April 19, 2024 | 11:00AM
Social Science Research Building 302
Our third LEAP meeting of Spring Quarter will take place this Friday, 19 April at 11 am in Social Science Research Building 302 and on Zoom. Melinh Lai (Asst. Instructional Professor, Cognitive Science, UChicago) will be presenting.
Here are the talk details:
Abstract:
Title: The fate of the unexpected: Downstream consequences of prediction violations
Amid increasing interest in the role of prediction in language comprehension, there remains a gap in our understanding of what happens when predictions are disconfirmed. Are unexpected words harder to process and encode because of interference from the original prediction? Or, because of their relevance for learning, do expectation violations strengthen the representations of unexpected words? In two experiments, we used event-related potentials to probe the downstream consequences of prediction violations.