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More broadly, the paper proposes a constructive criterion for future work: pre-onset neural effects should only count as evidence for prediction if they go beyond what is explainable from passive stimulus dependencies. Paper: elifesciences.org/articles/106543 (8/8)

Crucially, the implication of our work is not that the brain does not perform prediction. Rather, pre-onset embedding-based encoding alone cannot adjudicate that question unless it exceeds a passive stimulus-dependent baseline. (7/8)

New peer-reviewed paper w/ @m_heilb , @jkbszwczk & Floris de Lange! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)