AIMC Topic: Cognitive Science

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Connectionist perspectives on language learning, representation and processing.

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
The field of formal linguistics was founded on the premise that language is mentally represented as a deterministic symbolic grammar. While this approach has captured many important characteristics of the world's languages, it has also led to a tende...

The role of (bounded) optimization in theory testing and prediction.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
We argue that a radically increased emphasis on (bounded) optimality can contribute to cognitive science by supporting prediction. Bounded optimality (computational rationality), an idea that borrowed from artificial intelligence, supports a priori b...

Natural language processing and the Now-or-Never bottleneck.

The Behavioral and brain sciences
Researchers, motivated by the need to improve the efficiency of natural language processing tools to handle web-scale data, have recently arrived at models that remarkably match the expected features of human language processing under the Now-or-Neve...