April was a great month for publications! 🌸
Two new papers with @louiseconnell.bsky.social
are now out in open access (with prereg, open data & materials) - here’s a quick rundown. 🧵
First up: what drives activation in a word association task?
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What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?

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We try to place some constraints on what kind of language models might be useful for helping our understanding of cognition
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The basic-level advantage suggests that semantic information is preferentially accessed (faster, more accurate) at the basic level of a concept (e.g., dog), rather than at the superordinate (e.g., animal) or subordinate level (e.g., labrador). 1/ 
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