Fig. 3: Sentence context dependence and word meaning predictions.
From: Semantic encoding during language comprehension at single-cell resolution
a, Differences in neuronal activity comparing homophone (for example, ‘son’ and ‘sun’; blue) to non-homophone (for example, ‘son’ and ‘dad’; red) pairs across participants using a participant-dropping procedure (two-sided paired t-test, P < 0.001 for all participants). b, Left: decoding accuracies for words that showed high versus low surprisal based on the preceding sentence contexts in which they were heard. Words with lower surprisal were more predictable on the basis of their preceding word sequence. Actual and chance decoding performances are shown in blue and orange, respectively (mean ± s.d., one-sided rank-sum test, z value = 26, P < 0.001). Right: a regression analysis on the relation between decoding performance and surprisal.
