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Beta bursts carry a graded signal of semantic updating during naturalistic narrative comprehension

Comprehending a narrative requires continuously updating a model of the discourse, and beta-band activity is thought to signal when that model should be held versus changed. Whether beta also grades how much to update, and whether that index is carried by discrete bursts beyond sustained power, is unknown for naturalistic comprehension. We recorded MEG from 61 human participants (22 men, 39…

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