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High-level prediction of continuous speech during mind-wandering

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By Gal Chen, Rachel Finkelstein, Ariel Goldstein, Ran R. Hassin, Leon Y Deouell
| Nature Verified
Abstract Abundant evidence shows that when listening to speech or reading text, we continuously make high-level predictions about upcoming words – their content, meaning, and relationship to the overall narrative. Does this process stop when our mind wanders away and conscious experience becomes decoupled from the content of the speech? Conversely, is word prediction sufficient for conscious experience, or can these processes dissociate?
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Disentangling perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

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By Nicholas A. Fagan, Yarrow Dunham, Ran R. Hassin, Moshe Shay Ben-Haim
| PNAS Verified
Disentangling perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Moshe Shay Ben-Haim, Olga Dal Monte, Nicholas A. Fagan, Yarrow Dunham, Ran R. Hassin, Steve W. C. Chang, Laurie R. Santos Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2021, 118 (15) e2017543118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017543118
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Can we do math unconsciously? Replicators of a prominent 2012 study have some doubts

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By Alison McCook Verified, Ran R. Hassin
| Retraction Watch
In 2012, news media were abuzz with a new finding from PNAS: Authors based in Israel had found evidence that our brains can unconsciously process more than we thought — including basic math and reading. In other words, the authors claimed people could read and do math without even knowing what they were doing. With such a major development in the field of consciousness research, other groups quickly got to work trying to replicate the findings.
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