Human brain aligns with LLMs, real-time scans reveal next-token prediction
maier_ak · x · 2026-08-24
A study using EEG and MEG scans on 29 people listening to an audiobook found that the human brain pre-activates expected syntactic and semantic structures before a word is spoken, essentially performing "next-token prediction."
When researchers fed the same audiobook into a Transformer model (Llama) and extracted its hidden representations, they found that the predictive patterns and representational structures in the biological brain aligned perfectly with those in the AI.
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