5 papers
Timesteps of Mamba Align with Human Reading Times
Yuji Yamamoto, Shinnosuke Isono, Yoshinobu Kawahara +1
This study demonstrates an alignment of per-word processing time in a popular state-space language model Mamba and human readers. In Mamba, the recurrent state transition at each l…
Syntactically-guided Information Maintenance in Sentence Comprehension
Shinnosuke Isono, Kohei Kajikawa
Maintaining information in context is essential in successful real-time language comprehension, but maintenance is cognitively costly and can slow processing. We hypothesize that r…
Information-Theoretic Storage Cost in Sentence Comprehension
Kohei Kajikawa, Shinnosuke Isono, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Real-time sentence comprehension imposes a significant load on working memory, as comprehenders must maintain contextual information to anticipate future input. While measures of s…
An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via Surprisal
Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Taiga Someya +2
Surprisal theory hypothesizes that the difficulty of human sentence processing increases linearly with surprisal, the negative log-probability of a word given its context. Computat…
If Attention Serves as a Cognitive Model of Human Memory Retrieval, What is the Plausible Memory Representation?
Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Kohei Kajikawa +3
Recent work in computational psycholinguistics has revealed intriguing parallels between attention mechanisms and human memory retrieval, focusing primarily on vanilla Transformers…