Decoding Predictive Inference in Visual Language Processing via Spatiotemporal Neural Coherence

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Main Authors: Borneman, Sean C., Krebs, Julia, Wilbur, Ronnie B., Malaia, Evie A.
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author Borneman, Sean C.
Krebs, Julia
Wilbur, Ronnie B.
Malaia, Evie A.
author_facet Borneman, Sean C.
Krebs, Julia
Wilbur, Ronnie B.
Malaia, Evie A.
contents Human language processing relies on the brain's capacity for predictive inference. We present a machine learning framework for decoding neural (EEG) responses to dynamic visual language stimuli in Deaf signers. Using coherence between neural signals and optical flow-derived motion features, we construct spatiotemporal representations of predictive neural dynamics. Through entropy-based feature selection, we identify frequency-specific neural signatures that differentiate interpretable linguistic input from linguistically disrupted (time-reversed) stimuli. Our results reveal distributed left-hemispheric and frontal low-frequency coherence as key features in language comprehension, with experience-dependent neural signatures correlating with age. This work demonstrates a novel multimodal approach for probing experience-driven generative models of perception in the brain.
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spellingShingle Decoding Predictive Inference in Visual Language Processing via Spatiotemporal Neural Coherence
Borneman, Sean C.
Krebs, Julia
Wilbur, Ronnie B.
Malaia, Evie A.
Neurons and Cognition
Computation and Language
Human language processing relies on the brain's capacity for predictive inference. We present a machine learning framework for decoding neural (EEG) responses to dynamic visual language stimuli in Deaf signers. Using coherence between neural signals and optical flow-derived motion features, we construct spatiotemporal representations of predictive neural dynamics. Through entropy-based feature selection, we identify frequency-specific neural signatures that differentiate interpretable linguistic input from linguistically disrupted (time-reversed) stimuli. Our results reveal distributed left-hemispheric and frontal low-frequency coherence as key features in language comprehension, with experience-dependent neural signatures correlating with age. This work demonstrates a novel multimodal approach for probing experience-driven generative models of perception in the brain.
title Decoding Predictive Inference in Visual Language Processing via Spatiotemporal Neural Coherence
topic Neurons and Cognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20929