3 papers
cs.AI2026
Addressing Longstanding Challenges in Cognitive Science with Language Models
Dirk U. Wulff, Rui Mata
Cognitive science faces ongoing challenges in research integration, formalization, conceptual clarity, and other areas, in part due to its multifaceted and interdisciplinary nature…
cs.CL2026
The "Small World of Words" German Free-Association Norms
Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Kaidi Lõo +2
Free-association norms provide essential empirical data for investigating linguistic, semantic, and cultural phenomena in the cognitive sciences. Although large-scale norms exist f…
cs.CL2026
Where meaning lives: Layer-wise accessibility of psycholinguistic features in encoder and decoder language models
Taisiia Tikhomirova, Dirk U. Wulff
Understanding where transformer language models encode psychologically meaningful aspects of meaning is essential for both theory and practice. We conduct a systematic layer-wise p…