@article{0f8405d9d10a419ca0ade21b404b8a5c,
title = "Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models",
abstract = "Departing from traditional linguistic models, advances in deep learning have resulted in a new type of predictive (autoregressive) deep language models (DLMs). Using a self-supervised next-word prediction task, these models generate appropriate linguistic responses in a given context. In the current study, nine participants listened to a 30-min podcast while their brain responses were recorded using electrocorticography (ECoG). We provide empirical evidence that the human brain and autoregressive DLMs share three fundamental computational principles as they process the same natural narrative: (1) both are engaged in continuous next-word prediction before word onset; (2) both match their pre-onset predictions to the incoming word to calculate post-onset surprise; (3) both rely on contextual embeddings to represent words in natural contexts. Together, our findings suggest that autoregressive DLMs provide a new and biologically feasible computational framework for studying the neural basis of language.",
author = "Ariel Goldstein and Zaid Zada and Eliav Buchnik and Mariano Schain and Amy Price and Bobbi Aubrey and Nastase, {Samuel A.} and Amir Feder and Dotan Emanuel and Alon Cohen and Aren Jansen and Harshvardhan Gazula and Gina Choe and Aditi Rao and Catherine Kim and Colton Casto and Lora Fanda and Werner Doyle and Daniel Friedman and Patricia Dugan and Lucia Melloni and Roi Reichart and Sasha Devore and Adeen Flinker and Liat Hasenfratz and Omer Levy and Avinatan Hassidim and Michael Brenner and Yossi Matias and Norman, {Kenneth A.} and Orrin Devinsky and Uri Hasson",
note = "Funding Information: We thank A. Goldberg, R. Goldstein, S. Michelmann, M. Meshulam, M. Kumar, M. Slaney and A. Huth for technical and conceptual assistance that motivated and informed this paper{\textquoteright}s writing. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health under award numbers DP1HD091948 (to A.G., Z.Z., A.P., B.A., G.C., A.R., C.K., F.L., A.F. and U.H.), R01MH112566 (to S.A.N.) and R01NS109367-01 to A.F., Finding A Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES) and Schmidt Futures Foundation DataX Fund. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1038/s41593-022-01026-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "25",
pages = "369--380",
journal = "Nature Neuroscience",
issn = "1097-6256",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "3",
}