Laura E Starbird, Erica Onuoha, Grace Corry, Juanita Hotchkiss, Shoshana N Benjamin, Timothy Hunt, Bruce R Schackman, Nabila El-Bassel
Community-led approaches to making naloxone available in public settings: Implementation experiences in the HEALing communities study
The International journal on drug policy
human brain processes language optimise efficient communication studies shown extensive evidence brains response language affected lowerlevel features wordlength frequency syntactic semantic violations within sentences however understanding cognitive processes discourse level remains limited relationship words wider topic one reading affect language processing propose information theoretic model explain cognitive resourcing study participants read sentences wikipedia entries show information gain information theoretic measure quantifies specificity word given topic context modulates wordsynchronised brain activity eeg words high information gain amplified slow positive shift event related potential show effect persists individual unseen brain responses furthermore show classifier trained eeg data successfully predict information gain previously unseen eeg findings suggest biological information processing seeks maximise performance subject constraints information capacity