References/suggested reading

(1)            People who have said that the mind is predictive

 

  • Andreja Bubic, Yves von Cramon, and Ricarda I. Schubotz. Prediction, cognition and the brain.   Frontiers in human neuroscience, 4:25, 2010. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00025

 

  • Andy Clark. Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action & the Embodied Mind. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/surfing-uncertainty-9780190217013

 

(2)            People who have sought to apply this idea to Language

 

  • John Hale. Information-theoretical Complexity Metrics. Language and Linguistics Compass volume 10 issue 9 September 2016 pages 397—412. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12196

 

  • Jonathan R. Brennan. Naturalistic sentence comprehension in the brain. Language and Linguistics Compass, volume 10 issue 7 July 2016 pages 299—313. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12198

 

  • Kristijan Armeni, Roel M. Willems and Stefan L. Frank. Probabilistic language models in cognitive neuroscience: Promises and pitfalls. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Volume 83, 2017, Pages 579-588. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.001

 

  • Gina R. Kuperberg & T. Florian Jaeger (2016) What do we mean by prediction in language comprehension? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31:1, 32-59. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1102299

 

  • Ashley G. Lewis and Marcel Bastiaansen. A predictive coding framework for rapid neural dynamics during sentence-level language comprehension. Cortex, Volume 68, 2015, Pages 155-168. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.014

 (3)           The idea of a language model as it figures in computational linguistics

Easy intro geared towards linguistics:

Coleman Introducing Speech and Language Processing chapter 7

 http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/SLP/outline.htm; https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/computational-linguistics/introducing-speech-and-language-processing

Standard book:

Jurafsky and Martin 3rd edition chapter 3

The new kid on the block:

Jacob Eisenstein chaper 6


  
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