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? sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition? doi.org/10.1177/0963... We try to place some constraints on what kind of language models might be useful for helping our understanding of cognition #academicSky #psychSciSky #CogSci #openAccess

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/  #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #semanticMemory