surprisal

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This is consistent with previous studies showing people have more difficulty processing sentences with higher surprisal, the researchers say.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

This analysis revealed that sentences with higher surprisal generate higher responses in the brain.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

They also used a computational technique to quantify each sentence's "surprisal," or how uncommon it is compared to other sentences.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

Everything was to be conducted with secrecy and by the way of surprisal.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

And, by reason of that sudden surprisal, we, knowing ourselves innocent of the crime, were all exceedingly astonished and amazed, and consternated and affrighted even out of our reason.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen