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Nathaniel J. Smith

Researcher at University of California, San Diego

Publications -  21
Citations -  13427

Nathaniel J. Smith is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Word recognition & Psycholinguistics. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 21 publications receiving 3980 citations. Previous affiliations of Nathaniel J. Smith include University of Edinburgh.

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The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic

TL;DR: A state-of-the-art computational language model, two large behavioral data-sets, and non-parametric statistical techniques are combined to establish for the first time the quantitative form of the relationship between expectation and reading times, finding that it is logarithmic over six orders of magnitude in estimated predictability.
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A look around at what lies ahead: Prediction and predictability in language processing.

TL;DR: It is argued for the importance of investigating such linguistic prediction as yet another example of a neural system in which probability estimation is inherent, with a proposal to move beyond the debate of whether there is linguistic prediction, toward focusing research on how pre-activation may occur and what is pre-activated.