Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns

A Pouget, JM Beck, WJ Ma, PE Latham - Nature neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
There is strong behavioral and physiological evidence that the brain both represents
probability distributions and performs probabilistic inference. Computational neuroscientists …

[HTML][HTML] The language faculty that wasn't: A usage-based account of natural language recursion

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only
the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is …

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 …

[图书][B] Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

MH Christiansen, N Chater - 2016 - books.google.com
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

[图书][B] An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications

M Li, P Vitányi - 2008 - Springer
Ming Li Paul Vitányi Fourth Edition Page 1 An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its
Applications Ming Li Paul Vitányi Fourth Edition Texts in Computer Science Page 2 Texts in …

An amorphous model for morphological processing in visual comprehension based on naive discriminative learning.

RH Baayen, P Milin, DF Đurđević, P Hendrix… - Psychological …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
A 2-layer symbolic network model based on the equilibrium equations of the Rescorla–
Wagner model (Danks, 2003) is proposed. The study first presents 2 experiments in Serbian …

Culture shapes the evolution of cognition

B Thompson, S Kirby, K Smith - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
A central debate in cognitive science concerns the nativist hypothesis, the proposal that
universal features of behavior reflect a biologically determined cognitive substrate: For …

Dynamic neural network reorganization associated with second language vocabulary acquisition: A multimodal imaging study

C Hosoda, K Tanaka, T Nariai, M Honda… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
It remains unsettled whether human language relies exclusively on innately privileged brain
structure in the left hemisphere or is more flexibly shaped through experiences, which …

The computational origin of representation

ST Piantadosi - Minds and machines, 2021 - Springer
Each of our theories of mental representation provides some insight into how the mind
works. However, these insights often seem incompatible, as the debates between symbolic …

[HTML][HTML] Corpus linguistics and naive discriminative learning

RH Baayen - Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Three classifiers from machine learning (the generalized linear mixed model, memory based
learning, and support vector machines) are compared with a naive discriminative learning …