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Attention or prediction? Characterizing the top-down influence of predictive context on speech encoding
Alyssa Horng, Wei-Ching Lin, Ilaria Benciolini…·Edmund C. Lalor
This study investigates whether predictive context or attentional gain drives early auditory encoding of words in natural speech, finding that word surprisal has a stronger influence than contextual uncertainty.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.11.742969