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by aaroninsf 769 days ago
I wonder if there is a name for garden-path sentences which emerge from mis-reading or typos; or, more interestingly perhaps, a name for a garden path candidate sentence—which is being optimistically projected during reading—forcing a misreading.

An interesting sort of confirmation bias, which it is easy to interpret as "pressure from more abstract model layers, informing the word recognition layer"...

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It's been studied. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w53k8/download

"Rational inference and good-enough processing actively trade off with each other during reading."

A slightly broader term would be "illusory inferences"