Can training neural language models on a curriculum with developmentally plausible data improve alignment with human reading behavior?

no code implementations • 30 Nov 2023 • Aryaman Chobey, Oliver Smith, Anzi Wang, Grusha Prasad

While some work has found that the surprisal estimates from these models can be used to predict a wide range of human neural and behavioral responses, other work studying more complex syntactic phenomena has found that these surprisal estimates generate incorrect behavioral predictions.

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