Prediction cannot be directly trained : An extension to Jones and Westermann (2021)

Jones, Samuel and Westermann, Gert (2022) Prediction cannot be directly trained : An extension to Jones and Westermann (2021). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65 (10). pp. 3930-3933. ISSN 1092-4388

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Abstract

In January 2021 we published a viewpoint article entitled ‘Predictive processing and developmental language disorder’ (DLD) in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. The current commentary provides an important extension to this work. Specifically, we aim to head off the suggestion that a child’s ‘predictive capacity’ may be trained independently of improving the quality of their long-term speech representations.