References/suggested reading
(1) People who have said that the mind is predictive
- Karl Friston. A theory of cortical responses. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2005 Apr 29;360(1456):815-36. https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/A%20theory%20of%20cortical%20responses.pdf
- 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: