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This sounds odd to me: > ... neural signals could predict upcoming words in a sentence. ... This kind of predictive coding is something we associate with being
by tgv 5mo ago
This sounds odd to me:
> ... neural signals could predict upcoming words in a sentence. ... This kind of predictive coding is something we associate with being awake and attentive, yet it’s happening here in an unconscious state
In psycholinguistics, the assumption is, and always has been, that language processing is unconscious, a background process like visual object recognition. For starters, conscious attention is too slow by two orders of magnitude, and infants can process language, while presumably not yet (fully) conscious.
- abyssin 5mo agoWhat you call "conscious attention" seems to be a sort of cognitive process. What the article calls unconscious state is a state. The idea is that in some states, some processes (like predictive coding) don't take place.
- tgv 5mo agoComatose patients show EEG activity related to sound and language processing. That has been known for at least 30 years (a quick search turns up e.g. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(95)90252-X.pdf https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736...). The article also speaks about attention. I even quoted that bit.