Sam Kirkham
Sam Kirkham
A fundamental challenge in the cognitive sciences is discovering the dynamics that govern behavior. Take the example of spoken language, which is characterized by a highly variable and complex set of physical movements that map onto the sma...
Polyphony Bruna,Christopher Kello
Polyphony Bruna
Conversational partners align the meanings of their words over the course of interaction to coordinate and communicate. One process of alignment is lexical entrainment, whereby partners mirror and abbreviate their word usage to converge on ...
John R Starr,Marten van Schijndel
John R Starr
Previous psycholinguistic research has demonstrated that sentence processing varies according to both syntactic and discourse context. However, a systematic investigation of how such contexts influence how the processor manages low-level re...
Social Network Structure Shapes the Formation of True and False Memories at the Collective Level [0.03%]
社会网络结构塑造集体真实记忆和虚假记忆的形成
Tania Valle,Annamaria Krizovenska,Josué García-Arch et al.
Tania Valle et al.
Societal structures and memory organization models share network-like features, offering insights into how information spreads and shapes collective memories. In this study, we manipulated the structure of lab-created community networks dur...
John Mansfield,Lothar Sebastian Krapp
John Mansfield
Harmonic word order is a well-established tendency in natural languages, which has previously been explained as a single ordering rule for all head-dependent relations. We propose that it can be more parsimoniously explained as an outcome o...
The Sustained Attention Paradox: A Critical Commentary on the Theoretical Impossibility of Perfect Vigilance [0.03%]
持续注意力的悖论：对完美警觉理论不可能性的批判评论
Benjamin T Sharpe,Ian Tyndall
Benjamin T Sharpe
The human capacity for sustained attention represents a critical cognitive paradox: while essential for numerous high-stakes tasks, perfect vigilance is fundamentally impossible. This commentary explores the theoretical impossibility of mai...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models [0.03%]
要提高识字率，应改善教育平等而非大型语言模型
Samuel H Forbes,Olivia Guest
Samuel H Forbes
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educational equity. However, we warn that this tech...
Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify? [0.03%]
语言的手势模态的灵活性：哪一些手势被连续的修改？
Casey Ferrara,Jenny C Lu,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Casey Ferrara
Language is traditionally characterized as an arbitrary, symbolic system, made up of discrete, categorical forms. But iconicity and gradience are pervasive in communication. For example, in spoken languages, word forms can be "played with" ...
Patrick Rothermund,Roland Deutsch
Patrick Rothermund
Generic sentences such as "Birds lay eggs" are used frequently and effortlessly, but there is no simple quantitative rule that determines whether they are true or false. For instance, while "Birds lay eggs" is considered true, "Birds are fe...
"The Earth is Alive": Attributing Agency to the Earth Causes Moral Concern for the Environment and Biocentric Attitudes [0.03%]
"地球是有生命的"：将能动力归因于地球会引起对环境保护和生物中心态度的道德关注
Lizette Pizza,Deborah Kelemen
Lizette Pizza
Do people need to attribute agency to nature to morally care for it? The answer to this question has significant implications for our understanding of social cognitive effects on moral judgment. Despite its relevance during an environmental...