📣 New publication from the CSL Lab arguing that Large Language Models need interaction and feedback to become human-like in their production of grammatical language -- just like people. Read the paper for free 👇 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

📣 If you're at #AMLaP2025 in Prague, come see the poster #184 by CSL Lab's Cris Rivera and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social: 👉 "Comparing natural language statistical learning and human intuition for chunking language" 🗓️ Thursday afternoon (Sept 4), 17:20-18:50

📣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

Want a short and accessible introduction to #LanguageEvolution? 🤔 👀 Take a look as CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social new contribution to the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Get up to speed in about 1K words—check out the references for more in-depth info oecs.mit.edu/pub/18miikqb...

📣 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...

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...

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.

Very happy for the CSL Lab to have joined bluesky! Look here for posts about the various lab members' papers and presentations. 😀 More to come soon! 👀