Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time

C Shain, C Meister, T Pimentel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

Constraint satisfaction in large language models

CL Jacobs, MC MacDonald - Language, Cognition and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Constraint satisfaction theories were prominent in the late 20th century and emphasized
continuous, rich interaction between many sources of information in a linguistic signal …

Active Use of Latent Constituency Representation in both Humans and Large Language Models

W Liu, M Xiang, N Ding - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.18241, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding how sentences are internally represented in the human brain, as well as in
large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, is a major challenge for cognitive science …

A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming

W Xu, R Futrell - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15964, 2024 - arxiv.org
The effect of syntactic priming exhibits three well-documented empirical properties: the
lexical boost, the inverse frequency effect, and the asymmetrical decay. We aim to show how …