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John Hollander; Andrew Olney – Cognitive Science, 2024
Recent investigations on how people derive meaning from language have focused on task-dependent shifts between two cognitive systems. The symbolic (amodal) system represents meaning as the statistical relationships between words. The embodied (modal) system represents meaning through neurocognitive simulation of perceptual or sensorimotor systems…
Descriptors: Verbs, Symbolic Language, Language Processing, Semantics
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Kumar, Abhilasha A.; Steyvers, Mark; Balota, David A. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Considerable work during the past two decades has focused on modeling the structure of semantic memory, although the performance of these models in complex and unconstrained semantic tasks remains relatively understudied. We introduce a two-player cooperative word game, Connector (based on the boardgame Codenames), and investigate whether…
Descriptors: Semantics, Recall (Psychology), Cooperative Learning, Game Based Learning
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Johns, Brendan T.; Mewhort, Douglas J. K.; Jones, Michael N. – Cognitive Science, 2019
Distributional models of semantics learn word meanings from contextual co-occurrence patterns across a large sample of natural language. Early models, such as LSA and HAL (Landauer & Dumais, 1997; Lund & Burgess, 1996), counted co-occurrence events; later models, such as BEAGLE (Jones & Mewhort, 2007), replaced counting co-occurrences…
Descriptors: Semantics, Learning Processes, Models, Prediction
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Cheng, Peter C.-H.; van Genuchten, Erlijn – Cognitive Science, 2018
Individual differences in the strategies that control sequential behavior were investigated in an experiment in which participants memorized sentences and then wrote them by hand, in a non-cursive style. Thirty-two participants each wrote eight sentences, which had hierarchical structures with five levels. The dataset included over 31,000 letters.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Cues, Stimuli
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Roettger, Timo B.; Franke, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2019
Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's likely referential intentions. We use mouse tracking to investigate two questions: (a) how listeners draw predictive inferences based on information from…
Descriptors: Cues, Intonation, Language Processing, Speech Communication
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Çöltekin, Çagri – Cognitive Science, 2017
This study investigates a strategy based on predictability of consecutive sub-lexical units in learning to segment a continuous speech stream into lexical units using computational modeling and simulations. Lexical segmentation is one of the early challenges during language acquisition, and it has been studied extensively through psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonemes, Prediction, Computational Linguistics
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Spike, Matthew; Stadler, Kevin; Kirby, Simon; Smith, Kenny – Cognitive Science, 2017
The emergence of signaling systems has been observed in numerous experimental and real-world contexts, but there is no consensus on which (if any) shared mechanisms underlie such phenomena. A number of explanatory mechanisms have been proposed within several disciplines, all of which have been instantiated as credible working models. However, they…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Communication Strategies, Adjustment (to Environment), Reinforcement
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Pritchard, Stephen C.; Coltheart, Max; Marinus, Eva; Castles, Anne – Cognitive Science, 2018
The self-teaching hypothesis describes how children progress toward skilled sight-word reading. It proposes that children do this via phonological recoding with assistance from contextual cues, to identify the target pronunciation for a novel letter string, and in so doing create an opportunity to self-teach new orthographic knowledge. We present…
Descriptors: Computation, Models, Independent Study, Reading
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Moreton, Elliott; Pater, Joe; Pertsova, Katya – Cognitive Science, 2017
Linguistic and non-linguistic pattern learning have been studied separately, but we argue for a comparative approach. Analogous inductive problems arise in phonological and visual pattern learning. Evidence from three experiments shows that human learners can solve them in analogous ways, and that human performance in both cases can be captured by…
Descriptors: Phonology, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Difficulty Level
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Creel, Sarah C.; Tumlin, Melanie A. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Three experiments explored online recognition in a nonspeech domain, using a novel experimental paradigm. Adults learned to associate abstract shapes with particular melodies, and at test they identified a played melody's associated shape. To implicitly measure recognition, visual fixations to the associated shape versus a distractor shape were…
Descriptors: Music, Experiments, Memory, Models
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Vasishth, Shravan; Brussow, Sven; Lewis, Richard L.; Drenhaus, Heiner – Cognitive Science, 2008
A central question in online human sentence comprehension is, "How are linguistic relations established between different parts of a sentence?" Previous work has shown that this dependency resolution process can be computationally expensive, but the underlying reasons for this are still unclear. This article argues that dependency…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Information Retrieval
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Lewis, Richard L.; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2005
We present a detailed process theory of the moment-by-moment working-memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension. The theory is derived from the application of independently motivated principles of memory and cognitive skill to the specialized task of sentence parsing. The resulting theory construes…
Descriptors: Memory, Sentences, Models, Comprehension
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Pirolli, Peter – Cognitive Science, 2005
This article describes rational analyses and cognitive models of Web users developed within information foraging theory. This is done by following the rational analysis methodology of (a) characterizing the problems posed by the environment, (b) developing rational analyses of behavioral solutions to those problems, and (c) developing cognitive…
Descriptors: Internet, Models, Web Sites, Cues