Browsing Grupos de Investigación, Institutos y Centros Colaboradores by Author "Yee, Eiling"
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Encoding and inhibition of arbitrary episodic context with abstract concepts
Davis, Charles P.; Paz-Alonso, Pedro M.; Altmann, Gerry T. M.; Yee, Eiling (SPRINGER, 2022)Context is critical for conceptual processing, but the mechanism underpinning its encoding and reinstantiation during abstract concept processing is unclear. Context may be especially important for abstract concepts—we ... -
Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations
Brown, Kevin S.; Yee, Eiling; Joergensen, Gitte; Troyer, Melissa; Saltzman, Elliot; Rueckl, Jay; Magnuson, James S.; McRae, Ken (WILEY, 2023)Distributional semantic models (DSMs) are a primary method for distilling semantic information from corpora. However, a key question remains: What types of semantic relations among words do DSMs detect? Prior work typically ... -
Making It Harder to “See” Meaning: The More You See Something, the More Its Conceptual Representation Is Susceptible to Visual Interference
Davis, Charles P.; Joergensen, Gitte H.; Boddy, Peter; Dowling, Caitlin; Yee, Eiling (Psychological Science, 2020)Does the perceptual system for looking at the world overlap with the conceptual system for thinking about it? We conducted two experiments (N = 403) to investigate this question. Experiment 1 showed that when people ... -
Putting concepts into context
Yee, Eiling; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2016)At first glance, conceptual representations (e.g., our internal notion of the object Blemon^) seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon Bmeans^ (a sour, yellow, football-shaped ... -
Speaker matters: Natural inter-speaker variation affects 4-month-olds’ perception of audio-visual speech
Pejovic, Jovana; Yee, Eiling; Molnar, Monika (First Language, 2020)In the language development literature, studies often make inferences about infants’ speech perception abilities based on their responses to a single speaker. However, there can be significant natural variability across ...