Jin Dou

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.

The paper estimates how much variance in EEG responses to natural speech can be explained by speech features using inter-subject models.

The paper models EEG responses to natural speech, showing predictable words are processed faster with earlier and smaller N400-like responses.