Project B09

How different aspects of language processing depend on attention: Variability and its limits

PI(s): Prof. Dr. Daniel Schad & Prof. Dr. Milena Rabovsky

Project B09 examines how fluctuating attention ("mindless reading") affects hierarchical language processing. The "levels-of-inattention hypothesis" proposes that lower-level processes are more robust to inattention than higher-level ones. Using EEG studies (N400/P600) and GPT-2 computational modelling, with noise modelling inattention, the project will empirically test and mechanistically explain these differential impacts, aiming to refine psycholinguistic models.

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