How efficiency shapes human language

E Gibson, R Futrell, SP Piantadosi, I Dautriche… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

The development of color perception and cognition

J Maule, AE Skelton, A Franklin - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Color is a pervasive feature of our psychological experience, having a role in many aspects
of human mind and behavior such as basic vision, scene perception, object recognition …

Beyond the imitation game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

A Srivastava, A Rastogi, A Rao, AAM Shoeb… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative
capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new …

Effects of language on visual perception

G Lupyan, RA Rahman, L Boroditsky, A Clark - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

Psychology as a historical science

M Muthukrishna, J Henrich… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

A Majid, SG Roberts, L Cilissen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (eg, vision) are more
accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (eg, smell)? The long …

Can language models encode perceptual structure without grounding? a case study in color

M Abdou, A Kulmizev, D Hershcovich, S Frank… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Pretrained language models have been shown to encode relational information, such as the
relations between entities or concepts in knowledge-bases--(Paris, Capital, France) …

Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution

N Zaslavsky, C Kemp, T Regier… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
We derive a principled information-theoretic account of cross-language semantic variation.
Specifically, we argue that languages efficiently compress ideas into words by optimizing the …

The organization and operation of inferior temporal cortex

BR Conway - Annual review of vision science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is a key part of the ventral visual pathway implicated in object,
face, and scene perception. But how does IT work? Here, I describe an organizational …

Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

R Forkel, JM List, SJ Greenhill, C Rzymski, S Bank… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
The amount of available digital data for the languages of the world is constantly increasing.
Unfortunately, most of the digital data are provided in a large variety of formats and therefore …