Abstract Cognitive scientists have long used distributional semantic representations of categories. The predominant approach uses distributional representations of category-denoting nouns, such as “city” for the category city. We propose a novel scheme that represents categories as prototypes over representations of names of its members, such as “Barcelona,” “Mumbai,” and “Wuhan” for the category city. This […]

Abstract It has long been believed across languages that the Agent-First strategy, a comprehension heuristic that maps the first noun onto the agent role, is a general cognitive bias which applies automatically and faithfully to children’s comprehension. The present study asks how this strategy interplays with such grammatical cues as the number of overt arguments […]

Perception requires the brain to infer whether signals arise from common causes and should hence be integrated or else be treated independently. Rideaux et al. show that a feedforward network can perform causal inference in visuovestibular motion estimation by reading out activity from neurons tuned to congruent and opposite directions. Read Full Article (External Site) […]