What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?

L Connell, D Lynott - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Language models are a rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence with enormous
potential to improve our understanding of human cognition. However, many popular …

Raising the Roof: Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing

J Hollander, A Olney - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent investigations on how people derive meaning from language have focused on task‐
dependent shifts between two cognitive systems. The symbolic (amodal) system represents …

Mutant Texts: A Technique for Uncovering Unexpected Inconsistencies in Large-Scale Vision-Language Models

M Liang, Z Liu, M Larson - International Conference on Multimedia …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) trained on large-scale noisy data have
shown strong generalization abilities on many downstream tasks. In this paper, we introduce …

Investigating the language of time: Evaluating the use and comprehension of before and after

KR Henderson - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Before-initial sentences are thought to be more difficult to comprehend than after-initial
sentences because they structurally mismatch the temporal order of real-world events …