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53Alternative Solutions to a Language Design Problem: The Role of Adjectives and Gender Marking in Efficient CommunicationTopics in Cognitive Science 10 (1): 209-224. 2018.A central goal of typological research is to characterize linguistic features in terms of both their functional role and their fit to social and cognitive systems. One long-standing puzzle concerns why certain languages employ grammatical gender. In an information theoretic analysis of German noun classification, Dye, Milin, Futrell, and Ramscar enumerated a number of important processing advantages gender confers. Yet this raises a further puzzle: If gender systems are so beneficial to processi…Read more
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25Grammatical number processing and anticipatory eye movements are not tightly coordinated in English spoken language comprehensionFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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58The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and Their Implications for Symbolic LearningCognitive Science 34 (6): 909-957. 2010.Symbols enable people to organize and communicate about the world. However, the ways in which symbolic knowledge is learned and then represented in the mind are poorly understood. We present a formal analysis of symbolic learning—in particular, word learning—in terms of prediction and cue competition, and we consider two possible ways in which symbols might be learned: by learning to predict a label from the features of objects and events in the world, and by learning to predict features from a …Read more
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Stanford UniversityResearcher
Stanford, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Continental Philosophy |