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New research uncovers why our brains are effective at quickly processing short messages

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    0d_billie
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    Oooooh, fascinating, I'll have to get a copy of the paper to read! Aside, but it really irks me that in the official press release from the university where this research originated do not provide...

    Oooooh, fascinating, I'll have to get a copy of the paper to read!

    Aside, but it really irks me that in the official press release from the university where this research originated do not provide any links (that I can see) to the actual paper itself. I had to search for the author's name and the journal name to be able to figure out that the paper itself is entitled The spatiotemporal dynamics of bottom-up and top-down processing during at-a-glance reading.

    See the comment by /u/4rm below

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    1. [3]
      4rm
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      Not sure if the page was edited after your comment, but there is a link about halfway down: With the link on "study" pointing to: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr9951 The article you...

      Not sure if the page was edited after your comment, but there is a link about halfway down:

      “This suggests that the signals reflect the detection of basic phrase structure, but not necessarily other aspects of the grammar or meaning,” explains Jacqueline Fallon, the Science Advances study’s first author, who was an NYU researcher at the time of the work and is now a doctoral student at the University of Colorado.

      With the link on "study" pointing to: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr9951

      The article you found was also linked, albeit as a related article:

      Related research on these rapid signals in the Journal of Neuroscience, led by NYU graduate student Nigel Flower, further supported this idea. It showed that even small errors in phrase structure—like swapping two adjacent words, “all are cats nice”—cause a drop in the brain’s rapid response. Such small mistakes can easily go unnoticed by readers. In fact, Flower observed that starting around 400 milliseconds, the brain appears to “correct” the mistake, processing the sentence as if it were fully grammatical.

      With the link on "research" pointing to: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/10/18/JNEUROSCI.0374-24.2024

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      1. 0d_billie
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        Ahhh, yes they must have updated it after the fact. Either that or I hadn't had enough caffeine yet! Thanks :)

        Ahhh, yes they must have updated it after the fact. Either that or I hadn't had enough caffeine yet! Thanks :)

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      2. sparksbet
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        lmao even reading the quote I accidentally read the example as if it were grammatical the first time around lol

        lmao even reading the quote I accidentally read the example as if it were grammatical the first time around lol

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