Causal Perception(s) [0.03%]
因果感知
Jonathan F Kominsky,Katharina Wenig
Jonathan F Kominsky
In addition to detecting "low-level" features like shape, color, and movement, the human visual system perceives certain "higher-level" properties of the environment, like cause-and-effect interactions. The strongest evidence that we have t...
Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies [0.03%]
无空元素介导的长距离依赖关系可以更好地解释语法复杂现象
Yanis da Cunha,Edward Gibson
Yanis da Cunha
We report the results of two acceptability judgment experiments on English materials, which were designed in order to help disentangle predictions of syntactic theories with transformations from nontransformational theories. The materials i...
Contrastive Verbal Guidance: A Beneficial Context for Attention To Events and Their Memory? [0.03%]
对比语言指导：注意事件及其记忆的有益背景？
Amit Singh,Katharina J Rohlfing
Amit Singh
Research suggests that presenting an action via multimodal stimulation (verbal and visual) enhances its perception. To highlight this, in most studies, assertive instructions are generally presented before the occurrence of the visual subev...
Learning Partial Word Meanings From Referentially Ambiguous Naming Events [0.03%]
从指代含糊的命名事件中学习词汇的部分含义
Nina Schoener,Sara C Johnson,Sumarga H Suanda
Nina Schoener
Both classic thought experiments and recent empirical evidence suggest that children frequently encounter new words whose meanings are underdetermined by the extralinguistic contexts in which they occur. The role that these referentially am...
Viktoria Kainz,Justin Sulik,Sonja Utz et al.
Viktoria Kainz et al.
A large part of how people learn about their shared world is via social information. However, in complex modern information ecosystems, it can be challenging to identify deception or filter out misinformation. This challenge is exacerbated ...
Huang Ham,Bonan Zhao,Thomas L Griffiths et al.
Huang Ham et al.
A hallmark of effective teaching is that it grants learners not just a collection of facts about the world, but also a toolkit of abstractions that can be applied to solve new problems. How do humans teach abstractions from examples? Here, ...
Vildan Salikutluk,Frank Jäkel
Vildan Salikutluk
In many real-world settings, people often have to make judgments with incomplete information. Estimating unknown quantities without using precise quantitative modeling and data is called guesstimation, which is often needed in forecasting s...
Seeking the Category: The Pragmatic Function of Formal Explanations and the Role of Cognitive Reflection [0.03%]
探究类型：形式解释的实用功能以及认知反思的作用
Ivan Aslanov,Alexey Kotov,Ernesto Guerra et al.
Ivan Aslanov et al.
Formal explanations are statements that explain properties of an object by referring to its category. This study investigates the role of pragmatics in the evaluation of formal explanations. Across six experiments, we examined how a questio...
The Inevitable and Unpredictable Role of Large Language Models in Education: A Commentary on Huettig and Christiansen (2024) [0.03%]
大型语言模型在教育中不可避免而又难以预测的作用：对Huettig和Christiansen（2024）的评论
Ernesto Guerra,Marcela Peña,Roberto Araya
Ernesto Guerra
This commentary critically complements a recent proposal that cognitive science can leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to counter declining literacy. While recognizing the educational potential of LLMs, we highlight a significant trade-o...
Ell Wilding,Bodo Winter,Jeannette Littlemore et al.
Ell Wilding et al.
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as "iconic," that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accomp...