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The Cognitive Cost of LLM Writing: A Reading-Time Comparison with Human Text

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-16 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-16 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-19

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-19

Abstract

Although linguistic differences between human-written and Large Language Model (LLM)-generated texts have been extensively studied, their implications for the cognitive effort involved in reading remain less explored. In psycholinguistics, reading time is commonly used as an indirect measure of cognitive processing effort. Building on this perspective, we investigate whether human-written texts an

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