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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Memory retrieval during language comprehension faces interference from linguistically similar items.
  • The interaction between interference and linguistic expectations in memory retrieval is not fully understood.
  • Existing theories propose different mechanisms for how predictability might modulate retrieval interference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how linguistic expectations modulate retrieval interference in Mandarin noun-phrase ellipsis.
  • To differentiate between theories of retrieval, specifically concerning the role of predictability.
  • To test whether predictability affects the need for retrieval, cue preference, or memory noise.

Main Methods:

  • Electrophysiology (EEG) experiment with Mandarin noun-phrase ellipsis to measure brain activity.
  • Analysis of "facilitatory interference" in globally ungrammatical sentences.
  • Utilizing a Transformer neural network language model to operationalize noisy memory representations.

Main Results:

  • Human EEG data showed that expectations for a target word modulate retrieval interference.
  • This modulation occurred in ungrammatical sentences, demonstrating "facilitatory interference."
  • A Transformer model exhibited interference but without interaction with predictability, unlike human results.

Conclusions:

  • The findings are inconsistent with theories solely focused on the need for retrieval.
  • The results support the hypothesis that target item predictability influences cue preferences during retrieval.
  • Predictability's effect on cue preference offers a more comprehensive explanation for observed human memory retrieval patterns.