Many congrats to Dr. Serene Wang @sere-yu-wang.bsky.social -- the newest PhD to come out of the @csl-lab.bsky.social. 🥳

She expertly defended her dissertation on "Chunking In the Second Language: Connecting Sentence Processing, Proficiency, and Memory Outcomes" 👏

📣Come see the two posters from the CSL Lab at #CogSci2025! 👀

👉 @elmlingersteven.bsky.social is presenting his on Friday 10:30AM-12PM

👉 Calen MacDonald is presenting his on Saturday 1-2:15PM

📣 New paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social by CSL-Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and @yngwienielsen.bsky.social reappraising what structural priming tells us about the representation of language: it's about context — not grammar.

Free download until Aug 8: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lIFK4sIRv...

The paper is a collaborative effort with Ram Frost, @bogaertslab.bsky.social, Art Samuel, @jimmagnuson.bsky.social, and Lori Holt

New paper from CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and colleagues, rethinking the goal of #StatisticalLearning as providing the baseline against which novelty can be detected by a cognitive information foraging system
doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Results are presented from a lab-based cultural evolution, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experimentation. Together, these studies suggest that cultural evolution, constrained by chunk-based learning and processing mechanisms, has shaped the emergence of linguistic structure 4/4

In September 2024, CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social gave a talk in the Language Circle series on how chunking affects language across multiple timescales with implications for the nature of language processing, acquisition, and evolution:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOD1...

Abstract in 🧵 1/4

New CSL-Lab paper out by alumni Pablo Contreras Kallens and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social: Distributional Semantics: Meaning Through Culture and Interaction (including discussions of meaning in LLMs)
👉 Read it for free here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

If you're at #psynom24 go see the poster by CSL-Lab's Serene Wang about how to best measure real-time language skills: "Utterance Recall as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency: Cross-Linguistic Applicability and Fine-Grained Automatic Scoring" # 7028 in the poster session tonight, 7:45-9:15PM.