Does speech comprehension require phonemes?

JS NIXON, F Tomaschek - The Handbook of Usage‐Based …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the arguments that have been raised against the unit‐based account
and presents some of the wide range of approaches that have been taken to modelling …

Introduction to the special issue emergence of speech and language from prediction error: error-driven language models

JS Nixon, F Tomaschek - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Last year, 2022, marked the 50th anniversary of the Rescorla-Wagner learning
equations–a landmark in the development of learning theory. Originally based on animal …

The Keys to the Future? An Examination of Statistical Versus Discriminative Accounts of Serial Pattern Learning

F Tomaschek, M Ramscar, JS Nixon - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sequence learning is fundamental to a wide range of cognitive functions. Explaining how
sequences—and the relations between the elements they comprise—are learned is a …

Defragmenting learning

V Kapatsinski - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the 1990s, language acquisition researchers and theoretical linguists developed an
interest in learning mechanisms, and learning theorists rediscovered the verbal learning …

Advancing Social Intelligence in AI Agents: Technical Challenges and Open Questions

L Mathur, PP Liang, LP Morency - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11023, 2024 - arxiv.org
Building socially-intelligent AI agents (Social-AI) is a multidisciplinary, multimodal research
goal that involves creating agents that can sense, perceive, reason about, learn from, and …

One Cue's Loss Is Another Cue's Gain—Learning Morphophonology Through Unlearning

E Mujezinović, V Kapatsinski… - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A word often expresses many different morphological functions. Which part of a word
contributes to which part of the overall meaning is not always clear, which raises the …

The keys to the future? An examination of associative versus discriminative accounts of Serial Pattern Learning

F Tomaschek, M Ramscar, JS Nixon - 2022 - osf.io
Sequence learning is fundamental to a wide range of cognitive functions, and explaining
how sequences---and the relations between the elements they comprise---are learned is a …

Learning and Adaptation of Communication Systems in Biological Life Forms

JS Nixon, F Tomaschek - Xenolinguistics, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Learning processes in Earth's animal species have been studied in depth for more than a
century, from which have emerged mathematical, theoretical and computational error-driven …

[PDF][PDF] Learning to unlearn: The role of negative evidence in morphophonological learning

E Mujezinović, V Kapatsinski, R van de Vijver - PsyArXiv. August, 2022 - files.de-1.osf.io
Phonological forms often express many different morphological functions. Learning these
functions is quite challenging. How do learners accomplish this? Linguistic studies often …