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Neural Dynamics of AI-attributed Irony Reveal a Partial Intentional Stance

Xiaohui Rao, Hanlin Wu, Zhenguang G. Cai

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as social agents and trained to produce humor and irony, a question emerges: when encountering witty AI remarks, do people…

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A funny companion: Distinct neural responses to AI- versus human-attributed humor

Xiaohui Rao, Hanlin Wu, Zhenguang G. Cai

As artificial intelligence (AI) companions become capable of human-like communication, including telling jokes, understanding how people cognitively and affectively respond to AI-a…

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Information Loss in LLMs' Multilingual Translation: The Role of Training Data, Language Proximity, and Language Family

Yumeng Lin, Xufeng Duan, David Haslett +2

Large language models have achieved impressive progress in multilingual translation, yet they continue to face challenges with certain language pairs-particularly those with limite…

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How Syntax Specialization Emerges in Language Models

Xufeng Duan, Zhaoqian Yao, Yunhao Zhang +2

Large language models (LLMs) have been found to develop surprising internal specializations: Individual neurons, attention heads, and circuits become selectively sensitive to synta…

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Distinct social-linguistic processing between humans and large audio-language models: Evidence from model-brain alignment

Hanlin Wu, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai

Voice-based AI development faces unique challenges in processing both linguistic and paralinguistic information. This study compares how large audio-language models (LALMs) and hum…