Max Taylor-Davies,Neil Bramley,Christopher G Lucas
Max Taylor-Davies
Social learning can be a powerful tool, allowing us to acquire knowledge and adaptive behaviours while bypassing many of the costs of learning through direct experience. However, not everyone's behaviour is equally valuable to learn from, a...
Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training [0.03%]
心中的隐形大猩猩：内隐注意盲及其觉知训练展望
Adam Morris
Adam Morris
Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes-like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.-which people do not notice or report, and these fin...
The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition [0.03%]
语言濒危背景下便利抽样带来的科研与文化代价——强调语言获得的作用
Sam Passmore,Birgit Hellwig,Rowena Garcia et al.
Sam Passmore et al.
We live in an unprecedented era of language endangerment and loss. In the midst of this crisis, it is becoming more and more evident that the psychological and cognitive sciences know very little about how most of the world's languages are ...
Towards Human-Like Emergent Communication via Utility, Informativeness, and Complexity [0.03%]
基于效用、信息量和复杂度的人类语言式涌现通讯研究
Mycal Tucker,Julie Shah,Roger Levy et al.
Mycal Tucker et al.
Two prominent, yet contrasting, theoretical views are available to characterize the underlying drivers of language evolution: on the one hand, task-specific utility maximization; on the other hand, task-agnostic communicative efficiency. Th...
Arjun Mitra,Narayanan Srinivasan,Nisheeth Srivastava
Arjun Mitra
Inter-temporal impulsivity has been implicated in several theoretical explanations of the self-reinforcing nature of low socioeconomic status (SES). However, how exactly this interaction transpires is yet to be identified. We hypothesize th...
Early Production of Imperceptible Words by Infants and Toddlers Born Deaf or Blind [0.03%]
聋盲婴儿和幼儿不知不觉中早期产生词语
Erin E Campbell,Charles P Davis,Martin Zettersten et al.
Erin E Campbell et al.
We investigate the roles of linguistic and sensory experience in the early-produced visual, auditory, and abstract words of congenitally-blind toddlers, deaf toddlers, and typically-sighted/hearing peers. We also assess the role of language...
Sami R Yousif,Lily B Goldstein,Elizabeth M Brannon
Sami R Yousif
A core aim of developmental cognitive science is to uncover the basic building blocks of human thought. For instance, work revealing that even young children, adults without formal education, and distant animal species are sensitive to basi...
Céline Pozniak,Barbara Hemforth
Céline Pozniak
Differences in the processing of subject and object relative clauses have been explained by a combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors, such as a general subject advantage based on syntactic constraints, effects of animacy,...
Zofia Washington,Ori Friedman
Zofia Washington
Owners are often blamed when their property causes harm but might not receive corresponding praise when their property does good. This suggests a double standard of ownership, wherein owning property poses risks for moral blame that are not...
Igor Bascandziev,Patrick Shafto,Elizabeth Bonawitz
Igor Bascandziev
Questions may be asked with an intent to acquire new information from the recipient (i.e., information-seeking questions) or with the intent to teach (i.e., pedagogical questions). Understanding how the questions' recipients infer the inten...