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Collaborative Research: Predictive processing in naturalistic language comprehension throu — NSF Award to University of Florida (F

Humans understand language rapidly and with remarkable ease. One way that humans do this is by predicting what a conversation partner might say next. But, there remain many unanswered questions about how different language backgrounds might help, or hinder, effective predictions. There is a critical need to understand

Award titleCollaborative Research: Predictive processing in naturalistic language comprehension throu
Award ID2518248
AwardeeUniversity of Florida
CityGAINESVILLE
StateFL
Amount obligated$225,482
Principal investigatorEdith Kaan
ProgramLinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience
Start date09/01/2025
AbstractHumans understand language rapidly and with remarkable ease. One way that humans do this is by predicting what a conversation partner might say next. But, there remain many unanswered questions about how different language backgrounds might help, or hinder, effective predictions. There is a critical need to understand proficient second-language comprehension. This project studies brain signals while bilinguals listen to an audiobook story in their first and second language. Computational modelin
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