Hierarchical and distributed systems of language comprehension and learning in the human brain
Megha Ghosh, Miles Mahon, Sophia Lowe-Hines, Adam Crandall, Qi Cheng, Andrew Ko, Kurt Weaver, Jeffrey Ojemann, Benjamin Grannan · COSYNE 2025
Humans can make an on-the-fly rapid inference when presented with a novel word, using prior knowledge and context. While this is an everyday occurrence necessary for effective communication, the mechanisms of rapid inference and learning during reading are not well understood. One reason for this complexity is that the processes of inference are shrouded by those associated with processing any familiar word. To isolate potential mechanisms of inference alone, we designed a zero-shot learning task where a novel word was presented in a highly constrained context allowing for easy inference of it
ePoster · Neuroscience