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Utilizing a dynamic experimental environment, we investigate whether complexity and uncertainty of the situation are top-down processed into fixational eye movements. The distance to a reference point is affected by environmental complexity in all fixations; however environmental uncertainty is only incorporated in fixations that guide motor control. We discuss that these fixations are only executed under high sense of control when there are enough cognitive resources left to top-down process the environmental uncertainty into gaze allocation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Action; Embodied Cognition; Situated cognition; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1173z7tg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nikita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Abalakin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Potsdam Universität", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nils", "middle_name": "Wendel", "last_name": "Heinrich", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universität zu Lübeck", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Annika", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ōsterdiekhoff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Research Center Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stefan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kopp", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Bielefeld University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nele", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Russwinkel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universität zu Lübeck", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21688/galley/11287/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21688/galley/22081/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21364, "title": "A longitudinal analysis of children's communicative acts", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Children rapidly learn to use language to effect a variety of communicative acts, such as proposing actions, asking questions, and making promises. While prior work has characterized this development in cross-sectional corpora, these analyses have been unable to comprehensively track individual differences in children's acquisition of communicative acts. We analyzed a longitudinal corpus of parent-child interactions from ages 14 to 58 months. We find that children's repertoires of communicative acts diversify over this period, with stable individual differences in the diversity of children's communicative act repertoires. Further, the diversities of parents' and children's communicative act repertoires are correlated. Children with more diverse communicative act repertoires also have larger vocabularies and use more diverse syntactic frames, suggesting links between discourse development and lexical and syntactic knowledge. Taken together, this work provides new insight into individual trajectories of communicative development and connections between communicative act use and other levels of language structure.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Discourse; Language development; Natural Language Processing; Pragmatics; Corpus studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85t9s85w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Claire", "middle_name": "Augusta", "last_name": "Bergey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Misha", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "O'Keeffe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hawkins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21364/galley/10963/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21364/galley/21809/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24637, "title": "A longitudinal study on the production of filled pauses among bilingual and monolingual children", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Filled pauses (e.g., um) help speakers to maintain a conversational floor with their listener(s). Considered an advanced form of disfluency; they emerge when children obtain some language competency. Bilinguals might frequently produce filled pauses as they are sensitive to communication. This longitudinal study examined Turkish-English bilingual (N=50) and Turkish monolingual (N=48) children's production of filled pauses in L1-Turkish and L2-English narratives. Children in three age groups were recruited in Time1 (5-,7- and 9-year-olds) and Time2 (6-,8- and 10-year-olds) and were asked to narrate a story from a picture book. Results showed that controlling for L1-Turkish proficiency scores, the filled pause frequency in L1-Turkish narratives increased from Time1 to Time2, both for bilinguals and monolinguals for all age groups. We obtained the same findings for bilingual children's English narratives, controlling for English proficiency. We suggest that filled pauses might stem from metacognitive processes, which become more prominent with age.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive development; Language development; Language Production" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83p1z9b8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Burcu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Arslan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Koc University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tilbe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Göksun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Koç University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Aslƒ±", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aktan Erciyes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kadir Has University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24637/galley/20880/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24637/galley/14234/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24637/galley/18015/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24637/galley/20880/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21371, "title": "A Look \"Inside\" Children's Real-time Processing of Spatial Prepositions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A wealth of evidence indicates that children use their developing linguistic knowledge to incrementally interpret speech and predict upcoming reference to objects. For verbs, determiners, case-markers, and adjectives, hearing linguistic information that sufficiently constrains referent choice leads to anticipatory eye-movements. There is, however, limited evidence about whether children also use spatial prepositions predictively. This is surprising and theoretically important: spatial prepositions provide abstract semantic information that must interface with spatial properties of, and relations between, objects in the world. Making this connection may develop late because of the complex mapping required. In a visual-world eye-tracking task, we find that adults and 4-year-olds hearing 'inside' (but not 'near') look predictively to objects that afford the property of containment. We conclude that children make predictions about the geometric properties of objects from spatial terms that specify these properties, suggesting real-time use of language to guide analysis of objects in the visual world.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Language development; Spatial cognition; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pj92338", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zoe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ovans", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Heesu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Barbara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Landau", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Trueswell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21371/galley/10970/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21371/galley/21816/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21542, "title": "A meta-learning framework for rationalizing cognitive fatigue in neural systems", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The ability to exert cognitive control is central to human brain function, facilitating goal-directed task performance. However, humans exhibit limitations in the duration over which they can exert cognitive control---a phenomenon referred to as cognitive fatigue. This study explores a computational rationale for cognitive fatigue in continual learning scenarios: cognitive fatigue serves to limit the extended performance of one task to avoid the forgetting of previously learned tasks. Our study employs a meta-learning framework, wherein cognitive control is optimally allocated to balance immediate task performance with forgetting of other tasks. We demonstrate that this model replicates common patterns of cognitive fatigue, such as performance degradation over time and sensitivity to reward. Furthermore, we discuss novel predictions, including variations in cognitive fatigue based on task representation overlap. This approach offers a novel perspective on the computational role of cognitive fatigue in neural systems.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience; Cognitive architectures; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pn5q3kx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yujun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Peking University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rodrigo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carrasco-Davis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Younes", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Strittmatter", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stefano", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sarao Mannelli", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sebastian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Musslick", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21542/galley/11141/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21542/galley/14618/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21542/galley/20881/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24699, "title": "A multitask model of concept learning and generalization", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Human cognition is highly flexible‚Äì even when posed with novel questions and situations, we are able to manipulate our existing knowledge to draw reasonable conclusions. All human cognition requires flexibility, yet we lack a well-justified computational explanation for how humans might learn and manipulate conceptual knowledge in a way that allows for cognitive flexibility. Here, we develop and test a neural network model of how humans learn and use concept representations. The core of this model frames concepts as latent vector representations that are learned through observations across multiple context domains. The architecture we propose gives rise to a natural mechanism for generalization of conceptual knowledge between familiar domains. This work integrates findings and methods across cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning, and holds promise to advance the understanding of conceptual representations within each of these fields.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Concepts and categories; Learning; Machine learning; Representation; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68h2p01k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Dyana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Muller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Piantadosi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24699/galley/20882/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24699/galley/14297/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24699/galley/18133/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24699/galley/20882/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21682, "title": "An Adaptive Learning System for Stepwise Automatisation of Multiplication Facts in Primary Education", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We demonstrate an application for learning multiplication problems with an adaptive algorithm that is based on a computational cognitive model of the learner's memory. The application helps learners automatise and memorise multiplications through repeated practice over three levels of difficulty. In a naturalistic setting involving more than 500 primary school students (ages 6-10) who together recorded over 300,000 responses, we observed that performance improved as learners using the application progressed through the levels. A model-based analysis of performance revealed that learners' estimated speed of forgetting decreased from the second to the third level. This is consistent with a shift towards stronger declarative knowledge and/or more efficient computation procedures. The model also identified consistent differences in the difficulty of individual multiplication facts that persisted across levels. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using an adaptive fact learning application to help young learners master multiplication, an essential mathematical skill.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Learning; Memory; Tutoring; Classroom studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rm2x2gn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stefania", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Iancu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MemoryLab", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Myrthe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Braam", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MemoryLab", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mccabe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MemoryLab", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "Jan", "last_name": "Wilschut", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hedderik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van Rijn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maarten", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van der Velde", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MemoryLab", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21682/galley/11281/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21682/galley/22075/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21478, "title": "An Agent-Based Model of Foraging in Semantic Memory", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "An agent-based model for semantic search and retrieval in memory is proposed. The model seeks to generate verbal fluency lists with properties similar to those generated by humans in the semantic fluency task. This model is compared to a random walk in a semantic network in its ability to adjust to the results of 141 undergraduate students in the semantic fluency task in eight different outcomes. We found that the agent-based model fits participants' results better than the random walk model. The results were consistent with optimal foraging theories, and the distributions of the total number of words, similarities, and frequency values were similar to those generated by participants. The potential uses of this model as a virtual environment to experiment with the search and retrieval process in semantic memory are discussed.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Memory; Semantic memory; Agent-based Modeling; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3vf9d7zm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Diego", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morales", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Adolfo Ibañez University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Enrique", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Canessa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Adolfo Ibañez University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sergio", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Chaigneau", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Adolfo Ibanez University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21478/galley/11077/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21478/galley/21923/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24417, "title": "Analogical Reasoning During Hypothesis Generation: The Role of Surface Competition During Access and Transfer", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Behavioral studies and computer simulations of analogical retrieval suggest that the availability of surface matches in long-term memory (LTM) hinders the spontaneous retrieval of purely structural analogs. We investigated whether this competition effect still holds during hypothesis-generation, a goal-driven activity that entails a more profound and sustained consideration of the target situation. In two experiments, we obtained that the availability of a less isomorphic but more superficially similar item did not complicate retrieving a structural analog, thus suggesting that goal-driven activities such as hypothesis generation aid participants in overcoming the activation of a structurally suboptimal analog in working memory, as compared to pragmatically impoverished activities such as reading the target situation. However, the activation of the surface match hindered the successful application of structural matches that were successfully retrieved. Results render a more nuanced picture of the role of surface similarities in analogical thinking, traditionally restricted to the retrieval stage.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Analogy; Memory; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x19f0ts", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sabina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Leon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT)", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Leandro", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Rivas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Comahue", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maximo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Trench", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Comahue", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24417/galley/14014/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24417/galley/20925/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21501, "title": "Analysing Communicative Intent Coordination in Child-Caregiver Interactions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Social interaction plays a key role in children's development of language structure and use. In particular, children must successfully navigate the complex task of coordinating their communicative intents with people around them in early conversations. This study leveraged advanced NLP techniques to analyze a large corpus of child-caregiver conversations in the wild, combining methods for communicative intent inference and for turn contingency evaluation. Key findings include the prevalence of classic adjacency pairs like question-response; caregivers initiated the overwhelming majority of these sequences. We also document new developmental shifts in intent expression and an interesting dissociation between frequency vs. well-coordinated use across the early years of development. This framework offers a new approach to studying language development in its naturalistic, social context.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Language development; Natural Language Processing; Computational Modeling; Corpus studies; Discourse Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qw6z6d4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Abhishek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Agrawal", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Aix-Marseille Université", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Benoit", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Favre", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Aix-Marseille University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Abdellah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fourtassi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Aix-Marseille University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21501/galley/11100/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21501/galley/21946/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21574, "title": "Analysing Cross-Speaker Convergence in Face-to-Face Dialogue through the Lens of Automatically Detected Shared Linguistic Constructions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Conversation requires a substantial amount of coordination between dialogue participants, from managing turn taking to negotiating mutual understanding. Part of this coordination effort surfaces as the reuse of linguistic behaviour across speakers, a process often referred to as alignment. While the presence of linguistic alignment is well documented in the literature, several questions remain open, including the extent to which patterns of reuse across speakers have an impact on the emergence of labelling conventions for novel referents. In this study, we put forward a methodology for automatically detecting shared lemmatised constructions---expressions with a common lexical core used by both speakers within a dialogue---and apply it to a referential communication corpus where participants aim to identify novel objects for which no established labels exist. Our analyses uncover the usage patterns of shared constructions in interaction and reveal that features such as their frequency and the amount of different constructions used for a referent are associated with the degree of object labelling convergence the participants exhibit after social interaction.\nMore generally, the present study shows that automatically detected shared constructions offer a useful level of analysis to investigate the dynamics of reference negotiation in dialogue.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Discourse; Interactive behavior; Language Production; Corpus studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/43h970fc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Esam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ghaleb", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marlou", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rasenberg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Meertens Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wim", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pouw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ivan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Toni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Judith", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Holler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Asli", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ozyurek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Raquel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fernandez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21574/galley/11173/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21574/galley/21967/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21659, "title": "Analyzing the Benefits of Prototypes for Semi-Supervised Category Learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Categories can be represented at different levels of abstraction, from prototypes focused on the most typical members to remembering all observed exemplars of the category. These representations have been explored in the context of supervised learning, where stimuli are presented with known category labels. We examine the benefits of prototype-based representations in a less-studied domain: semi-supervised learning, where agents must form unsupervised representations of stimuli before receiving category labels. We study this problem in a Bayesian unsupervised learning model called a variational auto-encoder, and we draw on recent advances in machine learning to implement a prior that encourages the model to use abstract prototypes to represent data. We apply this approach to image datasets and show that forming prototypes can improve semi-supervised category learning. Additionally, we study the latent embeddings of the models and show that these prototypes allow the models to form clustered representations without supervision, contributing to their success in downstream categorization performance.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Concepts and categories; Machine learning; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4241h4jx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Liyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Logan", "middle_name": "Richard", "last_name": "Nelson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21659/galley/11258/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21659/galley/14567/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21659/galley/22011/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24025, "title": "Analyzing the Roles of Language and Vision in Learning from Limited Data", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Does language help make sense of the visual world? How important is it to actually see the world rather than having it described with words? These basic questions about the nature of intelligence have been difficult to answer because we only had one example of an intelligent system -- humans -- and limited access to cases that isolated language or vision. However, the development of sophisticated Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by artificial intelligence researchers offers us new opportunities to explore the contributions that language and vision make to learning about the world. We ablate components from the cognitive architecture of these models to identify their contributions to learning new tasks from limited data. We find that a language model leveraging all components recovers a majority of a VLM's performance, despite its lack of visual input, and that language seems to allow this by providing access to prior knowledge and reasoning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Cognitive architectures; Language and thought; Machine learning; Vision" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tg5p2wm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Allison", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton Univeristy", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ilia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sucholutsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Olga", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Russakovsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24025/galley/13619/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24025/galley/20926/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24389, "title": "An Automated Sleep Staging Method with EEG-based Sleep Structure Computation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Sleep staging serves as the foundation for sleep assessment and disease diagnosis, constituting a crucial aspect of sleep research. The related work on automatic sleep staging has achieved numerous satisfactory outcomes. However, current research predominantly focuses on using sleep information as classification features, e.g. employing time-domain or frequency-domain measures as local features, and comprehensive brain network information across channels as global features, while overlooking the spontaneous regularities in brain activity. Simultaneously, brain microstates are considered closely linked to brain activity and can be used to investigate the regular variations in the overall brain potential. To explore the regular changes in the microstates of brain function during sleep stages based on electroencephalogram (EEG), especially the regular changes in sleep structure, we initially conduct microstate clustering, followed by characterizing the sleep structure of the participants based on these microstates. Subsequently, we integrate the sleep structure with traditional sleep information features and perform automatic sleep staging. Our experiments make the following contributions: (1) Being the first to introduce the use of sleep structure for automatic sleep staging. (2) When there are 7 or more than 7 microstate classes, the model performs well, and the best classification accuracy reaches 89.50%. (3) Proposing a sleep automatic staging model that integrates sleep structure and sleep information.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Neuroscience; Sleep; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fs4s3dt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ruixiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hangzhou Dianzi University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Li", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hangzhou Dianzi University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wanzeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hangzhou Dianzi University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhengyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hangzhou Dianzi University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24389/galley/13986/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24389/galley/20916/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24384, "title": "An EEG-Based Depressive Detection Network with Adaptive Feature Learning and Channel Activation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Electroencephalography (EEG) plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis of various neurological conditions, most notably major depressive disorder (MDD). However, deep learning-based methods currently employed for MDD detection tasks exhibit inadequate generalization capabilities, particularly across different EEG electrode channels, and demonstrate limited feature representation capacity. In this paper, we present a novel approach referred to as adaptive feature learning (AFL), which leverages kernel embedding to facilitate the learning of domain-invariant features across subjects within a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. This method aims to enhance the model's ability to generalize across multiple subjects' EEG signals. Furthermore, our research revealed that batch normalization (BN) layers within the existing MDD detection network frequently result in feature channel suppression, potentially compromising the representation power of the features. To address this issue, we propose channel activation (CA), which employs decorrelation to reactivate suppressed feature maps, thereby enhancing the model's feature representation capability, particularly for subtle EEG changes. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is evaluated using the leave-one-subject-out protocol on MODMA and PRED+CT datasets, yielding detection accuracies of 90.56\\% (MODMA) and 96.51\\% (PRED+CT). Our experimental findings exhibit the superior performance of our method compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in terms of MDD recognition.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Emotion Disorder; Emotion Perception; Machine learning; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76b4c4qw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Chenyang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Feiyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jianfei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hanguang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhongyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Qinghao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24384/galley/13981/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24384/galley/20917/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24089, "title": "An Epistemic Principle of Charity in Informal Argument Evaluation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this paper, we explore the Principle of Charity. This is an epistemic assumption that people should not judge people to be irrational unless they have an empirically justified account of what they are doing when they violate normative standards. Through two studies, we provide evidence in support of the principle. Study 1 suggests people believe others will arrive at the same conclusions they would themselves given the same information. Study 2 suggests that people assume others may differ in the subjective degrees of belief but that they broadly use the same (Bayesian) updating mechanism when evaluating information about other people. We believe this paper provides the first empirical test of this principle.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Psychology; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vz229mp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jens", "middle_name": "Koed", "last_name": "Madsen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "London School of Economics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mike", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oaksford", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Birkbeck, University of London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nicole", "middle_name": "Lauren", "last_name": "George", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "London Schools of Economics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cassandra", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Teigen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sayeh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yousefi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24089/galley/13683/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24089/galley/20918/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24248, "title": "A network model of English derivational morphology", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Models of word recognition and production diverge on the question of how to represent complex words. Under the morpheme-based approach, each morpheme is represented as\na separate unit, while under the word-based approach, morphemes are represented in lexical networks. The word-based approach is consistent with construction morphology\nand recent research on the grammar network. However, while the network view of constructions has become popular in recent years, there is little computational and experimental research on this topic. In the current study, we used a computational network model (based on graph theory) and an experiment to investigate the Romance component of English morphology. Specifically, we provide evidence that complex words can be conceptualised as paths in a weighted directed network of morphemes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language development; Language learning; Language Production; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s23r267", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sergei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Monakhov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Friedrich Schiller University Jena", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Holger", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Diessel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of English", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24248/galley/13844/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24248/galley/20883/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24285, "title": "A Neural Dynamic Model Autonomously Drives a Robot to Perform Structured Sequences of Action Intentions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We present a neural dynamic process model of an intentional agent that carries out compositionally structured action plans in a simulated robotic environment. The model is inspired by proposals for a shared neural and structural basis of language and action. Building on neural process accounts of intentionality we propose a neural representation of the conceptual structure of actions at a symbolic level. The conceptual structure binds actions to objects at which they are directed. In addition, it captures the compositional structure of action sequences in an action plan by representing sequential order between elementary actions. We show how such a neural system can steer motor behavior toward objects by forming neural attractor states that interface with lower-level motor representations, perceptual systems and scene working memory. Selection decisions in the conceptual structure enables the generation of action sequences that adheres to a memorized action plan.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Action; Embodied Cognition; Intelligent agents; Dynamic Systems Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gh831nw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stephan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sehring", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ruhr-Universität Bochum", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Richard", "middle_name": "Julius Paul", "last_name": "Koebe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institut für Neuroinformatik", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sophie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aerdker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ruhr-Universität Bochum", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Gregor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schöner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ruhr-Universität Bochum", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24285/galley/13881/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24285/galley/20884/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21444, "title": "A neural network model trained on free recall learns the method of loci", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans preferentially recall items that are presented in close temporal proximity together -- a phenomenon known as the \"temporal contiguity effect\". In this study, we investigate whether this phenomenon emerges naturally when training a recurrent neural network with episodic memory on free recall tasks. The model learns to recall items in the order they were presented, consistent with the human contiguity effect. The strength of this effect predicts the performance of individual networks, mirroring experimental findings in humans where stronger contiguity effects predict higher recall performance. The contiguity effect in the model is supported by a neural representation of item index, resembling the `method of loci'. This differs from prominent computational models of human memory, which use a slow decay of past information to guide sequential retrieval. Our findings provide insights into the mechanisms underlying episodic memory and pave the way for future studies of its interactions with other cognitive processes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Memory; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22j3d9zj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Moufan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kristopher", "middle_name": "T.", "last_name": "Jensen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "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": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21444/galley/11043/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21444/galley/21889/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21703, "title": "A Neural Process Model of Structure Mapping Accounts for Children's Development of Analogical Mapping by Change in Inhibitory Control", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We present a neural process model of visual analogical mapping that receives image inputs and responds by spatially selecting a matching object to a cued object. The relational structure of the base scene is stored in a way that specifies the arguments of each relation, allowing mappings based on structural correspondence to be represented as proposed by the structure-mapping theory. All the processes in the model emerge out of coupled integro-differential equations modeling neural population activation dynamics. The mapping can be influenced by both featural and relational similarities. The developmental shift in mappings in the presence of a featural distractor can be accounted for by manipulating how well the model can maintain attention to relevant feature/relation dimensions, consistent with a hypothesis suggesting inhibitory as a key factor explaining the shift.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Analogy; Cognitive architectures; Development; Dynamic Systems Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18m0h7n0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Minseok", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ruhr-Universität Bochum", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sabinasz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institut für Neuroinformatik", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Gregor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schöner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ruhr-Universität Bochum", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21703/galley/11302/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21703/galley/22096/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21528, "title": "A New Posterior Probability-Based Measure of Coherence", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "According to a common view in epistemology, a set of propositions is justified if it is coherent. Similarly, a new proposition should be accepted if it is coherent with the accepted body of beliefs. But what is coherence? And what, in turn, justifies the above claims? To answer these questions, various Bayesian measures of epistemic coherence have been proposed. Most of these measures are based on the prior probability distribution over the corresponding propositional variables. We criticize this ``static'' conceptualization of coherence and propose instead that the coherence of an information set is related to how well the information set responds when each of the propositions it contains is confirmed by an independent and partially reliable information source. The elaboration of this idea will show that the proposed ``dynamic'' perspective has several advantages and solves some open problems of coherentist epistemology. It also has implications for our understanding of reasoning and argumentation in science and beyond.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Reasoning; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30p8x5xh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stephan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hartmann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "LMU Munich", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Borut", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Trpin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "LMU Munich", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21528/galley/11127/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21528/galley/14604/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21528/galley/20885/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24816, "title": "An experimental assessment of the nall lexical gap", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Universal constraints on word meaning apply to both lexical and logical words. Across languages, a well-known gap in the logical vocabulary is that 'not all' is never lexicalized. This gap extends beyond determiners to the modal and temporal domains; e.g. 'not must' and 'not always' are typically not lexicalized (Horn 1973). The challenge is to explain this gap. The non-lexicalization of 'not all' has been explained as resulting from a cognitive bias against intrinsically marked meanings (e.g., Katzir and Singh 2013). Recent alternative accounts, however, have explained this same gap relying on considerations of communicative efficiency rather than cognitive markedness (e.g., Enguehard and Spector 2021). In a series of word learning experiments, we disentangle these views by testing whether learners are more likely to infer that a novel word means 'some' rather than 'not all' and whether this varies depending on the communicative needs in the context.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Semantics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4st0d3ms", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mora", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Maldonado", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CNRS", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ruizhe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhou", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "ENS", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Benjamin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Spector", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CNRS, ENS", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24816/galley/20919/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24816/galley/14414/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24816/galley/20919/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24679, "title": "An Experimental-Semiotic Approach to the Emergence of Metaphor and Polysemy in Interaction", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Polysemy is pervasive in modern language and represents one key factor that allows for the unlimited expressive potential of human language. One important process of historical meaning extension is that of metaphor (Anderson 2017). Recently, the paradigm of Experimental Semiotics has been proposed as a novel methodology to investigate semantic change (Bowerman & Smith 2022). In experimental semiotics, participants have to converge on a novel signalling system in the absence of a shared language. Here we adopt this approach to experimentally investigate the role of metaphor in meaning extensions. Specifically, we will present results of a study in which participants have to communicate about a novel meaning space in a referential communication game. Importantly, participants will only be able to use symbols for which they have previously established symbol-meaning mappings in a prior game. The results show to which degree participants make use of metaphor in in this task.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Production; Pragmatics; Semantics; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69s9w292", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pleyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru≈Ñ", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Darya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Namednikava", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Centre for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Klaudia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Karkowska", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Svetlana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kuleshova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Placi≈Ñski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru≈Ñ", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Slawomir", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wacewicz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nicolaus Copernicus University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24679/galley/20920/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24679/galley/14277/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24679/galley/18094/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24679/galley/20920/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24205, "title": "Animacy and attention play different roles in children's language production", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While effects of animacy and attention have been studied quite extensively in adult speakers, less is known about their role in child language production. In the present study we fill this gap by testing German-speaking preschool children in two language production tasks using eye-tracking. We find that animacy does neither affect the production of transitive sentences nor the production of conjoined noun phrases. By contrast, we find significant effects of attentional orienting. Children were more likely to first fixate an entity when it had been preceded by a visual cue and was hence in their focus of attention. While this held true across tasks, attentional orienting only affected children's production of conjoined noun phrases but not the production of transitive sentences. Effects of attentional orienting therefore seem conditioned by language production affordances. In sum, our findings provide new evidence that animacy and attention play different roles in children's language production.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Cognitive development; Language development; Language Production; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6957p2kc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dolscheid", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cologne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Martina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Penke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cologne", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24205/galley/13801/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24205/galley/20927/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24950, "title": "Animate Agent World Modeling Benchmark", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "To advance the capacity of intuitive psychology in machines, we introduce the Animate Agent World Modeling Benchmark. This benchmark features agents engaged in a diverse repertoire of behaviors, such as goal-directed interactions with objects and multi-agent interactions, all governed by realistic physics. Humans tend to predict the future based on expected events rather than simulating step-by-step. Thus, our benchmark includes a cognitively-inspired evaluation pipeline designed to assess whether the simulated trajectories of world models capture the correct sequences of events. To perform well, models need to leverage predictive cues from the observations to accurately simulate the goals of animate agents over long horizons. We demonstrate that current state-of-the-art models perform poorly in our evaluations. A hierarchical oracle model sets an upper bound for performance, suggesting that to excel, a model should scaffold their predictions with abstractions like goals that guide the simulation process towards relevant future events", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r41x81m", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Logan", "middle_name": "Matthew", "last_name": "Cross", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Violet", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xiang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Haber", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yamins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24950/galley/14519/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24950/galley/20928/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24941, "title": "An inductive bias for slowly changing features in human reinforcement learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Distinguishing relevant features from noise is a central challenge for efficient behaviour. We asked whether humans address this challenge by leveraging the insight that behaviourally relevant processes change on a slower timescale than noise. To test this idea, participants were asked to learn the rewards of two-dimensional bandits when either a slowly or quickly changing feature of the bandit predicted reward. Participants accrued more reward and achieved better generalisation to unseen bandits when the reward-predictive feature changed slowly, rather than quickly. These effects were stronger when participants experienced the feature speed before learning about rewards. Computational modelling revealed that participants adjusted their learning rates based on feature speed. Those who learned better from slow features also had higher learning rates for it from the onset. These results provide evidence that human reinforcement learning favours slower features, suggesting a bias in how humans approach reward learning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11m8b4bb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Noa", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Hedrich", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schulz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hall-McMaster", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nicolas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schuck", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universität Hamburg", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24941/galley/20921/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24941/galley/14508/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24941/galley/18224/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24941/galley/20921/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24929, "title": "An Infant-Cognition Inspired Machine Benchmark for Identifying Agency, Affiliation, Belief, and Intention", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Human infants have remarkable abilities to reason about the underlying and invisible causes that drive others' actions. These abilities are at the core of human social cognition throughout life. Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems continue to fall short in achieving this same commonsense social knowledge. Recent benchmarks focusing on social cognition and theory of mind have begun to address the gap between human and machine social intelligence, but they do not fully consider the social reasoning required to understand scenarios with multiple interacting agents. Building on such benchmarks, we present eight new tasks focusing on different early social competencies, as informed by behavioral experiments with infants. We use a self-supervised Transformer model as a baseline test of our new tasks, and in addition, we evaluate this model on a previous social-cognitive benchmark. While our model shows improved performance on the previous benchmark compared with other data-driven models, it performs sub-optimally on our new tasks, revealing the challenge of learning complex social interactions through visual data alone.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ft9x576", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wenjie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Shannon", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Yasuda", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Moira", "middle_name": "Rose", "last_name": "Dillon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Brenden", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lake", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NYU", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24929/galley/14496/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24929/galley/20922/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24290, "title": "An information-theoretic model of shallow and deep language comprehension", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A large body of work in psycholinguistics has focused on the idea that online language comprehension can be shallow or `good enough': given constraints on time or available computation, comprehenders may form interpretations of their input that are plausible but inaccurate. However, this idea has not yet been linked with formal theories of computation under resource constraints. Here we use information theory to formulate a model of language comprehension as an optimal trade-off between accuracy and processing depth, formalized as bits of information extracted from the input, which increases with processing time. The model provides a measure of processing effort as the change in processing depth, which we link to EEG signals and reading times. We validate our theory against a large-scale dataset of garden path sentence reading times, and EEG experiments featuring N400, P600 and biphasic ERP effects. By quantifying the timecourse of language processing as it proceeds from shallow to deep, our model provides a unified framework to explain behavioral and neural signatures of language comprehension.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Predictive Processing; Bayesian modeling; Electroencephalography (EEG); Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fd682nd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jiaxuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Irvine", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Richard", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Futrell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Irvine", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24290/galley/13886/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24290/galley/20923/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24167, "title": "An Intuitive Physics Approach to Modeling Melodic Expectation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans have an intuitive understanding of music. We can predict the ensuing notes of a melody given the first few notes, but what exactly drives these predictions? Previous research on musical cognition explores probabilistic models of melody perception where a melody's structure can be inferred given its surface. Other research theorizes about ‚Äúmusical forces‚Äù, forces that are analogous to how we represent the physical world, and which inform the way we form expectations about music. We propose a single model of melodic expectation that combines both ideas using a structured generative model and sequential Monte Carlo inference. The generative model formalizes these musical forces, and combined with inference, enables predicting the last note of a melody given the beginning notes. This model explains human performance in an existing dataset of melodic predictions. The model explains more variance than its ablations, and suggests an ‚Äúintuitive physics‚Äù basis for melodic expectation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Machine learning; Music; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ds971xf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Breanna", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ilker", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yildirim", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24167/galley/13763/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24167/galley/20924/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21499, "title": "An Investigation of Children's Reasoning about Data Transfers", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "When children use online apps, they often share personal information, such as their name, address, and birthday. In the present study, we investigated the mental models children use to reason about what apps are allowed to do with personal data after it has been willingly shared with an app. 57 children ages 8- to 11-years-old were read a story in which they were asked to judge whether an online game (app) was allowed or not allowed to perform four different actions: looking, saving, selling, and showing. We compared these judgments to a comparison condition where we asked children what users themselves should be allowed to do with their data. We found that children viewed the app as less permitted to act on the data than users as well as some further differences by action-type. Our findings suggest that children use something akin to a ‚Äúlending‚Äù model to conceptualize data transfers, in which apps have less rights than users despite the data being willingly transferred to the app. Our findings also suggest that children differentiate among the uses of information as children think certain actions by the app are less permissible than others (e.g., looking is more permissible than selling).", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Cognitive development; Development; Reasoning" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k27d54s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Breanna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Amoyaw", "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": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21499/galley/11098/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21499/galley/21944/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21644, "title": "An Investigation on EEG-based Prognosis Prediction of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Prognostic assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) remains one of the most challenging problems in contemporary medicine. The long treatment cycle and high costs of treatment are heavy burdens to our society. In this paper, we use deep network to investigate potential indicators of consciousness within brain signals of DoC patients. In the experiments, we study P300 and resting-state Electroencephalogram (rs-EEG) signals of 22 DoC patients to investigate neural correlation between brain signals and the improvement of consciousness. Synergistic integration of P300 and rs-EEG signals demonstrated superior predictive proficiency for cross-subject and cross-paradigm prognosis in DoC, achieving an accuracy of 81.1%. Our investigation is the first known to the literature to combine P300 and rs-EEG signals for analyzing DoC. This novel approach leverages advanced neural network models to elucidate the complex neural patterns associated with DoC, setting a precedent for future research in the field.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Consciousness; Electroencephalography (EEG); Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1m76k51k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jingcong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Biao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Huang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jiahui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pan", "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": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21644/galley/11243/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21644/galley/14552/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21644/galley/22010/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24313, "title": "A nonparametric model of object discovery", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A detailed model of the outside world is an essential ingredient of human cognition, enabling us to navigate, form goals, execute plans, and avoid danger. Critically, these world models are flexible‚Äîthey can arbitrarily expand to introduce previously-undetected objects when new information suggests their presence. Although the number of possible undetected objects is theoretically infinite, people rapidly and accurately infer unseen objects in everyday situations. How? Here we investigate one approach to characterizing this behavior‚Äîas nonparametric clustering over low-level cues‚Äîand report preliminary results comparing a computational model to human physical inferences from real-world video.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Pattern recognition; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85k1s0wn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Pat", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Little", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Todd", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Gureckis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24313/galley/13909/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24313/galley/20886/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21673, "title": "A note on complexity in efficient communication analyses of semantic typology", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recently the principles of efficient communication have provided useful characterizations of semantic typology: the diversity of attested languages can be described by competing pressures for simplicity and informativeness. While this approach has achieved success in several semantic domains, the formalizations used to define complexity across domains vary. In this note, we list the conditions under which the two main approaches of defining complexity: channel rate and description length, unify and, thus, conclusions about near-optimal communicative efficiency generalize across formalizations. We illustrate this equivalence using simulations of communicative efficiency for Boolean concepts. We round out this note discussing the (un)importance of description languages and the limits on generalizing this equivalence for other behavioral targets for explanation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Concepts and categories; Language and thought; Semantics; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hs873cr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Francis", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mollica", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Melbourne", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21673/galley/11272/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21673/galley/22066/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21575, "title": "A Novel Self-Supervised Learning Method for Sleep Staging and its Pilot Study on Patients with Disorder of Consciousness", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Sleep staging holds significant importance in clinical medicine, aiding in the diagnosis of various disorders related to sleep and cognition. However, manually annotating a large amount of sleep data is time-consuming and labor-intensive, making it difficult to achieve. Efficiently utilizing these unannotated data poses a challenging task. We propose a novel self-supervised learning method with Temporal-split Contrastive and Electrode Autoencoder (TsC-EA) for sleep staging. We demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in self-supervised learning on SleepEDF and MASS-SS3. Moreover, experimental results indicate that our method can surpass the performance of supervised learning methods using only 10% of labeled data. Additionally, we explore the application of self-supervised learning in patients with disorder of consciousness. It can assist in diagnosing the severity of DoC through analysis of sleep staging. Staging the sleep patterns of patients with disorders of consciousness can help in diagnosing the severity of their condition.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Consciousness; Sleep; Electroencephalography (EEG); Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p30x2ts", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jingcong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Quanlin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jiahui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Haiyun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Huang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "South China Normal University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21575/galley/11174/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21575/galley/21968/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 23992, "title": "Anticipating object shapes using world knowledge and classifier information: Evidence from eve-movements in L1 and L2 processing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study explores how L1 and L2 Chinese speakers use world knowledge and classifier information to predict fine-grained referent features. In a visual-world-paradigm eye-tracking experiment, participants were presented with two visual objects that were denoted by the same noun in Chinese but matched different shape classifiers. Meanwhile, they heard sentences containing world knowledge triggering context and classifiers. The effect of world knowledge has been differentiated from word-level associations. Native speakers generated anticipations about the shape/state features of the referents at an early processing stage and quickly integrated linguistic information with world knowledge upon hearing the classifiers. In contrast, L2 speakers show delayed, reduced anticipation based on world knowledge and minimal use of classifier cues. The findings reveal different cue-weighting strategies in L1 and L2 processing. Specifically, L2 speakers whose first languages lack obligatory classifiers do not employ classifier cues in a timely manner, even though the semantic meanings of shape classifiers are accessible to them. No evidence supports over-reliance on world knowledge in L2 processing. This study contributes to the understanding of L2 real-time processing, particularly in L2 speakers' utility of linguistic and non-linguistic information in anticipating fine-grained referent features.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language and thought; Language learning; Predictive Processing; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r69v9t1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Baorui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Peking University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Shuo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Feng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Peking University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yipu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wei", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Peking University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/23992/galley/13586/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/23992/galley/20929/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24932, "title": "A Nurse is Blue and Elephant is Rugby: Cross Domain Alignment in Large Language Models Reveal Human-like Patterns", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Cross-domain alignment refers to the task of mapping a concept from one domain to another, for example, ``If a \\textit{doctor} were a \\textit{color}, what color would it be?''. This seemingly peculiar task was designed to investigate how people represent concrete and abstract concepts through their mappings between categories and their reasoning processes over those mappings. In this paper, we adapt this task from cognitive science to evaluate the conceptualization and reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) through a behavioral study. We examine several LLMs by prompting them with a cross-domain mapping task and analyzing their responses at the population level and the individual level. Additionally, we assess the models' ability to reason about their predictions by analyzing and categorizing their explanations for these mappings. The results reveal several similarities between humans' and models' mappings and explanations, suggesting that models represent concepts similarly to humans. This similarity is evident not only at the model representation level but also in their behavior. Furthermore, the models mostly provide valid explanations and deploy reasoning paths that are similar to humans.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qr53738", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Asaf", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yehudai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hebrew University of Jerus", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Taelin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Karidi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hebrew University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Gabriel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stanovsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ariel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goldstein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hebrew University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Omri", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Abend", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hebrew University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24932/galley/14499/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24932/galley/20887/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21337, "title": "Anxiety symptoms of major depression associated with increased willingness to exert cognitive, but not physical effort", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Reduced cognitive function in major depression (MDD) is often interpreted as a reduced ability to exert cognitive control. Here we used the Effort Foraging Task to test the hypothesis that reduced cognitive function may be due, in part, to decreased willingness to exert control in MDD because of increased cognitive effort \"costs\". Contrary to our predictions, neither cognitive nor physical effort costs differed with MDD diagnosis (N MDD=52, N Comparisons=27). However, we found distinct patterns of symptom relationships for cognitive and physical effort costs. In MDD, greater anxiety symptoms were selectively associated with lower cognitive, but not physical effort cost (i.e. greater willingness to exert cognitive effort), whereas greater anhedonia and behavioral apathy symptoms were selectively associated with increased physical (but not cognitive) effort costs. These findings support the measurement of both cognitive and physical effort as decision-making function markers that may inform heterogeneity of MDD.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Decision making; Mood; Bayesian modeling; Clinical methods" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mw078c0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Bustamante", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Washington University in St. Louis", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Deanna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Barch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Washington University in St. Louis", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Johanne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Solis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rutgers University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Temitope", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oshinowo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ivan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grahek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Anna", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Konova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rutgers University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nathaniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Daw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cohen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21337/galley/10936/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21337/galley/21782/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24656, "title": "\"Apples and Oranges\" - Evaluating Reaction Time measures as a paradigm to contrast expert vs. novice performance in complex, dynamic task environments.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Previous research has effectively employed the fast-paced action puzzle video-game Tetris for understanding the acquisition of extreme expertise in complex, dynamic environments. A common approach when contrasting expert to novice performance has been the dissection of their interactions with the environment into disjoint sub-tasks ‚Äì such as Reaction Time (RT), measured by the input latency to new events on screen. The crucial, underlying assumption to this paradigm is task consistency at all levels of expertise. Using data collected from participants of the Tetris World Championship 2019 and from novices in our lab, we show that this assumption does not hold. While for novices the RT task type remains the same across all conditions, for experts - depending on environmental parameters - the nature of the RT task undergoes a shift and under specific conditions does not represent a RT task anymore. Thus, expert vs. novice sub-task comparison may not be a valid paradigm.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Attention; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Skill acquisition and learning; Comparative Analysis; Comparative Studies" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pk8m9r7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexander", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lutsevich", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24656/galley/20862/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24656/galley/14254/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24656/galley/18048/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24656/galley/20862/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21556, "title": "Approach-Avoidance Motivation in Lifelong Learning: A New Framework for Understanding the Decision-Making Process behind Voluntary Learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The decision to engage in lifelong learning often entails a motivational conflict, requiring individuals to balance potential benefits against the costs of engagement. Approach- avoidance motivation occurs when an action involves simultaneous positive and negative outcomes, necessitating a choice. This concept has primarily been studied in emotionally charged decisions linked to fear or anxiety, relevant for clinical settings. Our aim is to shift the focus to the cost of engagement in learning and educational settings. In a society marked by high demands and numerous tools for knowledge updating, lifelong learning may be beneficial for continuous individual development and societal contribution. We introduce a new framework that intricately connects motivation and learning processes with cognition, highlighting the pivotal roles of executive functions and decision-making processes. This article delves into the confluence of lifelong learning, cognitive conflict, and approach- avoidance motivation within the context of education and learning processes.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; cognitive neuropsychology; Decision making; Learning" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9dk6b7wz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Angélica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mendes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Luxembourg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Greiff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Luxembourg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "Levi", "last_name": "Tekampe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Luxembourg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Katarzyna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bobrowicz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Luxembourg", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21556/galley/11155/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21556/galley/14632/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21556/galley/20930/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21512, "title": "A predictive learning model can simulate temporal dynamics and context effects found in neural representations of continuous speech", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Speech perception involves storing and integrating sequentially presented items. Recent work in cognitive neuroscience has identified temporal and contextual characteristics in humans' neural encoding of speech that may facilitate this temporal processing. In this study, we simulated similar analyses with representations extracted from a computational model that was trained on unlabelled speech with the learning objective of predicting upcoming acoustics. Our simulations revealed temporal dynamics similar to those in brain signals, implying that these properties can arise without linguistic knowledge. Another property shared between brains and the model is that the encoding patterns of phonemes support some degree of cross-context generalization. However, we found evidence that the effectiveness of these generalizations depends on the specific contexts, which suggests that this analysis alone is insufficient to support the presence of context-invariant encoding.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Perception; Representation; Speech recognition; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34b4v268", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Oli", "middle_name": "Danyi", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Informatics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Informatics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Naomi", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Feldman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sharon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goldwater", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21512/galley/11111/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21512/galley/21957/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24439, "title": "A preregistered investigation of language-specific distributional learning advantages in English-Mandarin bilingual adults", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Language-specific accounts of bilingual learning advantages suggest that advantages in language learning are tied to an individual's linguistic experience, with learning advantages stemming from transfer effects between known and to-be-learnt language features. To test this hypothesis, we trained Singapore English-Mandarin bilinguals on a synthesised alveolar-retroflex [ts ∞u…ôÃÅn]-[ à Ç ∞u…ôÃÅn] contrast with a bimodal distributional learning paradigm. We reasoned that participants with higher Mandarin understanding proficiencies would show larger distributional learning effects due to transfer between real-world Mandarin experience and the training stimuli. We examined overall learning effects in a pilot study (N = 20) and a preregistered main study (N = 50). We found evidence of learning in both the pilot and the main study. We also found evidence of a transfer effect tied to individual Mandarin skills, with larger learning effects linked to higher Mandarin understanding proficiencies. This study demonstrates specific advantages of language background on perceptual learning at the individual level.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Linguistics; Psychology; cognitive neuropsychology; Language learning; Multilingualism; Sensory Processing; Statistics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zz208gg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hannah", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Goh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Suzy J.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Styles", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nanyang Technological University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24439/galley/14036/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24439/galley/20888/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24508, "title": "A Question of Beliefs. Metacognitive Judgments about Fake News Detection", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Undetected fake news can influence opinions and behaviors. Therefore, it is crucial to understand under which conditions people can detect fake news, and how aware they are of their detection performance. Building upon a study on phishing emails (Canfield et al., 2019), we investigated metacognition for both fake and legitimate news, along with related individual and task factors. In a single-factor within-subjects design, 175 participants read 19 sampled legitimate and 19 automatically generated fake news in random order. They were tasked with detecting fake news and providing metacognitive confidence judgments. Overall, participants displayed overconfidence with 68% correct detection and 73% confidence. However, they showed better calibration and resolution for fake news compared to legitimate news. Notably, there was a tendency for participants to misjudge legitimate news at high confidence levels. Prior knowledge positively impacted performance, whereas agreement with fake and disagreement with legitimate news resulted in performance falling below random.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Human-computer interaction; Memory; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dn5d4tn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nora", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cremille", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technische Universität Darmstadt", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Björn", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mattes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technische Universität Darmstadt", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stephanie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pieschl", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technische Universität Darmstadt", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24508/galley/20889/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24508/galley/14105/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24508/galley/20889/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24003, "title": "A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The speech-to-song illusion is a robust psychological phenomenon whereby a spoken sentence sounds increasingly more musical as it is repeated. Despite decades of research, a complete formal account of this transformation is still lacking, and some of its nuanced characteristics, namely, that certain phrases appear to transform while others do not, is not well understood. Here we provide a formal account of this phenomenon, by recasting it as a statistical inference whereby a rational agent attempts to decide whether a sequence of utterances is more likely to have been produced in a song or speech. Using this approach and analyzing song and speech corpora, we further introduce a novel prose-to-lyrics illusion that is purely text-based. In this illusion, simply duplicating written sentences makes them appear more like song lyrics. We provide robust evidence for this new illusion in both human participants and large language models.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Music; Perception; Statistical learning; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73r375hf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Raja", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marjieh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Pol", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van Rijn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ilia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sucholutsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Harin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nori", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jacoby", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24003/galley/13597/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24003/galley/20890/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24055, "title": "A \"Rational\" Framework for Self-Control", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While a number of disciplines have empirically investigated self-control (e.g., psychology, cognitive science, and sociology), along with philosophy, they have offered differing (although sometimes overlapping) perspectives. A process-based, mechanistic theory explaining empirical self-control data can help integrate these perspectives. A mechanistic (computational) approach through a computational cognitive architecture where simulations can be performed may unify the interpretations of empirical studies based on various (e.g., implicit-explicit) conflicts as well as utility calculation (e.g., from motivational considerations). Such a framework facilitates simulations that account for human data and capture notions of self-control capacity and control fatigue/reduction, facilitating detailed explanations.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Theory of Mind; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jb8f6g9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Adan", "middle_name": "Alberto", "last_name": "Gomez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ron", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "RPI", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24055/galley/13649/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24055/galley/20894/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21367, "title": "A Rational Model of Innovation by Recombination", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Human learning does not stop at solving a single problem. Instead, we seek new challenges, define new goals, and come up with new ideas. What drives people to disrupt the existing conceptual landscape and create new things? Here, we examine the decision to create new things under different levels of expected returns. We formalize innovation as stochastically recombining existing ideas, where successful and more complex combinations generate higher returns. This formalization allows us to cast innovation-seeking as a Markov decision process, and derive optimal policies under different settings. Data collected through an online behavioral experiment confirm our prediction that people should invest more time and effort in seeking innovations when they know the chances of success are high and the potential new ideas would be rewarding. However, people also deviate from being optimal, both innovating more and less than they should in different settings.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Reasoning; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65s535gk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bonan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Natalia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vélez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21367/galley/10966/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21367/galley/21812/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21466, "title": "A Rational Model of Vigilance in Motivated Communication", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We are able to learn from others through a combination of trust and vigilance: we trust and believe people who are reliable and have our interests at heart; we ignore those who are incompetent or self-interested. While past work has studied how others' competence influences social learning, relatively little attention has been paid to how others' motivations influence such processes. To address this gap, we develop a Bayesian model of vigilance that considers the speaker's instrumental self-interest, and test predictions of this model through an experiment. In accordance with our model, participants become more vigilant when informants stand to benefit from influencing their actions. When perceived self-interest is maximal, testimony can be discounted wholesale, rendering middle ground increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to find. Our results have implications for research on polarization, misinformation, and disagreement.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Learning; Social cognition; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kv0c8b7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kerem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oktar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ted", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sumers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21466/galley/11065/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21466/galley/21911/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21392, "title": "A Rational Trade-Off Between the Costs and Benefits of Automatic and Controlled Processing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans seem to arbitrate between automatic and controlled processing by optimizing a trade-off between cognitive effort and performance. Previous research has described ways of how these costs and benefits can be quantified and how the trade-off between them can be performed. However, it remains unclear how the costs should be weighed relative to the benefits and how the cost of the arbitration mechanism itself factors in. Here, we derive measures for these separate factors from a single objective: the variational free energy. We demonstrate that by minimizing this objective, the trade-off between automatic and controlled processing as well as meta-control is optimized implicitly. As a proof of concept, we show that the congruency and proportion congruency effects in the Stroop task directly result from this optimization, given an environment with specific statistical regularities.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Psychology; Decision making; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qs4b625", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maximilian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mittenbühler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tuebingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schwöbel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "TUD Dresden University of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dignath", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tuebingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stefan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kiebel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "TUD Dresden University of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Martin", "middle_name": "V.", "last_name": "Butz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tuebingen", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21392/galley/10991/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21392/galley/21837/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24309, "title": "Are Abstract Relational Roles Encoded Visually? Evidence from Priming Effects", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "It remains controversial whether the visual system encodes abstract relational roles such as Agent and Patient in visual events. The present experiment tested whether abstract role bindings induce priming effects across consecutive events. Each trial included a static target image preceded either by a brief silent video of a priming event or by an audio-visual presentation of an English sentence describing the same event. Example sentence: ‚ÄúThe red goat on the left knocked down the blue goat on the right.‚Äù 64 videos counterbalanced 4 event types: launching, deforming, breaking, and a relationally ambiguous control. The set of static targets were the final frames of the same videos. The role bindings were either repeated, switched, or ambiguous across the target and prime. The dependent variable was the latency on a color-localization task (e.g., whether the red animal was on the left or on the right). Whereas the linguistic primes had no statistically significant effect on the latency of the visual task, the role bindings of the video primes did have an effect: The latency on unambiguous trials (which required role binding) was significantly greater than that on ambiguous trials (on which at least one component lacked clear relational roles). This suggests the visual system is sensitive to (the ambiguity of) the role bindings of abstract relations.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Event cognition; Representation; Vision; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h24b72s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexander", "middle_name": "Alexandrov", "last_name": "Petrov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ohio State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yuhui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Du", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ohio State University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24309/galley/13905/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24309/galley/20931/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21391, "title": "Are autonomous vehicles blamed differently?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "<p>This study investigates how people assign blame to autonomous vehicles (AVs) when involved in an accident. Our experiment (N= 2647) revealed that people placed more blame on AVs than on human drivers when accident details were unspecified. To examine whether people assess major classes of blame-relevant information differently for AVs and humans, we developed a causal model and introduced a novel concept of prevention effort, which emerged as a crucial factor for blame judgement alongside intentionality. Finally, we addressed the “many hands” problem by exploring how people assign blame to entities associated with AVs and human drivers, such as the car company or an accident victim. Our findings showed that people assigned high blame to these entities in scenarios involving AVs, but not with human drivers. This necessitates adapting a model of blame for AVs to include other agents and thus allow for blame allocation “outside” of autonomous vehicles.</p>", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Social cognition; Statistics; Survey" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7q35p9b7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Darko", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stojilović", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Matija", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Franklin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bertram", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Malle", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Carlos", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fernandez-Basso", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Edmond", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Awad", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Exeter", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lagnado", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21391/galley/10990/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21391/galley/21836/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 23986, "title": "A Reciprocal-Practice-Success (RPS) Model of Free Practice", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding how humans learn by themselves is crucial to develop interventions to prevent dropout and improve learner engagement. Classical learning curves were proposed to fit and describe experimental data involving enforced learning. However in real-world learning contexts such as MOOCs and hobbies, learners may quit - and often do. Even in formal settings such as college success typically requires intensive self-study outside lectures. Previous research in educational psychology supports a positive reciprocal relationship between motivation and achievement. Integrating insights from learning curves, forgetting curves and motivation-achievement cycles, we propose a formal Reciprocal-Practice-Success (RPS) model of learning ‚Äòin the wild'. First, we describe the different components of the basic RPS model. Using simulations, we then show how long term learning outcomes critically depend on the shape of the learning curve. Concave curves lead to more consistent learning outcomes whereas S-shaped curves lead to either expertise or dropout. We also provide a dynamical systems version for the RPS model which shows similar qualitative behaviour. Through a bifurcation analysis of two controllable learning parameters - minimum practice rate and success sensitivity, we show which learner-specific interventions may be effective to preventing dropout. We also discuss theorized mechanisms which affect the inflection point of S-shaped learning curves such as task-complexity and relative feedback from failures vs. successes. These provide more task-specific interventions to lower quitting rates. Finally, we discuss possible extensions to the basic RPS model which will allow capturing spacing effects and insights from other motivation theories.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Instruction and teaching; Learning; Dynamic Systems Modeling; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98s6q1bc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Pritam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Laskar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Han L. J.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van der Maas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/23986/galley/13580/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/23986/galley/20891/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24087, "title": "Are Disagreements Just Differences in Beliefs?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Decades of research have examined the consequences of disagreement, both negative (harm to relationships) and positive (fostering learning opportunities). Yet the psychological mechanisms underlying disagreement judgments themselves are poorly understood. Much research assumes that disagreement tracks divergence: the difference between two individuals' beliefs with respect to a proposition. We test divergence as a theory of interpersonal disagreement through two experiments (N = 60, N = 60) and predictive models. Our data and modeling show that judgments of disagreement track divergence, but also the direction and extremity of beliefs. Critically, disagreement judgments track key social judgments (e.g., inferences of warmth, competence, and bias) above and beyond divergence, with notable variation across domains.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Psychology; Decision making; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2k81k4qs", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kerem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oktar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "Branson", "last_name": "Byers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tania", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lombrozo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24087/galley/13681/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24087/galley/20932/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21638, "title": "A region in human left prefrontal cortex selectively engaged in causal reasoning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Causal reasoning enables us to explain the past, predict the future, and intervene in the present. Does the brain allocate specialized cortical regions to causal reasoning? And if so, are they involved in reasoning about both physical and social causal relationships, or are they domain-specific? In a pre-registered experiment (Exp 1) we scanned adults using fMRI while they matched physical and social causes to effects (e.g., ‚ÄòThe car swerved to avoid a crash' -> ‚ÄòCoffee spilled all over the car seat'; ‚ÄòHe was late for work' -> ‚ÄòTom was scolded by his boss') or physical and social descriptions of the same entity matched for difficulty and linguistic variables to the causal conditions (e.g., ‚ÄòThe brightest object in the sky'-> ‚ÄòThe closest star to earth'; ‚ÄòShe works at a hotel' -> ‚ÄòShe brings in guests' luggage'). A region in the left lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) responded significantly more strongly to causal than descriptive conditions in most subjects individually. Responses in this region in held-out data were high for both social and physical causal conditions, yet no greater than baseline for the two descriptive (non-causal) conditions. In a follow-up exploratory experiment (Exp 2), we tested a different task (answering causal versus non-causal questions about physical and social narratives, matched for linguistic variables). Again, we found that both the physical and social causal stimuli selectively engaged the LPFC region. Finally, in both experiments, we found that brain regions previously implicated in intuitive physical reasoning responded more to the physical causal than the physical non-causal stimuli. Collectively, these results suggest that a) a region in the LPFC is selectively engaged in causal reasoning independent of content domain and b) the hypothesized physics network (hPN) is selectively involved in physical causal reasoning across modalities (visual vs. linguistic).", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Causal reasoning; fMRI" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ms537c4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "RT", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pramod", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jessica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chomik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schulz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kanwisher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21638/galley/11237/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21638/galley/14546/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21638/galley/22008/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24077, "title": "A Relational Inductive Bias for Dimensional Abstraction in Neural Networks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The human cognitive system exhibits remarkable flexibility and generalization capabilities, partly due to its ability to form low-dimensional, compositional representations of the environment. In contrast, standard neural network architectures often struggle with abstract reasoning tasks, overfitting, and requiring extensive data for training. This paper investigates the impact of the relational bottleneck‚Äîa mechanism that focuses processing on relations among inputs‚Äîon the learning of factorized representations conducive to compositional coding and the attendant flexibility of processing. We demonstrate that such a bottleneck not only improves generalization and learning efficiency, but also aligns network performance with human-like behavioral biases. Networks trained with the relational bottleneck developed orthogonal representations of feature dimensions latent in the dataset, reflecting the factorized structure thought to underlie human cognitive flexibility. Moreover, the relational network mimics human biases towards regularity without pre-specified symbolic primitives, suggesting that the bottleneck fosters the emergence of abstract representations that confer flexibility akin to symbols.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Representation; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gc4f89q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Declan", "middle_name": "I.", "last_name": "Campbell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cohen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24077/galley/13671/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24077/galley/20892/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21497, "title": "Are the most frequent words the most useful? Investigating core vocabulary in reading", "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 text coverage and comprehension may not be straightforward -- some words may provide more information than others. In this study, we explore alternative methods of defining core vocabulary in addition to word frequency (e.g., words that are central hubs in semantic association networks). We report on the results of an empirical test of communicative utility using a text-based guessing game. We show that core words that reflect corpus-based distributional statistics (like frequency or co-occurrence centrality) were less useful for communication than others. This was evident both in terms of the size of the vocabulary that must be known and the proportion of the text that must be covered for successful communication.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language learning; Reading; Semantics" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99x3855v", "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": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21497/galley/11096/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21497/galley/21942/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24714, "title": "Are toddlers intrinsically motivated to explore their own competence?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Children are keen explorers of the world: They systematically explore surprising findings and test hypotheses during play. However, less is known about whether toddlers are similarly driven to learn about the self. Here, we ask whether toddlers are intrinsically motivated to explore their own competence. In ongoing work, 2-year-olds (N = 12) play Montessori practical life games along with their parents; toys were verified to be equally appealing and challenging to toddlers in an independent norming experiment (N = 14). Within each pair, parents guide the toddler's hands while playing with one toy, which provides ambiguous information about the toddler's competence, and take turns playing with the other toy independently, which provides unambiguous information. Toddlers are then offered both toys to freely explore independently. Preliminary results show that toddlers explored the ambiguous toy first in 71% of the 31 trials, suggesting that toddlers seek out opportunities to learn about their competence.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Development; Learning; Social cognition; Developmental analysis" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f5386nv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bella", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fascendini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bonan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Natalia", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Vélez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24714/galley/20933/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24714/galley/14312/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24714/galley/18161/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24714/galley/20933/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24670, "title": "Aspects of semantic change and how they interact with lexical acquisition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Words that are learned early were shown to be semantically more stable, and vice versa (Cassani et al. 2021, Cognitive Science). Semantic change, however, has multiple aspects. In this diachronic corpus study, we examine the relationship between the age of acquisition (AoA) of words and a set of different measures of semantic change: change in a word's polysemy; overall semantic displacement; and average extent of semantic fluctuation. All measures are based on diachronically layered sense distributions (Hu et al. 2019, ACL) derived from the Corpus of Historical American English. AoA is taken from Kuperman et al. (2012, Behav. Res. Meth.). Taking interactions with frequency into account, we show that semantic displacement and fluctuation are positively associated with AoA as expected. Early acquisition is associated with an increase in polysemy. This hints at the relevance of semantic (metaphorical) extension in the early acquisition of the lexicon.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language development; Semantics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k19h48p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Andreas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Baumann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Vienna", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andreas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Scheicher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "TU Wien", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Irene", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Böhm", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Vienna", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stefan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hartmann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "HHU Düsseldorf", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24670/galley/20934/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24670/galley/14268/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24670/galley/18076/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24670/galley/20934/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21607, "title": "Assessing affective modulation of intentional binding effect: A 2AFC Psychophysics experiment with emotional words", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Intentional binding (IB) is the experience of temporal interval compression between voluntary actions and subsequent events when the latter are perceived to be caused on purpose by the agent's actions. It can be measured experimentally by comparing the judgments of temporal intervals between either a voluntary act or an external event, and a later sensory consequence. Evidence suggests this might be modulated by the emotional valence of the consequence. However, controversies have arisen over the consistency of the results and the methodology they were obtained with. Here, we aimed to measure this affective modulation using a two-interval forced-choice (2AFC) discrimination task and word stimuli. Three factors were employed: agency (agency and passive), emotional valence (neutral, positive, and negative words), and interval duration ratio determined based on individual values of just noticeable differences (JND). Participants had to judge which of two intervals presented in each trial was shorter. Generalized linear mixed model analysis indicated that there was an effect of IB, but no affective modulation. Dissociation of component mechanisms of SoA are discussed to better understand results and suggest further directions.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience; Psychology; Action; Cognition of Time; Emotion; Semantics; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9td611zg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Felipe", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Toro Hernandez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universidade Federal do ABC", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Victor Nogueira Dias", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gabiatti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universidade Federal do ABC", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Theresa Moraes", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ramalho", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universidade Federal do ABC", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andre M.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cravo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universidade Federal do ABC", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Peter M. E.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Claessens", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Federal University of ABC", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21607/galley/11206/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21607/galley/22000/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24425, "title": "Assessing Common Ground through Language-based Cultural Consensus in Humans and Large Language Models", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "During conversations, communication partners rapidly assess shared knowledge based on information in utterances. However, little is known about how this process unfolds, particularly when background information is limited such as when talking to strangers. Do spoken utterances provide valid cues to speaker knowledge? To test this, we applied a cultural consensus framework (e.g., Romney et al., 1986), and asked humans vs. large language models (LLMs) to assess speaker similarity based on their transcribed utterances. On each trial, participants saw two language samples that varied in speaker expertise (e.g., A: expert, B: novice) and were asked which one was more similar to a third sample, which was produced by either an expert or novice (X). Accuracy was highest for GPT-4 followed by humans and GPT-3.5. Humans and GPT-4 were more accurate at categorizing language samples from experts, while GPT-3.5 was better with novices. Likewise, humans and GPT-4 were more accurate with samples from adult compared to child speakers, while GPT-3.5 was similar across the two. Item-level performance by humans and GPT-4 was strongly associated, while both were unrelated to GPT-3.5. Our findings suggest that language-based cultural consensus may enable reliable inferences of common ground during communication, providing an algorithmic-level description of how partners may infer states of the world.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Anthropology; Computer Science; Psychology; Culture; Language understanding" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tt4g1fg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sophie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Domanski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rachel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rudinger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland College Park", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carpuat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shafto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rutgers University - Newark", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yi Ting", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Huang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland College Park", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24425/galley/14022/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24425/galley/20935/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24717, "title": "Assessing model-based and model-free Pavlovian-instrumental transfer using a novel two-stage paradigm", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Computational reinforcement learning models suggest that learning involves both model-free (MF) reward prediction errors and model-based (MB) state prediction errors, observed in instrumental and Pavlovian learning (Daw et al., 2011; Schad et al., 2020). Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) demonstrates Pavlovian values impacting instrumental responses. Single-lever PIT paradigms, often considered as MF, show correlations with reduced MB instrumental control (Garbusow et al., 2014; Review Cartoni et al., 2016; Sebold et al., 2016). To explore whether single-lever PIT effects are exclusively MF or also MB, we created a novel two-stage paradigm assessing MF and MB control trial by trial. Computational dual-control model simulations revealed a two-way interaction for MF and a three-way interaction for MB PIT. Thus far, Bayesian sequential analysis using Savage-Dickey density ratios (N=10) suggests the existence of MF (BF=3.93) and MB (BF=1.26) influences on PIT, aligning with Pavlovian learning and emphasizing the role of MB computations in single-lever PIT tasks.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Learning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44t6s85z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laura Alexandra", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wirth", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Schad", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24717/galley/20936/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24717/galley/14315/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24717/galley/18167/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24717/galley/20936/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21690, "title": "Assessing the Impact of Cognitive Manipulation Techniques on the Command and Control Process: An Exploration Based on QFD Model", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Command and control is a key activity in a war that determines whether the war is won or lost. A person's cognition can influence the decisions he makes in command and control. In this paper, we propose a method to assess the impact of cognitive manipulation techniques in command and control. We divide command and control activities into eight segments and use a hierarchical latent Dirichlet allocation model in natural language processing to discover the most important cognitive manipulation techniques at present. We completed the assessment process using the Quality Function Deployment Model. The results of the assessment show that judgement, decision-making, and planning in the command and control perspective are susceptible to cognitive manipulation techniques; the tactical level is more susceptible to cognitive manipulation techniques than the strategic campaign. Life sciences, digital technology, and other fields play a key role in command and control research under cognitive manipulation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Sociology; Decision making; Event cognition; Social cognition; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95r2p3nr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yazhou", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Military Science Information Research Center", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiaosong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Military Science Information Research Center", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21690/galley/11289/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21690/galley/22083/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24412, "title": "Assessing the Impact of Nature for Reducing Cognitive Fatigue: A Validation Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Attention is a limited resource that can become depleted after extensive usage. Exposure to nature stimuli can help recover attention depletion. More precisely, nature (vs. urban) benefits have been reported for working memory, attention control and cognitive flexibility, although these effects are the subject of debate. This study aims at assessing whether nature can help reduce cognitive fatigue as a consequence of attention depletion. Participants performed a pretest working memory and attention control task. Then, they went through a cognitive fatigue task, followed by exposure to either nature or urban images, and a posttest consisting of the pretest measures. Measures of subjective fatigue were also collected throughout the study. Pre- vs. posttest cognitive performance comparisons failed to raise differences across conditions. Yet, subjective fatigue was significantly improved by the nature intervention but not by the urban intervention. Results are discussed in terms of nature's positive impact on subjective experience.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Attention; Behavioral Science; Memory; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sw6j1gv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marlène", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bolduc", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Université Laval", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Audrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cayouette", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Université Laval", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Danielle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Benesch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Thales Research and Technology Canada", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tanya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Paul", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Thales Research and Technology Canada", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "François", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vachon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Université Laval", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alexandre", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marois", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Université Laval", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24412/galley/14009/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24412/galley/20937/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24296, "title": "Assessment of Multiple Systemic Human Cognitive States using Pupillometry", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "How to best and robustly detect human systemic cognitive states like workload, sense of urgency, mind wandering, interference, and others is still an open question as the answer essentially depends both on the employed physiological measurements as well as the trained computational classification models. In this paper, we analyze data from a human driving experiment to explore the validity of eye gaze in assessing different systemic cognitive states and relations among them. Our statistical analyses and classification results indicate that eye gaze, in particular the percentage change in pupil size (PCPS), is a reliable physiological biomarker in assessing multiple systemic human cognitive states including workload, sense of urgency (SoU), and mind wandering (MW) while it does not seem suitable to detect task interference (which can be assessed based on participant's response times.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive development; Human-computer interaction; Machine learning; Sensory Processing" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0954476j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ayca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aygun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tufts University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Worcester Polytechnic Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Matthias", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Scheutz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tufts University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24296/galley/13892/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24296/galley/20938/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24542, "title": "Associations between gustatory imageries and vowel length in Japanese food names", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study examined how vowel length in words affects the gustatory imageries (i.e., sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness, and spiciness). We presented pseudowords with long and short vowels to native Japanese speakers using different modalities and instructions. The stimuli were presented visually (Studies 1, 3, and 4) or auditorily (Study 2). In addition, half of participants in Study 3 were instructed to subvocalize the stimuli and the other half were instructed not to subvocalize. Words with long vowels were associated with sweetness when presented in katakana characters (Studies 1 and 3). Words with short vowels were associated with saltiness and bitterness when presented in katakana characters (Study 3). Our findings revealed a role of vowel length in taste-sound correspondences in Japanese. It advances the understanding of how people obtain information about the taste expectations from word forms.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language and thought; Language understanding" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7185x0qw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Toshimune", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kambara", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hiroshima University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mizuki", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yoshio", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hiroshima University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nodoka", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Okada", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hiroshima University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rea", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kawano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hiroshima University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Norika", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kondo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hiroshima University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sho", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tamakawa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hiroshima University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24542/galley/20939/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24542/galley/14139/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24542/galley/20939/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24585, "title": "Associative learning explains human sensitivity to statistical and network structures in auditory sequences", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "<p>Networks are a useful mathematical tool for capturing the complexity of the world. Using behavioral measures, we showed that human adults were sensitive to the high-level network structure underlying auditory sequences (such as communities) even when presented with incomplete information. Their performance was best explained by a mathematical model following associative learning principles and based on the integration of the transition probabilities between adjacent and non-adjacent elements with memory decay. In a follow up MEG study, we explored the neural correlates of this hypothesis. First, the comparison of the brain responses to tone transitions adhering or not to the community structure revealed an early difference, suggesting an automatic encoding of sequence structure. Second, time-resolved decoding allowed determining the duration and overlap of the representation of each tone. The decoding performance exhibited exponential decay, resulting in a significant overlap between the representations of successive tones, enabling associative learning through Hebbian rule. </p>", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "cognitive neuroscience" }, { "word": "neuroscience" }, { "word": "audition" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "statistical learning" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8423m68h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lucas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Benjamin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NeuroSpin Center, , CNRS ERL 9003, INSERM U992, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mathias", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sablé-Meyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NeuroSpin center, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fló", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NeuroSpin Center, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Fosca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Al Roumi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NeuroSpin Center, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ghislaine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dehaene-Lambertz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NeuroSpin Center, CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24585/galley/20940/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21585, "title": "Asymmetry in Language, Asymmetry in Mind: The Effect of Sagittal Time-space Metaphors on Children's Understanding of Time", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Although space helps children to grasp time, comprehending temporal metaphors remains challenging. Particularly, Mandarin has different degree of ambiguity in sagittal time-space metaphors, where ‚Äòqian' (front/past) expresses both future-in-front and past-in-front mappings but ‚Äòhou' (back/future) predominately expresses future-at-back mappings. Temporal metaphors with a longer duration unit (e.g., year vs. hour) also increase this challenge. We investigated: 1) when children understand sagittal time-space metaphors; 2) whether different degree of ambiguity leads children to having an asymmetric understanding of the past and future; 3) how the unit of temporal duration affects time understanding. 138 Mandarin-speaking children (3-5 years) undertook an 8-item sagittal time-space metaphors test. The results showed that age 5 is a milestone to understand sagittal time-space metaphors, and a longer unit of time duration and more ambiguous space-time metaphors hinder children's time comprehension. This study reveals the development of time cognition in non-western children and demonstrates how language impacts cognition.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognition of Time; Language and thought; Language development; Language understanding" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b9909n8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jiayu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jiang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Syracuse University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21585/galley/11184/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21585/galley/21978/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21677, "title": "A systematic investigation of learnability from single child linguistic input", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Language models (LMs) have demonstrated remarkable profi-\nciency in generating linguistically coherent text, sparking dis-\ncussions about their relevance to understanding human lan-\nguage learnability. However, a significant gap exists between\nthe training data for these models and the linguistic input a\nchild receives. LMs are typically trained on data that is or-\nders of magnitude larger and fundamentally different from\nchild-directed speech (Warstadt & Bowman, 2022; Warstadt\net al., 2023; Frank, 2023a). Addressing this discrepancy,\nour research focuses on training LMs on subsets of a sin-\ngle child's linguistic input. Previously, Wang, Vong, Kim,\nand Lake (2023) found that LMs trained in this setting can\nform syntactic and semantic word clusters and develop sen-\nsitivity to certain linguistic phenomena, but they only consid-\nered LSTMs and simpler neural networks trained from just one\nsingle-child dataset. Here, to examine the robustness of learn-\nability from single-child input, we systematically train six dif-\nferent model architectures on five datasets (3 single-child and\n2 baselines). We find that the models trained on single-child\ndatasets showed consistent results that matched with previous\nwork, underscoring the robustness of forming meaningful syn-\ntactic and semantic representations from a subset of a child's\nlinguistic input.\nKeywords: learnability; single-child; distributional learning;\nrobustness; language models", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Linguistics; Psychology; Concepts and categories; Language development; Language learning; Natural Language Processing; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9986685c", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yulu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Qin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wentao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Brenden", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lake", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NYU", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21677/galley/11276/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21677/galley/22070/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24795, "title": "A Test of Relational and Concrete Cognitive Biases Across Cultures and Species", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "American adults exhibit cognitive biases that favor processing relational information (e.g., comparative heights) over concrete metrics (e.g., surface area), but the bias's origin‚Äîcultural, developmental, or evolutionary‚Äîis debated. We explored this question by comparing American adults and children, Tsimane adults (with and without formal-education), and rhesus macaques. Findings indicate that relational biases emerge with increased exposure to formal-education. That is, educated Tsimane and Americans show a relational bias, unlike the concrete bias seen in uneducated Tsimane and macaques. Furthermore, young American children show less relational bias than older children and adults, indicating a progressive increase in relational bias. These findings suggest that while common ancestors of humans and macaques may have evolved to favor simpler concrete processing, this bias can be overridden by environmental influences (e.g., abstract language and symbols) that promote relational processing. Further investigations on early-life biases could help educators tailor teaching methods to cognitive predispositions.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Animal cognition; Cognitive development; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2b6187s8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Teoman", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ozaydin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jessica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cantlon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24795/galley/20893/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24795/galley/14393/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24795/galley/18250/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24795/galley/20893/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24286, "title": "At-issueness and the Right Frontier: An Investigation of Dutch", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In multi-clause sentences, which clause carries the at-issue point is expected to be influenced by whether a clause is at the Right Frontier: Last-uttered clauses or clauses that subordinate these are expected to be at-issue. In a Dutch forced-choice experiment, we measure the rate at which comprehenders interpret an ambiguous pronoun to refer to one of two possible antecedents in a preceding sentence. We manipulated the type (matrix vs. subordinate) and position (sentence-early vs. sentence-final) of the clauses hosting the antecedents, as well as the topicality of the subject (mentioned in context vs.not mentioned in context). We find no effect of topicality, but we find that clause position and type influence the at-issue status of clauses within multi-clause sentences in Dutch: When multiple clauses are at the Right Frontier, sentence-final clauses are more likely hosts for at-issue content, and matrix clauses more so than subordinate clauses in this position.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Discourse; Language understanding; Pragmatics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51n8z181", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hans", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wilke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jet", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hoek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24286/galley/13882/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24286/galley/20941/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21417, "title": "Attention Allocation to Deviants with Intonational Rises and Falls: Evidence from Pupillometry", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This pupillometric study investigates the relevance of domain-final intonation for attention-orienting in German, employing a changing-state oddball paradigm with rising, falling and neutral intonation on deviant stimuli. Pupil dilation responses (PDR) to deviants were shown to be affected by their intonation contours, strengthening the case for the role of intonational edge tones in attention-orienting. Moreover, the magnitude and duration of the PDR response was higher for rises than falls, indicating the fundamental role of intonational rises for the activation of the attention-orienting mechanism in speech perception.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Linguistics; Attention; Audition; Language understanding" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68q9c2r8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lialiou", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cologne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jesse", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Harris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Martine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grice", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cologne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Petra", "middle_name": "B.", "last_name": "Schumacher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cologne", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21417/galley/11016/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21417/galley/21862/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24671, "title": "Attentional sustainability of organizer users under fast and slow appearing notifications", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Notifications convey important information, but they can also act as distractions, leading to resumption errors. Previous research has primarily focused on two types of notifications: pop-up notifications that appear quickly (1 second) and transparency reduction notifications that appear slowly (2 seconds). Pop-up notifications in an environment with perceptual feedback tend to result in the highest number of errors, while transparency reduction notifications may go unnoticed in an environment without feedback. To bridge this gap, the third variant of notification speed (1.5 seconds) was introduced in this study. The aim was to strike a balance between the noticeability of notification and minimizing the negative impact of attention redirection. Participants were instructed to perform the Modified Bourdon Test and close notifications. The findings revealed that the third variant, combining the features of pop-up and transparency reduction notifications, led to a decrease in resumption errors while still effectively capturing users' attention.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Attention; Behavioral Science; Human-computer interaction; UX" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6br7k91r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Valeriya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sklemenova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "HSE University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Anastasia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Anufrieva", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "HSE University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24671/galley/20944/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24671/galley/14269/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24671/galley/18078/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24671/galley/20944/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24241, "title": "Attention Due to Arousal Can Both Hinder and Facilitate the Discovery of Relations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The relational discovery was investigated with classical Bongard problems. The arrangement of the instances was varied to facilitate the discovery of the correct or wrong relation in the first comparison. Irrelevant to-the-task arousal between the two comparisons of the categories enables the discovery of the relation when the first comparison generates the correct relation. When the wrong relation is highlighted first, arousal slows the overall encoding time. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that attention enhances dominant representation, and highlight the need to reconsider the facilitative role of attention in relational discovery as it is based on multiple comparisons.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Analogy; Concepts and categories" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dt0c68r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Penka", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hristova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New Bulgarian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dimitrova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New Bulgarian University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24241/galley/13837/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24241/galley/20942/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24121, "title": "Attention in high-performance cognition is goal-directed, selective, focused, and sustained", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We introduce the concept of high-performance cognition as a domain-general function of acquiring and performing cognitively demanding skills to a high level. We conduct a survey among academic experts to identify key attention categories of high-performance cognition: by independent consensus they highlight the importance of goal-directed attention. Selective, focused, and sustained attention are strongly associated at slightly less complete consensus. They qualify their ratings with free-text reflections. Our work offers a new framing for skilled performance and its underlying cognitive processes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Attention; Intelligent agents; Learning; Skill acquisition and learning; Survey" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c7226h0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Benjamin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cowley", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Helsinki", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Aila", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kirjanen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Helsinki", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24121/galley/13715/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24121/galley/20943/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24521, "title": "Attraction and repulsion effects of expectation on the perception of acceleration.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "According to Bayesian accounts, perception is the consequence of integrating sensory input with prior expectations, resulting in biased percepts attracted towards our expectations. Contrary to this logic, Phan et al. show that downward motion is perceived as less accelerating than upward motion: a repulsion from the expectation that downward-moving objects should accelerate. This is one of a small number of reported effects where perception is repulsed from expectation. The question then arises, what conditions result in repulsive effects, and why? Here we manipulated the expected acceleration profiles for context and object identity along the horizontal axis, asking whether we see repulsion effects similar to those observed by Phan et al. We find repulsion when expectations are related to the context in which a ball moves, but attraction when an association is made between the ball's colour and the acceleration profile. We discuss possible reasons and implications for the contradictory results.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Perception; Predictive Processing; Sensory Processing" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k5550s1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Simpson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Matan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mazor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Oxford", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kirsten", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rittershofer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Birkbeck, University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Emma", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Ward", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Clare", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Press", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24521/galley/20945/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24521/galley/14118/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24521/galley/20945/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21379, "title": "Attribution of Responsibility Between Agents in a Causal Chain of Events", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this paper, we explored the attribution of causal responsibility in a causal chain of events, where an agent A instructs an intermediate agent B to execute some harmful action which leads to a bad outcome. In Study 1, participants judged B to be more causally responsible, more blameworthy, and more deserving of punishment than A. In Study 2, we explored the effect of proximity on judgments of the two agents by adding a third, subsequent contributing cause, such that B's action no longer directly caused the final outcome. Participants judged both agents A and B to be less causally responsible and deserving of punishment (but not less blameworthy) when they were less proximal to the outcome, and there were no differences in judgments between the two agents. In Study 3, we varied whether each of the two agents (A and B) intended for the final outcome to occur. We find an interaction between role and intent, where participants only mitigated judgments for A when A did not intend for the outcome to occur ‚Äì regardless of B's intent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and its implications for moral and legal decision-making.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Decision making; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zr9p3jv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Vanessa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cheung", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mengxuan", "middle_name": "Helen", "last_name": "Qiao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lagnado", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21379/galley/10978/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21379/galley/21824/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21420, "title": "Automated Recognition of Grooming Behavior in Wild Chimpanzees", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Video recording is a widely used tool for studying animal behavior, especially in fields such as primatology. Primatologists rely on video data to analyze and research topics such as social grooming to uncover subtle mechanisms behind complex social behavior and structures. Insights into these social behaviors may provide us with a better understanding of our closest living relatives, but also new theories and insights into our own behavior. However, analyzing this type of data using manual annotation is currently a time-consuming task. Here we present an end-to-end pipeline to track chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) poses using DeepLabCut (DLC) which then serves as input to a support vector machine. This classifier was trained to detect role transitions within grooming interactions. We replicate a recent study showing that DLC has usability value for chimpanzee data collected in natural environments. Our combined method of tracking and classification is remarkably successful in detecting the presence of grooming, indicating the directionality and a change in turn with an accuracy above 86% on unseen videos. We can identify particular pose features used in the classification of grooming, which will contribute to the exploration of turn-taking dynamics on a scale that would otherwise be difficult to attain with traditional methods. Finally, our pipeline can in principle be applied to recognize a variety of other socially interactive behaviors that are largely recognizable by (joint) postural states.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Animal cognition; Animal Communication; Behavioral Science; Social cognition; Gesture analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27c0v604", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van de Sande", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wim", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pouw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University Nijmegen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lara", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Southern", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Osnabrück University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21420/galley/11019/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21420/galley/21865/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24930, "title": "Autopoiesis meets mechanistic computation: A proof of concept of computational post-cognitivism", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent research suggests that post-cognitivist and computationalist paradigms are not necessarily incompatible. Here, we provide further support in favour of this proposition. Specifically, we demonstrate that it is possible to provide an implementation of two relevant verbal theories, Autopoietic Theory and Mechanistic Computation, that can analyse the AND-gate in Game of Life from the point of view of an autopoietic observer, identifying unities that show the property of either autopoiesis, mechanistic computation, or both. The explicit implementation also highlights the kind of considerations that a formalisation of a computational post-cognitivist theory has to address, which are not necessarily apparent from verbal theories alone.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zg8b1m1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stefan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Riegl", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Serge", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Thill", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24930/galley/14497/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24930/galley/20946/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24292, "title": "Availability, informatively and burstiness: Why average corpus measures are an inaccurate guide to surprisal in language", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "<p>It has been proposed that Chinese classifiers facilitate efficient communication by reducing the noun uncertainty in context. Although recent evidence has undermined this proposal, it was obtained using the common method of equating noun occurrence probabilities with corpus frequencies. This method implicity assumes words occur uniformly across contexts, yet this is inconsistent with empirical findings showing word distributions to be bursty. We hypothesized that if language users are sensitive to burstiness, and if classifiers provide information about upcoming nouns, this information will be less important in reducing uncertainty about noun after their first mention. We show that classifier usage provides more information at earlier mentions of nouns and and less information at later mentions, and that the actual classifier distribution appears inconsistent with previous proposals. These results support the idea that classifiers facilitate efficient communication and indicate that language users representations of lexical probabilities in context are dynamic.</p>", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Production; Language understanding; Corpus studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/445511zd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sihan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Edward", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gibson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ramscar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tübingen", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24292/galley/13888/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24292/galley/20947/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24461, "title": "Awareness of Experimentally Created Implicit Attitudes: Large-Scale Tests in Three Paradigms", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Implicit attitudes are often defined as residing beyond conscious awareness. This definition has been challenged by robust evidence demonstrating highly accurate predictions of implicit attitudes. However, relevant tests have all been conducted using well-known targets (e.g., racial groups), about which participants possess ample relevant knowledge. Therefore, accurate predictions may have emerged from inferential mechanisms rather than privileged first-person awareness. Here we probe participants' (N = 4,448) ability to report their own experimentally created implicit attitudes across four studies where implicit attitudes and their explicit counterparts (representing an obvious source of inference) were manipulated to shift in opposite directions. Predicted and actual implicit attitudes were either unrelated to each other, or predictive accuracy was limited to participants whose implicit and explicit attitudes were aligned. Echoing classic and contemporary accounts, these data suggest that implicit attitudes are (largely) unconscious, and successful implicit attitude predictions are likely subserved by inference rather than introspection.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Consciousness; Memory; Reasoning; Representation; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kv7q05z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Benedek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kurdi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Illinois", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Melnikoff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24461/galley/14058/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24461/galley/20948/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21389, "title": "A working memory model of sentence processing as binding morphemes to syntactic positions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "During sentence processing, comprehenders have to maintain a mapping between lexical items and their position in the sentence (syntactic position). We propose a model of morpheme-position binding in working memory, based on models such as 'serial-order-in-a-box' and its SOB-complex-span version. Like those working memory models, our sentence processing version derives a range of attested memory interference effects from the process of item-position binding. We present simulation results capturing similarity-based interference and item-distortion. These two major classes of interference effects have not received a unified account before, and are not fully captured by cue-based retrieval models.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Memory; Syntax; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p7872pc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maayan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Keshev", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mandy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cartner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tel Aviv University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Aya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meltzer-Asscher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tel Aviv University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dillon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Massachusetts Amherst", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21389/galley/10988/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21389/galley/21834/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24201, "title": "Backward reasoning through AND/OR trees to solve problems", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Whether travelling, playing games, or debugging code, any situation where an agent desires change can be framed as a problem. Despite this ubiquity, there is no unifying framework describing how people reason backwards when solving problems. We introduce AND/OR trees, which chain together subgoals and actions to attain them, as a way to represent this process. To investigate whether actions from AND/OR trees were predictive of human behavior, we conducted a study in which participants solved deterministic, long-horizon puzzles. AND/OR trees were able to explain most of the actions the participants took. Next, we modeled search through these trees using a psychologically plausible, single-parameter search algorithm. We fit this model to the data of individual participants and found that it captures trends in summary statistics of human play. Our results show the promise of AND/OR trees as a representation for backward reasoning in problem solving.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Problem Solving; Reasoning; Representation; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h4863xm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeroen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Olieslagers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zahy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bnaya", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "myWhatIf foundation", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yichen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wei Ji", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ma", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24201/galley/13797/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24201/galley/20949/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21362, "title": "Balancing on the Edge: Review and Computational Framework on the Dynamics of Fear of Falling and Fear of Heights in Postural Control", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This review explores the complex relationship between Fear of\nFalling (FoF) and Fear of Heights (FoH), and their impact on\nhuman postural control. FoF encompasses a spectrum of psychological\nand physiological responses that dynamically influence\npostural control, while FoH involves perceptual distortions\nand heightened physiological arousal in response to elevated\nenvironments. Through a comprehensive literature review,\nwe examine the research methods and findings of studies\non FoF and FoH. We further propose that Optimal Feedback\nControl (OFC) theory is a suitable framework to understand\nthe computational aspects of how these fears modify postural\ncontrol. We aim to provide a nuanced understanding of\nFoF and FoH, not only as psychological phenomena but as\ncomplex, dynamic interactions of cognitive, physiological, and\nmotor processes influencing an individual's interaction with\ntheir environment.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Dynamical Systems; Motor control; Comparative Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13m560t0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ruslan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Spartakov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Philipps University Marburg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alap", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kshirsagar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technische Universität Darmstadt", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dominik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mühl", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Philipps-University Marburg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Raphael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schween", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Philipps University Marburg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dominik", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Endres", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Philipps-Universitaet, Dept. Psychology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Frank", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bremmer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Philipps University Maburg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christiane", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Melzig", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Philipps University Marburg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Peters", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technische Universität Darmstadt", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21362/galley/10961/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21362/galley/21807/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24436, "title": "Bargaining power, outside options, and moral judgment", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "For contractualist accounts of morality, actions are moral if they correspond to what rational agents would agree to do, were they to negotiate explicitly. This, in turn, often depends on each party's bargaining power and on their outside options: what each of them could get in the absence of agreement. If there is an asymmetry, with one party enjoying higher bargaining power than another, this party can usually get a better deal ‚Äî as often happens in real negotiations. A strong test of contractualist accounts of morality, then, is whether moral judgments do take bargaining power into account. We explore this in three preregistered experiments (n = 1,616). We construct scenarios depicting everyday interactions between two parties in which one of them can perform a mutually beneficial but unpleasant action. We find that the same actions (asking the other to perform the unpleasant action, or explicitly refusing to do it) are perceived as less morally appropriate when performed by the party with worse outside options, as compared to the party with better outside options. Thus, participants tend to give more moral leeway to the party with higher bargaining power, and to hold the disadvantaged party to stricter moral standards. This effect appears to depend only on the relative ordering of outside options, but not the magnitude of the difference between them. We discuss implications for contractualist theories of moral cognition and the emergence and persistence of unfair norms and inequality.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Psychology; Decision making; Social cognition; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08s278pt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Arthur", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Le Pargneux", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Fiery", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cushman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24436/galley/14033/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24436/galley/20951/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24207, "title": "Bar Tip Limit Error and Characteristics of Drawn Data Distributions on Bar Graphs", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Bar graphs are commonly used graphs, but what do students infer about the data that created the bar graph? Previously, a drawing task revealed that a minority of students conflate mean bar graphs with count bar graphs and draw all data points within the bar of a mean bar graph (bar tip limit error, BTLE). The present study extends this literature by manipulating the instructional text for the drawing task, interviewing the participants on their drawings, and recording their drawings and drawing session for further analysis. While we did not see any differences in the BLTE rates across instructional conditions, we did see significant differences in their drawing explanations and drawn data distributions based on condition, and in their drawing explanations based on whether they expressed confusion and whether they committed the BTLE. We discuss possible explanations and their implications.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Psychology; Human-computer interaction; Learning; Sketch understanding; Qualitative Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33r7b30j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lucy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cui", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ching-Yi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Academic", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yiwei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Peike", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Medha", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zili", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24207/galley/13803/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24207/galley/20950/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24934, "title": "Basic syntax from speech: Spontaneous concatenation in unsupervised deep neural networks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Computational models of syntax are predominantly text-based. Here we propose that basic syntax can be modeled directly from raw speech in a fully unsupervised way. We focus on one of the most ubiquitous and elementary properties of syntax---concatenation. We introduce \\textit{spontaneous concatenation}: a phenomenon where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on acoustic recordings of individual words start generating outputs with two or even three words concatenated without ever accessing data with multiple words in the input. Additionally, networks trained on two words learn to embed words into novel unobserved word combinations. To our knowledge, this is a previously unreported property of CNNs trained on raw speech in the Generative Adversarial Network setting and has implications both for our understanding of how these architectures learn as well as for modeling syntax and its evolution from raw acoustic inputs.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ks8q4q9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gasper", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Begus", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zili", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Iowa State University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24934/galley/20952/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24934/galley/14501/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24934/galley/20952/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24358, "title": "Bayesian Belief Polarization due to Differential Perceptions of Source Independence", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Belief polarization represents a puzzling and important dynamic in belief updating. There is growing awareness that belief polarization can be Bayesian. We provide pre-registered experimental evidence that beliefs can polarize when people receive conflicting testimony from two groups of sources if they have different beliefs about which group's members have greater independence in terms of the factors which affect their testimony. We show this is predicted by a Bayesian Network model of belief updating.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Learning; Social cognition; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19x670dt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Young", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cambridge", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lee", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "de-Wit", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Camrbridge", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jens", "middle_name": "Koed", "last_name": "Madsen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "London School of Economics", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24358/galley/13955/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24358/galley/20953/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24525, "title": "Bayesian-like Decision-Making Behavior in Visual Search", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Extensive research from both sensorimotor and perceptual domains has shown that people make decisions by combining prior and current information according to their relative uncertainties, following Bayesian statistics predictions. However, less is known about visual search, a task that requires people to determine the presence/absence of a search target (T) amongst distractors (Ls). Here, we examined decision-making behavior in a visual search task which manipulated the target prevalence rate (prior: 25% or 50%) and the portion of the display that was visible (sensory information: 0%, 30%, or 60%). Participants' (N=56) decision-making behavior qualitatively reflected Bayesian predictions, relying more on the information that was less uncertain. When no items were visible, participants were highly accurate in making present/absent decisions based on the prevalence rate learned through feedback. But when provided sensory information, participants' decision-making was more strongly influenced by visibility. Thus, reliance on sensory information may dominate priors in visual search.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Attention; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Perception; Sensory Processing; Vision; Bayesian modeling; Computer-based experiment; Statistics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98m238fb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mathi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Manavalan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota - Twin Cities", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Vanessa", "middle_name": "G", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Iris", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vilares", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24525/galley/20954/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24525/galley/14122/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24525/galley/20954/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21615, "title": "Behavioral Sensing: An Exploratory Study to Assess Self-Regulated Learning and Resource Management strategy of University Students using Mobile Sensing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Self-regulated learning influences students' learning behaviors and is a significant academic performance factor. Resource management strategy based on self-regulated learning theory is an important indicator for students to demonstrate Self-regulated learning. However, current self-regulated learning and resource management strategy assessments still rely on subjective evaluations and self-assessments, which are time-consuming and laborious. Therefore, we propose a novel method combined with mobile sensing by collecting detailed learning strategy subscales and objective mobile sensing data from 211 college students to explore a new approach to assessing self-regulated learning and resource management strategy. We are the first to propose a mobile sensing approach for assessing self-regulated learning and learning strategies. The method studies the associations between the learning strategy subscales and these daily behavior patterns and presents features for behavior patterns from mobile sensing data. Our study helps to reveal new forms of assessing self-regulated learning and opens the way for personalized interventions.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Education; Psychology; Human-computer interaction; Learning" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8886d9d5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tongyu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minho", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jiaying", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "School of Artificial intenlligence", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Feng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minho", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yatong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jilin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Adriano", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tavares", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minho", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tiago", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gomes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minho", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jilin University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21615/galley/11214/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21615/galley/14523/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21615/galley/22012/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24262, "title": "Behavioural and theoretical support for ranking theory as an alternative model of human uncertainty representation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Measuring and quantifying degrees of belief poses a fundamental challenge, prompting an exploration into how humans navigate uncertainty. This study challenges the conventional use of probability theory and investigates ranking theory as a viable alternative model. Across the initial three experiments (N = 168; N = 63; N = 200), participants consistently utilized negative ranking functions to express disbelief, revealing a robust pattern across diverse contexts. Notably, a logarithmic relationship emerged between subjective probability and negative ranks (degree of disbelief), highlighting the granularity of ranking functions. Experiment 3 introduced positive ranks, illustrating a log-odds relationship between subjective probability and two-sided ranks (degree of disbelief and belief), providing a detailed depiction of the full spectrum of beliefs. In Experiment 4 (N = 201), examining ranks and subjective probability in a learning task revealed that disbelief via negative ranking functions more accurately represented the objective probability distribution than subjective probability. Lastly, Experiment 5 (N = 291) addressed decision-making under uncertainty through the Ellsberg paradox, uncovering how ranking theory not only resolved contradictions with expected utility theory but also eliminated the paradoxical nature of the Ellsberg scenario. This study advances our understanding of human uncertainty and supports ranking theory as a compelling alternative.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; cognitive neuropsychology; Decision making" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hw2b4gb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hanbin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Go", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Waterloo", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Britt", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Anderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Waterloo", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24262/galley/13858/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24262/galley/20955/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24091, "title": "Belief updating patterns and social learning in stable and dynamic environments", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans are resistant to changing their beliefs even in the face of disconfirming evidence. The Bayesian brain theory suggests that we should update our beliefs optimally in light of new evidence, but recent research indicates that belief formation is far from the Bayesian ideal. Individuals can exhibit \"stronger-than-rational\" updating or be resistant to revising their beliefs. The present study proposes a novel paradigm to explore perceptions and preferences for belief updating patterns in stable and dynamic stochastic environments, using an advice-taking paradigm. In an experiment (N=567) based on a fishing task, we introduce three advisor characters representing formal updating models: Bayesian, Volatile and Rigid. We find that participants exhibit higher trust for the Bayesian advisor than the Rigid advisor, in the stable but not changeable environment conditions. In the changeable environment, participants exhibit higher trust for the Volatile advisor, compared to both the Bayesian and Rigid advisors. The findings also suggest that participants' own learning closely mimics the pattern of the Volatile model. This study illustrates that people can differentiate between Bayesian updating, and its \"stronger-than\" and \"weaker-than\" variations, and exhibit preferences for these updating patterns, in different environment structures.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Learning; Social cognition; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bh1939r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Trisevgeni", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Papakonstantinou", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nichola", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Raihani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lagnado", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24091/galley/13685/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24091/galley/20956/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21459, "title": "Benford's Law from a Developmental Perspective", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "When adults estimate meaningful numbers their distribution of first-digits is strongly biased towards Benford's Law. Insight into why this bias emerges could be gained by examining when it emerges in children. Three hypotheses were formulated: the Representation Hypothesis predicted this distribution can be found in all grades; the Integration Hypothesis predicted a leap in Benford bias from Grade 3 to 4 due to increased mathematical knowledge; and the Distribution Hypothesis proposed a gradual increase across grades due to implicit learning. 151 children in Grades 2 to 4 were asked to estimate numbers based on images and questions. Results showed a strong Benford bias in all three grades but a significant leap from Grade 2 to 3. This was evidence for both the Representation and Integration Hypotheses. Therefore, Benford bias may develop in children due to how they represent numbers, or develop complex mathematical processes, or perhaps some combination of these.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Development; Developmental analysis; Survey" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zc085vh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sophia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wünsch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Goethe University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Regina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vollmeyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Goethe University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bruce", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Burns", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of Sydney", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21459/galley/11058/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21459/galley/21904/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24126, "title": "Benford's Law: Testing the Effects of Distributions and Anchors on Number Estimation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent research (e.g., Burns & Krygier, 2015; Chi & Burns, 2022) demonstrated that people could exhibit a strong bias towards the smaller first digits, which is consistent with the pattern predicted by Benford's law. However, this psychological phenomenon was predominantly observed when generating meaningful numbers for decision-making. We investigated explanations rooted in the statistical acquisition of distributional information and the impact of anchoring during number estimation. Undergraduate students were asked to estimate the weight, lifespan and group-size of animals after learning different distributions of these variables, supplied with an anchored value, either an average or a starting point, for reference. The Benford bias reasonably emerged regardless of the variable distribution, yet was strongly influenced by the anchored information. Notably, showing average values significantly suppressed Benford bias. These findings offered insights into the cognitive process of number estimation in the presence of statistical evidence and anchored information.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Computer-based experiment; Statistics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1374352p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Duyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Univerisity of Sydney", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bruce", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Burns", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of Sydney", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24126/galley/13720/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24126/galley/20957/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24584, "title": "Best brain conditions for winning an esports competition: Electroencephalography amplitude in the frontal and parietal cortices associated with esports competition results", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Success in competitive matches hinges on psychological and mental preparations, such as strategic decision and emotional control. Although relevant cognitive functions and corresponding neural activity have been reported in a simple short-term laboratory task, the contribution of neural activity to the outcome of a more complex and prolonged match-format task has not been examined. Therefore, we focused on esports players engaged in a fighting video game (FVG). We examined the association between electroencephalography results in the pre-round of FVGs and consequences of the rounds. The results showed that parietal beta and frontal alpha/gamma activities are associated with winning and losing, respectively, depending on the match's situation. Furthermore, parietal beta activity exhibited approximately 80% accuracy in win-loss predictions using machine learning. Our findings suggest that the performance of skilled video game players is influenced by psychological and mental preparations with fluctuations in neural oscillations.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Neuroscience; Psychology; Emotion; Machine learning; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qs6k4vn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sorato", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Minami", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ken", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Watanabe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "WASEDA University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Naoki", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Saijo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NTT Communication Science Laboratories", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Makio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kashino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "NTT Communication Science Laboratories", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24584/galley/20958/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24584/galley/14181/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24584/galley/20958/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21493, "title": "Beyond Mediator Retrievals: Charting the Path by Which Errors Lead to Better Memory Consolidation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Expanding on previous research highlighting the learning benefits of errors, this study explores the enduring effects of error-induced learning. Using an adaptive fact-learning system, 23 participants engaged in recognition, recall, and error tasks, with repeated testing for memory assessment. Initial findings echoed previous results: items learned through errors initially took longer to retrieve. However, a significant shift occurred over time; error items demonstrated faster retrieval speeds compared to study items, and, most notably, they exhibited greater resilience against forgetting. This study reaffirms the positive role of errors in learning and uncovers their contribution to enhanced long-term memory retention. These insights challenge traditional learning paradigms, advocating for an educational approach that recognizes and leverages the value of errors in learning processes.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Learning; Memory; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hm6379s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bridget", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Leonard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "holly", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "hake", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andrea", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stocco", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21493/galley/11092/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21493/galley/21938/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21699, "title": "Beyond Noise: The Role of Speaker Variability on Statistical Learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Adult language learners have difficulty segmenting words from continuous speech when the phonology is unfamiliar. Since speaker variability is known to improve acquisition of novel language structures, it could be processed in ways that bootstrap phonological patterns and enhance learners' ability to segment words. To test this, the present experiment examined adult participants' learning of a stream of statistically determined tri-syllabic words that were spoken by one or multiple speakers. Syllables were constructed with either English phonology or non-English phonology. Two tasks (target detection and two-alternative forced choice) assessed the extent of listeners' sensitivity to language patterns and word segmentation. Results suggest speaker variability negatively impacted learners' ability to track the underlying statistics. 2AFC word segmentation performance was poor‚Äîindependent of speaker number; it is hypothesized that attentional demands of the target detection task conflicted with statistical word segmentation mechanisms.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language learning; Language understanding; Statistical learning" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3824t3p8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Larissa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Melville", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of British Columbia", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alexis", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Black", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of British Columbia", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21699/galley/11298/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21699/galley/22092/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24028, "title": "Beyond synchrony: Exploring the social relevance of complexity matching.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Interpersonal synchrony is a foundation of social interaction. However, as a form of coordination, synchrony is limited to regular, rhythmic actions. As such, research regarding the relationship between synchrony and social factors may not generalise to other forms of interpersonal behaviour. Here, we explored whether factors known to influence synchrony, also impact a complimentary form of coordination, complexity matching. When people interact, complex patterns of variability inherent to their individual behaviour can become more similar (i.e., more coordinated). In pairs, participants completed four walking trials that manipulated social interdependence while their gait patterns were captured. We also measured subclinical levels of social anxiety. Although data collection is ongoing, the results point to social anxiety having a detrimental effect on individual behavioural variability, and in turn, complexity matching. Effects of the interdependence manipulation were also evident, but await further data. These results are discussed with respect to theories of interpersonal dynamics.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Complex systems; Dynamical Systems; Embodied Cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24j6f27n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amber", "middle_name": "Jade", "last_name": "Brown", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Western Australia", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Margaret", "middle_name": "Catherine", "last_name": "Macpherson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Macquarie University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lynden", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Miles", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Western Australia", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24028/galley/13622/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24028/galley/20959/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24842, "title": "Beyond Transactional Communication; Fostering Effective Teamwork during the COVID-19 Pandemic", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Virtual collaboration and teamwork have long transformed many sectors like business and healthcare, and higher education is no exception. However, unlike many other sectors, literature in higher education has primarily focused on team learning in the online context. Most works center around recommendations for effective technology platforms, training, communication, and assessment measures for matriculated students and researchers (Cleary et al., 2018; Flammia et al., 2016; Hu, 2015), rather than for effective virtual team performance for professional educators (DeRosa & Lespinger, 2010; Zaccaro & Bader, 2003). Drawing on the domains of business, education, and the military, this article examines four key factors for fostering effective virtual teamwork among foreign language (FL) instructors: (a) trust, (b) communication, (c) autonomy, and (d) identity. It also offers implications for teacher trainers and educational leadership for building professional development for successful teamwork in an online teaching environment and post-COVID teaching contexts.", "language": "eng", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "virtual teams" }, { "word": "online teaching" }, { "word": "effective teamwork" }, { "word": "teacher training" } ], "section": "Theme Section - Developing Strong Educators", "is_remote": false, "remote_url": null, "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kara", "middle_name": "Mac", "last_name": "Donald", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Defense Language Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mirna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Khater", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Defense Language Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Viktoriya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shevchenko", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Defense Language Institute", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/catesoljournal/article/24842/galley/14436/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24275, "title": "Beyond typicality: Lexical category affects the use and processing of color words", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Speakers and listeners show an informativity bias in the use and interpretation of color modifiers. For example, speakers use color more often when referring to objects that vary in color than to objects with a prototypical color. Likewise, listeners look away from objects with prototypical colors upon hearing that color mentioned. Here we test whether speakers and listeners account for another factor related to informativity: the strength of the association between lexical categories and color. Our results demonstrate that speakers and listeners' choices are indeed influenced by this factor; as such, it should be integrated into current pragmatic theories of informativity and computational models of color reference.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Production; Language understanding; Pragmatics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58d3b3vv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Madeleine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Long", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Paula", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rubio-Fernàndez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24275/galley/13871/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24275/galley/20960/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24604, "title": "Bias in Belief Updating: Combining the Bayesian Sampler with Heuristics", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People systematically deviate from the rational Bayesian updating of beliefs, as notably evidenced by conservatism and base-rate neglect. The primary cognitive models that explain these biases include simple heuristics (Woike et al., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2023.101564) and stochastic sampling approximations of the Bayesian solution, like the Bayesian Sampler (Zhu et al., 2020, https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000190) However, neither type of explanation appears entirely complete, as the data fall between the two; only about half of participants' responses align with heuristics. Could these results be explained by a new class of models that blend heuristics with Bayesian models? We test both simple mixtures of heuristics and the Bayesian Sampler, as well as a hybrid model in which heuristics are used to set a prior that improves estimates based on stochastic samples. Our analysis indicates that neither heuristics nor the Bayesian Sampler alone are sufficient to explain the data.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5142b5v1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yitong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jian-Qiao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sanborn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24604/galley/17770/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21594, "title": "Bi-Branch Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Word Sense Disambiguation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) has been a fundamental task for human language understanding. In specific contexts, a word may have different meanings. For rarely seen word senses, the disambiguation becomes challenging with limited examples. Meta-learning, as a widely adopted machine learning method for few-shot learning, addresses this by extracting metacognitive knowledge from training data, aiding models in \"learning to learn\". Hence, the advancement of meta-learning hinges on leveraging high-quality metacognitive knowledge. In light of this, we propose a Bi-Branch Meta-Learning method for WSD to enrich and accumulate metacognitive insights. Our method employs two branches during training and testing. During training, we use a bi-branch loss with original and augmented data from large language models to compensate for data scarcity. In testing, information from base classes generates bi-branch scores to refine predictions. Experiments show our method achieves a 74.3 F1 score in few-shot scenarios, demonstrating its potential for few-shot WSD.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Language understanding; Machine learning; Natural Language Processing; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r56j71p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Qingying", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jing", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Peng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tianjin University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21594/galley/11193/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21594/galley/21987/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21544, "title": "Biological Males' and 'Trans(gender) Women': Social Considerations in the Production of Referring Expressions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding referring expression generation has long been of interest to psycholinguistics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Experimental data in the former two has shown that referring expression generation is modulated by both pragmatic and cognitive considerations, and the latter suggests that referring expressions have social meaning beyond their literal referential utility. This project integrates these three accounts by extending Burnett (2017)'s socially-enriched implementation of the Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework to account for variation in referring expressions used to denote transgender women in two politically opposed media corpora. Our findings highlight the utility of the RSA framework in explaining socially-modulated variation while also accounting for pragmatic and cognitive considerations. Finally, this paper contributes to growing literatures that address the relationship between (alt-)right ideologies about gender and language by highlighting the use of bioessentialist language such as 'biological male' in the propagation of anti-trans rhetoric in the United States.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Cognitive Humanities; Language Production; Reasoning; Corpus studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b5481wb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Brandon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Papineau", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Judith", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Degen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21544/galley/11143/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21544/galley/14620/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21544/galley/20865/download/" } ] } ] }