Abstract Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions,
that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from …

Color is a pervasive feature of our psychological experience, having a role in many aspects
of human mind and behavior such as basic vision, scene perception, object recognition …

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative
capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new …

Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

Pretrained language models have been shown to encode relational information, such as the
relations between entities or concepts in knowledge-bases--(Paris, Capital, France) …

Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (eg, vision) are more
accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (eg, smell)? The long …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …

We derive a principled information-theoretic account of cross-language semantic variation.
Specifically, we argue that languages efficiently compress ideas into words by optimizing the …