Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

Across the brain sciences, institutions and individuals have begun to actively acknowledge
and address the presence of racism, bias, and associated barriers to inclusivity within our …

The social and behavioral sciences have been increasingly using automated text analysis to
measure psychological constructs in text. We explore whether GPT, the large-language …

More than one hundred benchmarks have been developed to test the commonsense
knowledge and commonsense reasoning abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems …

In the field of neurodegeneration, speech and language assessments are useful for
diagnosing aphasic syndromes and for characterizing other disorders. As a complement to …

Pragmatics and non-literal language understanding are essential to human communication,
and present a long-standing challenge for artificial language models. We perform a fine …

Word co‐occurrence patterns in language corpora contain a surprising amount of
conceptual knowledge. Large language models (LLMs), trained to predict words in context …

Neural language models are increasingly valued in computational psycholinguistics, due to
their ability to provide conditional probability distributions over the lexicon that are predictive …

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Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish
words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to …