking the cognitive basis of social communication across the life-span |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Funders: | Organisations -1 not found. |
Depositing User: | Heather Ferguson |
Date Deposited: | 28 May 2018 20:33 UTC |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 11:31 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/66789 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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