Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

The power of human language and thought arises from systematic compositionality—the
algebraic ability to understand and produce novel combinations from known components …

The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for
the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-
based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

Common sense suggests that emotions are physical types that have little to do with the
words we use to label them. Yet recent psychological constructionist accounts reveal that …

Prospection (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007), the representation of possible futures, is a ubiquitous
feature of the human mind. Much psychological theory and practice, in contrast, has …