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Probing brain context-sensitivity with masked-attention generation

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Two fundamental questions in neurolinguistics concerns the brain regions that integrate information beyond the lexical level, and the size of their window of integration. To address these questions we introduce a new approach named masked-attention generation. It uses GPT-2 transformers to generate word embeddings that capture a fixed amount of contextual information. We then tested whether these embeddings could predict fMRI brain activity in humans listening to naturalistic text. The results showed that most of the cortex within the language network is sensitive to contextual information, and that the right hemisphere is more sensitive to longer contexts than the left. Masked-attention generation supports previous analyses of context-sensitivity in the brain, and complements them by quantifying the window size of context integration per voxel.
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hal-04285201 , version 1 (14-11-2023)

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Alexandre Pasquiou, Yair Lakretz, Bertrand Thirion, Christophe Pallier. Probing brain context-sensitivity with masked-attention generation. CCN 2023 - Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Aug 2023, Oxford, United Kingdom. ⟨10.48550/arXiv.2305.13863⟩. ⟨hal-04285201⟩
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