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Marchant, Nicolás; Quillien, Tadeg; Chaigneau, Sergio E. – Cognitive Science, 2023
The causal view of categories assumes that categories are represented by features and their causal relations. To study the effect of causal knowledge on categorization, researchers have used Bayesian causal models. Within that framework, categorization may be viewed as dependent on a likelihood computation (i.e., the likelihood of an exemplar with…
Descriptors: Classification, Bayesian Statistics, Causal Models, Evaluation Methods
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Kate Stone; Naghmeh Khaleghi; Milena Rabovsky – Cognitive Science, 2023
We tested two accounts of the cognitive process underlying the N400 event-related potential component: one that it reflects meaning-based processing and one that it reflects the processing of specific words. The experimental design utilized separable Persian phrasal verbs, which form a strongly probabilistic, long-distance dependency, ideal for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain, Language Processing, Indo European Languages
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Ronai, Eszter; Xiang, Ming – Cognitive Science, 2023
Memory limitations and probabilistic expectations are two key factors that have been posited to play a role in the incremental processing of natural language. Relative clauses (RCs) have long served as a key proving ground for such theories of language processing. Across three self-paced reading experiments, we test the online comprehension of…
Descriptors: Memory, Expectation, Language Processing, Syntax
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Rey, Arnaud; Fagot, Joël; Mathy, Fabien; Lazartigues, Laura; Tosatto, Laure; Bonafos, Guillem; Freyermuth, Jean-Marc; Lavigne, Frédéric – Cognitive Science, 2022
The extraction of cooccurrences between two events, A and B, is a central learning mechanism shared by all species capable of associative learning. Formally, the cooccurrence of events A and B appearing in a sequence is measured by the transitional probability (TP) between these events, and it corresponds to the probability of the second stimulus…
Descriptors: Animals, Learning Processes, Associative Learning, Serial Learning
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Fabian Tomaschek; Michael Ramscar; Jessie S. Nixon – Cognitive Science, 2024
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 fundamental challenge to cognitive science. However, although hundreds of articles addressing this question are published each year, the actual learning mechanisms involved in the…
Descriptors: Sequential Learning, Learning Processes, Serial Learning, Executive Function
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Zheng, Rong; Busemeyer, Jerome R.; Nosofsky, Robert M. – Cognitive Science, 2023
Though individual categorization or decision processes have been studied separately in many previous investigations, few studies have investigated how they interact by using a two-stage task of first categorizing and then deciding. To address this issue, we investigated a categorization-decision task in two experiments. In both, participants were…
Descriptors: Classification, Decision Making, Task Analysis, Feedback (Response)
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Paape, Dario; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2022
What is the processing cost of being garden-pathed by a temporary syntactic ambiguity? We argue that comparing average reading times in garden-path versus non-garden-path sentences is not enough to answer this question. Trial-level contaminants such as inattention, the fact that garden pathing may occur non-deterministically in the ambiguous…
Descriptors: Computation, Language Processing, Syntax, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Onnis, Luca; Lim, Alfred; Cheung, Shirley; Huettig, Falk – Cognitive Science, 2022
Prediction is one characteristic of the human mind. But what does it mean to say the mind is a "prediction machine" and "inherently forward looking" as is frequently claimed? In natural languages, many contexts are not easily predictable in a forward fashion. In English, for example, many frequent verbs do not carry unique…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Task Analysis
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Isbilen, Erin S.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2022
Statistical learning is a key concept in our understanding of language acquisition. Ample work has highlighted its role in numerous linguistic functions--yet statistical learning is not a unitary construct, and its consistency across different language properties remains unclear. In a meta-analysis of auditory-linguistic statistical learning…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Statistics, Meta Analysis, Auditory Stimuli
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Strößner, Corina; Schurz, Gerhard – Cognitive Science, 2020
The modifier effect refers to the fact that the perceived likelihood of a property in a noun category is diminished if the noun is modified. For example, "Pigs live on farms" is rated as more likely than "Dirty pigs live on farms." The modifier effect has been demonstrated in many studies, but the underlying cognitive…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Pragmatics, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages)
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Peter Hendrix; Ching Chu Sun; Henry Brighton; Andreas Bender – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous studies provided evidence for a connection between language processing and language change. We add to these studies with an exploration of the influence of lexical-distributional properties of words in orthographic space, semantic space, and the mapping between orthographic and semantic space on the probability of lexical extinction.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Maintenance
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Divjak, Dagmar – Cognitive Science, 2017
A number of studies report that frequency is a poor predictor of acceptability, in particular at the lower end of the frequency spectrum. Because acceptability judgments provide a substantial part of the empirical foundation of dominant linguistic traditions, understanding how acceptability relates to frequency, one of the most robust predictors…
Descriptors: Polish, Verbs, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
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Hsu, Anne S.; Horng, Andy; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Chater, Nick – Cognitive Science, 2017
Identifying patterns in the world requires noticing not only unusual occurrences, but also unusual absences. We examined how people learn from absences, manipulating the extent to which an absence is expected. People can make two types of inferences from the absence of an event: either the event is possible but has not yet occurred, or the event…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Bayesian Statistics, Evidence, Prediction
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Crupi, Vincenzo; Nelson, Jonathan D.; Meder, Björn; Cevolani, Gustavo; Tentori, Katya – Cognitive Science, 2018
Searching for information is critical in many situations. In medicine, for instance, careful choice of a diagnostic test can help narrow down the range of plausible diseases that the patient might have. In a probabilistic framework, test selection is often modeled by assuming that people's goal is to reduce uncertainty about possible states of the…
Descriptors: Information Theory, Cognitive Processes, Information Seeking, Probability
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Mayrhofer, Ralf; Waldmann, Michael R. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Research on human causal induction has shown that people have general prior assumptions about causal strength and about how causes interact with the background. We propose that these prior assumptions about the parameters of causal systems do not only manifest themselves in estimations of causal strength or the selection of causes but also when…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Bayesian Statistics, Inferences, Probability
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