Topic: lexical surprisal

Speech comprehension involves an active neural process mapping sounds into meaning, with lexical predictions supporting comprehension based on the preceding context. Methods like the Temporal Response Function (TRF) have proven effective in probing the neural processing of sounds properties such as the acoustic envelope based on EEG/MEG. However, examining how the human brain processes words during continuous speech listening remains challenging.This study presents an assessment of encoding TRF methodologies for the measurement of lexical processing, quantifying and explaining their limitation