Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
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 …

Individual differences in language acquisition and processing

E Kidd, S Donnelly, MH Christiansen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

[图书][B] Explain me this: Creativity, competition, and the partial productivity of constructions

AE Goldberg - 2019 - books.google.com
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

What do we mean by prediction in language comprehension?

GR Kuperberg, TF Jaeger - Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

[图书][B] Eye tracking in second language acquisition and bilingualism: A research synthesis and methodological guide

A Godfroid - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational
knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking …

[图书][B] Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

MH Christiansen, N Chater - 2016 - books.google.com
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Rapid expectation adaptation during syntactic comprehension

AB Fine, TF Jaeger, TA Farmer, T Qian - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

[图书][B] The cultural origins of human cognition

M Tomasello - 2009 - books.google.com
Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello
argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster …