JL Elman, K McRae - Psychological Review, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Our knowledge of events and situations in the world plays a critical role in our ability to understand what is happening around us, to predict what might happen next, and to …
D Mirman, KM Graziano - Journal of experimental psychology …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Knowledge about word and object meanings can be organized taxonomically (fruits, mammals, etc.) on the basis of shared features or thematically (eating breakfast …
G Lapesa, S Evert - Transactions of the Association for Computational …, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
This paper presents the results of a large-scale evaluation study of window-based Distributional Semantic Models on a wide variety of tasks. Our study combines a broad …
It has been proposed that people can generate probabilistic predictions at multiple levels of representation during language comprehension. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) …
This paper empirically raises and examines the question of 'conceptual control': To what extent are competent thinkers able to reason properly with new senses of words? This …
As adults, we draw upon our ample knowledge about the world to support such vital cognitive feats as using language, reasoning, retrieving knowledge relevant to our current …
Comprehenders can use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly, but recent findings suggest that salient information about argument roles may not impact …
Classic accounts of lexical organization posit that humans are sensitive to environmental frequency, suggesting a mechanism for word learning based on repetition. However, a …
In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences …