Why do we breeze through some sentences, but others make us slow down and reread? A popular answer is predictability: unexpected words are harder to process. In our new @pnas.org article, we used LMs as models of human prediction to ask how far this explanation can actually go🧵

New Preprint: osf.io/eq2ra Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)