Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

How efficiency shapes human language

E Gibson, R Futrell, SP Piantadosi, I Dautriche… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems

A Ćwiek, S Fuchs, C Draxler, EL Asu… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

[图书][B] Cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking

C Heyes - 2018 - books.google.com
“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

A novel machine learning method for multiaxial fatigue life prediction: Improved adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system

J Gao, F Heng, Y Yuan, Y Liu - International Journal of Fatigue, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, a neuro-fuzzy-based machine learning method is developed to predict the
multiaxial fatigue life of various metallic materials. First, the fuzzy inference system and …

[图书][B] The secret of our success: How culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter

J Henrich - 2016 - degruyter.com
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

[PDF][PDF] Why only us: Language and evolution

RC Berwick - 2016 - researchgate.net
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an
evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to …

A brief history of bioinformatics

J Gauthier, AT Vincent, SJ Charette… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
It is easy for today's students and researchers to believe that modern bioinformatics
emerged recently to assist next-generation sequencing data analysis. However, the very …

Origins of music in credible signaling

SA Mehr, MM Krasnow, GA Bryant… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …