bioRxiv Preprint ServerAugust 29, 2025Gal R. Chen, Rachel Finkelstein, Ariel Goldstein et al.
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Abundant evidence shows that when listening to speech or reading text, we continuously make predictions about upcoming words. Does this process stop when our mind wanders away and subjective experience becomes decoupled from the content of the speech? Conversely, is word prediction sufficient for conscious experience, or can these processes dissociate? Participants (N = 25) listened to...