7 papers
Structure leads and dominates comprehension in naturalistic reading
Nan Wang, Hanlin Wu, Jiaxuan Li
The hierarchical account and statistical or sequential account have long been framed as rival theories in explaining online comprehension. A lot of evidence has shown that both hie…
Speaker effects in language comprehension: An integrative model of language and speaker processing
Hanlin Wu, Zhenguang G. Cai
The identity of a speaker influences language comprehension through modulating perception and expectation. This review explores speaker effects and proposes an integrative model of…
When a Man Says He Is Pregnant: Event-related Potential Evidence for a Rational Account of Speaker-contextualized Language Comprehension
Hanlin Wu, Zhenguang G. Cai
Spoken language is often, if not always, understood in a context formed by the identity of the speaker. For example, we can easily make sense of an utterance such as "I'm going to…
Distinct social-linguistic processing between humans and large audio-language models: Evidence from model-brain alignment
Hanlin Wu, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai
Voice-based AI development faces unique challenges in processing both linguistic and paralinguistic information. This study compares how large audio-language models (LALMs) and hum…
Probabilistic adaptation of language comprehension for individual speakers: evidence from neural oscillations
Hanlin Wu, Xiaohui Rao, Zhenguang G Cai
Listeners adapt language comprehension based on their mental representations of speakers, but how these representations are updated remains unclear. We investigated whether listene…
Neural Dynamics of AI-attributed Irony Reveal a Partial Intentional Stance
Xiaohui Rao, Hanlin Wu, Zhenguang G. Cai
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as social agents and trained to produce humor and irony, a question emerges: when encountering witty AI remarks, do people…