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We also found the representative conceptual factors of borrowers that impact the lenders' decision-making. For example, lenders are more inclined to support borrowers who present a mindset focused on stability, adaptability, and purposeful transformation, whereas non-recipients often express uncertainty, lack of readiness, or superficial changes in their loan requests. Applicants with an abstract cognitive orientation tend to request loans with higher interest rates, in contrast to those with a more concrete conceptualization. In practice, loan borrowers and lenders can refer to the cognitive findings to support their marketing and decision-making.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Discourse; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9b14h181", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xulang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xinlong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Erik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cambria", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NTUsg", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49481/galley/37443/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49582, "title": "Cognitive Priming Prompting Facilitates Knowledge Elicitation in Multilingual Large Language Models", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Multilingual large language models (MLLMs) typically underperform when answering questions in non-native languages compared to their native language. Although existing translate-then-answer prompting methods partially alleviate this issue, their performance remains suboptimal compared to directly answering questions in the native language. Moreover, current studies lack a clear explanation for this gap. In this study, we attribute this issue to incomplete Cognitive Priming, a phenomenon observed from human cognition. And we point out that while existing methods achieve Language Priming (LP), they overlook Domain Priming (DP). To address this, we propose Cognitive Priming Prompting (CogPrim), which employs a Role-Enhanced Multi-MLLM Collaboration strategy to ensure both LP and DP, thereby improving knowledge elicitation for non-native QA tasks. Across five language question-answering benchmarks, CogPrim outperforms all state-of-the-art related methods. This approach contributes to advancing the understanding of human-like cognitive behaviors in MLLMs, fostering better MLLM service to a broader range of multilingual users.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Linguistics; Analogy; Natural Language Processing; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pq093wq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Baixuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southeast University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yunlong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southeast University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tianyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ma", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Michigan State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhiqiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southeast University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49582/galley/37544/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50038, "title": "Cognitive Representation in Large Language Models: Formalizing Psychological Constructs for Automated Questionnaire Generation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding how psychological constructs are formalized into measurable representations remains a central challenge in cognitive science. This study examines large language models (LLMs) as cognitive artifacts capable of decomposing and formalizing such constructs. We evaluate LLMs' conceptual alignment with human cognition across three tasks: predicting psychological attributes from text, generating theoretical construct explanations, and creating psychometrically valid assessment items. Results show strong representational fidelity for personality traits (average r=0.582), moderate alignment for depression (r=0.515), and emerging capabilities for anxiety (r =0.259). Expert evaluations confirm that LLMs produce theoretically coherent construct explanations (mean rating=4.33/5), while generated questionnaires exhibit convergent validity with established measures. Our findings position LLMs as effective tools for exploring cognitive representation systems and suggest that theory-driven prompting enables reliable, automated questionnaire development. This work bridges AI formalization techniques with core questions in cognitive science, offering a scalable framework for studying and constructing psychological measurement tools.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Natural Language Processing" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08n800bf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zhejiang University – Westlake University Joint PhD Program", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lizhi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ma", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hangzhou Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Engineering School", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Renjun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Center for Data Science Zhejiang University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhenzhong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Engineering School", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50038/galley/38000/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50049, "title": "Cognitive Strategies in Solving Indeterminate Term Series Problems: A Comparison with Total Order and Symmetric Partial Order Strategies", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Term series problems have been used to study deductive reasoning based on propositions by asking for the order relations of given terms. Some tasks, known as indeterminate term series (ITS), leave certain order relations unspecified. This study explored computational models of how people solve ITS, examining the mental models they form and the way they derive answers. We tested two strategies: a total order strategy, which constructs all satisfying total order mental models, and a symmetry strategy, which collapses interchangeable terms into a total-order-like symmetric model. Statistical analyses of experimental data suggest that participants used total order strategies more often for easier ITS problems and symmetry strategies more for harder ones. This finding supports the hypothesis that encoding the order relations by symmetric structures can reduce cognitive load when solving ITS problems.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Problem Solving; Reasoning; Representation; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nh7c7vw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Takafumi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aoi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Oki", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hasewaga", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Shohei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hidaka", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50049/galley/38011/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49568, "title": "Coherence-Based Evidence Filtering: A Computational Exploration", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study explores the role of coherence-based reasoning in belief updating within uncertain environments. We develop a novel computational model where agents update their beliefs based on observed evidence, with some evaluating the coherence of their belief set before accepting new evidence. Our results show that coherence-based evidence filtering improves belief accuracy in noisy environments and when agents' prior beliefs are accurate. However, when agents encounter systematically misleading evidence, coherence considerations lead to less accurate beliefs. These findings shed light on how coherence interacts with evidence quality and belief accuracy.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Philosophy; Psychology; Learning; Reasoning; Statistical learning; Agent-based Modeling; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0668w8x3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Martin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Justin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Borut", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Trpin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maribor", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49568/galley/37530/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50184, "title": "Collaborative Encoding of Visual Working Memory", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Collaboration helps humans surmount individual cognitive limitations by distributing information over many minds. However, figuring out when and how to collaborate is not trivial. This study examines whether dyads split up information in a collaborative visual working memory task when doing so improves performance. Participants (N=356) memorized grids of 4, 16, or 36 images both alone and with a partner. We used a visual working memory model to estimate how much dyads would benefit from splitting up a grid of images, rather than each memorizing the grid independently. Our model predicts that participants should split up grids that are neither too easy nor too difficult to benefit from collaboration. Indeed, participants tacitly adopted conventions to split up medium and large grids---and were more accurate in these conditions when they worked together than when they acted alone---but not small grids where individual performance was already at ceiling. Our work provides a first step to understand how decisions about when and how to collaborate are shaped by the adaptive use of cognitive resources.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Decision making; Distributed cognition; Memory; Social cognition; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zq2d1p8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Huang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ham", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Psychology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50184/galley/38146/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49303, "title": "Collective Behavior Emerging from Social Learning Strategies and Network Structures", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans make decisions collectively by combining individual and social learning. Individuals benefit from groups when individual exploration fails to accurately assess the environment, a phenomenon known as the \"wisdom of crowds.\" Previous studies indicate that self-organizing group dynamics can reduce suboptimal biases in noisy environments, particularly in fully connected groups. However, agents often have only partial information due to cognitive and physical constraints. To explore how diverse social network structures influence the collective dynamics of social learners, we integrate a decentralized network with a social reinforcement learning model in repeated two-armed bandit tasks. Our results suggest that: 1. Social learning in a sparse network outperforms asocial solo learning in highly uncertain tasks. 2. The phenomenon \"less is more, and more is different\" holds true only when agents strategically balance individual and social learning. 3. The group size effect on collective performance is significantly influenced by network structures.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Group Behaviour; Learning; Agent-based Modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nq3m80p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jingyu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Konstanz", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wataru", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Toyokawa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49303/galley/37264/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49864, "title": "Collective Emotions: Appraisal-based similarity in emotion attributions to individuals and groups", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans' capacity for Theory of Mind (ToM) allows us to reason about and infer others' mental states, including their emotions. While ToM has been extensively studied in interpersonal contexts, how people attribute mental states–particularly emotions–to collective entities (e.g., corporations) remains underexplored. The current work examines whether and how people ascribe emotions to collectives using the appraisal theory framework. Participants were randomly assigned to scenarios designed to elicit a specific emotional inference about either an individual (e.g., a lawyer) or a collective (e.g., a law firm). We then collected and compared emotion attributions and appraisal judgments of the situations across both conditions. Our results suggest that people attribute emotions to individuals and collectives in remarkably similar ways, with subtle differences in event appraisals. The results pave the way for a deeper understanding of collective ToM, with implications for studying moral judgments and decision-making in societal contexts.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Emotion; Social cognition; Theory of Mind" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xm4w3p7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Songzhi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "Dae", "last_name": "Houlihan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Meghan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Columbia University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Phillips", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49864/galley/37826/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49454, "title": "Common Ground Building through Generative Cognitive Modules: Examining the Roles of Initial Perception, Imaging and Captioning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "To advance our understanding of referential communication and common ground formation, this study presents a novel generative cognitive model that integrates deep neural networks for visual perception, image generation, and language captioning. Using the Tangram Naming Task (TNT), we simulate the sender–receiver interaction with modular processes replicating holistic cognitive strategies. Through controlled simulation experiments, we reveal that language generation plays a more crucial role than visual perception in establishing common ground, while intermediate image generation enhances linguistic diversity—a key aspect of natural communication. Our results bridge cognitive modeling and large generative models, demonstrating how internal cognitive dynamics can be visualized and quantitatively evaluated. This study contributes to the growing field of cognitive-inspired human–AI communication and provides a blueprint for grounding-rich simulations in collaborative tasks.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Language Production; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mc5w78f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ryunosuke", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Baba", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shizuoka university", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Junya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morita", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shizuoka University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Takeru", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Amaya", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shizuoka university", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ryuichiro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Higashinaka", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yugo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Takeuchi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shizuoka University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49454/galley/37416/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49190, "title": "Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People in high-income countries underestimate their affluence relative to the global population, potentially limiting their will- ingness to donate to charity. We test whether a rank-based nudge (RBN) informing individuals how their post-tax income ranks globally increases charitable donations. Further, because people have been shown to shift their reference point for who should give to charity based on their current income, we inves- tigate whether donations can be boosted by asking how much people with different income ranks should give to charity (in- junctive distribution task, IDT) before administering the RBN. Participants (N = 1,217) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: control, RBN, IDT, or IDT+RBN. Those in the RBN conditions donated significantly more and reduced over- estimation of others' income across all percentiles of the global income distribution. However, the addition of the IDT did not further increase donations. These findings suggest that RBNs effectively boost generosity by correcting misperceptions of relative affluence.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wm7t76v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Glen", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Spiteri", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maximilian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Maier", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Harry", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Coulson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Falk", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lieder", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49190/galley/37151/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49190/galley/38696/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49521, "title": "Communicating through Acting: The Role of Contextual Affordance in Intuitive Pantomimetic Gestural Communication", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "When observing an action, how do people intuitively determine if it has communicative intent, such as in the case of pantomimes? We focus on two alternative theories: one suggests that instrumental intention competes with communicative intention, where the weaker the former is, the stronger the latter is; the other proposes that instrumental intention is nested within communicative intention, where the presence of the former facilitates the latter. To test these theories, we introduced the concept of contextual affordance, which manipulates the degree to which the instrumental components of an action are revealed. Through behavioral experimentation, we found a non-linear relationship between contextual affordance and communicativeness rating: partial affordance–providing implicit cues to an action's instrumental component without being fully rational–elicited the strongest perception of communicative intention, whereas full affordance or no affordance resulted in a weaker perception of communicative intention. Our study provides a novel definition of communicative intention and reveals that recognizing the instrumental goal and perceiving the suboptimality in achieving it work together to create a strong communicative signal. This work represents a step toward developing an integrated theory of pantomimes, specifying how the rationality principle can be applied to serve multiple purposes simultaneously.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Action; Interactive behavior; Perception; Social cognition; Qualitative Analysis; Statistics; Survey" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3m85s1fb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Siyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Communication, Los Angeles, United States", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kaiwen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jiang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jessica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, United States", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mireille", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Karadanaian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, United States", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ziyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, United States", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49521/galley/37483/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49250, "title": "Communication form modulates sentence interpretation: (A)typicality inferences from descriptions vs. direct speech", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study provides the first evidence that sentence interpretation/inferences that comprehenders draw about situation typicality are moderated by the effects of communication form and sentence polarity. We examined the interpretations of affirmative and negative sentences describing real-world situations of varying typicality. We manipulated whether a sentence is presented as a description with an omniscient narrator (e.g., The house has a bathroom.) vs. as direct speech with the speaker-addressee relationship identified (e.g., \"The house has a bathroom,\" Emma told her partner.). By comparing sentence interpretation across situations varying in (i) typicality (e.g., house has bathroom/garage/ballroom), (ii) communicative form (description vs. direct speech), and (iii) sentence polarity (affirmative vs. negative), we find that presenting information as direct speech encourages pragmatic inferences beyond world knowledge. We also find that negation per se does not trigger theoretically predicted pragmatic inferences, but with a specific communicative act like direct speech it does.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language Comprehension; Pragmatics; Reasoning; Quantitative Behavior" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13h973fw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Muxuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "He", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern California", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Elsi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kaiser", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern California", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49250/galley/37211/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49250/galley/38756/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49649, "title": "Communicative efficiency of distributional and semantically-based core vocabularies in narrative text comprehension", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "High-frequency words are often assumed to be the most useful words for communication, as they provide the greatest coverage of texts. However, the relationship between coverage and comprehension may not be straightforward; how words relate semantically to people's mental representations is also important. In this study, we evaluate how useful different sets of \"core vocabularies\" are in text comprehension. The core vocabularies, which reflect different aspects of distributional and semantic information, provide different amounts of information for different vocabulary size and amount of text coverage. In our experiment, we showed people narrative texts with all but the core words removed, and measured comprehension in a variety of ways. Our results show that both distributional (e.g., frequency-based) and semantic (e.g., word association-based) core vocabularies are communicatively useful, but that the semantically-based core vocabularies provide more information when textual coverage is held constant.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Comprehension; Reading; Semantics of language" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9930r2jb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Andrew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of Melbourne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Simon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "De Deyne", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Melbourne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Meredith", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McKague", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Melbourne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andrew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perfors", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Melbourne", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49649/galley/37611/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49176, "title": "Community detection in inflectional networks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Inflection classes partition the lexicon, classifying lexemes into groups based on shared inflectional exponence; as such, they are foundational aspects of lexical organisation. The task of identifying good partitions is non-trivial, however. We show that a modularity-based community detection method, borrowed from network theory, allows for identification of intuitive partitions at different granularities of representation. Applied to French verbs and Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian nouns, the method detects inflection classes at multiple granularities and reveals (imperfect) hierarchical organisation of these. Ultimately, community detection methods facilitate more nuanced understanding of the inflectional organisation of the lexicon.\n\nKeywords: lexicon; morphology; inflection classes; hierarchical organisation; network science; community detection", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wp2k6jr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Copot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Surrey", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andrea", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Sims", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49176/galley/37137/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49176/galley/38682/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49660, "title": "Comparing eye movement and lexical decision experiments on Thai compound recognition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study investigated how visual processing of simple and compound words in Thai can be modulated by the experimental tasks. A sentence reading eye-tracking experiment (Experiment 1) and a lexical decision experiment (Experiment 2) were conducted on Thai bisyllabic compounds and simple nouns. Experiment 1 had two interword spacing conditions and examined how adding interword spacing to Thai sentences (normally unspaced in writing) modulated lexical processing. Experiment 1's results showed that compounds incurred longer fixation durations than simple words, whereas interword spacing facilitated word recognition for both word types. Experiment 2 revealed a different result. Word recognition was faster for compounds than simple words. We assumed the disparity stemmed from different task demands. Sentence reading requires integration of semantics and syntactic processing, and compounds would require additional semantic integration processing. By contrast, lexical decision focuses on isolated word recognition and the word's syntactic and semantic features are not activated.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Comprehension; Reading; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kw6j6v7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Suphasiree", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chantavarin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Chulalongkorn University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tommi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Leung", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "United Arab Emirates University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49660/galley/37622/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49210, "title": "Comparing Individual and Collective Performance in Deductive Reasoning across Content Types", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This research analyzes whether collective performance surpasses individual performance in solving two different deductive reasoning tasks. One of the tasks contains arguments with factual content, while the other includes arguments with ideological content. Additionally, we seek to determine whether the truth-wins model accurately represents the social combination process involved in the collective resolution of both deductive tasks. We designed and conducted two studies. Study 1 (N = 115) employed a within-subjects design with three conditions: individual, collective, and post-collective individual resolutions. Participants evaluated syllogisms with factual content. Study 2 (N = 111) followed a similar design but used syllogisms with ideologically controversial content. Results from both studies indicate that collective performance surpassed individual performance. Furthermore, while the truth-wins model best describes the collaborative decision- making process in Study 1, the majority model was more accurate for Study 2. These findings align with theories advocating for the social origins of human reasoning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Psychology; Group Behaviour; Problem Solving; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b26z0v0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alba", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Massolo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universidad Nacional de C—rdoba", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mariel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Traversi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universidad Cat—lica de C—rdoba", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49210/galley/37171/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49210/galley/38716/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50251, "title": "Comparing Navigation in Immersive and Desktop VR Environments", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The use of virtual reality (VR) has become a standard procedure for studying spatial navigation, as it allows researchers to create controlled environments and paradigms that can be used across multiple research sites. These simulated environments are primarily conducted in either desktop VR (DVR) or ambulatory immersive VR (IVR), yet little work has directly investigated if navigation in these modalities reflect the same abilities when using identical environmental layouts. In 2 studies we examined participants' abilities to learn the layout of a maze-type environment in DVR and IVR. Our findings generally show that while people exhibit better navigation performance in IVR, performance in the two modalities are highly correlated. We discuss the implications of these findings, including possible reasons for different performance in IVR compared to DVR, including body-based cues and cyber sickness, and make recommendations for future research examining navigation in VR.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Spatial cognition" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/491054hp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexis", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Topete", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tikal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Catena", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mary", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hegarty", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50251/galley/38213/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49753, "title": "Comparing One-Boundary and Two-Boundary Evidence Accumulation Models for Go/No-Go Processes: An Application to the Decision to Shoot", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The cognitive processes underlying Go/No-Go performance may be explained by two plausible evidence accumulation models: Two-Boundary (2-B) and One-Boundary (1-B) decision drift models (DDMs). While both embed a Go decision, the 2-B DDM embeds a definitive No-Go decision, whereas the 1-B DDM embeds a response window for Go. Using simulations, we found that model comparison methods like leave-one-out cross-validation (LOO), coupled with Bayesian hierarchical modeling, can correctly identify the underlying model. Additionally, using the correct model reduces the risk of missing true effects or detecting spurious findings. Therefore, we recommend researchers implement and compare both models for Go/No-Go studies to reduce misleading results. Lastly, we implemented these models to investigate race effects in the decision to shoot during police training. We found that the accumulated evidence needed to reach the Shoot decision is lower for Black suspects, which explains the heightened error rates for shooting unarmed Black suspects in data.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Social cognition; Bayesian modeling; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz3g3tc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yiyang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joseph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cesario", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Michigan State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Taosheng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Michigan State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tim", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pleskac", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49753/galley/37715/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49203, "title": "Comparison Helps Children Form Broad Explanations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Research has shown that generating explanations can benefit learning in both children and adults. In part this is because people prefer explanations that characterize phenomena in terms of broad regularities. Here we propose that comparison is integral to the process of generating broad, satisfactory explanations. Specifically, (1) generating explanations often invokes comparison, (2) the resulting structural alignment process reveals commonalities that feed into a broad explanation. In Experiment 1a, we adapted a study on explanation-generation by Walker et al. (2017). 5- and 6-year-old children were asked to explain a set of outcomes that could result either from a single broad cause or from two or more specific causes. When children had the opportunity to compare the outcomes, they arrived at the broad explanation, replicating Walker et al. When comparison was made difficult, children preferred specific explanations. The results suggest that comparison is integral to the power of self-explanation. In Experiment 1b, we found that comparison by itself was not sufficient to lead children to broad explanations—suggesting that both explanation and comparison are critical in allowing children to attend to the broad pattern.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Analogy; Causal reasoning; Cognitive development; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94x1w0dc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yinyuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zheng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northwestern University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dedre", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gentner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northwestern University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49203/galley/37164/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49203/galley/38709/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49172, "title": "Comparisons promote a tradeoff between generalization and individuation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Qualitative comparison provides learning opportunities that support a range of cognitive abilities. The present research clarifies how the contrasting goals of qualitative comparison, processing similarities versus differences, contribute to the overall impact that comparison has on learning. We argue that attending to similarities produces memory traces that are dissociable from those left by attending to differences, and that these memory traces reflect a tradeoff between generalization and individuation. Across two preregistered experiments, participants either attended to similarities or differences between stimuli. We show that whereas attending to similarities yielded better performance on a category recognition task (Experiment 1), attending to differences yielded better performance on an old/new recognition task (Experiment 2). Comparison thus serves as a learning opportunity that enables agents to manage the generalization-individuation tradeoff by shifting their attention toward similarities or differences.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10c1g3rz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nicholas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ichien", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Angela", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49172/galley/37133/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49172/galley/38678/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49501, "title": "Complexity in Complexity: Understanding Visual Complexity Through Structure, Color, and Surprise", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding human perception of visual complexity is crucial in visual cognition. Recently (Shen, et al. 2024) proposed an interpretable segmentation-based model that accurately predicted complexity across various datasets, supporting the idea that complexity can be explained simply. In this work, we investigate the failure of their model to capture structural, color and surprisal contributions to complexity. To this end, we propose Multi-Scale Sobel Gradient which measures spatial intensity variations, Multi-Scale Unique Color which quantifies colorfulness across multiple scales, and surprise scores generated using a Large Language Model. We test our features on existing benchmarks and a novel dataset containing surprising images from Visual Genome. Our experiments demonstrate that modeling complexity accurately is not as simple as previously thought, requiring additional perceptual and semantic factors to address dataset biases. Thus our results offer deeper insights into how humans assess visual complexity.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Machine learning; Perception; Vision; Computational neuroscience" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g6408z2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karahan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sarõta_", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of TŸbingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Peter", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dayan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tingke", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Surabhi", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Nath", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49501/galley/37463/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50151, "title": "Computational Implementation of a Model of Category-Theroretic Metaphor Comprehension", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this study, we developed a computational implementation for a model of metaphor comprehension based on the theory of indeterminate natural transformation (TINT) proposed by Fuyama et al. We simplified the algorithms implementing the model to be closer to the original theory and verified it through data fitting and simulations. For details, we proposed a method to replace the deterministic operation of existing model with a probabilistic (softmax) operation. The outputs of the algorithms are evaluated with three measures: data-fitting with experimental data, the size of the correspondence of the metaphor comprehension result, and the novelty of the comprehension (i.e. the correspondence of the associative structure of the source and target of the metaphor). The improved algorithm outperformed the existing one in all the three measures. We suggest that the metaphor comprehension process in humans is based on more probabilistic procedure.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Psychology; Analogy; Concepts and categories; Creativity; Natural Language Processing; Semantics of language; Computational Modeling; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c3441cc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Fumitaka", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Iwaki", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tokyo Denki University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Miho", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fuyama", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ritsumeikan University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hayato", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Saigo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tatsuji", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Takahashi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tokyo Denki University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50151/galley/38113/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49283, "title": "Computational insights from a novel habit induction protocol", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Habits -- automatic behavioral patterns formed through repetition -- are essential for daily functioning, but can also lead to inflexible behavior. While crucial for understanding both adaptive and maladaptive decision-making, studying habits' computational and neural mechanisms has been challenging due to limited laboratory experiments demonstrating overtraining-induced inflexibility.\nWe developed a novel task with features designed to encourage participants to engage goal-directed (GD) control between trials (interleaving extensively- and minimally-practiced contexts), then naturally release control within trials (hierarchical multi-step trial structure and opportunities to self-correct). \nResults showed that overtrained participants displayed stronger biases toward behaviors learned in extensively-practiced contexts, evidenced by higher Habit Index values at early response times. This effect decreased at later response times, suggesting participants could override habitual impulses with GD control.\nOur computational model, characterizing behavior as a mixture of reinforcement-learned policies, reproduced observed behavioral patterns, suggesting that habits can be viewed as goal-directed deployment of overtrained policies.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Learning; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sp6385s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Anne", "middle_name": "GE", "last_name": "Collins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49283/galley/37244/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49171, "title": "Computational Modeling of Tonal Encoding in Disyllabic Mandarin Word Production", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Approximately half of the world's languages are tonal, and how lexical tone is encoded in spoken word production is still unclear. In Mandarin word production, there are two contrasting views regarding the mechanisms of tonal encoding. The two-stage model assumes that the lexical tone is selected first at the early stage of production, and then integrated with the atonal syllable at the later stage, while other researchers proposed that the lexical tone is retrieved only at the later stage of production. In this study, we performed computational simulations on disyllabic words to uncover the mechanisms underlying the facilitation and interference effects on naming latencies observed in previous primed picture naming studies, which intended to verify the two theoretical accounts of tonal encoding in Mandarin spoken word production. The results supported the two-stage model of tonal encoding in disyllabic Mandarin word production. Increased inhibition between atonal syllables and decreased activation between the tonal frame and the syllable motor program, implying slower tone-to-syllable integration, appear to be the prerequisite for generating the interference effect of tonal overlap without shared syllabic information.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p59p1kt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jiabing", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hong Kong Polytechnic University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiaocong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hong Kong Polytechnic University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Caicai", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hong Kong Polytechnic University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49171/galley/37132/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49171/galley/38677/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50093, "title": "Computation in Context: A Comparison of Fraction Story Problems and Symbolic Arithmetic", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Fraction arithmetic is an essential skill for students to advance to higher level math, but it is also important for daily life. The current study examines how sixth grade students with math learning difficulties perform on symbolic arithmetic problems and analogous word problems to determine what makes some fraction arithmetic easier for students to solve when given symbolic notation, and others easier to solve when problems are embedded in word problem contexts. We found that students make similar errors on both symbolic arithmetic problems and word problems, and they also struggle to identify the correct operation for a word problem.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Classroom studies" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13s804x5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Taylor", "middle_name": "Paige", "last_name": "Guba", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Delaware", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ogochukwu", "middle_name": "Chidinso", "last_name": "Anisiobi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Delaware", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Megan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Botello", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Delaware", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Suchanec-Cooper", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Delaware", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "I", "last_name": "Dyson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Delaware", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Jordan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Delaware", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50093/galley/38055/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49720, "title": "Computer Vision Models Show Human-Like Sensitivity to Geometric and Topological Concepts", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "With the rapid improvement of machine learning (ML) models, cognitive scientists are increasingly asking about their alignment with how humans think. Here, we ask this question for computer vision models and human sensitivity to geometric and topological (GT) concepts. Under the core knowledge account, these concepts are innate and supported by dedicated neural circuitry.\nIn this work, we investigate an alternative explanation, that GT concepts are learned ``for free'' through everyday interaction with the environment. We do so using computer visions models, which are trained on large image datasets. We build on prior studies to investigate the overall performance and human alignment of three classes of models -- convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformer-based models, and vision-language models -- on an odd-one-out task testing 43 GT concepts spanning seven classes. Transformer-based models achieve the highest overall accuracy, surpassing that of young children. They also show strong alignment with children's performance, finding the same classes of concepts easy vs. difficult. By contrast, vision-language models underperform their vision-only counterparts and deviate further from human profiles, indicating that naïve multimodality might compromise abstract geometric sensitivity. These findings support the use of computer vision models to evaluate the sufficiency of the learning account for explaining human sensitivity to GT concepts, while also suggesting that integrating linguistic and visual representations might have unpredicted deleterious consequences.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Machine learning; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wm9r1rk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zekun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sashank", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Varma", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Tech", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49720/galley/37682/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49372, "title": "Concept and Feature Change in Scientific and Deep Neural Net Representations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Scientific representations and their constituent concepts change over time to reflect improvements in our understanding of the world. Similar improvements in understanding lead to changes in DNN-procured representations and their features. In this paper, we investigate whether useful methodological practices in concept change and in feature change carry across the two types of representations. We argue that there is indeed considerable potential for methodological cross-pollination and offer some examples of how such benefit may be derived.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Philosophy; Concepts and categories; Machine learning; Representation; Comparative Analysis; Knowledge representation; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13t3k5v6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ioannis", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Votsis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northeastern University London", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49372/galley/37334/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50321, "title": "Conceptual Analysis of Analogical Transfer in Common Programming Languages", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Analogical transfer is well studied, but much less is known about how students transfer within specific domains. Computer science presents an opportunity to study such transfer, as students often transition from block-based (e.g., Scratch) to text-based (e.g., Python) programming languages. As an early step in understanding programming transfer, we present a conceptual analysis that predicts when students may be aided by analogical supports when transferring from Scratch to Python. We are specifically guided by Structure Mapping theory, which states analogy is a process of aligning objects and relations based on their common structure (Gentner, 1983, 2010). Much research has found that surface similarity influences transfer; thus, we categorized various programming concepts (iteration, booleans, etc.) based on their perceptual similarity. Further, we make predictions about where and how progressive alignment (Kotovsky & Gentner, 1996) can be used to facilitate relational understanding. This analysis sets the stage for future experimental work.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Analogy; Language understanding; Learning; Pattern recognition" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z0408kn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rosalind", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Owen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WestEd", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Houchins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WestEd", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bryan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Matlen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WestEd", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Elysse", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Caballero", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WestEd", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kiley", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McKee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WestEd", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yvonne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WestEd", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50321/galley/38283/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50369, "title": "Conceptual and affective alignment in sensory metaphor", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "What is conveyed by sensory metaphor? Zhu et al. (2024) found that concepts metaphorized by the same sensory words were more closely aligned in dual categorization (IAT) tasks than was predicted by their alignments in word embedding models. The present study utilized 132 distinct IATs to measure conceptual alignment of words metaphorized by 99 sensory metaphors to test generalizability. This time, affective alignments were additionally measured: A semantic differential method and principal components analysis yielded a three-dimensional affective vector space, which was used to compute a measure of affective alignment. Linear models showed that affective alignments and conceptual alignments (from word embedding models) each predicted independent portions of the variance in the IAT data. Even with both of these sources of variation taken into account, concepts sharing a common sensory metaphor were more aligned than those paired at random. Sensory metaphors may simultaneously convey affective, semantic, and perceptual meaning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Analogy; Language and thought; Perception; Quantitative Behavior" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52k9x3wg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Frank", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Durgin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Swarthmore college", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50369/galley/38331/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49596, "title": "Condensed Representation Learning for Interactive Driving Styles Recognition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Automated vehicle (AV) validation faces the \"billions of miles\" challenge, requiring high-fidelity simulations to replicate diverse interactive driving behaviors for safety. Traditional methods oversimplify by using uniform behavioral models, ignoring the diversity of human driving styles, which are deeply influenced by individual psychological traits. This research introduces a condensed framework for representing interactive driving styles, by incorporating these psychological dimensions, balancing completeness and complexity. Key features include: i) individual style recognition via attention mechanisms and hierarchical contrastive learning, capturing subtle cognitive-based interaction patterns that reflect underlying differences in driver psychology (e.g., risk tolerance, decision-making heuristics); ii) scenario-independent style compression, filtering external factors to extract intrinsic driver intentions; iii) dimensionality-aware refinement, mapping complex behaviors to low-dimensional psychological axes for efficient computation. Tests on the NGSIM dataset reduced testing complexity by decoupling styles from scenarios. Compared to traditional methods, style distinctiveness improves by 28% (entropy-based), with 85% edge-case behavior coverage. This framework supports scalable AV testing by integrating diverse, psychologically-informed driving styles without combinatorial complexity.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Human Factors; Situated cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7n1744js", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Chengzhang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tongji University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sijin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tongji University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Meng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tongji University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jintao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tongji University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiaoguang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tongji University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49596/galley/37558/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49726, "title": "Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "When things are perceived clearly they can be detected with confidence. But under what conditions can one be confident that something is absent? Here we use a meta-perceptual illusion to show that confidence in absence scales not with visibility itself, but with the subjective belief that a stimulus would have been visible, if present. In two pre-registered experiments, participants detected the presence or absence of letters in frames of dynamic noise, and rated their decision confidence. Across trials, stimuli could appear bigger or smaller. Critically, while perceptual sensitivity was increased for smaller stimuli, participants' meta-perceptual beliefs (measured with post-experiment debriefing and prospective confidence ratings) were that larger letters were easier to detect. Accordingly, while confidence in presence scaled with objective visibility (and was therefore higher for smaller stimuli), confidence in absence scaled with beliefs about counterfactual visibility (and was therefore higher for bigger stimuli). This dissociation between the effect of stimulus size on confidence in presence and absence diminished as the experiment progressed: a sign of meta-perceptual learning. Furthermore, the effect of size on confidence in absence, but not in presence, correlated with a meta-perceptual parameter from an ideal observer model of perceptual detection, fitted to decision and response time data alone. Overall, we conclude that confidence in absence closely tracked participants' model-derived expectations about the visibility of counterfactual stimuli.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Perception" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sk2d257", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Matan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mazor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Oxford", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schipper", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Oxford", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49726/galley/37688/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49765, "title": "Connection Between Lexical Processing and Phonological Regularity: A Comparison Between English and Turkish", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Phonological theories rely on rules being able to apply regularly to all members of a particular domain. When there are exceptions to these regular patterns, accounting for inconsistencies poses a challenge for phonological theories. This is especially true when morphophonological factors alone cannot explain the observed variation. In addition to phonological or morphological factors, this paper argues that the way words are recognized in the process of lexical access can account for exceptional morphophonological patterns. In two corpus studies, one on English (a morphologically poor language) and one on Turkish (a morphologically rich language), results show a correlation between factors consistent with lexical decomposition and morphophonological exceptionality. For both languages, exceptional suffixes are more likely to be decomposed from stems than non-exceptional suffixes. This suggests that there is a connection between the way complex words are processed in the lexicon and the way they are treated by the phonological grammar.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Statistical learning; Corpus studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bh4j6sr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Darby", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grachek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern California", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49765/galley/37727/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50080, "title": "Connectives and clause order modulate Chinese pronoun resolution", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While Chinese null pronouns consistently demonstrate a subject preference, overt pronouns exhibit a subject preference in forward reference but not in backward reference. Previous studies have attributed this pattern to syntactically imposed constraints. However, Su (2020) proposed that this pattern arises from language-specific discourse constraints prohibiting subject referents for overt backward pronouns in temporal clauses but allowing them in non-temporal clauses. To examine Su's account, we administered an offline sentence judgment experiment with 100 Chinese-speaking adults. The experiment employed contextually ambiguous sentences, involving manipulations of pronoun form (null vs. overt), anaphora type (forward vs. backward) and clause/connective (deshihou ‘when', zhiqian/zhihou ‘before/after' and ruguo ‘if'). Our results partly confirmed Su's account: Chinese overt backward pronouns showed a subject preference in non-temporal ruguo ‘if' clauses and temporal zhiqian/zhihou ‘before/after' clauses, but not in temporal deshihou ‘when' clauses. These findings suggest potential influences of event structure on Chinese pronoun resolution.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Comprehension; Quantitative Behavior" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x51n6sp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shuya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sturt", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Vicky", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chondrogianni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50080/galley/38042/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50405, "title": "Consequences of prior experience on visual problem solving", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People rarely face the same problem twice, but many problems are similar. What strategies do people discover when solving similar problems, and what is the impact of that experience on how they approach new ones? Here we investigated how people's strategies changed over time while solving sets of related visual reasoning problems. Participants (N=42) were given a sequence of \"tangram\" puzzles to solve, which could be reconstructed either exclusively with small pieces or with a special large piece to reconstruct the tangram in fewer moves. Later, participants attempted puzzles where a different large piece was helpful instead, so we could measure the impact of prior experience on how they approached puzzles favoring a different strategy. We found that participants reconstructed tangrams more quickly over time, and generally used the appropriate large piece for the problem at hand, reflecting their ability to flexibly adapt their strategies to new problems.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Learning; Problem Solving; Reasoning; Skill acquisition and learning" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pk85092", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "P.", "last_name": "Anderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lionel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maddy", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Bowers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Judith", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Fan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50405/galley/38367/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49349, "title": "Constituency tests in human adults' language of thought for geometry", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans can remember arrays or sequences of stimuli that exceed working memory limits in many domains, from auditory sequences to geometric shapes. This ability has been interpreted as evidence for language-like representations that compress stimuli into compact descriptions. We extend this evidence in the domain of geometry by showing that representations of geometric shapes are not only compressed but also syntactically structured. Experiment 1 shows that different representations can be induced for the same geometric shape, indicating structural representation. Experiment 2 shows that subparts of a shape are easier to recognize when they belong to the same subtree than whey do not, indicating hierarchical organization. Taken together, the results indicate that geometric shapes are encoded in representations that possess internal syntax, just like natural language sentences.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Language and thought; Perception; Representation; Syntax; Vision; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3716162z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Barbu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Revencu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CEA", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stanislas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dehaene", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CEA", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49349/galley/37310/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50399, "title": "Constructing Multilingual Readability Metrics for Cross-Language FKGL Comparisons", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) is a widely used readability measure for English. However, the formula involves English-specific word counts, making it difficult to establish a comparable formula in other languages. This study provides a theoretical analysis of the FKGL formula, uncovering its fundamental principles. Unlike prior work, we demonstrate that the formula can be reinterpreted as representing the \"average syllable count per sentence.\" While vocabulary breadth expands with increasing grade levels, the range of syllables per word remains constant, regardless of age or grade. This invariance likely contributes to FKGL's enduring applicability. We validate our framework using empirical evaluations with the British National Corpus (BNC), confirming the theoretical soundness of our approach. Furthermore, we extend the FKGL formula to other languages, proposing a multilingual readability metric. This research not only deepens our understanding of existing readability measures but also provides a robust framework for cross-linguistic readability comparisons.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Language Comprehension; Natural Language Processing; Reading; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rx6z249", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ehara", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tokyo Gakugei University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50399/galley/38361/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49841, "title": "Contact angle uncertainty influences perceived causality in launching events", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans can perceive causality when viewing collision-like interactions between plain, two-dimensional shapes. To what extent subjective causality reports arise from the physical plausibility of events as predicted by Newtonian physics remains an open question. Here we measured each participant's perceptual judgments about the contact point angle ($\\alpha$) and their causality judgments about the target ball's trajectory offset ($\\beta$) using Michotte's launching paradigm. Our results showed that subjective causality reports decreased as the target's trajectory deviated further from the physically plausible angle, confirming the important role of physical plausibility in causal perception. Moreover, as uncertainty about $\\alpha$ increased, participants were more likely to report events with larger $\\beta$ as causal, and their causality reports were more sensitive to changes of $\\beta$, consistent with a mental physics model that incorporates $\\alpha$. These findings align with predictions of causality perception under a Noisy Newton framework, and provide experimental evidence using individualized uncertainty estimates.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Event cognition; Perception; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7620x42g", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yunyan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Duan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technical University of Darmstadt", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Eicke-Kanani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Fabian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tatai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technical University of Darmstadt", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "S. A.", "last_name": "Wallis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technical University of Darmstadt", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49841/galley/37803/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49450, "title": "Content-agnostic online segmentation as a core operation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We approach the problem of explaining segmentation --- the human capacity to partition input streams into representations of appropriate form and content for efficient downstream processing --- by exploring a theoretically minimalistic and computationally plausible account of phoneme-to-word chunking. Through computational models, mathematical proofs, algorithm design, and observer model simulations in two languages, we suggest that online segmentation can be guided by content-agnostic properties of internal memory structures (i.e., lexicality and length type frequency).\nOur theoretical and empirical findings point to a formal link between such properties with practical performance benefits. Together, these contributions make progress on a fully explicit computational- and algorithmic-level account with plausible implementational-level primitives.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Computer Science; Linguistics; Computational Modeling; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c62p8tz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Federico", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Adolfi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "ESI Neuroscience, Max Planck Society", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yue", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ernst StrŸngmann Institute for Neuroscience", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Poeppel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49450/galley/37412/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50237, "title": "Context-dependency in marmoset gaze-following", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Gaze-following, the ability to direct one's attention to the target of another individual's gaze, plays a key role in social interactions. Gaze-following has been considered reflexive, implying it might operate invariant to context. We tracked the eye position of head-fixed marmosets as they viewed naturalistic video stimuli featuring a marmoset gazing toward (i.e., cueing) one of two transparent boxes. Three trial types were presented interleaved: in the first, a second marmoset entered the cued box; in the second, no marmoset entered either box; and in the third, both boxes were occluded, creating a non-informative context. In all three conditions, a significantly larger number of initial saccades landed in the cued region than in the un-cued region (p < 0.001) confirming gaze-following effects. However, preliminary analysis of other eye movements revealed different gazing patterns across conditions, indicating the potential context-dependent nature of gaze-following influenced by the availability of relevant information.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Animal cognition; Decision making; Perception; Social cognition; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wp8f4m0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Oviya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mohan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Rochester", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jude", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mitchell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Rochester", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dora", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Biro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Rochester", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50237/galley/38199/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50482, "title": "Contextual Malleability of Empathy: Effects of Trait Level, Group", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Empathy was mainly considered a stable trait, and few studies have investigated whether\nit can vary across different situations. This investigation explores how contextual empathy\nof study participants varies across different social group relationship and positive/negative\nevent valence. In this study, participants were divided into high- or low-empathy group by\ntheir scores of Empathy Scale. The in/out group membership was manipulated through a\npoint estimation paradigm, and event valence was operationalized by the emotion status\nof the character in the story event. As expected, results showed main effects across all\nfactors that participants demonstrated contextual empathy differently. More importantly, an\ningroup bias is significantly emerged, with participants exhibiting enhanced contextual\nempathy toward ingroup than outgroup character. Furthermore, positive story events\nelicited more contextual empathic responses than negative events. These findings\nevidently provide an empirical support for the context-dependent nature of empathy,\nchallenging its traditional conceptualization as an invariant trait.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emotion Perception; Empathy; Event cognition; Group Behaviour; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94j0g8qz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yen-Cheng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Cheng Kung University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chen Jung", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Cheng Kung University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Shu-Ling", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Peng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Cheng Kung University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Po-Sheng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Huang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Taiwan University of Science and Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jon-Fan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Cheng Kung University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yi Ping", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hsu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Cheng Kung University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Huan-Yu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Cheng Kung University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50482/galley/38444/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49488, "title": "Contextual restriction and faultless disagreement about generics across development", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We report a study examining developmental changes in perceptions of disagreements among speakers who use generics to describe contextually-restricted or unrestricted regularities. Sixty-five adults and 222 5-12-year-olds reacted to generic claims from speakers who attributed ostensibly contradictory attributes to a biological kind (\"Xs are striped\"; \"Xs are spotted\"). Crucially, we manipulated the scope of each speaker's claim, described as restricted to a specific context, or unrestricted. Participants assessed faultless disagreement (whether the speakers could \"both be right\"). Adults were sensitive to contextual restriction: they allowed for faultless disagreement when contextual restrictions mis-aligned, and denied it when both speakers restricted to one context. Young children demonstrated striking partial competence in faultless disagreement judgments much earlier than prior developmental literature suggested. This is the first study to document faultless disagreement between differentially-restricted generics, both in adults and in children. We discuss the developmental trajectory, and implications for social functioning and learning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Linguistics; Philosophy; Psychology; Cognitive development; Concepts and categories; Development; Language understanding; Learning; Pragmatics; Semantics of language; Social cognition; Quan" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57r2n3tm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ny", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vasil", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "California State University East Bay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Gaia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Campos", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "California State University, East Bay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bahar", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rouzbehani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CSUEB", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alejandro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Curiel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "California State University East Bay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jason", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Caoile", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "California State University - East Bay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "suren", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Khurelkhuu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "California State University East Bay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Katherine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ritchie", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49488/galley/37450/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49942, "title": "Continuity and discontinuity in children's number acquisition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent research has suggested that some children, after they learn the meaning of \"four,\" proceed to learn the next few numbers one at a time (Krajcsi & Fintor, 2023). This claim is in direct contrast with previous theories that argued for an inductive leap after learning \"four\" (Carey, 2009). We assessed children's number knowledge using an adapted Give-N method that captured higher set sizes, and tests of executive function and working memory as an exploratory window onto the changes across stages. First, results support the claim that children exhibit partial-number knowledge beyond \"four\". Second, executive function was associated with children's jump from knowing numbers up to \"four\" (subset-knower stages) to knowing numbers above four, while working memory was associated with the change from partial to putatively full knowledge of number word meanings. These findings offer new insight into the conceptual change process and suggest a potential two-fold sequence in children's induction of cardinality.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Concepts and categories; Reasoning; Representation" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fc6j3d6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Saige", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rovero", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wesleyan University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Talia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Berkowitz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wesleyan University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Anna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shusterman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wesleyan University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49942/galley/37904/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50108, "title": "Control and Responsibility Role in Moral Judgment and Decision-Making", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Based on Blame Theory and Integrative Moral Judgment and Decision-Making (MJDM), this paper examines the role of responsibility for the situation and control over the consequences of the situation in first-person, realistic and non-sacrificial dilemmas. In a 2x2 within-subjects design, 69 participants had to read and solve four dilemmas. Their choice, affect felt, perceived utility, and moral acceptability values were measured. Analyses showed that increased control led to more pro-social choices, and that responsibility increased pro-sociality only when control was low. Control and responsibility also influenced affect, utility, and moral acceptability judgments, corroborating the integrative MJDM model. These results show that control and responsibility play a key role in MJDM but differ from blame theory, where responsibility is necessary for blame and for control to matter. In contrast, in first-person MJDM, control suffices for pro-social action, and responsibility influences decisions only when control is absent.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Emotion; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fk042w8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Simon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jeauffreau", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toulouse", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rui Manuel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Da Silva Neves", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toulouse", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "julie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "LemariŽ", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toulouse", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50108/galley/38070/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50075, "title": "Conventionalization of Graphic Representations of Abstract Concepts and Metaphors in an Experimental-Semiotic Communication Game", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Abstract concepts are a hallmark of human cognition and culture. However, there is debate over how they are cognitively represented, and how they emerge and become conventionalized within a community. One influential approach is that abstract concepts are based on conceptual metaphors. This study investigates the emergence and conventionalization of abstract concepts and metaphors in an experimental-semiotic referential communication game in which participants communicate abstract concepts and metaphors via drawing. The study sheds light on the different strategies participants use to evoke abstract concepts and shows that participants decrease the number of strategies they use over subsequent rounds of interaction, converging on more successful strategies and thereby initiating a joint process of conventionalization. Acknowledgements: This research is part of the project No. 2021/43/P/HS2/02729 co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 945339.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Interactive behavior; Pragmatics" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zb7b8j7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Darya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Namednikava", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Centre for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Placi_ski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru_", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pleyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru_", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50075/galley/38037/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49389, "title": "Convergence, Reciprocity, and Asymmetry: Communication Accommodation Between Large Language Models and Users Across Cultures", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The increasing adoption of conversational agents powered by large language models (LLMs) raises questions about its effects across culturally diverse interactions. While these agents are linguistically versatile and multilingual, their ability to adapt along cultural dimensions–defined as geographically and communally nurtured sets of values and behavioral norms– lacks close scrutiny of both their design and deployment. To achieve inclusive conversational AI, it is essential to understand how agents adapt to users from diverse cultural backgrounds. In this study, we analyze dialogues between human users from different countries and LLM-powered agents to examine how both parties adapt their word use, a salient aspect of linguistic styles, toward one another throughout casual conversations. Our analysis reveals that LLMs exhibit varying degrees of style matching based on users' national cultures and demonstrate asymmetric adaptation when interacting with culturally diverse users. Moreover, we observe a reciprocal dynamic where both the LLMs and users from certain cultures adjust their styles in response to one another. Additionally, our findings support the hypothesis that LLMs and users naturally converge in conversational styles over the course of interactions, mirroring the dynamics of human conversations that accommodate and converge. To develop localized and culturally aware agents, there's a potential to utilize such cross-cultural convergence process during fine-tuning to align LLMs.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Culture; Human-computer interaction; Cross-cultural analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7623w45h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rong-Ching", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC DAVIS", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hao-Chuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Davis", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49389/galley/37351/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49919, "title": "Convolutional Neural Networks Can (Meta-)Learn the Same-Different Relation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have come to match and exceed human performance in many settings, the tasks these models optimize for are largely constrained to the level of individual objects, such as classification and captioning. Humans remain vastly superior to CNNs in visual tasks involving relations, including the ability to identify two objects as `same' or `different'. A number of studies have shown that while CNNs can be coaxed into learning the same-different relation in some settings, they tend to generalize poorly to other instances of this relation. In this work we show that the same CNN architectures that fail to generalize the same-different relation with conventional training are able to succeed when trained via meta-learning, which explicitly encourages abstraction and generalization across tasks.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Vision; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h48r4g3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Max", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gupta", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sunayana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rane", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "R. Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McCoy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49919/galley/37881/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49677, "title": "Cooperation, Deception and Theory of Mind in a Cyclic Game with Inter-Player Signalling", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In the Mod game, actions are laid out on a circle. Each round, players choose an action simultaneously and gain points for each player they are one step ahead of in clockwise direction. Cooperation is rarely used. This article facilitates cooperation and deceit by adding a signalling phase where one player signals which action they will play. Our novel Mod-Signal game lets players cooperate by adhering to their signal, but they can also lie by playing a different action. In our experiment, humans play the two-player 24-action Mod-Signal game with an agent and with each other. While cooperative play is faster and yields more points, players predominantly lie and play non-cooperatively. Furthermore, our participants usually use no more than second-order theory of mind. While the Mod game is mainly played competitively, our Mod-Signal game can also be used to investigate cooperation and deception in the context of theory of mind.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Decision making; Reasoning; Theory of Mind; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1466g95n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jakob Dirk", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Top", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Harmen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "de Weerd", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Abisharan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Raveenthiran", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Catholijn", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Jonker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Delft University of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rineke", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Verbrugge", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49677/galley/37639/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49861, "title": "Coordination Games with Sequential Stochastic Learning and Language Emergence", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Lewis signaling game (LSG) and similar coordination \ngames have been used to model the emergence and\nevolution of language. However both Nash\nequilibria and learning or evolutionary\ndynamics often result in suboptimal signaling systems. \nWe present a sequential reinforcement \nlearning (SRL) model based on a novel sequential binary decision\nprocess. SRL has low cognitive demands and parameter\ncount and exhibits lateral inhibition without additional\nassumptions. \nWe prove all scenarios converge to an optimal signaling\nsystem in all N state, N signal LSGs with arbitrary\nstate probabilities and further\nexplore its properties with numerical simulations. \nNext, we model a signaling game with \nagents who both speak and hear while using \none state of learning (instead of two, as is common). \nAgents have a probability\ndistribution for meanings in a given context.\nSpeaking agents use the distribution to \nchoose a meaning and use SRL model to \nchoose a signal. \nHearing agents use Bayes to combine their state of learning\nwith their meaning distribution to guess a meaning.\nAn agent's state of learning is reinforced\nfrom habit of speaking and guessing a meaning.\nNumerical simulations indicate both agents\nconverge to the same optimal system\nwithout external reinforcement\nas happens in language acquisition.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Language acquisition; Learning; Agent-based Modeling; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zz2v3f2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "James W", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shearer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "JW Shearer Consulting", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49861/galley/37823/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50190, "title": "Copilots for Cognitive Linguists 2025", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This presentation explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as \"copilots\" for linguistic research in Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar. We examine the potential of conversational AI, like ChatGPT and OpenAssistant, to augment FrameNet, create new frames, and analyze constructions. We review ways of using locally-run models (DeepSeek-like) and local RAG to the same purpose. We review prompt engineering, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and controlled experiments. Results show LLMs can generate examples and analyses of constructions, expand FrameNet, and work in multiple languages. Careful prompting and critical evaluation are indispensable. Despite limitations, LLMs offer a novel approach to linguistic inquiry, and ongoing work focuses on fine-tuning and integrating them with other tools. We also discuss the development of pedagogical AI for Cognitive Linguistics, including the FrameChat tool, which uses open-source LLMs and FrameNet data to facilitate research and education.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Linguistics; Language and thought; Machine learning; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30n5p37w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Turner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Case Western Reserve University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tiago", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Torrent", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Federal University of Juiz de Fora", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50190/galley/38152/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49980, "title": "CoRe: Cognitive Reasoning Framework for Zero-Shot Table Understanding and Reasoning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding, they still struggle with reasoning over table-based structured data, particularly in zero-shot settings. Tasks like question answering (QA), SQL generation, and numerical reasoning often fail due to insufficient task-specific training. To address these challenges, we propose CoRe (Cognitive Reasoning Framework for Structured Data), inspired by cognitive science principles of hierarchical and iterative reasoning. CoRe structures reasoning into multiple stages, allowing LLMs to better navigate the intricacies of table-based data. Evaluations using advanced LLMs, including Qwen-Plus, GPT-4o mini, and GLM-4-Plus, on datasets like HybridQA, BIRD, and DocMath-Eval show consistent performance improvements. CoRe outperforms zero-shot state-of-the-art (SOTA) on HybridQA and BIRD by 11.4% and 1.8% in Exact Match (EM) respectively, and achieves the best accuracy on DocMath-Eval's complong subset with 37.0%, approaching RAG-based SOTA. These results highlight CoRe's effectiveness as a robust framework for zero-shot reasoning over structured data.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive architectures; Decision making; Language Comprehension; Natural Language Processing" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6696229n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jiongfan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "ETH Zurich", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chengfeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Haibo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zhipu AI", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Fang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zhipu AI", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ying", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zhipu AI", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Haicong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "China Mobile Group Sichuan Co., Ltd.", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "China Mobile Group Sichuan Co., Ltd.", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49980/galley/37942/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50448, "title": "Core knowledge influences explanatory reasoning in children and infants", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Explanations help us make sense of the world. How does early knowledge shape explanatory reasoning? We first asked whether children's knowledge of object physics shapes their explanation preferences (Experiment 1). In previous work, children preferred teleological explanations (referencing purposes) to mechanistic explanations (referencing underlying processes) for natural events — a domain where children may lack robust knowledge. Here, preschoolers (N=26) saw natural events, non-surprising physical events, and surprising physical events. Then, they chose between teleological and mechanistic explanations. Children strongly preferred mechanistic explanations, suggesting that early physical knowledge influences explanatory reasoning in children. We then asked whether this extends to infants (Experiment 2). Infants (N=23) watched a ball bouncing off (non-surprising) or rolling through a wall (surprising event). Following the surprising event, infants showed systematically different looking patterns at explanatory vs non-explanatory information (e.g., wall with a hole vs. no hole). Thus, core object knowledge influences explanatory reasoning in early development.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Cognitive development; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1007p0fb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sally", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Berson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Feigenson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50448/galley/38410/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49341, "title": "Core Logic: Fourteen-month-olds exclude physical possibilities that would make an agent irrational.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans have the capacity for flexible and abstract reasoning that combines knowledge across distinct domains. To investigate the developmental origin of this capacity, we asked whether preverbal infants with limited language and no formal education can use logic to integrate information across physical and social domains. Across three preregistered experiments, we show that both adults and 14-month-old infants spontaneously use disjunctive reasoning to integrate predictions about possible outcomes of a probabilistic physical event with expectations about rational social behavior. In Experiment 1, adults deduced the agent's preference by eliminating alternatives. In Experiment 2, infants were surprised when the agent's behavior violated a logically inferred preference. Experiment 3 ruled out alternative novelty-based explanations. These findings suggest that infant logical inference can be reduced neither to domain-specific representations of physical objects or social agents, nor to language, revealing general-purpose core logic as a foundation of human thought.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Language and thought; Reasoning; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rs3f6bv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zihan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nicolo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cesana-Arlotti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49341/galley/37302/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50240, "title": "Counterfactual error-monitoring in human planning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Human decision-making involves evaluating choices and learning from outcomes, yet how individuals process information about paths previously or no longer available options remains unclear. While traditional reinforcement learning models suggest that evaluating unchosen options optimizes future decisions, online planning algorithms typically ignore unavailable paths that can not inform current choices. This raises a critical question: do humans actively monitor unchosen alternatives during online planning? Using a two-stage decision task with eye-tracking and reaction-time analyses, we show that participants systematically monitor alternative paths, especially when their selected path proves suboptimal. Attention to unavailable options scales with their potential value, revealing an adaptive metacognitive process absent in online planning algorithms. These findings indicate that humans maintain and update representations of unavailable alternative choices rather than discarding them after selection. This work provides novel insights into the interplay between planning, metacognition, and adaptive behavior by demonstrating counterfactual evaluation during decision-making.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2w61t3z5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Doris", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Frederick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Callaway", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marcelo", "middle_name": "G", "last_name": "Mattar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50240/galley/38202/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50242, "title": "Coupled echo state networks as a model of task-oriented alignment", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Coordination studies reveal that groups can achieve performance exceeding the sum of individual contributions (Bahrami et al., 2010). Further evidence suggests that weak coupling maximizes the benefits of coordinated problem-solving (Abney et al., 2015; Schloesser et al., 2021). This work develops a computational framework to study coordination in coupled systems. We trained two echo state networks (ESNs) to classify cepstrum-coded speech signals from nine native Japanese speakers (Kudo et al., 1999). Coupling ESN feedback during testing reveals a nonlinear relationship between joint performance and coupling: moderate coupling (feedback integrates readout states from both networks) enhances performance, whereas full coupling (feedback is swapped between networks) returns performance to that of independent networks. These results suggest that while interaction between networks can enhance performance, excessive integration may diminish the benefits of independent contributions (cf. Fusaroli et al., 2012). Our model provides a novel, formal framework for explaining interaction dynamics in collective intelligences.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Complex systems; Interactive behavior; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cs9m758", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Polyphony", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bruna", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dale", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Spivey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kello", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50242/galley/38204/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49534, "title": "Cross-Cultural Emotion Concept Representation: A Comparison of English, Korean, and Large Language Model Representations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Each person develops a unique emotional landscape shaped by their experiences and linguistic-cultural contexts, partly personal and partly shared with others. This enables personally unique emotional experiences while maintaining shared understanding. This work aims to advance a framework for investigating what's shared and distinct across individuals, beginning with linguistic communities as an essential level of analysis, using English and Korean speakers as our case study. We examined how emotion concept representations differ between English and Korean speakers using representational similarity analysis and network analysis. English and Korean speakers' judgments of pairwise similarity between 57 emotion concepts evidenced both substantial shared structure and language-specific patterns (Spearman's Ï� = 0.72, indicating 48% unshared variance). While valence emerged as a key organizing dimension in both languages, network analyses with strength centrality showed distinct patterns for each language. First, the Korean emotion concept network demonstrated higher strength centrality across all emotion concepts than the English network, indicating higher interconnectedness between concepts. Second, high-centrality emotions were predominantly negative in both languages but formed language-specific local networks with different sets of neighboring concepts. The statistics of language usage encode a substantial part of the conceptual structure of emotion, enabling large language models to capture aspects of human emotion. Despite their advanced multilingual capabilities, GPT4-o and Claude-3.5 showed stronger alignment with English speakers' representations, regardless of prompt language. These findings demonstrate that while languages reflect common principles in emotion representation, they shape distinct patterns, with implications for cross-linguistic/cultural emotion understanding and AI system development.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Culture; Emotion; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/373553tb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mijin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kwon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "Dae", "last_name": "Houlihan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Phillips", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49534/galley/37496/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50003, "title": "Cross-environment Cooperation Enables Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Zero-shot coordination (ZSC)—the ability to adapt to new partners in a cooperative task—is critical for human-compatible AI. While prior work has focused on training agents to cooperate on a single task, these specialized models fail to generalize to new tasks, even if similar. We study how reinforcement learning on a distribution of environments with a single partner induces general cooperative skills that support ZSC with many new partners on many new problems. We introduce two Jax-based procedural generators that create billions of solvable coordination challenges. We develop a new paradigm called Cross-Environment Cooperation (CEC), and show that it outperforms baselines quantitatively and qualitatively when collaborating with real people. Our findings suggest that learning to collaborate across diverse scenarios encourages agents to develop general norms effective for collaboration. Together, our results suggest a new route toward designing generalist cooperative agents that interact with humans without requiring human data.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Human-computer interaction; Intelligent agents; Machine learning; Problem Solving" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46h1128v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kunal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jha", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "wilka", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "carvalho", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yancheng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Simon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Du", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Natasha", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jaques", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Max", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kleiman-Weiner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50003/galley/37965/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49714, "title": "Cross-Language Typicality Effects in a Multilingual Large Language Model", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The typicality effect is the finding that some members of a category are more ``central'' and others more ``peripheral''. This effect is seminal for understanding the mental representation of concepts. Recently, researchers have looked for typicality effects in the representations learned by machine learning models as evidence of their cognitive alignment. Studies of the typicality effect in Large Language Models (LLMs) have focused on models trained on English corpora and category norms collected from English speakers. Here, we use existing norms to investigate the typicality effect across five languages: English, French, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. We focused on eight categories common across these norms, and asked whether a multilingual LLM, GPT-4o-mini, shows human-like typicality effects across these languages. The results show variation in typicality gradients across languages. Importantly, GPT-4o-mini's typicality judgments show strong alignment with human norms for some languages: English and French. The strong performance for French, in particular, cannot simply be attributed to the representation of that language in the training corpus. We discuss the implications of these findings for future studies exploring alternative model prompting approaches, different languages, and the modeling of new category norms collected using uniform methods.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Concepts and categories; Language and thought; Natural Language Processing; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n50w46w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sneh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gupta", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ethan", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Haarer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "May", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kalnik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Amogh", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Mellacheruvu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nikhita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vasan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sashank", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Varma", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Tech", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49714/galley/37676/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50206, "title": "Cross-Linguistic Influence and Developmental Patterns in Reflexive Pronoun Use Among Monolingual, Bilingual, and Trilingual Children", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Chinese employs compound reflexives (e.g., ta-ziji) adhering to local binding principles, and bare reflexives (ziji) exhibiting syntactic and semantic flexibility (e.g., logophoric, intensifier, generic pronoun, (Wang & Pan, 2021), whereas English reflexives primarily function as locally bound anaphors but permit extended logophoric/intensifier uses in long-distance contexts (Charnavel, 2019). Previous studies show that monolingual Mandarin children achieve adult-like local and long-distance interpretations by age four (Li, 2024), while English monolinguals master reflexives by five (Chien & Wexler, 1990). This study examines 5,299 reflexive utterances from 476 monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual children (1;0–6;9) and caregivers across 19 CHILDES corpora. Results show Chinese bare reflexives emerge earliest (1;7), followed by Chinese compound reflexives (1;11) and English reflexives (2;4). Chinese reflexives are used as local anaphoric quite late (2;6), possibly attributed to low frequency in input (< .005%). Multilingual children acquiring English alongside Chinese exhibit English-like local-binding preferences in their Chinese bare reflexives.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Development; Language acquisition; Language Production; Statistical learning; Syntax; Corpus studies; Cross-cultural analysis; Cross-linguistic analysis" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xs6k5h2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yue", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern California", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mengyao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Chinese University of Hong Kong", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ziyin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Chinese University of Hong Kong", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50206/galley/38168/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50054, "title": "Cross-Linguistic Similarities and Differences in People's Understanding of the Structure of Number Words", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Number words follow a set of principles that some have proposed to be universal. According to Hurford (1975), these principles include phrase-structure rules along with additional arithmetic constraints. However, languages vary in how transparently their number systems reflect these principles; for example, the English teens (e.g., twelve) and Turkish decades (e.g., yirmi) deviate from them. How do such irregularities influence speakers' understanding of number word structure? To find out, we examined grammaticality judgments for novel number words among speakers of Chinese (with a transparent number system) and English and Turkish (with less transparent systems). While all groups demonstrated a better understanding of the phrase-structure rules than the arithmetic constraints, Chinese speakers showed more sensitivity to both the rules and the constraints than English or Turkish speakers. The results pinpoint ways in which the structure of number words is available to all speakers and ways in which it varies.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language and thought; Syntax; Cross-linguistic analysis" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12z3s970", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kexin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Que", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northwestern University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lance", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rips", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northwestern University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50054/galley/38016/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50390, "title": "Cross-linguistic transfer of informativeness biases in the kinship domain", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Different languages map words to concepts in distinct ways, and this can result in \"semantic accents\" in multilingual individuals. For example, Hindi kinship terms make several distinctions not made in English, e.g., \"older sister\" (didi) vs. \"younger sister\" (behen). This study expands on previous literature to assess whether informativeness biases present in one's native language impact word choice when speaking non-native languages, particularly in development when semantic networks are in flux. We expect that, when asked to refer in English to individuals who differ along dimensions such as seniority or lineage, Hindi native-speaking children will more frequently use modifiers such as \"older\" or \"maternal\" than English native-speaking children. Preliminary results from Hindi-speaking participants (N = 74, M(age) = 14;2) suggest that their use of modifiers decreases as their level of English proficiency increases, in line with recent research proposing distinct but mutually influential lexical networks in multilingual speakers' languages.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Language acquisition; Language and thought; Semantics of language" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p99g0xd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schoener", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ortega AndrŽs", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of the Basque Country", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mahesh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Srinivasan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50390/galley/38352/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50132, "title": "Crossmodal Processing Effects Through an Eye Tracking Lens", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The current experiments used an eye tracker to examine how congruent and incongruent stimuli in one modality affect processing in a second modality. Participants in Experiment 1 had to quickly determine if a stimulus was an animal or a vehicle, and participants in Experiment 2 had to determine if a stimulus had one or two circles (visual), or one or two beeps (auditory). Stimuli were congruent (dog/dog bark, or one circle/one beep) or incongruent (dog/car horn, or one circle/two beeps), and performance was compared to unimodal baseline conditions. Behavioral results in both tasks show that visual stimuli had a larger effect on auditory responding than vice versa – as congruent stimuli sped up responding while incongruent stimuli slowed down responding and decreased accuracy. Oculomotor data acquired via eye tracking mirrored behavioral results, with auditory conditions being more susceptible to interference effects observed through congruency manipulations.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Semantics of language; Sensory Processing; Eye tracking; Statistics" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2hg480jj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shae", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moore", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ohio State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lydia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Painter", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University Newark", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cameron", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jenkins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ohio State University Newark", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Susan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Geffen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Occidental College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chris", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Robinson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50132/galley/38094/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49747, "title": "Cross-modal serial dependence emerges in sequential numerosity comparison task", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Serial dependence is a phenomenon in which current perception is attracted to the immediately preceding perception and is thought to reflect a mechanism for stabilizing perception. It has been demonstrated across a variety of stimuli and has also been observed in the numerosity perception. A previous study suggested that cross-modal serial dependence in numerosity perception from audition to vision did not occur; however, differences in the stimulus presentation format might have prevented serial dependence from emerging. Therefore, we used a standardized temporal presentation format. As a result, we observed bidirectional cross-modal serial dependence between audition and vision. However, the effects in each direction were not consistent within individuals. These findings provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying serial dependence, indicating that both higher-level processing, such as abstract numerical representation, and lower-level processing, such as auditory and visual cortex involvement, are engaged in cross-modal serial dependence in numerosity perception.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Audition; Perception; Vision; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2235s4xm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Takuma", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hashimoto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Osaka Metropolitan University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Shogo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Makioka", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Osaka Metropolitan University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49747/galley/37709/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50304, "title": "Cultural Variability in Baby-Schema Perception: Insights on Face Perception from Two Small-Scale Malaysian and An Urban German Community", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Baby-schema is a social perception phenomenon describing how infantile facial features and their abstract representation in animals and objects automatically engage human caregiving responses. While often considered universal, its cross-cultural variability remains untested outside large-scale industrialized communities. Does cultural background and visual experience influence perceptual and behavioral biases of baby-schema?\n\nWe examined responses to manipulated infant faces in two Indigenous Malaysian (Batek, Temiar) and an urban German community. In a pre-registered eye-tracking task, participants viewed human and cat face pairs differing only in baby-schema-level (high vs. low) and completed a pre-registered binary forced-choice task. Germans selected high baby-schema faces as more likable, cuter, younger, and healthier, while small-scale communities showed attenuated or absent effects and were less sensitive to baby-schema manipulations in a control discrimination-task. Eye-tracking showed cultural differences in gaze patterns that were not meaningfully influenced by species or baby-schema-level. A follow-up study will investigate effects of group membership.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Face Processing; Social cognition; Cross-cultural analysis; Eye tracking; Field studies" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t0520p6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marie", "middle_name": "M. G.", "last_name": "Michael", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "Benjamin Moritz", "last_name": "Haun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50304/galley/38266/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50040, "title": "Curiosity as a Morphism of Interpretation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Curiosity is often viewed as information-seeking to fill knowledge gaps arising from expectation violations, typically measured statistically. However, natural systems can be represented as binary relational graphs consisting of entity types, instances, and collections, all of which must maintain relational consistency to ensure a coherent system. This consistency is assured through closure, making its interpretation central to behaviors such as curiosity. When curiosity is defined solely in statistical terms, it fails to guarantee relational consistency - a critical limitation. In contrast, interpreting the three components through closure offers a robust mechanism for verifying relational coherence. Closure is achieved when all relations are in agreement; any deviation signals inconsistency. In the absence of closure, agents seek to achieve closure by bringing in evidentiary support from memory and reinterpreting the relational structure. In this view, curiosity signals act by morphing interpretation to achieve relational closure, enabling the acquisition of coherent knowledge.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Creativity; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77z9b7mr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Arun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kumar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota, Twin Cities", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schrater", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota, Twin Cities", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50040/galley/38002/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49749, "title": "Curiosity Exploration Styles in Word Association Tasks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent analyses of human creativity and curiosity have identified the existence of three styles of exploration: busybody, hunter, and dancer. These styles were recognized largely by observing participants' explorations within a task, converting those observations into networks, and measuring networks' properties. But do these exploration styles still appear across different tasks? And when graph-based descriptors of an individual's exploration style are identified, how well do they transfer to similar tasks? We study inter- and intra-individual differences in two similar, but distinct, word association tasks: Chain Free Association and Semantic Fluency. We demonstrate that in some cases, graph-theoretic features do seem to capture individual semantic exploration patterns across tasks. Furthermore, our results provide evidence supporting the existence of the dancer style and its relationship to the Busybody-Hunter score. These findings highlight the potential of graph analysis as a tool for characterizing and exploring individual cognitive styles in semantic tasks.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Cognitive architectures; Creativity; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ws069q4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stephen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Steinle", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Florida", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "My", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Duong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Florida", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Suraj", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kumar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Florida", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rima", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "El Brouzi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Florida", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Licato", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Florida", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49749/galley/37711/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49711, "title": "Curiosity is linked to information seeking in the moral domain", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Curiosity motivates information seeking and knowledge acquisition across the lifespan, yet its role in the moral domain remains unexplored. To address this gap, we developed a task to examine how people seek information about real-life ambiguous moral scenarios. Across two experiments, we found that curiosity predicts greater information seeking, regardless of whether the action was seen as morally good or bad. In Experiment 1, we also found that moral goodness was associated with less information seeking, suggesting an asymmetry in how people engage with moral information. Experiment 2 replicated these findings and showed reputational concerns also influenced information-seeking, and that judgments of action justification help explain the link between perceived morality and information-seeking behavior. Together, these results demonstrate the role of curiosity in moral information seeking, and highlight the influence of perceived morality, justification, and reputational concerns in this process.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Other; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96v2q327", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jane", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Acierno", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northeastern University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Isaac", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Handley-Miner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Constantino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Max", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kleiman-Weiner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Liane", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Young", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jordan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wylie", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49711/galley/37673/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49760, "title": "Curriculum learning in humans and neural networks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The sequencing of training trials can significantly influence learning outcomes in humans and neural networks. However, studies comparing the effects of training curricula between the two have typically focused on the acquisition of multiple tasks. Here, we investigate curriculum learning in a single perceptual decision-making task, examining whether the behavior of a parsimonious network trained on different curricula would be replicated in human participants. Our results show that progressively increasing task difficulty during training facilitates learning compared to training at a fixed level of difficulty or at random. Furthermore, a sequences designed to hamper learning in a parsimonious neural network network impair learning in humans. As such, our findings indicate strong qualitative similarities between neural networks and humans in curriculum learning for perceptual decision-making, suggesting the former can serve as a viable computational model of the latter.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Perception; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/086724zm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Younes", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Strittmatter", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stefano", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sarao Mannelli", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Chalmers", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Miguel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ruiz-Garcia", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Complutense University de Madrid", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sebastian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Musslick", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Osnabrueck", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Markus", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Spitzer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49760/galley/37722/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49739, "title": "CV-Probes: Studying the interplay of lexical and world knowledge in visually grounded verb understanding", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "How do vision-language (VL) transformer models ground verb phrases and do they integrate contextual and world knowledge in this process? We introduce the CV-Probes dataset, containing image-caption pairs involving verb phrases that require both social knowledge and visual context to interpret (e.g., `beg'), as well as pairs involving verb phrases that can be grounded based on information directly available in the image (e.g., ``sit\"). We show that VL models struggle to ground VPs that are strongly context-dependent. Further analysis using explainable AI techniques shows that such models may not pay sufficient attention to the verb token in the captions. Our results suggest a need for improved methodologies in VL model training and evaluation. The code and dataset will be available https://github.com/ivana-13/CV-Probes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Language understanding; Natural Language Processing; Pattern recognition; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h83566r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ivana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Benova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brno University of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gregor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Albert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gatt", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Utrecht University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49739/galley/37701/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49715, "title": "Data Ownership and Privacy: Investigating a Shared Psychological Basis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People often share their personal data online despite reporting that they should not. They also show surprise and distress when data is used in ways they authorize despite giving consent. But, what underlies this inconsistency in people's thinking? In the present study, we investigated the proposal that thinking about control over information, or informational autonomy, likely underlies variability in thinking about privacy and data ownership. Namely, we propose that threats to one's autonomy might account for the aforementioned changes in people's concern for their data. To test this account, we used a survey-style design to measure how a hypothetical threat to the self, and thereby control, influenced adults' (N = 51) judgments about the ownership and privacy of their personal data. The threat was police lawfully obtaining their data with a warrant. We found that privacy and ownership judgments significantly increased over time. We also found that the variability in participants' ownership and privacy judgments was related. Together, our findings suggest that privacy and ownership likely have a shared psychological basis, and this shared psychology can likely explain the variability in people's judgments about personal data across time.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Reasoning; Social cognition; Statistics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xr6k6d9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Breanna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Amoyaw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Manitoba", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Katie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Szilagyi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Manitoba", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Shaylene", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Nancekivell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Manitoba", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49715/galley/37677/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49519, "title": "DDSPR: Dynamic Domain Selection and Pseudo-label Refinement for Cross-Subject EEG-based Emotion Recognition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Automatic emotion recognition using electroencephalography (EEG) signals has garnered significant attention in recent years. While multi-source domain adaptation methods provide a promising framework for cross-subject emotion recognition, the distributional discrepancies among different source domains often result in negative transfer. To address these challenges, we propose a two-stage Dynamic Domain Selection and Pseudo-label Refinement (DDSPR) model. In the first stage, we introduce a novel Dynamic Domain Selection (DDS) module and an Agent Domain Adaptation Strategy (ADAS) to dynamically select and align source domains. In the second stage, a confidence-based pseudo-label correction strategy is employed to refine target domain labels and mitigate noise. We evaluate the proposed model through cross-subject experiments on the SEED and SEED-IV datasets, achieving accuracies of 91.50% ± 7.05 and 78.05% ± 13.56, respectively.The results demonstrate its effectiveness in emotion recognition performance.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Cognitive architectures; Emotion Perception; Electroencephalography (EEG); Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fg74669", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Qinyu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Liying", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "xidian university", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yumeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ye", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Qiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jingtao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Du", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Huanyu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "He", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "xidian university", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49519/galley/37481/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49418, "title": "Deaf Signers Adapt Their Eye Gaze Behaviour When Processing an Unknown Sign Language", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Sign languages are perceived visually and externalized using a signer's hands, face, and upper body. During sign language comprehension, deaf signers primarily focus their gaze on the face, while hearing non-signers attend more to the hands of a signer. Little is known about whether deaf signers adapt their gaze behaviour when processing unknown signs. Here, we report eye-tracking data from 15 deaf native signers of German Sign Language (DGS) and 15 hearing non-signers who were presented with videos in either DGS or an unknown sign language, all containing no linguistic mouth actions. Our data confirm that deaf signers generally fixate more on the face of a signer than hearing non-signers who attend to the hands in sign space. Moreover, only deaf signers increase their attention to the hands when processing video stimuli consisting of unknown signs compared to familiar signs, suggesting similar adjustment behaviours as observed in spoken languages.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language Comprehension; Natural Language Processing; Vision; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/018384xx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sander", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nina-Kristin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meister", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georg-August-UniversitŠt Gšttingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thomas A.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Finkbeiner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georg-August-UniversitŠt Gšttingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Caroline", "middle_name": "F", "last_name": "Rowland", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Markus", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Steinbach", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georg-August-UniversitŠt Gšttingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Angela D.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Friederici", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Emiliano", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zaccarella", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Trettenbrein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49418/galley/37380/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50451, "title": "Deciphering human meta-cognition in creative problem-solving", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Previous studies on human meta-cognition, represented by confidence in perceptual decisions, often focus on over-simplified environments that yield experiences with limited semantic dimensions. However, in real-life situations such as solving a new problem, people need to make sequential decisions in a complex environment, exploring vast combinations of actions that unfold over time. How do people make meta-cognitive evaluations out of the rich, high-dimensional cognitive experiences in such situations? Here we develop a computational method that models each individual's meta-cognitive ratings (e.g., difficulty) of problem-solving experience in a visual puzzle game, using information-theoretic metrics derived from their own action sequences. Individuals are assumed to be Bayesian to update their \"thought-space distributions\" with their own behavioral distributions on different semantic categories. Our results show that information discrepancies between beliefs at different moments can predict individual differences in self-reported difficulty.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Problem Solving; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Statistics" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77x5c88p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yang-Fan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Peking University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Qianli", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Chinese Academy of Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Peking University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50451/galley/38413/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49508, "title": "Decoding EEG Signals to Explore Next-Word Predictability in the Human Brain", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans invented reading and have passed down this complex skill across generations through language. This study provides empirical evidence of the neural mechanisms underlying bottom-up (related to high-order linguistic structure) and top-down (related to next-word predictability) processes, which interact to guide comprehension during reading. While previous studies have focused on either the N400 effects of predictability or lexical categories, research on how predictability influences N400 responses across different lexical categories is limited, mainly due to constraints in publicly available datasets. Here, we examine how predictability influences brain responses, recorded at millisecond resolution using electroencephalography (EEG), with a focus on the N400 time window (300-500 ms post-stimulus) across different lexical and grammatical categories. Our results indicate that significant differences in N400 responses between high and low cloze probability levels were more pronounced for content words than function words. Among the two primary content categories, verbs exhibited greater N400 differences than nouns, while nouns carried more distinct information about their predictability than verbs. Moreover, we demonstrate that the decoding technique is more effective than the event-related potential (ERP) traditional analysis in capturing more detailed and distinct representations of cognitive processes over time.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Language Comprehension; Machine learning; Reading; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jd2k0dw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mai-Boi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Quach", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dublin City University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thanh-Binh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Science & Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cathal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gurrin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dublin City University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Graham", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Healy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dublin City University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49508/galley/37470/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49173, "title": "Decoding Metaphors and Brain Signals in Naturalistic Contexts: An Empirical Study based on EEG and MetaPro", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Metaphors are seen as psycholinguistic phenomena that reveal human cognition. However, their neural basis in naturalistic contexts remains underexplored, although it offers insights into how metaphors shape everyday cognition at the neural level. In this study, we examine how metaphors are reflected in brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). We analyze EEG data collected during naturalistic reading conditions, where participants read texts without explicit cues indicating the presence of metaphors. Using MetaPro, an advanced metaphor processing tool, we aim to identify the neural signatures of metaphor perception in real-world contexts. Our results reveal significant differences in EEG patterns between metaphorical and literal language. Metaphorical cognition is associated with increased high-frequency EEG variability and enhanced functional connectivity in the left hemisphere. Case studies suggest that different metaphorical concept mappings correspond to distinct neurocognitive patterns. These findings provide important neural evidence for the use of metaphorical concept mappings to analyze and differentiate cognitive processes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qm6b5rc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Erik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cambria", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NTUsg", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49173/galley/37134/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49173/galley/38679/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49783, "title": "Decompose, Deduce, and Dispose: A Memory-Limited Metacognitive Model of Human Problem Solving", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Many real-world problems are defined by complex systems of interlocking constraints. How people are able to solve these problems with such limited working memory capacity remains poorly understood. We propose a formal model of human problem-solving that uses metacognitive knowledge of its own memory limits and imperfect reasoning to guide subproblem choice. We compare our model to human gameplay in two experiments using a variant of the classic game Minesweeper. In Experiment 1, we find that participants' accuracy was influenced both by the order of subproblems and their ability to externalize intermediate results, indicative of a memory bottleneck in reasoning. In Experiment 2, we used a mouse-tracking paradigm to assess participants' subproblem choice and time allocation. The model captures key patterns of subproblem ordering, error, and time allocation. Our results point toward memory limits and strategies for navigating those limits— including the careful choice of subproblems and memory-offloading — as central elements of human problem-solving.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Problem Solving; Reasoning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/517147vr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Cheyette", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tony", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Matthias", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hofer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Frederick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Callaway", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Neil", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Bramley", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "B.", "last_name": "Tenenbaum", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49783/galley/37745/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49529, "title": "Decomposed Inductive Procedure Learning: Learning Academic Tasks with Human-Like Data Efficiency", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Human learning relies on specialization---distinct cognitive mechanisms working together to enable rapid learning. In contrast, most modern neural networks rely on a single mechanism: gradient descent over an objective function. This raises the question: might human learners' relatively rapid learning from just tens of examples instead of tens of thousands in data-driven deep learning arise from our ability to use multiple specialized mechanisms of learning in combination? We investigate this question through an ablation analysis of inductive human learning simulations in online tutoring environments. Comparing reinforcement learning to a more data-efficient 3-mechanism symbolic rule induction approach, we find that decomposing learning into multiple distinct mechanisms significantly improves data efficiency, bringing it in line with human learning. Furthermore, we show that this decomposition has a greater impact on efficiency than the distinction between symbolic and subsymbolic learning alone. Efforts to align data-driven machine learning with human learning often overlook the stark difference in learning efficiency. Our findings suggest that integrating multiple specialized learning mechanisms may be key to bridging this gap.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive architectures; Learning; Machine learning; Skill acquisition and learning; Agent-based Modeling; Symbolic computational modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jm3s1s3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Weitekamp", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "MacLellan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Erik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Harpstead", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Napol", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rachatasumrit", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kenneth", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Koedinger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49529/galley/37491/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49748, "title": "Decomposing Implicit Bias in Distributional Semantic Models: The Roles of First- and Second-Order Co-Occurrence", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Distributional semantic models (DSMs) are computational models that learn semantic relationships through word co-occurrence patterns, broadly aligning with human statistical learning mechanisms. Prior research has shown that DSMs capture not only general semantic structure but also human social biases. For example, Caliskan et al. (2017) demonstrated that pre-trained word embeddings encode associations that mirror implicit stereotypes measured by the Implicit Association Test (IAT). To better understands how DSMs acquire these biases, we examined the roles of two distinct sources of distributional information: first-order (direct co-occurrence) and second-order (indirect co-occurrence) statistics. Our analysis revealed that nearly all biases tested could be accounted for by first-order statistics alone, while about half were significant in second-order statistics. Every bias was present in at least one of these co-occurrence types, with nuanced variation in how different topics exhibited bias across first- and second-order associations. These findings suggest that implicit biases in DSMs can be attributed to simple co-occurrence patterns, predominantly direct associations. Moreover, they support theories positing that implicit biases reflect statistical regularities in the environment rather than personal attitudes. This work highlights how these biases are embedded in natural language and how a cognitive system capable of statistical learning could acquire implicit biases through the same mechanisms that shape human semantic memory.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Semantic memory; Semantics of language; Social cognition; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c297396", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Molly", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Apsel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michael N.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jones", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49748/galley/37710/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49235, "title": "Decoupling Hand and Mind in Abstract Temporal Reasoning: Variation in temporal gesture and temporal reasoning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Time is often conceptualized spatially. Some argue that this spatialization is essential for understanding time and should manifest reliably in temporal gesture. Here we ask whether people vary in their production of temporal gesture and what this variation might signal about abstract reasoning and communication. Participants (N = 94) watched time-travel narratives, reasoned aloud about the narrative's temporal structure, and later completed a computer assessment of their recollection and comprehension of the narrative's complex temporal structure. We found that participants varied considerably in how often they produced temporal gesture. This variation in temporal gesture was strongly associated with the production of non-temporal representational gesture, suggesting a 'gestural style' that governs the production of gesture in general. There was no association, however, between temporal gesture and temporal reasoning accuracy. We speculate about the role that temporal gesture might play in larger assemblages of temporal understanding and communication.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Cognition of Time; Embodied Cognition; Reasoning; Gesture analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m187009", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shervin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nosrati", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Leo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Niehorster-Cook", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tyler", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marghetis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49235/galley/37196/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49235/galley/38741/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49870, "title": "Deep Vision Models Follow Shepard's Universal Law of Generalization", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Shepard's (1987) universal law of generalization holds that the probability of generalizing between two stimuli decays as a concave function of their distance in psychological space. While there is widespread evidence for the law in human perception, its relevance to artificial neural networks remains unclear, despite the importance of generalization for these systems. Here, we find that the representational spaces of models that vary in their architecture, objective, and training data yield a concave generalization gradient with respect to human judgments of naturalistic images (Peterson et al., 2018), consistent\nwith Shepard's law. Our results suggest that the representational spaces of deep vision networks serve as compelling, but imperfect, proxies for classic psychological spaces derived from behavioral data. This highlights the strengths and weaknesses of deep vision models as contributors to cognitive theories of perceptual generalization, while adding further evidence for the generality of Shepard's law.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Perception; Representation; Vision; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36x3f6dv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Carstensen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Serra", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Favila", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Frankland", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49870/galley/37832/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49128, "title": "Defending Science in 2025", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Higher education and science are facing unprecedented challenges. What can we do as scientists? This symposium aims to highlight ongoing efforts to protect our research, institutions, and academic rights, provide concrete actions we can take, and collectively brainstorm a strategy going forward.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Symposia", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63h445kg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Piantadosi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49128/galley/37089/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49128/galley/38634/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50480, "title": "Degree of bilingualism and cognitive neural processing in adults", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Effects of bilingualism on cognitive control remain highly debated. Such debates partly stem from reliance on behavioral measures alone, which may obscure subtle individual differences. Even studies that leverage brain electrophysiology report mixed results, often due to categorizing individuals as monolingual or bilingual. Here, we examined whether the degree of bilingualism was related to the P3b effect—an established electrophysiological measure of cognitive control. Young adults with heterogeneous language experiences completed the Language Social Background Questionnaire (Anderson et al., 2018). Electroencephalography data were recorded from 70 participants who completed the Active Visual Oddball paradigm (Kappenman et al., 2021), a task optimized to isolate the P3b response. We found that more bilingual language experience was associated with larger P3b effects, even in the absence of behavioral differences. These results highlight the importance of characterizing bilingualism along a continuum when investigating bilingual effects on cognitive processing.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive development; Language understanding; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sg1m2q8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Rodas De Le—n", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Merced", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bortfeld", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kristina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Backer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Merced", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50480/galley/38442/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49979, "title": "Dendrophilia versus continuity in hierarchical reasoning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Hierarchical reasoning might be qualitatively unique to humans or alternatively may arise from quantitative differences in cognitive resources. We tested hierarchical reasoning abilities across adults, children, crows, and monkeys, evaluating two hypotheses: the Strong Dendrophilia Hypothesis, which posits human uniqueness, and the Continuity Hypothesis, which attributes differences to variations in information-processing capacity. Using Bayesian modeling, we found that hierarchical reasoning (dendrocapacity) is not exclusive to humans, though the tendency to engage in it (dendroproclivity) varies across age and species. Adults exhibited the strongest dendroproclivity, while children and non-humans showed graded performance influenced by cognitive resource demands and task complexity. Hierarchical mechanisms such as Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) stacks were prevalent across groups. These findings challenge human uniqueness in hierarchical reasoning and suggest its emergence through incremental increases in cognitive capacities across development and evolution.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Animal cognition; Development; Language and thought; Pattern recognition; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q1634p0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Abhishek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dedhe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Karishma", "middle_name": "Nicole", "last_name": "Kulshrestha", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Soham", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kulkarni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Troy High School", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Piantadosi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jessica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cantlon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49979/galley/37941/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49742, "title": "Dense Sentence Sets Induce an Anchor-and-Baseline Strategy in Likert Scale Acceptability Judgments", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Research in experimental syntax typically assumes that the five-point Likert scale offers an ordinal probe that maps monotonically onto a latent degree of sentence acceptability. We challenge that assumption by showing that, when the stimulus space is densely populated, speakers repurpose the scale into an anchor-and-baseline device. Two large-N experiments (Russian and Serbo-Croatian; N=237; 120 permutational word-order variants per language) elicited over 28000 sentence acceptability ratings. Plotting Shannon entropy of the response distribution against the mean rating reveals a robust 'entropy arch': uncertainty climbs to a sharp peak at the midpoint and collapses toward both ends. We interpret the arch as the quantitative fingerprint of constraint competition: the scale extremes serve as categorical anchors ('completely acceptable' vs. 'completely unacceptable'), while the center functions as a floating baseline against which speakers register maximally uncertain, cue-balanced configurations for which grammatical, information-structural and frequency-based cues pull in opposite directions. Our findings reframe Likert data as the outcome of dynamic calibration rather than static preference strength and provide a simple diagnostic, entropy profiling, for locating linguistic 'tipping-point' constructions. Beyond sentence acceptability, the approach offers a principled way to map regions of maximal competition in any domain where categorical anchors and graded uncertainty coexist.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language Comprehension; Syntax" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fr9r71f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Artem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Novozhilov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nova Gorica", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kirill", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chuprinko", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nova Gorica", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Artur", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stepanov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nova Gorica", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49742/galley/37704/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50427, "title": "Describing and remembering complex motion events in ‘real-world' videos", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Languages lexicalize motion events in different ways. Previous studies, using short clips of isolated motion events, have shown that these cross-linguistic differences can affect attention and memory. In this study, we use videos of ‘real world' complex motion events to test the effects of language patterns on perceived saliency of event elements as well as the granularity of speakers' descriptions. To increase the perceived importance of the task and its applicability to forensic contexts, participants (N=64) were informed that they were viewing CCTV footage of potential criminal activity, before completing a surprise or expected memory task. Participants watched a two-minute video depicting multiple interconnected motion events with several paths and manners of motion, placement events, as well as different event endings. Results unpack the extent of thinking for speaking effects on later ‘eye witness' description, as well as nuanced patterns of description change on iterated descriptions of the same video.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Event cognition; Language and thought; Semantics of language; Spatial cognition" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0z79n1xb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Pavla", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Novakova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of East Anglia", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kenny", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Coventry", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of East Anglia", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50427/galley/38389/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50436, "title": "Detecting an illusion's perception change", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "There are binary optical illusions that people typically perceive only one of the two images. These illusions involve a cognitive process. The process seems to on the edge between System 1 and System 2 and doesn't seem to be a conscious choice. In one well known example, people see either the old woman or the young lady and have difficulty perceiving the other image. We have found a way to manipulate an example of a binary choice perceptual illusion that starts with one image and at a particular point in the transition promptly switches to the other image in a Gestalt sense. The process is repeatable, reversable, appears to be stable over many repetitions, and has several characteristics that can be manipulated, such as the number, density, and size of the object(s) and the rate of change. The poster shows how to do this with a simple protocol.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Event cognition; Perception; Sensory Processing" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mw700kc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "William", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kennedy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Mason University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jordan", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Kulwicki", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Mason University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50436/galley/38398/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49490, "title": "Detecting Critical Collapsed Nodes in Social Networks: A Cognitive Model of Resilience under Spatial Constraints", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The resilience of social networks hinges on identifying users whose departure causes cascading collapse, influenced by both topology and social cognition, such as spatial relationship constraints. Existing studies often overlook how cognitive and behavioral factors shape network fragility. This paper introduces a cognitive-computational framework to detect critical collapsed nodes under spatial constraints, using the (k, σ)-core model to integrate social cohesion (k-core) and spatial thresholds (σ). We propose a pruning algorithm leveraging spatial locality for efficient querying of collapsed nodes and formalize the problem of finding optimal collapsed nodes as an NP-hard task. Our greedy heuristic prioritizes nodes with the most significant cascading impact, similar to human strategies in crises. Experiments on eight real-world networks show our model outperforms topology-only baselines in predicting collapse patterns, especially in spatially-embedded communities. Our findings highlight how spatial constraints and social cohesion amplify systemic fragility, providing insights for designing cognitively-aligned interventions to boost network resilience, bridging computational analysis with cognitive science.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Cognitive Humanities; Social cognition; Spatial cognition; Big data" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kb2k1xb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Engineering University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chenghao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Engineering University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yidan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Engineering University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ziyang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Engineering University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Weihe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Engineering University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Moustafa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Youssef (IEEE/ACM Fellow)", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "American University in Cairo and Alexandria University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Engineering University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49490/galley/37452/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49564, "title": "Detection of AI-Generated Contents Based on Dyadic-Brain Neural Synchronization", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The proliferation of DeepFake has engendered widespread societal concerns, positioning its detection as a pressing imperative. Although existing studies have utilized single-subject EEG to distinguish between real and AI-generated content (AIGC), there is still a lack of research exploring dual-brain EEG and multimodal experimental paradigms. This study introduced a novel experimental paradigm, employing EEG hyperscanning to construct a dyadic EEG dataset for AIGC detection. This study employed inter-subject correlation (ISC) analysis to investigate the differences of interpersonal neural synchronization (INS). Additionally, this study proposed a novel neural network model named Squeeze-and-Excitation Depthwise Separable Convolution (SEDSC) for predicting the authenticity of real vs. AIGC. ISC analysis revealed apparent differences in INS under different modalities, valences, and animacy. Specifically, across the four frequency bands, both text and audio modalities elicited higher inter-brain synchronization under real materials than under AIGC materials. SEDSC utilized the phase locking value to assess inter-brain functional connectivity and weighted the inputs from four frequency bands before feeding them into the network for classification. This approach achieved a classification accuracy of 92.42% in distinguishing real from fake content. This study designed a new experimental paradigm and constructed a dataset, confirming that there were evident differences in INS during tasks involving real and AIGC materials. Furthermore, SEDSC successfully predicted the authenticity of the content.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Social cognition; Electroencephalography (EEG); Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wr5x05g", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lihao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Piqiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yuhan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stony Brook Institute at Anhui University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Juan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hou", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Philosophy, Anhui University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lv", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49564/galley/37526/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50165, "title": "Developing a Mentoring System Based on Behavior Logging and Personalized Cognitive Modeling", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This research introduces an intelligent mentoring system that utilizes behavioral logs and cognitive modeling to provide personalized learning interventions. The system analyzes semantic patterns during web browsing to estimate cognitive parameters and predict task completion times. By employing CLIP, the system evaluates semantic alignment between learning objectives and accessed resources. Our experimental study with eight postgraduate students serves as a starting point for ACT-R cognitive parameter estimation. The system tracks both content relevance and user interest as internal human dynamics to maintain engagement with study materials. By integrating ACT-R architecture to estimate working memory capacity, attention span, and anxiety levels, the system maps these parameters to observed browsing behaviors. This dual-stage approach enables real-time cognitive estimation and personalized schedule generation, establishing a foundation for adaptive learning technologies that provide tailored interventions based on semantic dynamics analysis and cognitive parameter estimation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Learning; Computational Modeling; Quantitative Behavior" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6449b7ks", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nilupul", "middle_name": "Heshan Randika", "last_name": "Kodikara", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shizuoka University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Junya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morita", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shizuoka University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50165/galley/38127/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49256, "title": "Developmental evidence for sensitivity to hierarchical structure in the noun phrase", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In most of the world's languages, complex noun phrases are created by placing adjectives closest to the noun, and demonstratives farthest away, with numerals in the middle (e.g., \"this one short paper\"). Theoretical linguistics suggests that this tendency may result from a typical hierarchical structure, in which adjectives form an immediate constituent with nouns, numerals combine with that sub-constituent, and demonstratives combine with the resulting unit. Recent experimental studies also support this idea, showing learners prefer orders that follow this hierarchy (e.g., Martin et al. 2020). However, it is unknown whether this same preference is found in children, who have less experience than adults with these structures, and who might be less sensitive to the hierarchical structure of language. Here, we investigate ordering preferences in 5-6-year-old children. Results show that children, like adults, prefer hierarchy-following orders, strengthening the hypothesis that the prevalence of these orders reflects a universal cognitive bias.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Cognitive development; Language acquisition; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hc71570", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shira", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tal", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Benedek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bartha", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Central European University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Culbertson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49256/galley/37217/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49256/galley/38762/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50473, "title": "Developmental Trajectories of Metacognition in Auditory Serial Recall of Environmental Sounds", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "<p>Auditory streams with varying features (changing-state, e.g., J,K,L) impair serial recall more than repetitive streams (steady-state, e.g., J,J,J), known as the Changing-State Effect (CSE). Despite extensive CSE research, metacognitive development – how individual monitor recall under auditory distraction – remain unexplored. This study tested 26 adults (Experiment1) and 40 children (5–12 years, Experiment 2) on auditory serial recall and meta-memory accuracy (self-estimate performance). Distractors (steady-state/changing-state letters) followed target sequences of environmental sounds. Results showed: (i) both distractor types modulate meta-memory accuracy (vs. silence) but not serial recall performance (ii) serial recall improved with age and (iii) the discrepancy between meta-memory accuracy and recall accuracy declined with increasing age. These findings reveal distinct developmental trajectories: while serial recall improves steadily with age, metacognitive accuracy in the presence of auditory distraction becomes more precise and less disrupted by such interference as individuals grow older, suggesting divergent mechanisms for memory performance and its self-monitoring under CSE.</p>", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Audition; Behavioral Science; Cognitive development; Development; Memory; Skill acquisition and learning; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mm424s2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Leyu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Huang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Lincoln", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Florian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kattner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Health and Medical University Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Timothy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hodgson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Lincoln", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Julia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Föcker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Lincoln", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50473/galley/38435/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50000, "title": "Developmental Trajectories of Working Memory Updating from Early Childhood to Adolescence: A Meta-Analysis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Working memory updating, the process of replacing outdated information with new data, is a crucial cognitive function for learning that develops significantly throughout childhood and adolescence. However, the developmental trajectory and task-specific patterns remain inadequately understood. This meta-analysis examined 64 studies (N = 22,572\nparticipants) investigating working memory updating performance across five age groups\n(3-17 years) using various updating paradigms. Results revealed a significant positive\ndevelopmental trend, with the most substantial improvements occurring between the ages\nof 3 and 8 years. Additionally, task-specific analyses demonstrated various developmental\npatterns, with keep track tasks—the selective updating of relevant information from\nspecific categories while discarding irrelevant data—showing the most pronounced age-related improvement. Together, these findings suggest that working memory updating\nfollows a systematic developmental progression, influenced by task-based variations,\noffering valuable insights into cognitive development and potential applications for\neducational practices", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Development; Memory; Developmental analysis" } ], "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6g00n67p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ye", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Song", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cheng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50000/galley/37962/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50481, "title": "Development and Utilization of a Continuous-Space Description of Paintings", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Theories of category learning suggest that some aspects of item similarity (e.g., exemplar to exemplar; category center to category center) play a key role in predicting learning. Yet, measuring the distance between items can be difficult for real-world categories, so researchers often use contrived items (e.g., aliens with 1 to 5 circles on their chest). Here, we examined the role of similarity using more naturalistic categories: painting styles. To measure perceived distance between paintings, participants (N = 1,335) completed 512 trials of a triplet task, choosing which of two paintings was visually most similar to a target. Triplets were drawn randomly from 475 still life and landscape paintings by 40 artists. A machine learning algorithm then placed the paintings in a continuous space based on 571,286 total decisions. We used this space in a new learning task, where participants identified the artist of previously seen/unseen paintings. Initial results suggest perceived distances predicted learning outcomes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Concepts and categories; Learning; Memory" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34t5c5wt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ezgi", "middle_name": "Melisa", "last_name": "Yüksel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "C. Shawn", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Green", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Haley", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vlach", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50481/galley/38443/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49685, "title": "Development in the comprehension of phonetically reduced spoken words", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The speech young children hear is highly variable. For example, reduced pronunciations, where some sounds in the canonical pronunciation are naturally dropped or altered, are common even in speech to children. The present study employed a new story-guided looking method (a variation on language-guided looking) to create felicitous conditions for testing young children's recognition of reduced pronunciations of familiar words. Experiment 1 (18-24 months, n=32) found that toddlers succeeded at recognizing clear pronunciations, but failed to recognize reduced pronunciations, even in repetition trials when target words were preceded by a clear mention of the same word in the previous sentence. In Experiment 2, 3-year-olds (35-39 months, n=17 out of 44 pre-registered, ongoing) succeeded at recognizing reduced pronunciations, and benefited from preceding repetition. Overall, these results demonstrate a powerful new method for studying children's language comprehension under more naturalistic conditions, and highlight an important psycholinguistic development over the 2–3 year span.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Development; Language acquisition; Language Comprehension; Phonology; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3g9578fw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Caroline", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Beech", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Megan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shelton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Swingley", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49685/galley/37647/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49257, "title": "Development of Linguistic-Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders task", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "What is the developmental trajectory of language-mediated abstraction skills, and to what extent are these skills influenced by semantics? We address these questions asking children to generate semantic relations of categorical inclusion for words varying in concreteness. Results show that abstraction improves over time, independent of age, with both concrete and abstract concepts organized into hierarchical taxonomies. However, abstract concepts allow shorter ladders, making them harder to categorize, especially for younger children. These findings underscore the distinction between concreteness and specificity as separate dimensions of abstract reasoning, and they lend empirical support to theoretical models that treat these facets of abstraction as dissociable.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d54k9v9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Caterina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Villani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bologna", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Adele", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Loia", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Alma Mater Studiorum", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marianna", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Bolognesi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Modern Languages Dep", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49257/galley/37218/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49587, "title": "DHRec: A Debiased Hyperbolic Recommendation Model", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Personalized recommendation aims to recommend candidate items to users based on their preferences by simulating their cognitive decision-making process. User-item interaction data typically follows a power-law distribution. However, existing works usually learn the representations of users and items in Euclidean space, resulting in a mismatch between the data volume space and the embedding space, which causes significant distortion in the representations. Moreover, the presence of cognitive biases, such as conformity, can also introduce distortion in representation learning. Therefore, we propose a Debiased Hyperbolic Recommendation model, called DHRec. Specifically, first, we choose to model the representations of user and item in hyperbolic space, which has exponential growth capabilities. Second, in addition to the user-item interaction graph, we also construct semantic graphs to capture the semantic neighbor information of users and items. Then, by adjusting the weights of neighbor nodes, we learn debiased representations of users and items, effectively alleviating the bias caused by conformity. Finally, we compute the predicted scores between user and candidate items in hyperbolic space. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate that our model surpasses the strongest baseline, achieving a 11.04% and 10.09% improvement on Recall and NDCG, respectively.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Big data; Knowledge representation; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jn4h476", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mengmeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Academy of Military Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hongmei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Academy of Military Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhenyu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Academy of Military Science", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xianglong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Academy of Military Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jinlong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National University of Defense Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Qiyuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National University of Defense Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49587/galley/37549/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 50450, "title": "\"Did I really do that?!\" Unexpected outcomes of children's own actions as a driver of learning and exploration", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Children hold rich expectations about the physical and social world. While observing objects, events, and agents that violate these expectations elicit surprise and enhanced exploration—reflecting prediction error (PE) about the world—, it remains unknown whether children are also sensitive to prediction errors about the outcomes of their very own actions. Here we investigate whether four- to five-year-old children (N=96) are surprised when their self-guided choices produce unexpected outcomes. Upon achieving unexpected success in a chance-based card game, children who did so via their own unguided choices reported more surprise than children who produced the same success with help of a reliable aid. Moreover, in choosing what to explore next, children chose to re-play the surprise-inducing game over a novel, alternative game. Despite prior literature suggesting overconfidence in young children, these results indicate that children are sensitive to their own abilities, readily detecting expectation-outcome discrepancies in their own action outcomes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Causal reasoning; Cognitive development; Emotion; Learning; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09z7873g", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Adani", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Abutto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hyowon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gweon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50450/galley/38412/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49453, "title": "Difference in the Cognitive Mechanism of Predictive Processing in Computer-Mediated Communication: A Comparison Study of L2 Speakers", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Previous studies of predictive mechanisms in computer-mediated communication (CMC) suggested that native speakers (L1) rely on auditory cues and emotion in conversation processing. To understand how the prediction mechanism differs for non-native speakers (L2) in CMC, this study assessed how the loss of multi-modal cues affects word predictability in turn-taking, considering language background and social factors. L2 watched videos, listened to audio, or read a transcript of conversations, and predicted the same set of omitted words with different levels of predictability and semantic relatedness in different CMC. Results showed that, similar to the L1 study in He et al. (2025), higher response similarity but longer response time were observed in conditions with richer cues in L2 predictive processing. Semantic relatedness, self-emotion, attention, and language proficiency did not affect predictability. Participants reporting negative emotions and more limited L2 exposure demonstrated reduced prediction accuracy, particularly in cue-rich environments. These findings expand our understanding of L2 predictive processing in CMC by highlighting how multimodal cue integration operates differently for L2. The results have implications for developing communication technologies and language pedagogies tailored to L2 across various mediated communication contexts.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Human-computer interaction; Language Comprehension; Predictive Processing; Quantitative Behavior" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zd2v9dv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wanqing", "middle_name": "Psyche", "last_name": "He", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Cornell University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Susan", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Fussell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Cornell University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49453/galley/37415/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49441, "title": "Differential Memory for Belief-Congruent versus Belief-Incongruent Arguments Cannot Explain Belief-Driven Argument Evaluation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People often rely more on their prior beliefs than the presented evidence when evaluating arguments. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying this phenomenon. We hypothesise that when individuals encounter an argument that is congruent with their beliefs, it activates related information in memory. For belief-congruent arguments, people should therefore be more likely to both correctly recognise previously encountered information and incorrectly recognise new information as previously seen. To test this, we first investigated the effect of participants' beliefs about political claims on their evaluation of corresponding arguments that varied in quality. We then employed a surprise memory test to assess participants' recognition memory for these arguments. While we replicated the finding that prior beliefs drive argument evaluations, prior beliefs did not affect memory performance for all arguments in the same way. Our results indicate that individuals may use prior beliefs to aid memory only when the memory task is difficult.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Memory; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nn3w7xz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Calvin", "middle_name": "Christopher James Lee", "last_name": "Deans-Browne", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Pia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Roth", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Carolin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Echterbeck", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Henrik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Singmann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49441/galley/37403/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49635, "title": "DilatedSleepNet: A Novel EEG Waveform-Aware Model for Single-Channel Automatic Sleep Staging", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining human health and improving quality of life. However, traditional manual sleep staging methods are not only time-consuming but also heavily reliant on expert experience, limiting their feasibility for largescale applications. Therefore, developing high-precision and fully automated sleep staging methods is essential for assisting clinical diagnosis. To address this research need, we propose\nan innovative automatic sleep staging network, DilatedSleepNet. This model introduces a novel multi-scale dilated convolution strategy to effectively capture the waveform characteristics of EEG signals, enabling accurate sleep stage classification using only single-channel EEG input. We systematically evaluated the performance of DilatedSleepNet on three publicly available datasets, achieving classification accuracies of\n86.8%, 83.2%, and 85.4%, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that DilatedSleepNet exhibits outstanding generalization ability and robustness across multiple datasets, providing a strong technical foundation for the diagnosis and research of sleep-related disorders.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Machine learning; Sleep; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3315p520", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zekun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zheng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhuorong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Pei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mei", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Fei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49635/galley/37597/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 49679, "title": "Dimensions of Identity-Representing Belief", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent work has proposed that there are symbolic beliefs. These beliefs do not serve primarily to track the facts in the world but rather to express the believer's own identity. On this view, several disparate features of belief – from whether a belief is important to identity to whether it is sensitive to evidence – would be related to an underlying \"symbolicness\" dimension. We converted the features potentially related to symbolicness into items and asked people to rate their own beliefs on them. Study 1 found that beliefs which were high on one feature (importance) were rated higher on all the items, except for insensitivity to evidence. Study 2 found that ratings of any beliefs on almost all the items loaded onto a single, symbolicness factor, except again for evidence insensitivity. Study 3 asked participants to rate their own beliefs on all the items in Study 2 and several additional items designed to measure whether a belief was subjective. We recovered the symbolicness factor, but found it was largely orthogonal to the subjectivity and evidence insensitivity items. These findings suggest that most of the features we tested relate to an underlying symbolicness factor, which corresponds to whether a belief represents identity. But, surprisingly, this factor was not related to items that get at whether a belief represents facts about the world. It would seem that the degree to which a belief aims to express the believer's identity and the degree to which a belief aims at accurately tracking facts in the world are two orthogonal dimensions, which can vary independently.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Psychology" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sr112c3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Martin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Knobe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49679/galley/37641/download/" } ] } ] }