5 papers
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…
Rethinking the Relationship between the Power Law and Hierarchical Structures
Kai Nakaishi, Ryo Yoshida, Kohei Kajikawa +2
Statistical analysis of corpora provides an approach to quantitatively investigate natural languages. This approach has revealed that several power laws consistently emerge across…
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…
Is Structure Dependence Shaped for Efficient Communication?: A Case Study on Coordination
Kohei Kajikawa, Yusuke Kubota, Yohei Oseki
Natural language exhibits various universal properties. But why do these universals exist? One explanation is that they arise from functional pressures to achieve efficient communi…