Sinclair et al. (2026)

Structural priming in humans and large language models

Journal of Memory and Language, 149, 104713

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Sinclair, A., Klimovich-Gray, A., Jumelet, J., Adamian, N., & Konopka, A. (2026). Structural priming in humans and large language models. Journal of Memory and Language, 149, 104713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104713

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Using the same English dative sentences that people read during EEG recording, 13 transformer language models showed priming, but at both noun phrases after the verb, whereas people showed it only at the second. Across the full set of models, model priming scores were not good predictors of human priming effects