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COGSCI
2010
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Comprehension of Simple Quantifiers: Empirical Evaluation of a Computational Model
We examine the verification of simple quantifiers in natural language from a computational model perspective. We refer to previous neuropsychological investigations of the same pr...
Jakub Szymanik, Marcin Zajenkowski
COGSCI
2010
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A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning
Words are the essence of communication: they are the building blocks of any language. Learning the meaning of words is thus one of the most important aspects of language acquisiti...
Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi, Suzanne Stevenson
COGSCI
2010
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The Evolution of Relevance
With human language, the same utterance can have different meanings in different contexts. Nevertheless, listeners almost invariably converge upon the correct intended meaning. Th...
Thomas C. Scott-Phillips
COGSCI
2010
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An On-Line Study of Japanese Nesting Complexity
This paper reports the results of a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese in which the materials consisted of four versions of successively more nested syntactic structures. I...
Kentaro Nakatani, Edward Gibson
COGSCI
2010
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Moral Principles or Consumer Preferences? Alternative Framings of the Trolley Problem
We created paired moral dilemmas with minimal contrasts in wording, a research strategy that has been advocated as a way to empirically establish principles operative in a domain-...
Tage S. Rai, Keith J. Holyoak
COGSCI
2010
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Effect of Representational Distance Between Meanings on Recognition of Ambiguous Spoken Words
Previous research indicates that mental representations of word meanings are distributed along both semantic and syntactic dimensions such that nouns and verbs are relatively dist...
Daniel Mirman, Ted J. Strauss, James A. Dixon, Jam...
COGSCI
2010
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Strudel: A Corpus-Based Semantic Model Based on Properties and Types
Computational models of meaning trained on naturally occurring text successfully model human performance on tasks involving simple similarity measures, but they characterize meani...
Marco Baroni, Brian Murphy, Eduard Barbu, Massimo ...
COGSCI
2010
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Inferring Hidden Causal Structure
We used a new method to assess how people can infer unobserved causal structure from patterns of observed events. Participants were taught to draw causal graphs, and then shown a ...
Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik, Chris Lucas, Laura S...
COGSCI
2010
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High Regularities in Eye-Movement Patterns Reveal the Dynamics of the Visual Working Memory Allocation Mechanism
With only two to five slots of visual working memory (VWM), humans are able to quickly solve complex visual problems to near optimal solutions. To explain the paradox between tigh...
Xiaohui Kong, Christian D. Schunn, Garrick L. Wall...