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We investigate whether observers of interactions with negative outcomes associated with representations of outgroup members develop extinction-resistant fears. Our results indicate that outgroup members can act as fear-relevant stimuli in an observational scenario. The effect is not sensitive to self-relevance manipulations; importantly, however, other-oriented empathy may reduce the tendency toward forming extinction-resistant conditioned responses to outgroup members. Implications of these preliminary results, including limitations and suggestions for future research, are discussed.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Empathy; Learning; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mj942h8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Bosch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andreas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Olsson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Clinical Neuroscience, Division Psychology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24747/galley/21322/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24747/galley/14345/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24747/galley/18203/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24747/galley/21322/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21496, "title": "Issues of Generalization from Unreliable or Unrepresentative Psycholinguistic Stimuli: A Case Study on Lexical Ambiguity", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We conducted a case study on how unreliable and/or unrepresentative stimuli in psycholinguistics research may impact the generalizability of experimental findings. Using the domain of lexical ambiguity as a foil, we analyzed 2033 unique words (6481 tokens) from 214 studies. Specifically, we examined how often studies agreed on the ambiguity types assigned to a word (i.e., homonymy, polysemy, and monosemy), and how well the words represented the populations underlying each ambiguity type. We observed far from perfect agreement in terms of how words are assigned to ambiguity types. We also observed that coverage of the populations is relatively poor and biased, leading to the use of a narrower set of words and associated properties. This raises concerns about the degree to which prior theoretical claims have strong empirical support, and offers targeted directions to improve research practices that are relevant to a broad set of domains.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Semantics; Case studies; Statistics" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52c2s25s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jiangtian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto Scarborough", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Blair", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Armstrong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21496/galley/11095/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21496/galley/21941/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24223, "title": "Is the asymmetry in negative strengthening the result of adjectival polarity or face considerations?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Sentences with negated adjectives receive a stronger interpretation than given by their semantics, a phenomenon called negative strengthening. It has been reported that inherently positive adjectives display a higher degree of negative strengthening than inherently negative adjectives. We investigate two possible causes of this asymmetry: intrinsic adjectival polarity and face considerations. Results of an experiment where face-related factors were manipulated suggest that both polarity and face contribute to the asymmetry. Extending a probabilistic RSA model of polite speech, we formalize the listener's reasoning about a speaker's use of negated adjectives as a tradeoff between expecting a speaker to maximize both an utterance's social and informational utility, while avoiding inherently costly adjectives.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Pragmatics; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment; Statistics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vv324wq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sarang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jeong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Potts", "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": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24223/galley/13819/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24223/galley/21323/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21686, "title": "Is There Flexibility in Letter-Position Encoding in Hindi? Evidence from Masked Form Priming Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recognizing written words involves identifying individual\nletters, as well as keeping track of specific positions of the\nletters. Interestingly, some languages show flexibility in letter-\nposition encoding which is inferred by the observation that\npseudowords formed by transposing internal letters of a word\n(e.g., jugde-JUDGE) can facilitate recognition of the given\nword. While research in English and other Indo-European\nlanguages have shown that readers can cope with such\nviolations in the canonical order of letters in a word, research\nfrom other languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Korean\nshow contrasting results. Such scenario creates a need of more\nresearch from different writing systems of the world, so that a\nuniversal model of word-recognition can be built. Therefore, in\nthe current study, we investigated flexibility in letter-position\nencoding in Hindi (Devanagari script). Interestingly, we found\nevidence for flexibility in letter position encoding in Hindi\nsimilar to English and other Indo-European languages.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Reading; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k826851", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Suraj", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kumar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Anurag", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Khare", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ark", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Verma", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21686/galley/11285/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21686/galley/22079/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24598, "title": "Item-level Difficulty Predictors in the Acquisition of Past Tense in Dutch", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "How children acquire the rules governing past tense production has been for many years a test bed case for nativist-constructivist debates about the nature of innate knowledge and its role in language acquisition. However, previous studies have tested the acquisition of past tense via corpus analysis, in which errors are rare, or elicitation tasks, in which tested items are few, resulting in limited between-item variability. To address these weaknesses, we analysed data from a uniquely large and longitudinal dataset containing 694 verbs, collected via an educational online platform. We examined whether form-frequency, phonological neighbourhood density (PND), and telicity predict the verb-level difficulty of past tense forms in Dutch. Our sample consists of Dutch-speaking children aged 8-12 years old, the age at which children are still making past tense over-regularisation errors. Analyses are ongoing but preliminary results suggest a role for all three factors and an interaction between frequency and PND.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language development; Language learning; Language Production; Morphology" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bm7c9px", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eleni", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zimianiti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lilian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ye", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Prowise Learn", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Abe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hofman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rogier", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Kievit", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "donders", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Caroline", "middle_name": "F", "last_name": "Rowland", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Seamus", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Donnelly", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Australian National University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24598/galley/17760/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21516, "title": "It's How You Teach, Not What You Teach: Preschoolers Prefer Coordinative Instruction from Informants", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "When children make decisions about whom to trust or learn from, they consider not only the informant's reliability but also the social bond. Previous research often assigned a social label to informants without investigating how the interactive dynamics between informants and children influence learning and trust. This study investigates 3- to 6-year-old children's preference towards informants who deliver instructions with or without coordination. In two experiments, children evaluated coordinative and non-coordinative informants on game-playing capability, willingness to engage with or learn from the informants, and selective trust in unrelated tasks. Children consistently preferred coordinative informants, perceiving them as more capable and trustworthy, over informants who demonstrated the information without coordinative turn-taking. This preference persisted across age groups, challenging previous notions about children's preference for information completeness. The findings highlight the prosocial effects of coordination, extending its influence beyond peer relationships to significantly impact selective trust when learning from knowledgeable individuals.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qf0m2r9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yiqun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Psychology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Liqi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Psychology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yingjia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21516/galley/11115/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21516/galley/14592/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21516/galley/21324/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24362, "title": "Joint Improvisation; Perception of Togetherness in Contemporary Dance Performance", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Joint improvisation is central to how we navigate the social world, engage and maintain social interactions, and perceive interactions between other people. This project investigates people's ability to distinguish between joint and individual actions (contemporary joint vs. solo dance improvisation) and the information they use to make this determination. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to identify whether two people were improvising dance movements together or alone. Experiment 2 explored how much people's decision-making relies on information about the dancers' facial expressions and gaze direction. Overall, results showed we can accurately identify improvised joint actions, even when the actors' faces and gaze direction are occluded.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Aesthetics; Creativity; Dance; Decision making; Interactive behavior; Perception; Social cognition; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bg471hd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Trinidad", "middle_name": "Belén", "last_name": "Speranza", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Scientific and Technical Research Council", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ivonnia", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Flores Bravo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Verónica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ramenzoni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Scientific and Technological Council of Argentina", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24362/galley/13959/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24362/galley/21326/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24509, "title": "Kinematic modulations of iconicity in child-directed communication in Italian Sign Language", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Linguistic strategies humans use for communication are designed to meet the informational needs of their addressees. Speakers not only adapt their speech but also increase the rate of iconic gestures to enhance the clarity of a message for children. Although sign languages allow signers to take advantage of iconicity far more than what is possible in speech, little is known about whether signers use iconicity as a strategy in child-directed communication. In the present study, we used automatic video pose estimation to analyze descriptions aimed at a child (12yo) vs. an adult produced by 7 deaf adult signers of Italian Sign Language. Overall, signers used iconic constructions more than lexical signs and with comparable frequency in descriptions for both age groups. However, iconic constructions were longer in duration for children. Thus, the present study presents the first evidence that, unlike speakers, signers do not modulate quantitative but only qualitative aspects of iconicity for children.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Interactive behavior; Language Production; Pragmatics; Social cognition; Theory of Mind; Comparative Analysis; Comparative Studies; Discourse Analysis; Gesture analysis; Statistics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zk911sc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Anita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Slonimska", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alessio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "di Renzo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mounika", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kanakanti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Emanuela", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Campisi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Catania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Asli", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ozyurek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Donders Institute", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24509/galley/21327/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24509/galley/14106/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24509/galley/21327/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24558, "title": "Kinetic elements in genuflexion correlate with the degree of power relations in societal strata: The CONTROL IS UP metaphor in medieval miniatures", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The CONTROL IS UP metaphor is an embodied cognitive mechanism that helps western speakers reason about power relations in terms of vertical spatial organization, This paper explores its multimodal elaboration in visual manifestations of pyramidal structured arrangements and kinetic practices such as genuflexion in medieval miniatures in order to (i) demonstrate the role of multimodal representations of metaphors in reasoning, (ii) unveil power relationships between different societal strata.\n34 miniatures (12th ct. Liber feudorum maior) were analised with the ‚Äúmultimodal genuflexion test‚Äù to describe and measure (CAD-software) distances between kinetic elements (facial/manual gestures, postures).\nResults indicate that (i) power relations are not just vertically represented (kneeling & bowing), physical distance between characters and position of hands are crucial, (ii) there is a significant positive correlation [U = 61,119; p = 0.003] between the power figure and the degree of ‚Äúbody bending‚Äù (bowing, kneeling) and hand distance.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Sociology; Cognitive Humanities; Embodied Cognition; Representation; Semantics; Discourse Analysis; Gesture analysis; Qualitative Analysis; Statistics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pf31111", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Iraide", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ibarretxe Antuñano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Zaragoza", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andrea", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ariño Bizarro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Zaragoza", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David Moret", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oliver", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Real Estate Developer", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "María Teresa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moret-Oliver", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Zaragoza", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Guillermo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tomàs Faci", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Archivo", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24558/galley/21328/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24558/galley/14155/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24558/galley/21328/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24754, "title": "Knowing What Counts for Counting", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Children know a lot about counting, even before they can count; for instance, even toddlers know that the counting routine involves establishing one-to-one correspondence between number words and items counted. Here we varied the size, numerosity, density, and layout of elements of sets, and asked children which set was easier to count in pair-wise comparisons across twelve trials. We also asked children themselves to count 5 to 15 items arranged in straight lines. Even children who could not count to 15 recognized that it was easier to count fewer than more dots and recognized that structured sets were easier than random arrays; however, they failed to recognize that some layouts made tracking easier than others. This suggests that children's meta-knowledge about counting precedes their ability to count for some but not all properties of sets.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive development; Decision making; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44x1j3cg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karla", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Perez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Max", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Siegel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nicole", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Coates", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Josh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tenenbaum", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schulz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24754/galley/21330/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24754/galley/14352/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24754/galley/18209/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24754/galley/21330/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24490, "title": "Know your body by heart: a taVNS study on body¬†awareness", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation has proven effective in modulating parasympathetic autonomic nervous system activity and various cognitive functions.\nThis study investigated the effects of transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on body ownership and interoception in healthy subjects using a within-subjects experimental design (active taVNS/sham).\nThe rubber hand illusion (RHI) and the Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT) were employed.\nCardiac activity was recorded throughout the procedure to measure physiological indices of heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV).\nOwnership for the fake hand was observed in both active and sham stimulation, as indicated by drift and scores on illusion-relevant items (Q1-Q3).\nHR and HRV showed no variations between synchronous/asynchronous RHI or between stimulation conditions. Active taVNS resulted in decreased interoceptive meta-awareness.\nIndividuals with lower interoceptive abilities exhibited heightened susceptibility to RHI during active taVNS, possibly due to perturbation of interoceptive signals and increased reliance on exteroceptive signals in constructing body representation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Neuroscience; Psychology; Perception; Representation; Brain Stimulation" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ts838bv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Angelica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Scuderi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Sapienza University of Rome", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maria Luisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "De Martino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Sapienza University of Rome", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Erik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Leemhuis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Sapienza University of Rome", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mariella", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pazzaglia", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Sapienza University of Rome", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24490/galley/14087/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24490/galley/21329/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24665, "title": "L2 speakers use of discourse strategies in a Maze Task", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Sentence completion studies have shown that L1 English readers use verbal aspect (VA) as a cue to disambiguate pronouns in the context of sentences with transfer of possession verbs. Specifically, in the context of a sentence like ‚ÄúMary gave/was giving a book to Bill‚Äù, a subsequent pronoun is more likely to refer to the source referent (‚ÄúMary‚Äù) when the aspect is imperfective (‚Äúwas giving‚Äù) than when it is perfective (‚Äúgave‚Äù). L2 studies have shown mixed results on whether L2 speakers, living within an L2 country or outside, can utilise VA as a discourse cue. The current study tested L2 English speakers using an online Maze task, where a pronoun (‚ÄúHe‚Äù or ‚ÄúShe‚Äù) referring to either the source or goal referent had to be chosen at the critical point in the sentence. The results showed that both L1 speakers and L2 speakers, regardless of location, used VA as a disambiguation cue.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Other; Discourse; Multilingualism; Predictive Processing; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fb7c5hg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Abraham", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Edinburgh", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24665/galley/21331/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24665/galley/14263/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24665/galley/18065/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24665/galley/21331/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21342, "title": "Labeling Behaviors are Associated with the Identification of Emotion Events", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The framework of event perception suggests that people segment continuous perceptual input into discrete events by forming mental representations of ongoing activity. Prior work extending the segmentation framework to emotion perception shows that a richer emotion vocabulary is associated with segmentation of emotion events in greater agreement with the cultural ingroup. However, little is known about how labeling behaviors themselves shape the segmentation of emotion events. Here, we look at the effect of labeling on emotion segmentation. Participants were randomly assigned to simply segment videos into discrete emotion events or to segment only when an emotion label is available and to label the segmented event. We found that compared to the group that segmented without providing labels, the group that segmented with explicit labeling behaviors were less sensitive at discriminating emotion events from non-emotion events and more conservative to identify an emotion event. The results are discussed with respect to competing theoretical accounts of the impact of labeling on emotion perception and suggest that the conceptual broadening account (where labels invoke idiographic emotion representations) may best account for the findings.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Concepts and categories; Emotion; Emotion Perception; Language and thought" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4603420q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zhimeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "T", "last_name": "Gendron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale Univeristy", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21342/galley/10941/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21342/galley/21787/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24116, "title": "Labels aid in the more difficult of two category learning tasks: Implications for the relative diagnosticity of perceptual dimensions in selective attention tasks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Language represents a framework used to organize the things we experience. Redundant linguistic category labels facilitate category learning at a faster rate than category learning without labels (Luypan et al., 2007) suggesting language is also meaningfully involved in forming new categories. However, labels are not exclusively advantageous. Brojde et al., (2011) demonstrates that labels can be detrimental to category learning dependent on attending to historically agnostic dimensions over historically diagnostic ones (i.e., learning texture-based categories while ignoring shape). To separate historical experience from novel category learning, we task participants with classifying stimuli based on perceptual dimensions with less historical precedence as diagnostic cues for categorizing objects in everyday life (i.e., orientation and spatial frequency). Our results reveal a labeling advantage as well as slower overall learning in the orientation condition compared to spatial frequency-based learning. We discuss implications involving the historical use of these dimensions and the relationship between diagnostic and non-diagnostic dimensions.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Language and thought; Learning; Perception; Vision" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xt5z808", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Andrew", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Mertens", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado at Boulder", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Eliana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Colunga", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado Boulder", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24116/galley/13710/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24116/galley/21332/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24812, "title": "Language and Culture Interact in Moral Decision-Making", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A growing body of research indicates that moral decision-making is influenced by language status. Across studies and language combinations, participants make more utilitarian judgements when responding to moral dilemmas in a foreign (L2), compared to a native (L1) language. One explanation for the Foreign Language Effect is a reduced access to social norms in L2, since normative knowledge is acquired early in life in the native language. To test this account, we provided Chinese-English late bilinguals with ‚Äútemporary social norms‚Äù: Upon dilemma presentation, response percentages of alleged previous participants were shown, representing either a deontological or utilitarian majority. We found that in English, participants conformed to utilitarian and deontological majority information, highlighting the malleability of moral decisions in an L2 context. In Chinese, participants only conformed to the utilitarian majority, potentially reflecting the influence of collectivist values. Our findings highlight the complex interplay between language, culture, and social norms in moral cognition.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Attention; Face Processing; Language development; Multilingualism; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7np3f5c1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ricarda", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brieke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University College London (UCL)", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chunru", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lasana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Harris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCL", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24812/galley/21333/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24812/galley/14410/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24812/galley/18267/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24812/galley/21333/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24756, "title": "Language captures rich information about perceptibility: Evidence from LMMs and humans", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Trained on text only, Large Language Models (LLMs) provide a unique way to approach the age-old question of how language captures sensory experiences. Such models have showcased human-level performance in several domains. However, what they capture about the sensory world remains uncertain. We prompted state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) as well as sighted and congenitally blind adults to judge the likelihood of successful visual and auditory perception using verbal scenarios. Scenarios varied in distance of the observer from the object (next to, across the street, a block away), duration of perception (glance vs. stare) and properties of perceived object (e.g., size for vision). Sighted and blind humans produced highly consistent perceptibility judgments, and these correlated highly with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. GPT-4 showed human-like effects of size, distance, and duration, though both LLMs underestimated humans' ability to perceive. Language captures detailed quantitative information about perceptibility.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive development; Concepts and categories; Language and thought; Language understanding; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22j4m3n0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Akshi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "LNU", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Gabriel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pernell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ziwen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bedny", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24756/galley/21334/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24756/galley/14354/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24756/galley/18211/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24756/galley/21334/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21422, "title": "Language Discrimination May Not Rely on Rhythm: A Computational Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "It has long been assumed that infants' ability to discriminate between languages stems from their sensitivity to speech rhythm, i.e., organized temporal structure of vowels and consonants in a language. However, the relationship between speech rhythm and language discrimination has not been directly demonstrated. Here, we use computational modeling and train models of speech perception with and without access to information about rhythm. We test these models on language discrimination, and find that access to rhythm does not affect the success of the model in replicating infant language discrimination results. Our findings challenge the relationship between rhythm and language discrimination, and have implications for theories of language acquisition.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Language development; Machine learning; Speech recognition; Computational Modeling; Cross-linguistic analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qx164nx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ruolan", "middle_name": "Leslie", "last_name": "Famularo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ali", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aboelata", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schatz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Aix-Marseille Université", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Naomi", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Feldman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21422/galley/11021/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21422/galley/21867/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24937, "title": "Language influences how Spanish speakers from different cultural backgrounds think, talk, and gesture about causality", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Causality is a shared general experience, but languages differ in the way they encode it. This research explores the possible correlation between society type, language and causal attribution in the way Spanish speakers think and judge causality. 202 native speakers of European and American Spanish participated in three different studies: (i) an adaptation of Singelis' (1994) psychological questionnaire for social in(ter)dependency; (ii) a non-verbal categorisation task for the attribution of causal responsibility; and (iii) a multimodal description task for causal events. Data were elicited with a set of 58 causal videoclips from the CAL project (NSF,BCS-1535846).\nResults show that all Spanish speakers, regardless of their Western (Spain) or Eastern (Latin America) backgrounds, categorise and linguistically describe causality based on the degree of the action's intentionality. A strong correlation between language and causal categorisation was found, supporting the idea that language is a determining factor in the causal attribution.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v84g3rg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Andrea", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ariño Bizarro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Zaragoza", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Iraide", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ibarretxe Antuñano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Zaragoza", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24937/galley/21335/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24937/galley/14504/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24937/galley/21335/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21418, "title": "Language Models That Accurately Represent Syntactic Structure Exhibit Higher Representational Similarity To Brain Activity", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We investigate whether more accurate representation of syntactic\ninformation in Transformer-based language models is\nassociated with better alignment to brain activity. We use fMRI\nrecordings from a large dataset (MOUS) of a Dutch sentence\nreading task, and perform Representational Similarity Analysis\nto measure alignment with 2 mono- and 3 multilingual\nlanguage models. We focus on activity in a region known\nfor syntactic processing (the Left posterior Medial Temporal\nGyrus). We correlate model-brain similarity scores with the\naccuracy of dependency structures extracted from model internal\nstates using a labelled structural probe. We report three key\nfindings: 1) Accuracy of syntactic dependency representations\ncorrelates with brain similarity, 2) The link between brain similarity\nand dependency accuracy persists regardless of sentence\ncomplexity, although 3) Sentence complexity decreases dependency\naccuracy while increasing brain similarity. These results\nhighlight how interpretable, linguistic features such as syntactic\ndependencies can mediate the similarity between language\nmodels and brains", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; fMRI" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fp7m6nf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Abraham", "middle_name": "Jacob", "last_name": "Fresen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rochelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Choenni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "ILLC", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Micha", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Heilbron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Willem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zuidema", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marianne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "de Heer Kloots", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute for Logic, Language and Computation", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21418/galley/11017/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21418/galley/21863/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21693, "title": "Language use is only sparsely compositional: The case of English adjective-noun phrases in humans and large language models", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Compositionality is considered a key hallmark of human\nlanguage. However, most research focuses on item-level compositionality, e.g.,\nto what extent the meanings of phrases are composed of the meanings of their\nsub-parts, rather than on language-level compositionality, which is the degree\nto which possible combinations are utilized in practice during language use.\nHere, we propose a novel way to quantify the degree of language-level\ncompositionality and apply it in the case of English adjective-noun\ncombinations. Using corpus analyses, large language models, and human\nacceptability ratings, we find that (1) English only sparsely utilizes the\ncompositional potential of adjective‚Äìnoun combinations; and (2) LLMs struggle to\npredict human acceptability judgments of rare combinations. Taken together, our\nfindings shed new light on the role of compositionality in language and\nhighlight a challenging area for further improving LLMs.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Linguistics; Language understanding; Natural Language Processing; Semantics; Big data; Computational Modeling; Corpus studies; Large Language Models; Survey" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qd3662b", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aalok", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sathe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Evelina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fedorenko", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Noga", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zaslavsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCI", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21693/galley/11292/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21693/galley/22086/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24583, "title": "Large Language Models and Human Discourse Processing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent advances in generative language models, such as ChatGPT, have demonstrated an uncanny ability to produce texts that appear to be comparable to those produced by humans. Several key empirical results related to human processing of language, such as analogical reasoning, have been replicated using these models. Nevertheless, there are some important differences between the language generated by these models and language produced by humans. In this paper, I examine how LLMs performs on two pronoun disambiguation tasks reported on by Rhode, Levy, and Kehler (2011) and Sagi and Rips (2014). While LLMs performed reasonably in these tasks, their responses demonstrate stronger language-based biases while the influence of world knowledge, such as causal relationships, was lessened. Because LLMs replicate language produced by humans, these results can help shed light on which aspects of language use are directly encoded in language and which require additional reasoning faculties beyond language processing.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language Production; Pragmatics; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kx1n071", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eyal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sagi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of St. Francis", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24583/galley/21336/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24583/galley/14180/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24583/galley/21336/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24012, "title": "Large Language Models for Collective Problem-Solving: Insights into Group Consensus Decision-Making", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Large Language models (LLM) exhibit human-like proficiency in various tasks such as translation, question answering, essay writing, and programming. Emerging research explores the use of LLMs in collective problem-solving endeavors, such as tasks where groups try to uncover clues through discussions. Although prior work has investigated individual problem-solving tasks, leveraging LLM-powered agents for group consensus and decision-making remains largely unexplored. This research addresses this gap by (1) proposing an algorithm to enable free-form conversation in groups of LLM agents, (2) creating metrics to evaluate the human-likeness of the generated dialogue and problem-solving performance, and (3) evaluating LLM agent groups against human groups using an open source dataset. Our results reveal that LLM groups outperform human groups in problem-solving tasks. LLM groups also show a greater improvement in scores after participating in free discussions. In particular, analyses indicate that LLM agent groups exhibit more disagreements, complex statements, and a propensity for positive statements compared to human groups. The results shed light on the potential of LLMs to facilitate collective reasoning and provide insight into the dynamics of group interactions involving synthetic LLM agents.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Group Behaviour; Agent-based Modeling; Comparative Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6s060914", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yinuo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Du", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Software and Societal Systems Department", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Prashanth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rajivan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cleotilde", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gonzalez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24012/galley/13606/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24012/galley/21337/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21667, "title": "Large Language Models Show Human-Like Abstract Thinking Patterns: A Construal-Level Perspective", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This research explores the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage in abstract and concrete thought processes, challenging the common belief that LLMs are incapable of human-like, abstract thinking. Drawing upon the Construal Level Theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), we demonstrate how prompts tailored for each construal level (abstract versus concrete) influence LLMs' performance in tasks requiring different cognitive approaches. Our key findings include: 1) LLMs exhibit a statistically significant difference in construal level depending on the prompt conditions, and 2) LLMs display superior performance in tasks aligned with the prompted construal level; sentiment analysis in concrete conditions and natural language inference in abstract conditions. This research contributes to the scientific understanding of LLMs, offering practical insights for their effective use in tasks necessitating diverse cognitive capabilities.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Natural Language Processing; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3f28f61v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Seung Joo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yoo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Seoul National University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sangah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Seoul National University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21667/galley/11266/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21667/galley/14575/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21667/galley/22030/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21413, "title": "Latent meaning representations in great-ape gestural communication", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Studies of meaning in human and primate communication face, in principle, similar methodological problems. In both cases, meaning is not observable directly, but must be inferred from more indirect sources, such as directly observable behavior. Recent work in probabilistic cognitive modeling of language use has therefore developed methods of inferring latent se- mantic meaning through the lens of a probabilistic model of language use. In this paper, we explore how to adapt such an approach for insightful investigations of primate communication. Towards this end, we develop a suitable probabilistic model of processes that generate communicative behavior by making use of functionally specified latent meaning representations. As a proof of concept, we apply this model to a rich, annotated data set of orangutan communicative dyadic interaction and conclude that explicit probabilistic modeling can provide additional insights for the study of animal communication pertaining to the context-dependent nature of signals and the gradual evolution of human communication systems.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Other; Animal cognition; Animal Communication; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Field studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56c0m5t0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Franke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tübingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Manuel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bohn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marlen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fröhlich", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tübingen", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21413/galley/11012/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21413/galley/21858/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24606, "title": "Latent Structure of Intuitive Physics", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans are born with an intuitive representation of the physics world. How accurate is intuitive physics? Researchers from education focus on the failures, students' errors and misconceptions while cognitive psychologists argue humans anticipate and manipulate physical environments in ways betraying veridical knowledge of classical mechanics. One solution is to hypothesize there are distinct systems of ‚Äúcognitive physics‚Äù with different limitations and deployment in the tasks favored by the two literatures. The goal of current study is to gather evidence from psychometric studies by estimating how many distinct factors explain performance on intuitive physics assessments. We build an augmented concept inventory including several previously-validated concept inventories, around 120 items. The pilot study indicated that participants recruited online from Prolific displayed expected accuracy on the tasks. We are now collecting around 1,000 participants and applying multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) analyzes to identify the latent structure.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Psychology; Concepts and categories; Instruction and teaching; Problem Solving; Representation; Skill acquisition and learning; Spatial cognition; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2hv7832k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Hartshorne", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24606/galley/21338/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24606/galley/14203/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24606/galley/17957/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24606/galley/21338/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24759, "title": "Learning abstractions from discrete sequences", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding abstraction is a stepping stone towards understanding intelligence. We ask the question: How do abstract representations arise when learning sequences? From a normative perspective, we show that abstraction is necessary for an intelligent agent when the perceptual sequence contains objects of similar interaction properties appearing in identical contexts. A rational agent should identify categories of objects of similar properties as an abstract concept, enabling the discovery of higher-order sequential relations that span a longer part of the sequence. We propose a hierarchical variable learning model (HVM) that learns chunks and abstract concepts from sequential data in a cognitively plausible manner. HVM gradually discovers abstraction via a conjunction of variable discovery and chunking, resembling the process of concept discovery during development. In a sequence recall experiment that demands learning and transferring variables, we observe that the model's sequence complexity can explain human behavior in a sequence memorization experiment.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Computer Science; Psychology; Analogy; Concepts and categories; Language learning; Memory; Statistical learning; Symbolic computational modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hx9g7n0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shuchen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mirko", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Thalmann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schulz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24759/galley/21339/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24759/galley/14357/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24759/galley/18214/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24759/galley/21339/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21500, "title": "Learning and generalizing associations between social cues and outcomes", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "To succeed in social situations, we must learn how social cues predict subsequent events. How do we quickly form associations between a variety of social cues, such as individuals signaling their current emotion state, and social outcomes? To address this question, we developed a task in which participants viewed images of individuals conveying different emotions and searched among these images to gain rewards. Rewards were associated with either individuals' identities or emotion cues. Across four experiments (N=720), individuals learned about rewards more efficiently from individual identity cues versus a wide variety of emotion cues. Participants also generalized cue-outcome associations more easily for individuals versus emotions. Learning was worse if participants experienced a change in the association rule, especially when switching from learning individual-based associations to emotion-based associations. Overall, we show that social cue type influences how associations between cues and rewards are learned, with implications for understanding learning in social contexts.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Emotion; Emotion Perception; Learning; Statistical learning" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j9342f8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rista", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Plate", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Emily", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Perkins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rebecca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Waller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Martin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zettersten", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21500/galley/11099/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21500/galley/21945/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21440, "title": "Learning expectations shape initial cognitive control allocation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Current models of cognitive control frame its allocation as a process of expected utility maximization. The benefits of a candidate action are weighed against the costs of that control allocation (e.g. opportunity costs). Recent theorizing has found that it is normative to account for the value of learning when determining control allocation. Here, we sought to test whether learning expectations could explain people's initial control allocation in a standard dot-motion perceptual task. We found that subjects' initial skill level and learning rate in a first block were able to predict their initial willingness to accumulate evidence in a second block, interpreted as a greater control allocation for the task. Our findings support the hypothesis that agents consider the learnability of a task when deciding how much cognitive control to allocate to that task.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Learning; Skill acquisition and learning; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xd2r257", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Javier", "middle_name": "Alejandro", "last_name": "Masís", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sebastian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Musslick", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cohen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21440/galley/11039/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21440/galley/21885/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24395, "title": "Learning interactions to boost human creativity with bandits and GPT-4", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper considers how interactions with AI algorithms can boost human creative thought. We employ a psychological task that demonstrates limits on human creativity, namely semantic feature generation: given a concept name, respondents must list as many of its features as possible. Human participants typically produce only a fraction of the features they know before getting ‚Äústuck.‚Äù In experiments with humans and with a large language model (GPT-4), we contrast behavior in the standard task versus a variant in which participants can ask for algorithmically-generated hints. Algorithm choice is administered by a multi-armed bandit whose reward indicates whether the hint helped generating more features. Humans and the AI show similar benefits from hints, and remarkably, bandits learning from AI responses prefer the same prompting strategy as those learning from human behavior. The results suggest that strategies for boosting human creativity via computer interactions can be learned by bandits run on groups of simulated participants.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Psychology; Creativity; Interactive behavior; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7869n2m1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vartanian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiaoxi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yun-Shiuan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chuang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Siddharth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Suresh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jerry", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Timothy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rogers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UW-Madison", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24395/galley/13992/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24395/galley/21340/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21653, "title": "Learning Part-whole Hierarchies from the Sequence of Handwriting", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Part-whole relations and their representation play a vital role in perceptual organization and conceptual reasoning. It is critical for humans to parse visual scenes into objects and parts, and organize them into hierarchies. Few studies have examined how well neural networks learn part-whole hierarchies from visual inputs. In this paper, we introduce a new diagnostic dataset, CChar, to facilitate their understanding. It contains frame-based images of writing 6,840 Chinese characters and annotations on hierarchical structures. The results show that RNN and Transformer models could recognize a part of high-level components above strokes and illustrate a certain ability in learning part-whole hierarchies. However, these models do not have robust compositional reasoning. To identify the role of conceptual guidance in predicting hierarchical structures, we prepare visual features extracted by self-supervised and fine-tuned models, test them on generating hierarchical sequences, and observe that conceptual guidance is important to learn part-whole hierarchies. In addition, we also explore the relationship between the depth of hierarchies and model performance. It is found that RNNs perform worse as the hierarchies deepen, but the performance of Transformers becomes better with increasing depth.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Machine learning; Natural Language Processing; Vision; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nd295nf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Meng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schlangen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dietrich", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Klakow", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Saarland University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21653/galley/11252/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21653/galley/14561/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21653/galley/22031/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21427, "title": "Learning semantic knowledge based on infant real-time attention and parent in-situ speech", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Early word learning involves mapping individual words to their meanings and building organized semantic representations among words. Previous corpus-based studies (e.g., using text from websites, newspapers, child-directed speech corpora) demonstrated that linguistic information such as word co-occurrence alone is sufficient to build semantically organized word knowledge. The present study explored two new research directions to advance understanding of how infants acquire semantically organized word knowledge. First, infants in the real world hear words surrounded by contextual information. Going beyond inferring semantic knowledge merely from language input, we examined the role of extra-linguistic contextual information in learning semantic knowledge. Second, previous research relies on large amounts of linguistic data to demonstrate in-principle learning, which is unrealistic compared with the input children receive. Here, we showed\nthat incorporating extra-linguistic information provides an efficient mechanism through which semantic knowledge can be acquired with a small amount of data infants perceive in everyday learning contexts, such as toy play.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Attention; Language development; Semantics; Statistical learning; Eye tracking" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48w894zd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jane", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas at Austin", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yayun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas at Austin", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21427/galley/11026/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21427/galley/21872/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21643, "title": "Learning to Abstract Visuomotor Mappings using Meta-Reinforcement Learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We investigated the human capacity to acquire multiple visuomotor mappings for de novo skills. Using a grid navigation paradigm, we tested whether contextual cues implemented as different \"grid worlds\", allow participants to learn two distinct key-mappings more efficiently. Our results indicate that when contextual information is provided, task performance is significantly better. The same held true for meta-reinforcement learning agents that differed in whether or not they receive contextual information when performing the task. We evaluated their accuracy in predicting human performance in the task and analyzed their internal representations. The results indicate that contextual cues allow the formation of separate representations in space and time when using different visuomotor mappings, whereas the absence of them favors sharing one representation. While both strategies can allow learning of multiple visuomotor mappings, we showed contextual cues provide a computational advantage in terms of how many mappings can be learned.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Neuroscience; Psychology; Action; Learning; Motor control; Perception; Skill acquisition and learning; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jj4q4df", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carlos", "middle_name": "Alan", "last_name": "Velazquez-Vargas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Isaac", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Christian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jordan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Taylor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sreejan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kumar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton Neuroscience Institute", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21643/galley/11242/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21643/galley/14551/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21643/galley/22032/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21610, "title": "Learning to Play Video Games with Intuitive Physics Priors", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Video game playing is an extremely structured domain where algorithmic decision-making can be tested without adverse real-world consequences. While prevailing methods rely on image inputs to avoid the problem of hand-crafting state space representations, this approach systematically diverges from the way humans actually learn to play games. In this paper, we design object-based input representations that generalize well across a number of video games. Using these representations, we evaluate an agent's ability to learn games similar to an infant - with limited world experience, employing simple inductive biases derived from intuitive representations of physics from the real world. Using such biases, we construct an object category representation to be used by a Q-learning algorithm and assess how well it learns to play multiple games based on observed object affordances. Our results suggest that a human-like object interaction setup capably learns to play several video games, and demonstrates superior generalizability, particularly for unfamiliar objects. Further exploring such methods will allow machines to learn in a human-centric way, thus incorporating more human-like learning benefits.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Concepts and categories; Intelligent agents; Pattern recognition; Representation; Situated cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92f5b1hk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Abhishek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jaiswal", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nisheeth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Srivastava", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indian Institute of Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21610/galley/11209/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21610/galley/22003/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24308, "title": "Learning Type-Based Compositional Causal Rules", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans possess knowledge of causal systems with deep compositional structures. For example, we know that a good soccer team needs players to fill different roles, with each role demanding a configuration of skills from the player. These causal systems operate on multiple object types (player roles) that are defined by features within objects (skills). This study explores how human learners perform on novel causal learning problems in which they need to infer multiple object types in a bottom-up manner, using empirical information as a cue for their existence. We model subjects' learning process with Bayesian models, drawing hypotheses from different spaces of logical expressions. We found that although subjects exhibited partial success on tasks that required learning one object type, they mostly failed at those that required learning multiple types. Our result identifies the learning of object types as a major obstacle for human acquisition of complex causal systems.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Concepts and categories; Bayesian modeling; Knowledge representation" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d44z0ch", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Feng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cheng", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bob", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rehder", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24308/galley/13904/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24308/galley/21341/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21550, "title": "Letter shapes phonology: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Differentiating letter shapes accurately is an increasingly crucial competence. Are letters as distinctive as they could be? We used a unique dataset of crowdsourced letter descriptions across 43 writing systems to produce a comprehensive typology of letter shapes for these diverse scripts. We extracted from 19,591 letter classifications, contributed by 1,683 participants, enough features to provide a unique description of all letters in each system. We show that scripts, compared to phoneme inventories, are feature-extensive: they use additional features to do what could be done with a lower number of features, used more efficiently. Compared to 516 phoneme inventories from the P-base dataset, our 43 scripts have lower feature economy (fewer symbols for a given number of features) and lower feature informativeness (a less balanced distribution of feature values). Letter shapes, we argue, having more degrees of freedom than speech sounds, use features in a more wasteful way.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Anthropology; Linguistics; Culture; Externally-supported cognition; Phonology; Reading; Vision; Cross-cultural analysis; Cross-linguistic analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zm783tr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yoolim", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kim", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wellesley College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marc", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Allassonnière-Tang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CNRS", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Helena", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Miton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Santa Fe Institute", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Olivier", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "PSL University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21550/galley/11149/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21550/galley/14626/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21550/galley/21342/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24540, "title": "Lexical diversity in human- and LLM-generated text", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Despite the widespread adoption of public-facing large language models (LLMs) over the past several months, we still know little about the complexities of machine-generated language in comparison to human-generated language. To better understand how lexical complexity differs between human- and LLM-produced texts, we elicited responses from four commercially-available LLMs (ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, Claude, and Bard), and compared them to writing from humans from different backgrounds (i.e., L1 and L2 English users) and education levels.\nWe also investigated whether the LLMs demonstrated consistent style across targeted prompts, as compared to the human participants. Through an analysis of six dimensions of lexical diversity (volume, abundance, variety-repetition, evenness, disparity, dispersion), preliminary results suggest that LLM-generated text differs from human-generated with regards to lexical diversity, and texts created by LLMs demonstrate less variation than human-written text. We will discuss the implications of these differences for future research and education in applied linguistics.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language Production; Natural Language Processing; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18n5k7c6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kelly", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kendro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northern Arizona University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Maloney", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "BYU-Hawaii", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jarvis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northern Arizona University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24540/galley/21343/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24540/galley/14137/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24540/galley/21343/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24551, "title": "Lexicons encode differently what people do differently. Computational studies of the pragmatic motivations of lexical typology.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Languages differ in what meanings their lexical items encode: The meaning covered by English 'blue' is famously split into 'sinij' (darkblue) and 'goluboj' (lightblue) in Russian. Recent years have seen novel interest in functional explanations of such variation, pointing to a correlation between greater communicative need of a lexical field and a finer-grained lexical inventory. Here, I develop the position that rather than the mere difference in ‚Äúneed‚Äù to mention lexical field, it is the field's discourse-pragmatic diversity that predicts whether languages ‚Äúlump‚Äù or ‚Äúsplit‚Äù more. I will demonstrate this with computational techniques and a typologically diverse corpus of spontaneous spoken data from 51 languages (DoReCo), first for the field of verbs of visual perception ('see'-'look'), then on a lexicon-wide level. There are implications: our notions of what a comparable concept is in lexical semantics, what lexical knowledge entails, and the dimensions along which languages differ require re-examining.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Concepts and categories; Discourse; Semantics; Computational Modeling; Cross-linguistic analysis" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hn0q1zx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Barend", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Beekhuizen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24551/galley/21344/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24551/galley/14148/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24551/galley/21344/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24261, "title": "Linear Word Order Modulates the Cost of Metonymy Comprehension: Dynamics of Conceptual Composition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We investigate the relation between conceptual and syntactic structure by focusing on the phenomenon of circumstantial metonymy e.g., ‚ÄúTable #6 wants another pizza‚Äù. We hypothesize that the construal of a metonymic interpretation is facilitated when the metonymized argument e.g., ‚ÄúTable #6‚Äù is retrieved before the metonymy-trigger e.g., ‚Äúwants‚Äù, since this gives the processor more time to build the event structure that metonymy demands. This predicts greater cost of metonymy composition when the argument is in object position (after the trigger) relative to subject position (before the trigger). An acceptability task shows a main effect of metonymy for both syntactic positions. A self-paced reading task demonstrates a cost for metonymy only in object position. This indicates that the cost of metonymy composition is rooted in the requirement that the conceptual structure for the metonymic argument be fully retrieved, a process constrained by the order of lexical retrieval provided by syntactic structure.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Cognitive architectures; Event cognition; Language understanding; Semantics; Knowledge representation; Statistics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w19h3w6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "Teresa", "last_name": "Borneo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Piñango", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24261/galley/13857/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24261/galley/21345/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24632, "title": "Linguistic Framing in Large Language Models", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Large Language Models (LLMs) have captured the world's attention for their surprisingly sophisticated linguistic abilities, but what they might reveal about human cognition remains unclear. Meanwhile, members of the public routinely share ‚Äúprompt engineering‚Äù tips for eliciting ‚Äúbetter‚Äù responses from LLMs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. These efforts parallel research on linguistic framing, which shows that subtle linguistic cues shape people's attitudes and decision-making in a variety of contexts. In this study, we tested whether state-of-the-art LLMs would exhibit similar framing effects as human participants. We adapted a range of linguistic framing stimuli for use with LLMs based on a recently developed taxonomy of framing effects (e.g., lexical, figurative, and grammatical framing). Results revealed that some but not all framing effects replicated with LLMs. These findings have practical applications for interacting with AI systems and inform our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the effects of framing.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Linguistics; Psychology; Language and thought; Language understanding" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1f0095g2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stephen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Flusberg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Vassar College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kevin", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Holmes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Reed College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24632/galley/21346/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24632/galley/14229/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24632/galley/18006/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24632/galley/21346/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21706, "title": "Linking cognitive and neural models of audiovisual processing to explore speech perception in autism", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Autistic and neurotypical children do not handle audiovisual speech in the same manner. Current evidence suggests that this difference occurs at the level of cue combination. Here, we test whether differences in autistic and neurotypical audiovisual speech perception can be explained by a neural theory of sensory perception in autism, which proposes that heightened levels of neural excitation can account for sensory differences in autism. Through a linking hypothesis that integrates a standard probabilistic cognitive model of cue integration with representations of neural activity, we derive a model that can simulate audio-visual speech perception at a neural population level. Simulations of an audiovisual lexical identification task demonstrate that heightened levels of neural excitation at the level of cue combination cannot account for the observed differences in autistic and neurotypical children's audiovisual speech perception.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Perception; Sensory Processing; Speech recognition; Bayesian modeling; Computational neuroscience" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2229t0gw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Grace", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brown", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Naomi", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Feldman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21706/galley/11305/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21706/galley/22099/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24501, "title": "Listener Knowledge Structures Commonsense Explanation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We tailor the explanations we give depending on the person asking for them ‚Äì you would explain why an event happened differently depending on which of the contributing causes the listener already knows. While significant prior work focuses on how causal structure in the world influences explanation, we focus on how explanation production is modulated by listener belief. We propose a computational model framing explanation as rational communication about causal events, using a recursive theory-of-mind and language production framework to choose amongst possible explanatory utterances that minimize the divergence between speaker and listener belief about a why an event happened. We evaluate our model using some partial observer stimuli, which manipulate the listener's stated prior knowledge about an event, and find that our model well-predicts human judgements about which of several contributing causes is the best explanation for a speaker to provide by modeling their communicative value to the listener.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Causal reasoning; Language and thought; Language Production; Theory of Mind; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66p2499n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yuka", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Machino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ron", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shprints", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Max", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Siegel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lionel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Josh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tenenbaum", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24501/galley/21347/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24501/galley/14098/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24501/galley/21347/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21370, "title": "Listeners Optimally Integrate Acoustic and Semantic Cues Across Time During Spoken Word Recognition", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding spoken words requires listeners to integrate large amounts of linguistic information over time. There has been considerable debate about how semantic context preceding or following a target word affects its recognition, with preceding semantic context often viewed as a constraint on possible future words, and following semantic context as a mechanism for disambiguating previous ambiguous input. Surprisingly, no studies have directly compared whether the timing of semantic context influences spoken word recognition. The current study manipulates the acoustic-perceptual features of a target word, a semantic cue elsewhere in the sentence biasing toward one interpretation, and the location of the semantic context. We find that the two cues are additively integrated in participants' word identification responses, and that semantic context affects categorization the same regardless of where it appears relative to the target word. This suggests that listeners can optimally integrate acoustic-perceptual and semantic information across time.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Perception; Phonology; Semantics" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gk5k53x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wednesday", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bushong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wellesley College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "LaMarche", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University at Buffalo", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Elayna", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Espinal", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Hartford", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zachary", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Longo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Hartford", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21370/galley/10969/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21370/galley/21815/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21517, "title": "Listening to a Story or Creating One: Children's Performances and Brain Activity in Storytelling-Based Learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Children learn better through shared social experiences. Particularly, storytelling is a successful learning strategy that facilitates learning. These shared experiences are reflected in neural synchrony, which underlies predict understanding of the learned information. For adults, the scaffolding strategy, a shared social experience that involves active engagement rather than passive listening, has been shown to promote learning and has been linked with higher neural synchrony compared to passive learning. However, in the context of storytelling, it is unclear whether children will perform higher levels of neural synchrony as well as improved performances when they scaffold the learned information (tell a story about it) compared to when they passively listen. Here, we compare learning outcomes and neural basis of two learning strategies in young school-aged children in the context of storytelling.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education; Neuroscience; Cognitive development; Learning; fNIRS" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3299x0hc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Besser Ilan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tel Aviv University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hadas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shavit", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tel Aviv University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "nofar", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "kochavi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tel Aviv University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sagi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jaffe-Dax", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tel Aviv University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21517/galley/11116/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21517/galley/14593/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21517/galley/21348/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24951, "title": "LLMs Don't \"Do Things with Words\" but Their Lack of Illocution Can Inform the Study of Human Discourse", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Despite the long-standing theoretical importance of the concept of illocutionary force in communication (Austin, 1975), quantitative measurement of it has remained elusive. The following study seeks to measure the influence of illocutionary force on the degree to which subreddit community members maintain the concepts and ideas of previous community members' comments when they reply to each other's content. We leverage an information-theoretic framework implementing a measurement of linguistic convergence to capture how much of a previous comment can be recovered from its replies. To show the effect of illocutionary force, we then ask a large language model (LLM) to write a reply to the same previous comment as though it were a member of that subreddit community. Because LLMs inherently lack illocutionary intent but produce plausible utterances, they can function as a useful control to test the contribution of illocutionary intent and the effect it may have on the language in human-generated comments. We find that LLMs indeed have statistically significant, lower entropy with prior comments than human replies to the same comments. While this says very little about LLMs on the basis of how they are trained, this difference offers a quantitative baseline to assess the effect of illocutionary force on the flow of information in online discourse.", "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/25k7z0mz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zachary", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "Rosen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dale", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24951/galley/14520/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24951/galley/21349/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24784, "title": "Logical language and the development of reasoning by the disjunctive syllogism", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Whether logical inference is available without language is highly debated. One such inference is the disjunctive syllogism (A Or B, Not A, Therefore B). Evidence from non-linguistic search tasks suggests that that the syllogism may be unavailable before age 3 (Mody & Carey, 2016). However, in a replication of the same task using language (i.e., verbal negation), even 2.5-year-olds succeeded (Grigoroglou, et al., 2019). Here we explore the role of language in children's logical reasoning. 2.5-, 3- and 4-year-olds performed a non-linguistic search task, after a short training in reasoning by exclusion. Half of the children received linguistic training (e.g., heard ‚Äúthere is no coin in X cup‚Äù); half received non-linguistic training (i.e., saw that one location was empty). Results show that 2.5-year-olds who received linguistic training succeeded in disjunctive syllogism but those who received non-linguistic training failed. We conclude that the presence of verbal negation facilitated logical reasoning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Development; Language and thought; Language development; Reasoning; Developmental analysis" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bb851qz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Myrto", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grigoroglou", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Salima", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hackeek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Patricia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ganea", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24784/galley/21350/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24784/galley/14382/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24784/galley/18239/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24784/galley/21350/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21384, "title": "Long absent, NOT soon forgotten: Prosodic marking of information status in Chinese Sign Language", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In spoken languages, new information is often expressed with a longer duration than given information. We investigated whether signers use duration to mark information status. Fifty deaf Chinese Sign Language (CSL) signers retold a cartoon clip, and we examined how they tracked references. The results showed that CSL signers mostly used nominals, classifiers and constructed actions, but rarely used any pointing or zero anaphora. When focusing on nominals, newly introduced references had a longer duration than the maintained and re-introduced ones, while the durations of maintained and re-introduced nominals did not differ. Additionally, there was a gradient decrease in sign duration over the first three mentions followed by an increase for the fourth and fifth mentions. Furthermore, between two nominal mentions, the more non-nominal referring there were, the shorter the duration of the current nominal mention. Thus, CSL signers vary the duration of nominals to indicate the degree of accessibility.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Discourse; Language Production; Discourse Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c04r9gz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shanghai International Studies University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jiang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shanghai International Studies University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Essex", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21384/galley/10983/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21384/galley/21829/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24776, "title": "Longitudinal multilevel models for predicting cognitive change in Alzheimer's and related dementia patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Social isolation (SI) is a modifiable factor, thought to impact cognitive resilience, with the potential to impact cognition up to ADRD diagnosis and throughout disease duration. MMSE and/or MoCA cognitive function measurements, demographic (including marital and accommodation status SI proxies) and diagnosis data were extracted, using natural language processing, from electronic health records from Oxford NHS patients aged 50+ years. Longitudinal multilevel models were used to predict cognition as a function of the interaction between diagnosis duration, SI proxies and Covid-19, controlling for age, sex and diagnosis. Using MoCA, ‚Äòlifelong single' marital status (", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; cognitive neuropsychology; Natural Language Processing; Big data" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qz5b451", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "A C", "last_name": "Myers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Sheffield", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stafford", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Sheffield", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nemanja", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vaci", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Sheffield", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24776/galley/21351/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24776/galley/14374/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24776/galley/18231/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24776/galley/21351/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21621, "title": "Loose LIPS Sink Ships: Asking Questions in Battleship with Language-Informed Program Sampling", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Questions combine our mastery of language with our remarkable facility for reasoning about uncertainty. How do people navigate vast hypothesis spaces to pose informative questions given limited cognitive resources? We study these tradeoffs in a classic grounded question-asking task based on the board game Battleship. Our language-informed program sampling (LIPS) model uses large language models (LLMs) to generate natural language questions, translate them into symbolic programs, and evaluate their expected information gain. We find that with a surprisingly modest resource budget, this simple Monte Carlo optimization strategy yields informative questions that mirror human performance across varied Battleship board scenarios. In contrast, LLM-only baselines struggle to ground questions in the board state; notably, GPT-4V provides no improvement over non-visual baselines. Our results illustrate how Bayesian models of question-asking can leverage the statistics of language to capture human priors, while highlighting some shortcomings of pure LLMs as grounded reasoners.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Language and thought; Problem Solving; Bayesian modeling; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gx0t2wj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gabriel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grand", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Valerio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pepe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Havard University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jacob", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Andreas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Josh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tenenbaum", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21621/galley/11220/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21621/galley/14529/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21621/galley/22033/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24557, "title": "Main author", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: Research on adults with ADHD has recently identified, in addition to cognitive-executive difficulties, significant impairments in emotion regulation. Objective: This study aimed to assess the efficiency of emotion regulation in adults with ADHD using three strategies: observe, reappraise, and suppress. Method: Adults with ADHD (n = 68) and without ADHD (n = 69) were exposed to neutral or negative IAPS image sets and reported their emotions while employing these strategies. Results: The ADHD group displayed significant emotion dysregulation, depressive symptoms, and anxiety compared to the non-ADHD group. Suppression of negative emotions was shown to be the mechanism by which the ADHD group achieved greater suppression efficiency, although both suppression and reappraisal were equally utilized as regulatory strategies. Conclusion: These results highlight the efficiency of suppression in controlling negative emotions in the ADHD population, while also suggesting potential for effective training in reappraisal.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Behavioral Science; cognitive neuropsychology; Emotion" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2028j3jv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jorge", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Flores", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "J", "middle_name": "I", "last_name": "Amaro-Fuenzalida", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Isabella", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fioravante", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24557/galley/21352/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24557/galley/14154/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24557/galley/21352/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24342, "title": "Make Use of Mooney Images to Distinguish between Machines and Humans", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Completely automated public Turing test to tell humans apart (CAPTCHA) aims to exploit the ability gaps between machines and humans to distinguish between them. However, the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology in the past decade has significantly narrowed the gap in some tasks based on natural images (e.g., object detection and recognition). Mooney images (MIs) are important research materials in the field of cognitive science. Compared to natural images, we perceive MIs relying more on the iteration between feedforward and feedback processes. In this paper, we explored an intriguing question: Can MIs be used to distinguish between machines and humans? Before this study, we first proposed a framework HiMI that generated the high-quality MIs from natural images and also allowed flexible adjustment of the perceived difficulty. Next, we designed two MI-based Turing test tasks related to foreground-background segregation and object recognition, respectively. We compared the performance of human subjects and the deep neural networks on these two tasks. The experimental results indicate the significant gaps between the deep neural networks and humans, providing evidence for the potential of MIs in the design of CAPTCHA schemes. We hope that HiMI will contribute to more research related to MIs in the fields of cognitive science and computer science.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Perception; Vision; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33m2b8sw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jingmeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Fudan University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wei", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Fudan University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24342/galley/13939/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24342/galley/21353/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24624, "title": "Mandarin-Speaking Children's Acquisition of Resultative Verb Compounds: Compositionality and Eventuality", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs, e.g., bo-kai ‚Äúpeel-open‚Äù) consist of two verbal components. The second component (V2) denotes a resultant state associated with the action denoted by the first component (V1) (Tham, 2015). RVCs emerge in child speech by age 2 and become productive at age 3 (Deng, 2010). However, comprehension difficulties persist until age 6 (e.g., Chen, 2016). Given the puzzling gap between early production and delayed comprehension, we conducted an event description and a sentence comprehension experiment to investigate children's knowledge of the compositional nature and resultative meaning of RVCs. In both experiments, we highlighted the contrast between realized and unrealized resultant state in the visual stimuli. 4- and 5-year-olds were sensitive to the result component of RVCs and differentiated RVCs from mono-morphemic V1s. Our findings demonstrate Mandarin-speaking children's ability to map appropriate verb forms onto unfolding events and provide evidence in favor of continuity in language development.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Event cognition; Language development; Language Production; Language understanding" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50f9k42g", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yue", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ji", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Beijing Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xiaotao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of Auckland", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24624/galley/21354/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24624/galley/14221/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24624/galley/17991/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24624/galley/21354/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24418, "title": "Many Hands Don't Always Make Light Work: Explaining Social Loafing via Multiprocessing Efficiency", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans collaborate to improve productivity and collective outcomes, but people do not always exert maximal effort towards accomplishing collaborative goals. Instead, individuals often expend less effort in groups, a phenomenon known as social loafing that is traditionally viewed as detrimental to productivity. However, theories from distributed computer systems suggest that social loafing might be a rational response to the diminishing returns expected from division of labor when group size increases. Here, we examine how considerations of task efficiency affect the perceived acceptability of withholding effort during a collaborative task. We conducted experiments varying workload and group size across scenarios in which all group members except for one are actively contributing to a common goal. We then compare participant judgments to a model inspired by latency speed-up in distributed systems. We find that people are systematically influenced by task efficiency, in addition to social norms, when judging social loafing.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Computer Science; Psychology; Distributed cognition; Interactive behavior; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zp8f362", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Elizabeth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mieczkowski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cameron", "middle_name": "Rouse", "last_name": "Turner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Natalia", "middle_name": "A", "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": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24418/galley/14015/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24418/galley/21355/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24588, "title": "Mapping Mental Representations With Free Associations and the associatoR R Package", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "What do people think about climate change or artificial intelligence? How do people understand communication on risk and uncertainty? Answers to such questions are important for psychological research and policymakers. One powerful but under-explored way to answer such questions exists in using free associations. We present a guide on collecting, processing, mapping, and comparing people's free association responses using the 'associatoR' R package. We showcase this approach using a free association data set generated by GPT-4-Turbo that reveals its understanding of the concept of 'intelligence'. We discuss design choices and concrete analysis decisions, including steps to uncover the structure and topics of mental representations using different natural language processing approaches, such as the network analysis of the co-occurrences of responses or text embeddings from large language models. We believe that free associations present a powerful approach to revealing how people and artificial intelligence represent key social and technological issues.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Language and thought; Knowledge representation; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5016p5gv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aeschbach", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mata", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Basel", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dirk", "middle_name": "U", "last_name": "Wulff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24588/galley/21356/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21552, "title": "Mark the unexpected! Animacy preference and motion marking in visual language", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In our cross-cultural corpus study of 332 comics, we asked whether animacy preference plays a role in comics. Are animates or inanimates more or less grammatically marked compared to each other, similarly to differential marking modulated by animacy in grammars of many languages? Following Opfer (2002), we considered the animacy preference as the expectation that only animates move in a goal-directed way. We focused on two visual morphological markings that indicate motion in comics and differ in their goal-directedness: the goal-directed motion lines (trailing a moving entity) and the non-goal-directed circumfixing lines (surrounding an entity). We found that inanimates are more marked by motion lines than animates in our data, while there is no difference between the two groups with circumfixing lines. This indicates that inanimates need to be marked by motion lines in order to signal their goal-directed movement, which is otherwise unexpected. We call this the principle of ‚ÄúMark the unexpected!‚Äù.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Concepts and categories; Language and thought; Language Production; Language understanding; Semantics; Corpus studies" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gm9f01f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Krajinovic", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tilburg University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Irmak", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hacımusaoğlu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tilburg University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bruno", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cardoso", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tilburg University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Neil", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cohn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tilburg University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21552/galley/11151/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21552/galley/14628/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21552/galley/21357/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24152, "title": "Measuring and Modeling Pursuit Detection in Dynamic Visual Scenes", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Although we are generally good at observing a busy scene and determining whether it contains one agent pursuing another, we are not immune to making errors and may identify a pursuit when there is none. Further, we may have difficulty articulating exactly what information allowed us to determine whether there was a pursuit. To gain a better measure of when people correctly or erroneously detect pursuit, we designed a novel pursuit detection task. To compare performance given different strategies, we developed a cognitive model that can perform this task. The results of our pursuit detection experiment indicate that, indeed, people typically identify pursuit events correctly, but they make infrequent yet systematic errors for particular scenes. When the model implements specific strategies, simulation results are well correlated with empirical results. Moreover, the model makes the same errors as human participants. We show how the empirical results can be accounted for in terms of decision criteria indicated by high performing model strategies.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Attention; Perception; Symbolic computational modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1b99p277", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Naval Research Laboratory", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sangeet", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Khemlani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Naval Research Laboratory", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andrew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lovett", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Naval Research Laboratory", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24152/galley/13748/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24152/galley/21358/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24365, "title": "Mechanistic Explanations in the Cognitive Sciences: Beyond Linear Storytelling", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Over the last two decades, an increasing number of cognitive scientists have turned to mechanistic explanatory frameworks in their efforts to describe and explain cognitive phenomena. Most mechanistic frameworks conceive of cognitive systems as composed of functionally-individuated components whose functions are narrowly defined by their ranges of possible inputs and outputs, as well as their relations to other components within the phenomenon-producing mechanism. In this paper, I argue that this modular view of cognitive mechanisms as linear systems is not applicable to biological cognitive systems, and offer an alternative characterization using the methodology of Dynamical Systems Theory.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Complex systems; Concepts and categories; Dynamical Systems; Comparative Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x1215w9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexander", "middle_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Hölken", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute for Philosophy II", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24365/galley/13962/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24365/galley/21359/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21532, "title": "Memory Retrieval Processes during Real-Time Language Comprehension: Empirical Evidence and Computational Modelling", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study investigates cue-based memory retrieval during sentence processing. Cue-based retrieval theories argue that the parser uses lexical and structural information as retrieval cues to retrieve items from memory. Evidence for cue-based memory retrieval comes from research showing that non-target representations matching retrieval cues interfere with target retrieval. However, the degree of susceptibility to this similarity-based interference has been debated, having led to the development of different computational models. This study focuses on two cue-based models and tests their predictions in two experiments. The results suggested similarity-based interference, but its patterns were not fully compatible with these models. To reconcile these findings within the framework of cue-based memory retrieval, this paper presents a model that assigns substantial weight to the structure-based cue and incorporates the notions of initial retrieval and revision. Results from simulations indicate that the model incorporating these assumptions provides a better fit to the observed data.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Reading; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/395582f8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hiroki", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fujita", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21532/galley/11131/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21532/galley/14608/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21532/galley/21360/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21576, "title": "Memristor-based Bionic Decision-making Circuit Inspired by Self-awareness", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Advancing intelligent systems requires efficient computational architectures built on emerging electronic computing devices, as well as effective biomimetic function simulation to improve overall intelligence. Here we design a memristor-based circuit inspired by self-awareness concepts. It effectively achieves bionic adaptive decision-making by mimicking habituation learning mechanisms. Memristors serve as foundational units in the circuit, facilitating the simulation of functions akin to biological neurons and synapses. They help implement key features such as information filtering, integration, and synaptic plasticity through concise circuit structures and efficient computing methods. Experimental results indicate that our circuit is capable of rapid and efficient information processing through in-memory analog computing, and it can make more reasonable and intelligent adaptive decisions by incorporating self-awareness concepts and biomimetic mechanisms. Extending this work to large-scale decision-making systems holds potential for intelligent platforms aiming to achieve advanced cognitive capabilities.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Consciousness; Decision making; Learning; Computational neuroscience" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7w11q0v7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zilu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harbin Institute Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21576/galley/11175/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21576/galley/21969/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21662, "title": "MentalBlend: Enhancing Online Mental Health Support through the Integration of LLMs with Psychological Counseling Theories", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Online mental health support plays a crucial role in addressing the mental health issues faced by modern individuals. However, delivering high-quality online mental health support presents a significant challenge. In response to this challenge, we introduce MentalBlend, a framework that leverages psychological counseling theories, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, and Reality Therapy, to guide large language models (LLMs) in offering professional online mental health support to individuals seeking assistance. Experimental evidence validates that the collaboration between LLMs and the MentalBlend framework results in the generation of responses that align with professional standards for online mental health support. Overall, our research aims to contribute to advancing the capabilities of LLMs in understanding the emotional backgrounds of help-seekers and delivering professional mental health support effectively.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Intelligent agents; Language Production; Language understanding; Machine learning; Natural Language Processing" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dk883nx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ziyin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Chinese Academy of Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Qingmeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Chinese Academy of Sciences", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21662/galley/11261/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21662/galley/14570/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21662/galley/22034/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24517, "title": "Mental Sampling in Preferential Choice: Specifying the Sampling Algorithm", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent decision making theories have explained behaviour using mental sampling mechanisms where people imagine possible outcomes to guide their choices. Simultaneously, work in other domains has found evidence of particular mental sampling patterns, such as autocorrelations between samples and moderation by prior assumptions, which current decision making theories do not generally consider. Here, we seek to unify this work, developing a new sampling model of preferential choice incorporating these findings in other domains. Our model, based on the Autocorrelated Bayesian Sampler, predicts choice, reaction time, confidence and valuation from a common underlying process. We find a strong correspondence between our model's predictions and empirical choice data, though performance remains below leading explanations for such tasks. Our model does however cover a broader set of response types than existing theories, suggesting the advantages of considering of a wider range of behaviours than are commonly examined in current decision making studies.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pz8x5qq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jake", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Spicer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yun-Xiao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lucas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Castillo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Johanna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Falben", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Amsterdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cheng", "middle_name": "Stella", "last_name": "Qian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Psychology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jian-Qiao", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chater", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sanborn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24517/galley/21361/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24517/galley/14114/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24517/galley/21361/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24783, "title": "Meta-learning emotional control in bandit tasks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In decision making scenarios, reasoning can be viewed as an agent executing an algorithm p ‚àà P that selects an action a ‚àà A, aiming to optimize some outcome. Metareasoning extends this by selecting p itself through a meta-algorithm p^{meta}. Previous approaches to study metareasoning in humans have required that the transition/reward distributions are known by the agent, but the value function isn't. We extend these efforts to study metareasoning for agents acting in unknown environments by formalizing the meta problem as a meta Bayes adaptive Markov decision problem (meta-BAMDP). We formally investigate the theoretical consequences of this framework within the context of two-armed Bernoulli bandit (TABB) tasks. Not only do we make theoretical progress in making the (usually intractable) metareasoning problem tractable, but we also generate predictions for a resource rational account of human exploration in TABB tasks.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Attention; Emotion; Evolution; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xr3j96w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Prakhar", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Godara", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "TU Darmstadt", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24783/galley/21362/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24783/galley/14381/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24783/galley/18238/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24783/galley/21362/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24325, "title": "Metaphor Comprehension in Preschoolers: A Pragmatic Skill", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While metaphors are an integral part of everyday speech, developmental studies on metaphor comprehension present very mixed findings. Some studies demonstrate successful metaphor comprehension only after age 10, while others show evidence of metaphorical understanding even at age 3. However, given the great variability in the types of metaphors and tasks used to assess children's understanding, the exact age of development of metaphor comprehension remains unclear. Here we introduce a new paradigm for metaphor comprehension tapping into 3- and 4-year-olds' ability to assess a non-literal statement as being either relevant or irrelevant to the discourse. Results demonstrate successful - albeit incomplete - metaphor comprehension in 4-year-olds but persistent limitations in 3-year-olds. Our study provides corroborative evidence to the early development of metaphor comprehension, while raising questions about the methodologies that could best showcase pragmatic skills during metaphor comprehension in early preschool years.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Language development; Pragmatics" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5t83h0kb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Claudia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Raihert", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Myrto", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grigoroglou", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24325/galley/13921/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24325/galley/21363/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21471, "title": "Metaphors in music performance: from semantics and motor performance to expressive communication", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Metaphors are often used to intuitively communicate about movement. Here, expert pianists played two melodies while keeping eight different metaphors in mind, contrasting arousal level, valence direction, and metaphor type (action-related and emotion-related metaphors). Measures of keystroke timing and velocity were analyzed to assess the relative contribution of metaphor content and melodic note sequence to motor performance, alongside ratings of semantic similarity between metaphors. Using Bayesian multilevel models, results indicate that the arousal level of the metaphor has the most influence on keystroke force, average tempo, and tempo variability. Additionally, interactions with valence are seen for the timing measures, and for both valence and type in force. No effects of the melody sequence were found. Similarity ratings of metaphor pairs indicate that mental similarities largely mirror performance similarities. These findings show the potential effects of mental imagery on motor performance and have implications for teaching complex movements in practical settings.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Analogy; Behavioral Science; Emotion; Motor control; Music" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q19j348", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rebecca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Schaefer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Leiden University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tessa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Verhoef", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Leiden University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21471/galley/11070/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21471/galley/21916/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21588, "title": "Metric Grammars", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Many challenging problems in linguistic analysis concern structures that have a hybrid character---they show evidence of belonging to two, independently motivated types. Proposals often assign them to one or the other class, requiring complication of the theory to handle their exceptionality. We suggest that there is no satisfactory answer to such conundrums under standard, type-based representational theories, for those theories are founded on discrete topologies. As an alternative, we propose ‚ÄúMetric Grammars‚Äù--grammatical systems founded on connected topologies. A metric grammar, a recurrent map that has a neural network at its core, changes its grammatical system slightly with each instance of language experience. Focusing on a grammaticalization episode from the history of English---the development of ‚Äúsort of\" and ‚Äúkind of\" from Noun-Preposition structures into adverbs---we provide evidence that metric grammars exhibit statistical anticipation of categorical change, a phenomenon that is difficult to account for with discrete-topology models.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Complex systems; Dynamical Systems; Language Production; Language understanding; Machine learning; Syntax; Computational Modeling; Corpus studies; Dyn" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78z3v7wz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Whitney", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tabor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Connecticut", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hyosun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UConn ‚Äì Storrs and Regional Campuses", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21588/galley/11187/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21588/galley/21981/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21570, "title": "Mind Perception at Play: Exploring Agent and Action Dynamics in Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The study of mind perception, particularly how one perceives the mental states of `others,' has attracted considerable interest in cognitive science. The present study contributes to the investigation of mind perception in a human-robot interaction context, by testing a humanoid robot and a human and their communicative and noncommunicative actions. We examine mind perception across its two primary dimensions: Agency and Experience and in their High and Low ends. The novelty of our study lies in its real-time and implicit nature---both identified as crucial elements in current debates within the field. Our results indicate that testing physically present and active agents, as well as exposing participants to various types of live actions, influences mental capacity attributions across different capacities. Additionally, the integration of behavioral measurements alongside verbal data holds promise for a detailed interpretation of the mind perception process.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Human-computer interaction; Social cognition; Theory of Mind; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q88x866", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tuƒüçe Nur", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pekçetin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Middle East Technical University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "≈ûeyda", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Evsen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Bilkent University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Serkan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pekçetin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Middle East Technical University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cengiz", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Acarturk", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jagiellonian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Burcu A.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Urgen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Bilkent University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21570/galley/11169/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21570/galley/21963/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24398, "title": "Minimal Modeling for Cognitive Ecologists: Measuring Decision-Making Trade-Offs in Ecological Tasks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The complexity of studying behavior and cognitive processes in realistic ecological tasks is a major challenge for cognitive scientists, behavioral ecologists, community ecologists, and the cognitive ecology community that subsumes all these fields. Here we describe a modeling approach that can be used to study the decision-making trade-offs that emerge from the coupling of nervous systems, bodies, and ecological context. To demonstrate the method, we describe an agent that must balance its need to consume resources with its need to avoid predation. We then show how to analyze the resulting behavior through the lens of behavioral trade-off schemas synthesized with neural traces measured during real-time behavior. The employment of model agents will be an important contributor to ecological theory of cognitive processes, and here we hope to convince the reader of that methodological potential.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Decision making; Situated cognition; Agent-based Modeling; Dynamic Systems Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dn9c12n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eden", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Forbes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Randall", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Beer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Indiana University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24398/galley/13995/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24398/galley/21364/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24026, "title": "Misfortunes never come singly: Reflections of the environment in a proverb", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "‚ÄúMisfortunes never come singly‚Äù is a saying common in different languages and historical contexts. Could this proverb reflect more than irrational superstitions? We draw from two frameworks, the fast-and-frugal heuristics approach to decision making, and the rational analysis of cognition. The former prompts us to conceptualize the proverb as a simple but smart heuristic that may be adapted to statistical regularities in decision-making environments, and the latter offers a method for studying such environments. Analyzing the pattern of humanitarian disasters between 2000 and 2022, we find that the probability of observing a new disaster in a country increases with the frequency of new disasters observed in the previous 100 days in that country. We propose a research agenda to study the ecological rationality of proverbs. Our results are also potentially relevant to humanitarian analysts.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Other; Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Decision making; Other; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sm473zh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alex", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Odlum", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Lausanne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Julian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marewski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Lausanne", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joerg", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dietz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Lausanne", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24026/galley/13620/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24026/galley/21366/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24117, "title": "Mis-Heard Lyrics: an Ecologically-Valid Test of Noisy Channel Processing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Experiments in psycholinguistics allow us to test hypotheses and build theories. However, psycholinguistic experiments often suffer from low ecological validity, because participants are often required to perform an unusual task in the face of unusual materials. In the current experiment, we test the predictions of Noisy Channel Processing in a naturalistic task: identifying the lyrics of a song. We conducted an experiment where participants heard short excerpts from songs and then indicated which one out of four possible transcriptions they had heard. We found that the predictions of Noisy Channel Processing bear out: options with higher prior and likelihood were chosen more often by participants as the perceived song lyrics. Thus, Noisy Channel Processing is successful in explaining the everyday phenomenon of mis-heard song lyrics. More broadly, this suggests that Noisy Channel Processing captures everyday language processing, and that it is not dependent on unnatural experimental tasks and materials.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language understanding; Music; Speech recognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mf978x8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Moshe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Poliak", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hannah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kimura", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Edward", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gibson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts of Institute Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24117/galley/13711/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24117/galley/21365/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21591, "title": "Missing /y/: Vowel perception in bilinguals whose languages differ in whether the high front rounded vowel is phonemic", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Previous studies have demonstrated that bilinguals have discrete representations for speech sounds that are phonemic in both of their languages. In a lexical identification task for Singapore Mandarin words 椅 (/i2/ ‚Äòchair') and ȱº (/y2/ ‚Äòfish'), we find steepness of the identification functions differs among bilinguals with different linguistic experience, with steeper slopes for early English-Mandarin bilinguals (for whom the /y/ vowel is phonemic) and shallower slopes for early English-Malay bilinguals (for whom /y/ is not phonemic, but is largely discriminable in the forced choice task). With nuanced language background information, this finding suggests that exposure to both /i/ and /y/ in early development shapes phonemic perception. Model comparisons demonstrate that continuous measures of early exposure are more powerful than simple categorical groupings of bilingual ‚Äòtype'. Continuous measures of bilingual exposure are therefore highlighted as useful tools in the investigation of phoneme perception.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language development; Multilingualism; Perception; Phonology; Comparative Analysis" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4cg3p7xj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "National Institute of Education", "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": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21591/galley/11190/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21591/galley/21984/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24018, "title": "Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models by Preprocessing Questions into Child-Comprehensible", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Alongside the advancement of large language models (LLMs), attention towards their limitations and potential risks has also increased. One common issue is hallucination, which occurs when LLMs generate inaccurate or irrelevant answers, especially for complex sentences. To address this issue, we propose a novel question preprocessing method inspired by how young children comprehend complex sentences. Our method consists of two modules: (1) hierarchical clause annotation (HCA)-based sentence decomposition, which breaks down complex sentences into one-verb-centered clauses, and (2) abstract meaning representation (AMR)-based clause rewriting, which reformulates the clauses based on AMR into the child-comprehensible subject-verb-object (SVO) structure. We evaluate our method on the question-answering dataset, TruthfulQA, and show that it can improve the truthfulness and informativeness of widely-used LLMs, LLaMA-7B, and LLaMA-2-7B-chat, preventing from generating hallucinated answers. Moreover, our method is highly efficient, as it does not require any pre-training, fine-tuning, or invoking larger-scale models.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Language understanding; Natural Language Processing; Semantics; Syntax; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q04z5dh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yunlong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southeast University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southeast University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zhiqiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southeast University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24018/galley/13612/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24018/galley/21367/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24820, "title": "Mitigating Modality-Based Interference: Multitasking practice and the distinctiveness of task representation in sensory brain regions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Representational overlap is debated as the neural basis of multitasking costs. Cognitive theories propose that overlapping task representations lead to an unintended exchange of information between tasks (e.g., crosstalk). Recently, modality-based crosstalk was suggested as a source for multitasking costs in multisensory settings. Robust findings of increased costs for certain modality mappings, even when both tasks use non-overlapping stimulus and response modalities, may be explained by crosstalk between the stimulus modality in one task and sensory action consequences in the concurrently performed task. This study (N = 54) employs functional neuroimaging, multivariate pattern analysis, and modality-specific interventions to investigate neural overlap in multitasking, emphasizing modality compatibility. Noteworthy, differences in single-task representations were found in the auditory cortex but not in fronto-parietal regions. Improved auditory decoding accuracy in modality-incompatible tasks predicted dual-task performance gains, eliminating modality-specific costs, exclusively for the modality-incompatible intervention group. This study provides neural evidence for modality-based crosstalk in sensory regions.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; cognitive neuropsychology; Machine learning; Representation; Sensory Processing; fMRI" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54p3q79h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mueckstein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kai", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Görgen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Carité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stephan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Heinzel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Freie Universität Berlin", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Urs", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Granacher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michael A.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rapp", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stelzel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "International Psychoanalytic University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24820/galley/17323/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21405, "title": "Modality Matters: Evidence for the Benefits of Speech-Based Adaptive Retrieval Practice in Learners with Dyslexia", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Retrieval practice‚Äîthe process of actively calling information to mind rather than passively studying materials‚Äîhas been proven to be a highly effective learning strategy. However, only recently, researchers have started to examine differences between learners in terms of the optimal conditions of retrieval practice in applied educational settings. In this study (N = 118), we focus on learners with dyslexia: a group that is usually not included in the retrieval practice literature. We compare their performance to the performance of typical learners in an adaptive, retrieval practice-based word learning task using both typing-based and speech-based response conditions. We find that typical learners outperform learners with dyslexia when they are asked to respond by typing, but that this difference is much smaller when learners can respond by speech. These results can contribute to the development of educational technology that allows for effective and inclusive learning in neurodivergent individuals.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Education; Psychology; Cognitive architectures; Learning; Memory" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57w2x9vr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "Jan", "last_name": "Wilschut", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Florian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sense", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Infinite Tactics, LLC", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Hedderik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van Rijn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21405/galley/11004/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21405/galley/21850/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21373, "title": "Model-Based Characterization of Forgetting in Children and Across The Lifespan", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "To fully understand human memory, it is necessary to understand its lifespan development. However, memory assessments often rely on significantly different methodologies for different age groups, and their results are typically not directly comparable. In this paper, we present a quantitative assessment of memory function spanning an age range of five to 85 years that is based on a model-based memory assessment. This approach yields a uniform metric that is directly interpretable and can be compared across different tasks and materials that are appropriate for different age groups. The results show a robust U-shape function, with long-term memory function at age 5 being comparable to that of cognitively impaired elderly individuals. These results and the method utilized could provide a new foundation for future studies on memory development across life stages.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Development; Machine learning; Memory; Computational neuroscience" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jj0w8mc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Anais", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Capik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Univeristy of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "holly", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "hake", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bahar", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sener", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ariel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Starr", "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": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21373/galley/10972/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21373/galley/21818/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24732, "title": "Modeling auditory voice recognition improvements by face simulation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Voice identity recognition in auditory-only conditions is facilitated by knowing the face of the speaker. This effect is called the ‚Äòface-benefit'. Based on neuroscience findings, we hypothesized that this benefit emerges from two factors: First, a generative world model integrates information from multiple senses to better predict the sensory dynamics. Second, the model substitutes absent sensory information, e.g., facial dynamics, with internal simulations. We have developed a deep generative model that learns to simulate such multisensory dynamics, developing latent speaker characteristic contexts. We trained our model on synthetic audio-visual data of talking faces and tested its ability to recognize speakers from their voice only. We found that the model recognizes previously seen speakers better than previously unseen speakers when given their voice only. The modeling results confirm that multisensory simulations and predictive substitutions of missing visual inputs result in the face-benefit", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Audition; Face Processing; Sensory Processing; Speech recognition; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84d61188", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gumbsch", "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": "" }, { "first_name": "Katharina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "von Kriegstein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "TU Dresden University of Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24732/galley/21369/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24732/galley/14330/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24732/galley/18188/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24732/galley/21369/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24650, "title": "Modeling Cognitive Strategies in Teaching: Integrating Theory of Mind and Heuristics", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Teaching plays a crucial role in human learning, from formal educational environments to\nmentorship scenarios, yet its cognitive underpinnings remain underexplored. We focus on the distinction between teaching by reasoning using Theory of Mind (i.e., explicitly inferring what a learner knows) and teaching using heuristics (i.e., relying on a simple rule). We use a graph-navigation task where a learner agent with limited knowledge attempts to navigate through the most rewarding trajectory, with guidance from a human teacher. Our findings reveal that teachers utilize a blend of learner-specific strategies and general heuristics. We model learner-specific strategies using Bayesian Theory of Mind (Baker, Saxe, & Tenenbaum, 2009) and demonstrate that the most effective teachers incorporate this strategy. Intriguingly, we show that teaching strategies can be altered without explicit feedback. This suggests that subtle changes in the environment may significantly alter teaching approaches, highlighting the importance of understanding the cognitive processes behind teaching.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Learning; Theory of Mind; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/658913kk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sevan", "middle_name": "Khoy", "last_name": "Harootonian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Niv", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Ho", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stevens Institute of Technology", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24650/galley/21370/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24650/galley/14248/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24650/galley/18040/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24650/galley/21370/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21477, "title": "Modeling cue re-weighting in dimension-based statistical learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Speech perception requires inferring category membership from varied acoustic cues, with listeners adeptly adjusting cue utilization upon encountering novel speech inputs. This adaptivity has been examined through the dimension-based statistical learning (DBSL) paradigm, which reveals that listeners can quickly de-emphasize secondary cues when cue correlations deviate from long-term expectations, resulting in cue-reweighting. Although multiple accounts of cue-reweighting have been proposed, direct comparisons of these accounts against human perceptual data are scarce. This study evaluates three computational models‚Äìcue normalization, Bayesian ideal adaptor, and error-driven learning‚Äìagainst classic DBSL findings to elucidate how cue reweighting supports adaptation to new speech patterns. These models differ in how they map cues onto categories for categorization and in how recent exposure to atypical input patterns influences this mapping. Our results show that both the error-driven learning and ideal adaptor models effectively capture the key patterns of cue-reweighting phenomena, whereas prelinguistic cue normalization does not. This comparison not only highlights the models' relative efficacy but also advances our understanding of the dynamic processes underlying speech perception adaptation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Language learning; Perception; Statistical learning; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rg014h4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yiming", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Xin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xie", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21477/galley/11076/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21477/galley/21922/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24392, "title": "Modeling infant cortical tracking of statistical learning in simple recurrent networks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Consider a classic statistical learning (SL) paradigm, where participants hear an uninterrupted stream of syllables in seemingly random order. In fact, the sequence is generated by repeating 4 word-like patterns, each comprised of 3 syllables. After brief exposure, adults and infants can discriminate ‚Äòwords' from the sequence from other syllable sequences (‚Äònonwords' that did not occur in exposure). If syllables have a fixed duration (e.g., 333.3 ms), syllable rate is fixed (e.g., 3/s or 3hz) and so is word rate (e.g., 1hz). If EEG is acquired during exposure, neural phase-locking is observed, initially to the syllable rate, and gradually to the word rate. This has been interpreted as a neural index of word learning. We tested whether two models that can simulate human SL behavior could simulate neural entrainment (Simple Recurrent Net- works [SRNs] or multi-layer perceptrons [MLPs, feedforward neural networks]). Both models could, although SRNs provided a better fit to correlations observed between entrainment and behavior. We also discovered that raw input sequences (even for a single syllable) have rhythmic properties that generate apparent ‚Äòentrainment' when treated like EEG signals ‚Äì without learning. We discuss theoretical implications for SL and challenges for interpreting phase-locked entrainment.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Language development; Statistical learning; Computational neuroscience; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fh04209", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Qihui", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ohio State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Guro Stensby", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sjuls", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Norwegian University of Science and Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kalashnikova", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Magnuson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Connecticut", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24392/galley/13989/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24392/galley/21371/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21692, "title": "Modeling Social Learning Through Demonstration in Multi-Armed Bandits", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Humans are efficient social learners who leverage social information to rapidly adapt to new environments, but the computations by which we combine social information with prior knowledge are poorly understood. We study social learning within the context of multi-armed bandits using a novel ‚Äúasteroid mining‚Äù video game where participants learn through active play and passive observation of expert and novice players. We simulate human exploration and social learning using naive versions of Thompson and Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) solvers and hybrid models that use Thompson and UCB solvers for direct learning together with a multi-layer perceptron to estimate what should be learned from other players. Two variants of the hybrid models provide good, parameter-free fits to human performance across a range of learning conditions. Our work shows a route for integrating social learning into reinforcement learning models and suggests that human social learning conforms to the predictions of such models.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Learning; Social cognition; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m72g1ts", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Julio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Martinez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Frank", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Haber", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21692/galley/11291/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21692/galley/22085/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21361, "title": "Modeling the Contributions of Capacity and Control to Working Memory Development", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Adults are known to have superior working memory to children, but whether this improvement is driven primarily by differences in storage capacity or attentional control is debated. In particular, the understanding of how capacity and control influence the development of working memory is hampered by the fact that most theorizing about the effect of variation in either on behavior has been verbal. To address this, we extended a computational model of working memory to clearly separate the contributions of capacity and control, fitting the model to a recent developmental study. We find that the combined influence of capacity and control on working memory may be more complicated than previously appreciated. In particular, the general pattern of qualitative differences between children and adults could be produced by increasing either capacity or control alone. These results point to a need for additional experimental paradigms to clearly parse the differential impact of working memory components.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Decision making; Development; Memory; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gx0z7j6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Evan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Russek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Cameron", "middle_name": "Rouse", "last_name": "Turner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Emma", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McEwen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of St Andrews", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Andreea", "middle_name": "Miruna", "last_name": "Miscov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of St Andrews", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Amanda", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Seed", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of St Andrews", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Griffiths", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21361/galley/10960/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21361/galley/21806/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24522, "title": "Modeling the development of intuitive mechanics", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "It takes children considerable learning and development to accurately predict whether an object is safely balanced or will fall -- something that happens if its center of mass is not supported from below. In the meantime, children go through a characteristic set of mistaken beliefs. Here we use an adapted version of the classical balance task to evaluate whether different models go through the same stages. Preliminary results show that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) do learn the task but do not necessarily go through the same stages. We are also testing several simulation-based accounts. We anticipate completing this work in time for the conference. The findings will help clarify the space of possible accounts of children's acquisition of intuitions about gravity and balance.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Concepts and categories; Development; Learning; Perception; Spatial cognition; Computational Modeling; Psychophysics" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89k2v82j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tianyi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mengguo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jing", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zakir", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Makhani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northeastern University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Iris", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Oved", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nikhil", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Krishnaswamy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Colorado State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pustejovsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brandeis University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Hartshorne", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24522/galley/21372/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24522/galley/14119/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24522/galley/21372/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24316, "title": "Modeling the Emergence of Letter Shapes", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Graphic codes across times and cultures consistently share certain visual characteristics. According to the ecological hypothesis, this is because glyphs reflect the input statistics to which our visual system has adapted. We computationally model this hypothesis by employing a drawing-based signaling game involving two AI models to explore factors that impact empirical regularities in the surface form of artificially evolved glyphs and their similarity to human visual signs. In our first experiment, we investigate the role of the models' perception system on glyph line orientation and symmetry. We find that these characteristics are impacted by the input statistics of data used to pre-train models and, to a lesser extent, canvas shape and architectural model properties. Our second experiment analyzes the grapho-phonemic mapping that emerges when we integrate representations learned by a deep learning model trained for speech conversion into our setup.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Aesthetics; Cognitive Humanities; Culture; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1011w6cg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alice", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technical University of Munich", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Klaus", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Diepold", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Technical University Munich", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24316/galley/13912/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24316/galley/21373/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24485, "title": "Modeling the Emergent Development of Inference-based Goal Anticipation in Infants", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Infants develop the ability to anticipate action goals during their first year, as shown by anticipatory gaze behavior. As they grow older, this is first evident for most familiar actions and agents, e.g., human hands performing a reaching action; later also for unusual agents (e.g., mechanical claws). We argue that this ability emerges as infants attempt to segment the world they observe into events‚Äîto infer the currently unfolding events and to predict their consequences for minimizing anticipated uncertainty. We propose a computational model that explains this development from a functional, algorithmic perspective, CAPRI¬≤ (Cognitive Action PRediction And Inference in Infants). Our model integrates proposals about the development of object files, event files, and physical reasoning abilities into a learning and probabilistic planning-as-inference framework. While observing goal-directed, or arbitrary, interactions between two objects (i.e., potential agent and patient), CAPRI¬≤'s active inference processes infer both maximally consistent event interpretations and motor actions (here, eye fixations), where the latter are executed in the service of further minimizing current and anticipated uncertainties. As a result, CAPRI¬≤ models typical developmental patterns of infants' anticipatory gaze behavior in an emergent manner. In\nparticular, to successfully model the emergent developmental pattern, our model suggests that infants activate object event files, implicitly reason about object interactions in an event-oriented manner, infer consistent interpretations of their observations, and control their gaze shifts to minimize anticipated uncertainty. We propose that these mechanisms, as reflected in our model, may constitute fundamental building blocks for developing goal-predictive capacities in infants.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive development; Event cognition; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vr0z63g", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Johanna", "middle_name": "Katharina", "last_name": "Theuer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tübingen", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Nadine Nicole", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Koch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Stuttgart", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gumbsch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "TUD Dresden University of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Birgit", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Elsner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Potsdam", "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": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24485/galley/21374/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24485/galley/14082/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24485/galley/21374/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24455, "title": "Modeling the Link between the Plausibility of Statements and the Illusory Truth Effect", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People judge repeated statements as more true than new ones. This illusory truth effect is a robust phenomenon when statements are ambiguous and plausible. However, previous studies provided conflicting evidence on whether repetition also affects truth judgments for highly implausible statements. Given the lack of a formal theory explaining the interaction between repetition and plausibility on the illusory truth effect, it is important to develop a formal model to explicitly represent the assumptions regarding this phenomenon. In this study, we develop a Bayesian cognitive model that builds on the simulation-based model by Fazio, Rand, and Pennycook (2019). Thereby, we formalize how repetition and plausibility jointly influence the illusory truth effect in light of nonlinear transformations of binary truth judgments. We test our model using experimental data from two previous studies by computing Bayes factors for four competing model variants. Our findings vary across studies but indicate that the observed interaction of repetition and plausibility may be explained by a constant, additive effect of repetition at a latent probit scale.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Perception; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jz7w27x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Semih C.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aktepe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Marburg", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Heck", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Marburg", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24455/galley/14052/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24455/galley/21375/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21537, "title": "Modeling Vocabulary Growth in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We assessed the goodness of fit of three models of vocabulary growth, with varying sensitivity to the structure of the environment and the learner's internal state, to estimated vocabulary growth trajectories in autistic and non-autistic children. We first computed word-level acquisition norms that indicate the vocabulary size at which individual words tend to be learned by each group. We then evaluated how well network growth models based on natural language co-occurrence structure and word associations account for variance in the autistic and non-autistic acquisition norms. In addition to replicating key observations from prior work and observing that the growth models explained similar amounts of variance in each group, we found that autistic vocabulary growth also exhibits growth consistent with \"the lure of the associates\" model. Thus, both groups leverage semantic structure in the learning environment for vocabulary development, but autistic vocabulary growth is also strongly influenced by existing vocabulary knowledge.", "language": null, "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Language development; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1g73t1c5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eileen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Haebig", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Louisiana State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Stan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "West", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Louisiana State University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Cox", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Louisiana State University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21537/galley/11136/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21537/galley/14613/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21537/galley/21376/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24696, "title": "Modelling Cross-Situational Learning on Full Sentences in Few Shots with Simple RNNs", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "How do children bootstrap language through noisy supervision? Most prior works focused on tracking co-occurrences between individual words and referents. We model cross-situational learning (CSL) at sentence level with few (1000) training examples. We compare reservoir computing (RC) and LSTMs on three datasets including complex robotic commands. For most experiments, reservoirs yield superior performance over LSTMs. Surprisingly, reservoirs demonstrate robust generalization when increasing vocabulary size: the error grows slowly. On the contrary, LSTMs are not robust: the number of hidden units needs to be dramatically increased to follow up vocabulary size increase, which is questionable from a biological or cognitive perspective. This suggests that that random projections used in RC helps to bootstrap generalization quickly. To our knowledge, this is a new result in developmental learning modelling. We analyse the evolution of internal representations during training of both recurrent networks and suggest why reservoir generalization seems more efficient.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Neuroscience; Dynamical Systems; Language learning; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0665s4vw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Xavier", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hinaut", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Inria", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "SUBBA REDDY", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "OOTA", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Inria", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alexandre", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Variengien", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Inria", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Frederic", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Alexandre", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Inria-Research", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24696/galley/21377/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24696/galley/14294/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24696/galley/18127/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24696/galley/21377/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24570, "title": "Modelling History-Dependent Evidence Accumulation across Species", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Mice are increasingly used to study the neural circuitlevel basis of behavior, often with the ultimate goal to extrapolate these insights to humans. To generalize insights about neural functioning between species, it is crucial to first ensure correspondence in behavioral and cognitive strategy. Here, we analyzed decision-making behavior in both humans and mice, and identified the same cognitive strategy of history-dependent evidence accumulation. Specifically, individual differences in choice repetition were explained by a history dependent bias in the rate of evidence accumulation ‚Äì rather than its starting point. Evidence integration over multiple temporal scales thus reflects a fundamental aspect of decision-making, conserved across mammalian species. These findings set the stage for linking the computations of decision-making to neural dynamics at the single-cell and population levels.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Animal cognition; Decision making; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fd2r7hs", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Anne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Urai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Leiden University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Zeynep", "middle_name": "Gunes", "last_name": "Gunes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universitat de València", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kianté", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fernandez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Alexander", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fengler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24570/galley/21378/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24570/galley/14167/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24570/galley/21378/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24178, "title": "Modelling metric violations in (geometric) conceptual spaces", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding how people represent similarity relations between concepts is one of the most fundamental problems in cognitive science, with implications for many theories of learning and reasoning. Human judgments of similarity violate basic metric assumptions, leading to effects such as judgment asymmetry and the triangle inequality. These effects have been difficult to capture with modern geometric representations of conceptual structure such as vector embeddings. Here we introduce a similarity function related to a feature-based view of concepts. We show how this function can be applied to geometric representations and that the resulting algorithm can account for classic judgment effects. Using representations extracted from a Large Language Model, we computed the predictions of this approach to similarity relations among a set of everyday concepts (world countries), and evaluated these predictions against human judgments of similarity in a behavioral experiment. The model's predictions correlate with human judgments. These results offer insight into human judgments of similarity relations and the design of algorithms that align with human reasoning.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Representation; Semantics; Computational Modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98s1s82w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karthikeya Ramesh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kaushik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Bill", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Thompson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24178/galley/13774/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24178/galley/21379/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24760, "title": "Modelling Pragmatic Inference in Children's Use of Perception Verbs with Language Models", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Perception Verbs (PVs) can have, besides their denotational interpretation that 'X perceives Y', other interpretations depending on context. For example, in narratives we often find contexts where seeing something introduces a new referent, heralds a pivotal event, or compresses redundant information about characters' inner states. We computationally model the emergence of such pragmatic use in children (4-12y) with recent Language Models (LMs). Since LMs are partly trained on narrative corpora and can model coherence in narratives, we assume that a LM can be used to identify PV contexts that humans recognise as having a pragmatic function. We sample PV contexts from ChiSCor, a corpus of Dutch children's freely told narratives, and use the confidence of LM predictions to identify developmental patterns in pragmatic use of PVs for children of different ages. Simultaneously, our setup allows us to identify types of pragmatic meaning that LMs still struggle with.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Linguistics; Language development; Pragmatics; Computational Modeling; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rj1z47q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bram", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van Dijk", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Leiden University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Max", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "van Duijn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Leiden University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Li", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kloostra", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Utrecht University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Marco", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Spruit", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Leiden University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Barend", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Beekhuizen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24760/galley/21380/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24760/galley/14358/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24760/galley/18215/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24760/galley/21380/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24777, "title": "Modelling probability matching as a Bayesian sampling process", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The mechanisms underpinning probability matching remain a disputed topic. Among common explanations of the effect is that people employ a win-stay, lose-shift (WSLS) strategy. We suggest an alternative framing of probability matching as the result of a Bayesian sampling process involving simulating a mental sequence of possible outcomes. In three within-subject tasks, we presented people with information about a six-sided die with four sides of one colour and two of another. Two of them involved predicting the next outcome in a series of die rolls, with and without feedback. The third explicitly asked participants to mentally generate sequences of rolls from the die. The patterns of autocorrelations in responses, the absence of an effect of feedback on the next response, and the elevated proportion of maximising responses on the first trial in all conditions are all consistent with a Bayesian sampling model but contradict the WSLS account of probability matching.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Reasoning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tg5m3xh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tsvetkov", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Haijiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sanborn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warwick", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24777/galley/21381/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24777/galley/14375/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24777/galley/18232/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24777/galley/21381/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24359, "title": "Modelling the prevalence of hidden profiles with complex argument structures", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this paper, we first introduce the `complex hidden profile', a previously overlooked category of hidden profiles that arises from complex inferential relations among arguments.\nSecond, in order to investigate the conditions under which interrelated arguments can generate hidden profiles, we introduce a novel Bayesian agent-based framework for collective reasoning with complex argument structures.\nFinally, we show that that many possible argument structures can generate hidden profiles, even when agents do not have any information in common.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Sociology; Decision making; Agent-based Modeling; Bayesian modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kg1k9dn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hendrik", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Siebe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Groningen", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24359/galley/13956/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24359/galley/21382/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24234, "title": "Moderating Effect of Novelty Seeking Trait on the Usefulness Undervaluation Bias in Creative Products Evaluation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The present study examines the effects of novelty seeking (NS) personality trait on the undervaluation of product creativity, specifically the tendency to undervalue the usefulness of novel ideas or products, a bias termed ‚Äúusefulness undervaluation bias‚Äù. Creativity is defined by novelty and usefulness, and it has been reported that there is a bias to undervalue the usefulness of novel creations due to uncertainty in judging it. In this study, two studies were conducted to determine whether individuals with high NS are reduced in this bias. Study 1 confirmed that individuals with higher NS rated creativity more positively, consistent with previous findings on openness to experience. Study 2 showed that raters with higher NS were less likely to underrate the usefulness of novel products, suggesting that NS moderates the relationship between perceived novelty and usefulness. These findings indicate that personality trait, especially NS, play an important role in creativity evaluation.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Creativity; Decision making" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42j0751p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eline", "middle_name": "Aya", "last_name": "Hattori", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nagoya University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mayu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yamakawa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nagoya University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kazuhisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Miwa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Nagoya University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24234/galley/13830/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24234/galley/21383/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24182, "title": "Modulate the Face Inversion Effect (FIE): Using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to reduce and enhance the FIE.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We report a large study (n=120) investigating the effects of tDCS at Fp3 on the FIE. We used a double-blind design with subjects randomly assigned to one of the three tDCS groups and then engaged with a recognition task involving upright and inverted faces. Group 1 (control), subjects first received sham tDCS in the study phase (learning) followed by sham tDCS in the recognition phase; Group 2, subjects received anodal tDCS in the study phase followed by sham tDCS in the recognition phase; Group 3, subjects received anodal tDCS in the study phase followed by cathodal tDCS in the recognition phase. Group 2's results confirmed that anodal tDCS reduces the FIE vs. sham (Group 1) by disrupting performance for upright faces. Importantly, Group 3's results revealed that cathodal tDCS applied after anodal, increased the FIE vs. Group 2, bringing it back to control, by enhancing performance for upright faces. These results reveal that the negative effects of anodal tDCS on the FIE can be reversed by cathodal tDCS.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Face Processing; Learning; Brain Stimulation" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hv549bn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ciro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Civile", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Exeter", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Siobhan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McCourt", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Exeter", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Wang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Guangtong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Exeter", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24182/galley/13778/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24182/galley/21384/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24539, "title": "Modulation of rhythmic brain circuitry alters the pattern of experience-based decision processing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Understanding and modulating cognitive aspects of decision-making and reinforcement learning are crucial for addressing neuropsychiatric problems like substance use disorders (SUD). We developed a non-invasive stimulation method to modulate theta phase synchronization between the medial prefrontal cortex and right lateral prefrontal cortex. Our EEG-informed modulation led to bidirectional changes in learning-based decision-making, including error-related components and brain signatures. In fact, by combining HD-tACS with mathematical modeling, we revealed that in-phase/antiphase HD-tACS over the mPFC and rPFC significantly altered (synchronized/desynchronized) theta phase coupling between these regions, influencing decision accuracy (improved/impaired), and neurocomputational parameters of learning-based decision-making. Additionally, this modulation rescued/disrupted the causal link between brain error monitoring and cognitive control systems in healthy/SUD participants, and reshaped punishment-guided decision and learning components. We concluded theta rhythms in the mPFC and mPFC-rPFC coupling play a unifying causal role in regulating choice, learning, and behavioral adaptation in both healthy and patient populations.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Learning; Brain Stimulation; Computational Modeling; Electroencephalography (EEG)" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1b78f317", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "sadegh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ghaderi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Cognitive modeling", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Mohammad", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hemami", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jamal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Amani Rad", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Shahid Beheshti University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Reza", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "khosrowabadi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24539/galley/21385/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24539/galley/14136/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24539/galley/21385/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21452, "title": "Moment-to-moment decisions of when and how to help another person", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Helping is a universal human behavior, and is a core aspect of a functioning society. However, the decision to provide help, and what type of help to provide, is a complex cognitive calculation that weights many costs and benefits simultaneously. In this paper, we explore how various costs influence the moment-to-moment decision to help in a simple video game. Participants were paired with another human participant and were asked to make repeated decisions that could benefit either themselves or their partner. \nSeveral preregistered manipulations altered the cost each person paid for actions in the environment, the intrinsic resource capacity of individuals to perform the task, the visibility of the other player's score, and the affordances within the environment for helping. The results give novel insight into the cost-benefit analyses that people apply when providing help, and highlight the role of reciprocity in influencing helping decisions.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Decision making; Intelligent agents; Interactive behavior; Social cognition; Theory of Mind" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nf3233k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Pamela", "middle_name": "Joy", "last_name": "Osborn Popp", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Vanderbilt 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": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21452/galley/11051/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21452/galley/21897/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24692, "title": "Mood and social influence: the role of metacognitive ability", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Others not only influence our behavior, but also our metacognitive evaluations of those behavior (i.e. decision confidence), even when feedback is random and uninformative. Here we ask if metacognitive ability to monitor reliability of one's decisions predicts social susceptibility. We also ask if mood (anxiety and depression) further modulates this effect. We gave 46 healthy participants a perceptual task and presented them with random social feedback (positive, negative, neutral). Participants rated their confidence in their decisions before and after feedback, and lastly had an opportunity to change their initial decisions. In a separate task we also measured their metacognitive abilities, as well as their anxiety and depression scores. Results showed metacognitive ability to increase susceptibility to random social feedback. Surprisingly for those with high levels of metacognitive ability anxiety exacerbates this effect, whereas depression suppresses it.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Emotion; Mood; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c7553wb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Cem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Karbuz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Koç University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Terry", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Eskenazi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Koc University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24692/galley/21386/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24692/galley/14290/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24692/galley/18121/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24692/galley/21386/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21416, "title": "Moral association graph: A cognitive model for moral inference", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Moral inference is an emerging topic of critical importance in artificial intelligence. The contemporary approach often relies on language modelling to infer moral relevance or moral properties of a concept such as \"smoking\". This approach demands complex parameterisation and costly computation, and it tends to disconnect with psychological accounts of moralization. We present a simple cognitive model for moral inference grounded in theories of moralization. Our model builds on word association network known to capture human semantics and draws on rich psychological data. We demonstrate that our moral association graph model performs competitively to state-of-the-art language models, where we evaluate them against a comprehensive set of data for automated inference of moral norms and moral judgment of concepts, and in-context moral inference. Moreover, we show that our model discovers intuitive concepts underlying moral judgment and is applicable to informing short-term temporal changes in moral perception.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Psychology; Natural Language Processing; Computational Modeling; Large Language Models" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qj2b5k0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aida", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ramezani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21416/galley/11015/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21416/galley/21861/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21648, "title": "Moral flexibility in applying queuing norms can be explained by contractualist principles and game-theoretic considerations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "People sometimes display moral flexibility by deciding that a commonly accepted moral norm ought not to apply in particular circumstances. But how? We explore this question in the context of queuing. We show that people's judgements about the moral permissibility of queue-cutting can be explained through cognitive processes related to moral contractualism: universalization, virtual bargaining, and functional thinking. Participants were presented vignettes depicting prospective queue-cutters, and asked whether it was morally permissible to queue-cut in those circumstances. We model these judgements with reference to the existence of a game-theoretic equilibrium supporting queue cutting in a repeated game, and to considerations of whether queue cutting would subvert or enact the function of a queue: if you pay the waiting cost, you should get the reward. These results support the notion that moral flexibility is in part related to contractualist moral principles.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Philosophy; Psychology; Decision making; Social cognition; Mathematical modeling" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rg5p0ng", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "White", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Rahul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bhui", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Fiery", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cushman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Josh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tenenbaum", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MIT", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sydney", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Levine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Allen Institute for AI", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21648/galley/11247/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21648/galley/14556/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21648/galley/22035/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24560, "title": "Motivated Information Search", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This study explores the influence of social contexts on the efficiency of information search in children (6-14 years), adolescents (15-17 years), and adults. Participants are placed on a team for a competition. When the championship trophy goes missing, the participant's team has either won or lost. Participants are then tasked with playing a 20-Questions game to try to find the trophy. Beyond the developmental trajectory in their ability to select the most informative questions, we found, as hypothesized, that all participants actively biased their search strategies: the efficiency of their questions was contingent upon whether it was in their best interest to find the culprit. In particular, they were more likely to select the most efficient question when they were winning and were more motivated to identify the target. Overall, our findings suggest that social contexts play a strong role in modulating the efficiency of information search across age groups.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Cognitive development; Learning; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Abstracts", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gn518kz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ohan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hominis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Central European University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Azzurra", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ruggeri", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Central European University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24560/galley/21387/download/" }, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24560/galley/14157/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24560/galley/21387/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 21461, "title": "Movement coordination as a measure of togetherness in improvised dance duets", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The study focuses on the mechanisms through which dance brings people together. We recorded 7 improvised dance duets and asked 5 skilled improvisers to rate the perceived togetherness in the recorded dances. Subsequently, we employed pose tracking techniques and developed a quantitative measure of the stability of interpersonal movement coordination between dancers, demonstrating that it strongly correlates with experts' togetherness ratings. Based on follow-up interviews, we revealed that experts' understanding of togetherness converges to a stable construct, involving a state of responsive, mindful attention. This construct can be grounded in the objective properties of movement coordination. These properties can be framed within the context of dynamical systems, suggesting potential systemic organization principles, such as moment-to-moment adaptation, that promote togetherness. Our mixed-methods research has implications for various fields, including psychology, cognitive science, and art studies.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Psychology; Art and Cognition; Dance; Embodied Cognition; Social cognition" } ], "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94932717", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Julian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zubek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warsaw", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Klara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "≈Åucznik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Warsaw", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21461/galley/11060/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21461/galley/21906/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 24407, "title": "Multi-Agent Communication With Multi-Modal Information Fusion", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Many recent works in the field of multi-agent reinforcement\nlearning via communication focus on learning what messages\nto send, when to send, and whom to address such messages.\nThose works indicate that communication is useful for higher\ncumulative reward or task success. However, one important limitation is that most of them ignore the importance of enforcing\nagents' ability to understand the received information. In this\npaper, we notice that observation and communication signals\nare from separate information sources. Thus, we enhance the\ncommunicating agents with the capability to integrate crucial\ninformation from different sources. Specifically, we propose a\nmulti-modal communication method, which modulates agents'\nobservation and communication signals as different modalities\nand performs multi-modal fusion to allow knowledge to transfer\nacross different modalities. We evaluate the proposed method\non a diverse set of cooperative multi-agent tasks with several\nstate-of-the-art algorithms. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in incorporating knowledge and gaining a\ndeeper understanding from various information sources.", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Machine learning; Agent-based Modeling; Neural Networks" } ], "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24w3654z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Han", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Yufeng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xie", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "BingCheng", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "He", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Prof. Qingshan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Li", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Xidian University", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2024-01-02T02:00:00+08:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24407/galley/14004/download/" }, { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24407/galley/21388/download/" } ] } ] }