Hallucinations in Garden Path sentences

Garden path sentences are those in which an ambiguity in the structure biases the reader’s interpretation so strongly toward a wrong interpretation that when a disambiguating word is encountered, the meaning is very tough to recover, if at all possible. In this project, we study sentences that are not traditionally garden path, but that are interpreted as garden path because the initial input, i.e. the initial part of the sentence is perceived in a ”distorted” manner, since this erroneous reporesentation correlates well with the part of the sentence immidiately after. Hence, we prove that the linguistic system employs a feedback system from the current input to the input before, and actively revises the hitherto perceived input. We also show that linguistic representations made upon re-analysis of ambiguous sentences are often only partially correct. We present two behavioural experiments that confirm our hypotheses.