Layla Unger
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Recent Articles
1.
Weichart E, Unger L, King N, Sloutsky V, Turner B
Psychol Rev
. 2024 May;
131(4):1045-1067.
PMID: 38753387
Humans selectively attend to task-relevant information in order to make accurate decisions. However, selective attention incurs consequences if the learning environment changes unexpectedly. This trade-off has been underscored by studies...
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Unger L, Chang T, Savic O, Bergen B, Sloutsky V
Dev Sci
. 2024 Apr;
27(5):e13510.
PMID: 38597678
Although identifying the referents of single words is often cited as a key challenge for getting word learning off the ground, it overlooks the fact that young learners consistently encounter...
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Unger L, Yim H, Savic O, Dennis S, Sloutsky V
Dev Sci
. 2023 Jan;
26(4):e13373.
PMID: 36680539
Recent years have seen a flourishing of Natural Language Processing models that can mimic many aspects of human language fluency. These models harness a simple, decades-old idea: It is possible...
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Unger L, Sloutsky V
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2022 Sep;
226:105549.
PMID: 36116317
Categories are a fundamental building block of cognition that simplify the multitude of entities we encounter into equivalence classes. By simplifying this barrage of inputs, categories support reasoning about and...
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Savic O, Unger L, Sloutsky V
Child Dev
. 2022 Aug;
94(1):142-158.
PMID: 35962586
With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including early-developing associative (e.g., juicy-apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links (e.g., apple-pear). Word co-occurrence regularities may foster these links: Associative links...
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Unger L, Sloutsky V
Psychol Sci
. 2022 May;
33(6):999-1019.
PMID: 35617541
Our knowledge of the world is populated with categories such as dogs, cups, and chairs. Such categories shape how we perceive, remember, and reason about their members. Much of our...
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Savic O, Unger L, Sloutsky V
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
. 2022 Apr;
48(7):1064-1081.
PMID: 35389699
Human word learning is remarkable: We not only learn thousands of words but also form organized semantic networks in which words are interconnected according to meaningful links, such as those...
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Unger L, Fisher A
Dev Rev
. 2021 Apr;
60.
PMID: 33840880
As adults, we draw upon our ample knowledge about the world to support such vital cognitive feats as using language, reasoning, retrieving knowledge relevant to our current goals, planning for...
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Unger L, Vales C, Fisher A
Cogn Sci
. 2020 Sep;
44(9):e12894.
PMID: 32929791
The organization of our knowledge about the world into an interconnected network of concepts linked by relations profoundly impacts many facets of cognition, including attention, memory retrieval, reasoning, and learning....
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Unger L, Savic O, Sloutsky V
Cognition
. 2020 Feb;
198:104190.
PMID: 32018121
Our knowledge about the world is represented not merely as a collection of concepts, but as an organized lexico-semantic network in which concepts can be linked by relations, such as...