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Hands-on false memories: a combined study with distributional semantics and mouse-tracking
Although mouse-tracking has been seen as a real-time window into different aspects of human decision-making processes, currently little is known...
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Divergent semantic integration (DSI): Extracting creativity from narratives with distributional semantic modeling
We developed a novel conceptualization of one component of creativity in narratives by integrating creativity theory and distributional semantics...
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Catastrophic Interference in Predictive Neural Network Models of Distributional Semantics
The semantic memory literature has recently seen the emergence of predictive neural network models that use principles of reinforcement learning to...
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The Linguistic Analysis of Scene Semantics: LASS
In this paper, we define a new method for analyzing object-scene contextual relationships using computational linguistics: Linguistic Analysis of...
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How much is a cow like a meow? A novel database of human judgements of audiovisual semantic relatedness
Semantic information about objects, events, and scenes influences how humans perceive, interact with, and navigate the world. The semantic...
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The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview
Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is...
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Extra-foveal Processing of Object Semantics Guides Early Overt Attention During Visual Search
Eye-tracking studies using arrays of objects have demonstrated that some high-level processing of object semantics can occur in extra-foveal vision,...
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Sensorimotor distance: A grounded measure of semantic similarity for 800 million concept pairs
Experimental design and computational modelling across the cognitive sciences often rely on measures of semantic similarity between concepts....
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Language with vision: A study on grounded word and sentence embeddings
Grounding language in vision is an active field of research seeking to construct cognitively plausible word and sentence representations by...
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Kindergarteners Use Cross-Situational Statistics to Infer the Meaning of Grammatical Elements
Many studies demonstrate that detecting statistical regularities in linguistic input plays a key role in language acquisition. Yet, it is unclear to...
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Valence without meaning: Investigating form and semantic components in pseudowords valence
Valence is a dominant semantic dimension, and it is fundamentally linked to basic approach-avoidance behavior within a broad range of contexts....
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Syntactic bootstrap** as a mechanism for language learning
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how young children solve the puzzle of map** spoken words to their meanings. The influential...
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On the Acquisition of Polarity Items: 11- to 12-Year-Olds' Comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs
Existing work on the acquisition of polarity-sensitive expressions (PSIs) suggests that children show an early sensitivity to the restricted...
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The influence of place and time on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis
We measured and documented the influence of corpus effects on lexical behavior. Specifically, we used a corpus of over 26,000 fiction books to show...
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Perceived similarity as a window into representations of integrated sentence meaning
When perceiving the world around us, we are constantly integrating pieces of information. The integrated experience consists of more than just the...
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Systematic map**s of sound to meaning: A theoretical review
The form of a word sometimes conveys semantic information. For example, the iconic word gurgle sounds like what it means, and busy is easy to...
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Semantic transparency effects in German compounds: A large dataset and multiple-task investigation
In the present study, we provide a comprehensive analysis and a multi-dimensional dataset of semantic transparency measures for 1810 German compound...
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Toward a unified account of nonsymbolic and symbolic representations of number: Insights from a combined psychophysical-computational approach
There is an ongoing, vibrant debate about whether numerical information in both nonsymbolic and symbolic notations would be supported by different...
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The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: Extrapolating affective values for 38,000+ Chinese words via a computational model
Word affective ratings are important tools in psycholinguistic research, natural language processing, and many other fields. However, even for...
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A computational account of item-based directed forgetting for nonwords: Incorporating orthographic representations in MINERVA 2
Recent research on item-method directed forgetting demonstrates that forget instructions not only decrease recognition for targets, but also decrease...
