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The relationship between language prediction and action prediction in toddlers and adults

ABSTRACT Prediction plays a key role in both action processing and language comprehension, yet it remains unclear whether individual differences in action prediction are related to individual differences in language prediction. Using eye-tracking, we examined predictive looking behaviour in 2-year-old Norwegian-speakin...

Ane Theimann, M. Norvik, N. Mani et al. · 0 citations
Sep 2026

Recovery from semantic prediction violations during sentence processing in preschoolers with and without developmental language disorder.

Prediction is an important component of language comprehension, and language users may pre-activate multiple possible lexical continuations to different degrees. However, it remains unclear whether children with developmental language disorder (DLD) generate graded predictions and recover from prediction violations in...

Peng Zhang, Amanda Rose Yuile, Patricia Deevy et al. · 0 citations
Review Open access Aug 2026

Why statistical learning researchers should study nonhuman animals.

Statistical learning (SL) - the ability to detect patterns in sensory input without explicit instruction - is crucial for building internal models of the environment. In humans, it notably supports language acquisition, including word segmentation and grammar learning. Evidence across primates, songbirds, rodents, and...

Laure Tosatto, A. Avarguès-Weber · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Prediction During Within- and Cross-Language Phrase Comprehension: Evidence from Eye-Tracking

Language comprehension involves actively predicting upcoming words, but it remains unclear how the brain responds when predictions are disconfirmed. In the present study, we examined the effect of prediction disconfirmation by measuring eye movements in two visual-world eye-tracking experiments. Additionally, we explor...

Jing Tong, Tanja C. Roembke, Wolfgang Scharke et al. · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

When Gender Arrives: Predictive Language Processing in the Third Year.

Predictive language comprehension allows children to use prior context to anticipate upcoming information before it becomes available in speech. Although young children use sentence meaning to guide real-time comprehension, less is known about when they generate more specific expectations about upcoming words without d...

A. M. Castellón-Flores, A. Angulo-Chavira, Chiara Gambi et al. · 0 citations
Review Open access Sep 2026

Recent Advances in Neurobiological Domains

Research in language neurobiology in early childhood is key to understanding mature language networks. Thanks to recent non-invasive neuroimaging techniques, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), we have an upgraded knowledge about the developing brain that allows for the identification of early marker...

Mirela C. C. Ramacciotti · 0 citations

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