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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…
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…
Probing the contents of semantic representations from text, behavior, and brain data using the psychNorms metabase
Zak Hussain, Rui Mata, Ben R. Newell +1
Semantic representations are integral to natural language processing, psycholinguistics, and artificial intelligence. Although often derived from internet text, recent years have s…
Measuring individual semantic networks: A simulation study
Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Dirk U. Wulff
Accurately capturing individual differences in semantic networks is fundamental to advancing our mechanistic understanding of semantic memory. Past empirical attempts to construct…