New BraveNewWord paper!

Ever thought that a transformer's full access to context isn't very human-like? Our paper (w/ @MarelliMar, #CMCL) is out! tl;dr: increasing attention on nearby words improves the correlation between surprisal and reading times aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.3/ (1/11)

🚨 New article 🚨 Open LLMs are powerful and reproducible alternatives to closed models like GPT or Gemini. In this tutorial, we (Zak Hussain, Marcel Binz, Rui Mata) explain how LLMs work and show how to apply open LLMs to behavioral science questions using the

👀🧠Does vision (and the absence thereof) shape humans’ reliance on linguistic experience in the organization of semantic knowledge? In short... it does! New study published in PBR offers intriguing insights. With @MarelliMar Daniele Gatti link.springer.com/article/10.375…

"Ambivalence by Design: A Computational Account of Loopholes" 📢 New paper from: Peng Qian, Sophie Bridgers, Maya Taliaferro, Kiera Parece, & Tomer Ullman sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎤 Just presented at #AMLaP2024! "Be the wapple of my eye: Predicting the sensorimotor pattern of novel words from language-based representations" by Giulia Loca, Simona Amenta & @MarelliMar. 📈 The presentation was very well received. Thanks for the incredible feedback!

Our philosophy-informed LLM papers now out in TACL! See the improved paper or thread linked below for more on “bibliotechnism”, the referential ability of ngram models, what it means to say LLMs (or humans) have beliefs, beachgoing bardolaters, and more. direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/d…

🚨 Job alert 🚨 One more week to apply for two positions (PhD and Postdoc) at Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) and Max Planck Institute for Human Development on using LLMs to improve generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences LLMs. The positions are fully funded for three years. Apply by October 13! Thank you for

✍️ Come fa una stringa di fonemi-grafemi a trasformarsi in un termine con un significato? 🧠 @MarelliMar (Dipartimento di Psicologia) illustra lo studio di Milano-Bicocca e Università di Pavia che ha indagato il meccanismo con cui diamo significato alle #parole bnews.unimib.it/blog/ecco-come…

New paper in @NatHumBeh shows that pupils in low- and middle-income countries #LMICs are failing to acquire the most basic subskills needed for reading comprehension. Evidence-aligned #phonics instruction needed to meet global literacy goals #SDGs 📚 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our RolandoBonandrini was bestowed a "Giovani talenti" award for his studies on word processing. Congrats Rolando for this achievement!

Allert: New Study Humans can falsely recognize meaningless pseudowords when they resemble studied words. This research reveals that our brains detect hidden patterns, even without prior knowledge, leading to false memories. 🧠✨ researchgate.net/publication/38…

📢 Update: We're transitioning our online presence to Bluesky! Follow us at @ercbravenewword.bsky.social to stay updated on the ERC Consolidator project #BraveNewWord, exploring how new words convey novel meanings.