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Camilleri, Adrian R.; Newell, Ben R. – Cognition, 2013
Previous research has shown that many choice biases are attenuated when short-run decisions are reframed to the long run. However, this literature has been limited to description-based choice tasks in which possible outcomes and their probabilities are explicitly specified. A recent literature has emerged showing that many core results found using…
Descriptors: Probability, Sampling, Models, Outcomes of Education
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Rasanen, Okko – Cognition, 2011
Word segmentation from continuous speech is a difficult task that is faced by human infants when they start to learn their native language. Several studies indicate that infants might use several different cues to solve this problem, including intonation, linguistic stress, and transitional probabilities between subsequent speech sounds. In this…
Descriptors: Speech, Infants, Cues, Language Acquisition
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Roland, Douglas; Yun, Hongoak; Koenig, Jean-Pierre; Mauner, Gail – Cognition, 2012
The effects of word predictability and shared semantic similarity between a target word and other words that could have taken its place in a sentence on language comprehension are investigated using data from a reading time study, a sentence completion study, and linear mixed-effects regression modeling. We find that processing is facilitated if…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Probability
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Hilbig, Benjamin E. – Cognition, 2012
Extending the well-established negativity bias in human cognition to truth judgments, it was recently shown that negatively framed statistical statements are more likely to be considered true than formally equivalent statements framed positively. However, the underlying processes responsible for this effect are insufficiently understood.…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Value Judgment, Probability, Models
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Hsu, Anne S.; Chater, Nick; Vitanyi, Paul M. B. – Cognition, 2011
There is much debate over the degree to which language learning is governed by innate language-specific biases, or acquired through cognition-general principles. Here we examine the probabilistic language acquisition hypothesis on three levels: We outline a novel theoretical result showing that it is possible to learn the exact "generative model"…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prediction, Natural Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Frank, Michael C.; Goldwater, Sharon; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Cognition, 2010
The ability to discover groupings in continuous stimuli on the basis of distributional information is present across species and across perceptual modalities. We investigate the nature of the computations underlying this ability using statistical word segmentation experiments in which we vary the length of sentences, the amount of exposure, and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Performance Technology, Experiments, Models
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Perfors, Amy; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Xu, Fei – Cognition, 2011
We present an introduction to Bayesian inference as it is used in probabilistic models of cognitive development. Our goal is to provide an intuitive and accessible guide to the "what", the "how", and the "why" of the Bayesian approach: what sorts of problems and data the framework is most relevant for, and how and why it may be useful for…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Psychology, Inferences, Cognitive Development
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Amato, Michael S.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Cognition, 2010
A study combining artificial grammar and sentence comprehension methods investigated the learning and online use of probabilistic, nonadjacent combinatorial constraints. Participants learned a small artificial language describing cartoon monsters acting on objects. Self-paced reading of sentences in the artificial language revealed comprehenders'…
Descriptors: Sentences, Artificial Languages, Cartoons, Language Processing
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Liddle, Elizabeth B.; Scerif, Gaia; Hollis, Christopher P.; Batty, Martin J.; Groom, Madeleine J.; Liotti, Mario; Liddle, Peter F. – Cognition, 2009
The acquisition of volitional control depends, in part, on developing the ability to countermand a planned action. Many tasks have been used to tap the efficiency of this process, but few studies have investigated how it may be modulated by participants' motivation. Multiple mechanisms may be involved in the deliberate exercise of caution when…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Models, Motivation, Probability
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Wedell, Douglas H.; Moro, Rodrigo – Cognition, 2008
Two experiments used within-subject designs to examine how conjunction errors depend on the use of (1) choice versus estimation tasks, (2) probability versus frequency language, and (3) conjunctions of two likely events versus conjunctions of likely and unlikely events. All problems included a three-option format verified to minimize…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Probability, Experiments, Interaction
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Hohwy, Jakob; Roepstorff, Andreas; Friston, Karl – Cognition, 2008
Binocular rivalry occurs when the eyes are presented with different stimuli and subjective perception alternates between them. Though recent years have seen a number of models of this phenomenon, the mechanisms behind binocular rivalry are still debated and we still lack a principled understanding of why a cognitive system such as the brain should…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Bayesian Statistics, Brain, Probability
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Levy, Roger – Cognition, 2008
This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic characterization of processing difficulty as the work incurred by resource reallocation during parallel, incremental, probabilistic disambiguation in sentence comprehension,…
Descriptors: Expectation, Sentences, Figurative Language, Language Processing
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Cohen, L. Jonathan – Cognition, 1980
Kahneman and Tversky's critique of Cohen's position on adults' probability reasoning is not valid. If they think Baconian logic is normatively unsound, the onus is on them to explain why. It is valid and useful because nature itself is full of causal processes. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Deduction, Hypothesis Testing, Logical Thinking