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Alyssa Horng

University of Rochester

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Attention or prediction? Characterizing the top-down influence of predictive context on speech encoding

Alyssa Horng, Wei-Ching Lin, Ilaria Benciolini, Jin Dou, Aaron R. Nidiffer, Edmund C. Lalor

This study investigates whether predictive context or attentional gain drives early auditory encoding of words in natural speech, finding that word surprisal has a stronger influence than contextual uncertainty.

bioRxiv · Aug 20, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience