Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Theories of human cognition prominently feature'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit–it …

To understand the architecture of human language, it is critical to examine diverse
languages; however, most cognitive neuroscience research has focused on only a handful …

Length generalization, the ability to generalize from small training context sizes to larger
ones, is a critical challenge in the development of Transformer-based language models …

Recent breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP) have permitted the synthesis
and comprehension of coherent text in an open-ended way, therefore translating the …

Today's probabilistic language generators fall short when it comes to producing coherent
and fluent text despite the fact that the underlying models perform well under standard …

Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills,
but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever …

The ability to cooperate through language is a defining feature of humans. As the
perceptual, motory and planning capabilities of deep artificial networks increase …

How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …