Ellis Cain
ellscain.bsky.social
Ellis Cain
@ellscain.bsky.social
CogSci PhD Candidate at UC Merced in Dr. Rachel Ryskin’s LInC lab

Website: https://ellisc.dev
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We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.

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October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by Ellis Cain
Looking forward to seeing everyone at #CogSci2025 this week! Come check out what we’ve been working on in the LInC Lab, along with our fantastic collaborators!

Paper 🔗 in 🧵👇
July 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New paper w/ @ryskin.bsky.social and Chen Yu: We analyzed parent-child toy play and found that cross-situational learning statistics were present in naturalistic settings!

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June 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'll be presenting some work with @tylermarghetis.bsky.social and Elizabeth Geballe at #CES2024 on translation as transmission. Stop by if you'd like to chat about digital humanities and cross-cultural transmission!

Link: ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...
ellisc.dev
September 9, 2024 at 12:43 PM
I’ll be presenting work I did with @ryskin.bsky.social in the CMCL workshop at #ACL2024 (8/15 at 14:20 in Lotus Suite 4). Come check it out, and please find me if you’d like to discuss!

aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.19
Diachronic change in verb usage statistics predicts differences in sentence processing across the lifespan
Ellis Cain, Rachel Ryskin. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2024.
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August 13, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Excited to share a new preprint with @ryskin.bsky.social: Individuals continually update their meaning representations to match those of the current time period, regardless of their age!

Preprint can be found at: ssrn.com/abstract=488...
Semantic Representations are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change
Humans learn the meanings of words from the contexts in which they are used. Patterns of language use change over time, suggesting that, for some words, the con
ssrn.com
July 5, 2024 at 8:56 PM