Words do not just label concepts: activating superordinate categories through labels, lists, and definitions

L Rissman, G Lupyan - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We investigate the interface between concepts and word meanings by asking English
speakers to list members of superordinate categories under one of three conditions:(1) when …

The role of shared labels and experiences in representational alignment

K Mukherjee, S Suresh, X Yu, G Lupyan - ICLR 2024 Workshop on … - openreview.net
Successful communication is thought to require members of a speech community to learn
common mappings between words and their referents. But if one person's concept of CAR is …