4 papers
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…
A funny companion: Distinct neural responses to AI- versus human-attributed humor
Xiaohui Rao, Hanlin Wu, Zhenguang G. Cai
As artificial intelligence (AI) companions become capable of human-like communication, including telling jokes, understanding how people cognitively and affectively respond to AI-a…
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…
The role of inhibitory control in garden-path sentence processing: A Chinese-English bilingual perspective
Xiaohui Rao, Haoze Li, Xiaofang Lin +1
In reading garden-path sentences, people must resolve competing interpretations, though initial misinterpretations can linger despite reanalysis. This study examines the role of in…