Distinct dynamics of conceptual and referential disruptions in human reading and large language model processing
Read the original on arXiv Computation and Language →The study investigates how disrupting conceptual versus referential information in short narratives affects human reading and large language model (LLM) processing. In humans, conceptual disruptions cause a strong, localized processing cost that peaks early and declines quickly, while referential disruptions produce weaker, gradually decreasing effects that are more influenced by sentence boundaries. In LLMs, both disruptions appear immediately at the manipulated word; surprisal patterns mirror human reading, whereas output-layer representations show that referential disruption initially causes a larger displacement before both types decay following a power-law.
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