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@InesSchoenmann

PhD candidate at TU Berlin, investigating visual perception in relation to the human experience therof as well as predictive processes in language processing

 Berlin, Germany
Joined August 2022
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New peer-reviewed paper w/ @m_heilb , @jkbszwczk & Floris de Lange! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)
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Crucially, the implication of our work is not that the brain does not perform prediction. Rather, pre-onset embedding-based encoding alone cannot adjudicate that question unless it exceeds a passive stimulus-dependent baseline. (7/8)
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More broadly, the paper proposes a constructive criterion for future work: pre-onset neural effects should only count as evidence for prediction if they go beyond what is explainable from passive stimulus dependencies. Paper: elifesciences.org/articles/1… (8/8)
Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding in...

Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding in...

The ability to predict brain activity from words before they occur can be explained by information shared between neighbouring words, without requiring next-word prediction by the brain.

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