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COGSCI
2011
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A Computational Cognitive Model of Syntactic Priming
The psycholinguistic literature has identified two syntactic adaptation effects in language production: rapidly decaying short-term priming and long-lasting adaptation. To explai...
David Reitter, Frank Keller, Johanna D. Moore
COGSCI
2011
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Structural Priming as Structure-Mapping: Children Use Analogies From Previous Utterances to Guide Sentence Production
What mechanisms underlie children’s language production? Structural priming—the repetition of sentence structure across utterances—is an important measure of the developing ...
Micah B. Goldwater, Marc T. Tomlinson, Catharine H...
COGSCI
2011
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Seeking Confirmation Is Rational for Deterministic Hypotheses
Joseph Austerweil, Thomas L. Griffiths
COGSCI
2011
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What a Rational Parser Would Do
This article examines cognitive process models of human sentence comprehension based on the idea of informed search. These models are rational in the sense that they strive to qui...
John T. Hale
COGSCI
2011
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Japanese Sound-Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English-Speaking Children
Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary link between the sound of a word and its meaning. Imai et al. (2008) showed that Japanese speaking children benefited from the presence of sou...
Katerina Kantartzis, Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
COGSCI
2011
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The AHA! Experience: Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks
Many kinds of creativity result from combination of mental representations. This paper provides a computational account of how creative thinking can arise from combining neural pa...
Paul Thagard, Terrence C. Stewart
COGSCI
2011
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A Phase Transition Model for the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Response Time Experiments
Most models of response time (RT) in elementary cognitive tasks implicitly assume that the speed-accuracy trade-off is continuous: When payoffs or instructions gradually increase ...
Gilles Dutilh, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Ingmar Visser...
COGSCI
2011
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Adaptation to Novel Accents: Feature-Based Learning of Context-Sensitive Phonological Regularities
This paper examines whether adults can adapt to novel accents of their native language that contain unfamiliar context-dependent phonological alternations. In two experiments, Fre...
Katrin Skoruppa, Sharon Peperkamp
COGSCI
2011
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Looking in the Wrong Direction Correlates With More Accurate Word Learning
Previous research on lexical development has aimed to identify the factors that enable accurate initial word-referent mappings based on the assumption that the accuracy of initial...
Stanka A. Fitneva, Morten H. Christiansen