Does ChatGPT resemble humans in language use?

ZG Cai, DA Haslett, X Duan, S Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT have shown
remarkable capacities in comprehending and producing language. However, their internal …

[HTML][HTML] Studying individual differences in language comprehension: The challenges of item-level variability and well-matched control conditions

LM Blott, AE Gowenlock, R Kievit, K Nation… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Translating experimental tasks that were designed to investigate differences between
conditions at the group-level into valid and reliable instruments to measure individual …

Episodic memory and sleep are involved in the maintenance of context-specific lexical information.

MHC Mak, AJ Curtis, JM Rodd… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Familiar words come with a wealth of associated knowledge about their variety of usage,
accumulated over a lifetime. How do we track and adjust this knowledge as new instances of …

Causal contributions of the domain-general (multiple demand) and the language-selective brain networks to perceptual and semantic challenges in speech …

LJ MacGregor, RA Gilbert, Z Balewski… - Neurobiology of …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Listening to spoken language engages domain-general multiple demand (MD;
frontoparietal) regions of the human brain, in addition to domain-selective (frontotemporal) …

Offline dominance and zeugmatic similarity normings of variably ambiguous words assessed against a neural language model (BERT)

KA DeLong, S Trott, M Kutas - Behavior research methods, 2023 - Springer
For any research program examining how ambiguous words are processed in broader
linguistic contexts, a first step is to establish factors relating to the frequency balance or …

Learning about the meanings of ambiguous words: evidence from a word-meaning priming paradigm with short narratives

LM Blott, O Hartopp, K Nation, JM Rodd - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Fluent language comprehension requires people to rapidly activate and integrate context-
appropriate word meanings. This process is challenging for meanings of ambiguous words …

Presentation format affects the behavioural and neural processing costs of sentence reinterpretation

LM Blott, JM Rodd, JE Warren - Language, Cognition and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although listening to speech and reading text rely on different lower-order cognitive and
neural processes, much of the literature on higher-order comprehension assumes …

[PDF][PDF] Piloting a novel web-based paradigm to measure disambiguation skill in adults

LM Blott, A Gowenlock, K Nation, JM Rodd - 2022 - psyarxiv.com
Given that most English word forms have more than one meaning, the ability to use
contextual cues for disambiguation is vital for successful comprehension. Previous research …