Michael Ramscar

44 papers B 21Journal 17Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 B conf
How grammatical gender supports efficient communication.
CogSci
Dorothée B. Hoppe, Edward Gibson, Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Michael Ramscar
2025 B conf
Interactions Between Linear Order and Lexical Distributions in Artificial Language Learning.
CogSci
Holly Jenkins, Michael Ramscar, Elizabeth Wonnacott
2025 J jnl
Probability Consistency in Large Language Models: Theoretical Foundations Meet Empirical Discrepancies.
CoRR
Xiaoliang Luo, Xinyi Xu, Michael Ramscar, Bradley C. Love
2024 B conf
Availability, informatively and burstiness: Why average corpus measures are an inaccurate guide to surprisal in language.
CogSci
Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson, Michael Ramscar
2024 J jnl
Beyond Human-Like Processing: Large Language Models Perform Equivalently on Forward and Backward Scientific Text.
CoRR
Xiaoliang Luo, Michael Ramscar, Bradley C. Love
2024 B conf
Rethinking Probabilities: Why Corpus Frequencies Cannot Capture Speakers' Dynamic Linguistic Behavior.
CogSci
Santina Simone Kemper, Holly Jenkins, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Michael Ramscar
2024 J jnl
The Effects of Linear Order in Category Learning: Some Replications of Ramscar et al. (2010) and Their Implications for Replicating Training Studies.
Cogn. Sci.
Eva Viviani, Michael Ramscar, Elizabeth Wonnacott
2024 J jnl
The Keys to the Future? An Examination of Statistical Versus Discriminative Accounts of Serial Pattern Learning.
Cogn. Sci.
Fabian Tomaschek, Michael Ramscar, Jessie S. Nixon
2021 J jnl
Simulating the Acquisition of Verb Inflection in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder in English and Spanish.
Cogn. Sci.
Daniel Freudenthal, Michael Ramscar, Laurence B. Leonard, Julian M. Pine
2020 J jnl
How the Probabilistic Structure of Grammatical Context Shapes Speech.
Entropy
Maja Linke, Michael Ramscar
2020 J jnl
Order Matters! Influences of Linear Order on Linguistic Category Learning.
Cogn. Sci.
Dorothée B. Hoppe, Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Michael Ramscar
2020 J jnl
The empirical structure of word frequency distributions.
CoRR
Michael Ramscar
2019 J jnl
Source codes in human communication.
CoRR
Michael Ramscar
2018 J jnl
Alternative Solutions to a Language Design Problem: The Role of Adjectives and Gender Marking in Efficient Communication.
Top. Cogn. Sci.
Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell, Michael Ramscar
2017 B conf
Cute Little Puppies and Nice Cold Beers: An Information Theoretic Analysis of Prenominal Adjectives.
CogSci
Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell, Michael Ramscar
2017 B conf
Refining the distributional hypothesis: A role for time and context in semantic representation.
CogSci
Melody Dye, Michael N. Jones, Daniel Yarlett, Michael Ramscar
2017 B conf
Representing the Richness of Linguistic Structure in Models of Episodic Memory.
CogSci
Melody Dye, Michael Ramscar, Michael N. Jones
2016 B conf
The Structure of Names in Memory: Deviations from Uniform Entropy Impair Memory for Linguistic Sequences.
CogSci
Melody Dye, Brendan T. Johns, Michael N. Jones, Michael Ramscar
2016 B conf
The mismeasurement of mind: How neuropsychological testing creates a false picture of cognitive aging.
CogSci
Michael Ramscar, Ching Chu Sun, Peter Hendrix, R. Harald Baayen
2015 B conf
Generative and Discriminative Models in Cognitive Science.
CogSci
Bradley C. Love, Michael Ramscar, Thomas L. Griffiths, Matt Jones
2015 B conf
The Social Evolution and Communicative Function of Noun Classification.
CogSci
Michael Ramscar, Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell
2015 — conf
Zipfian discrimination.
NetWordS
Jim Blevins, Petar Milin, Michael Ramscar
2014 B conf
How not to name your baby: Social engineering and the structure of names in memory.
CogSci
Melody Dye, Brendan T. Johns, Suyog Chandramouli, Michael Ramscar
2014 B conf
Refining the distributional hypothesis: A role for time and context in semantic representation.
CogSci
Cotie Long, Melody Dye, Michael Ramscar
2014 J jnl
The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Non-Linear Dynamics of Lifelong Learning.
Top. Cogn. Sci.
Michael Ramscar, Peter Hendrix, Cyrus Shaoul, Petar Milin, R. Harald Baayen
2013 B conf
The 'universal' structure of name grammars and the impact of social engineering on the evolution of natural information systems.
CogSci
Michael Ramscar, Asha Halima Smith, Melody Dye, Richard Futrell, Peter Hendrix, R. Harald Baayen, Rebecca Starr
2013 B conf
The Myth of Cognitive Decline.
CogSci
Michael Ramscar, Peter Hendrix, R. Harald Baayen
2011 B conf
Breaking the World into Symbols.
CogSci
Adam November, Nicolas Davidenko, Michael Ramscar
2011 B conf
For the price of a song: How pitch category learning comes at a cost to absolute frequency representations.
CogSci
Melody Dye, Michael Ramscar, Edward Suh
2011 B conf
How children learn to value numbers: Information structure and the acquisition of numerical understanding.
CogSci
Michael Ramscar, Melody Dye, Hanna Popick, Fiona O'Donnell-McCarthy
2011 B conf
Informativity versus logic: Children and adults take different approaches to word learning.
CogSci
Michael Ramscar, Melody Dye, Joseph Klein, Linda Diana Ruiz, Nicole Aguirre, Lily Sadaat
2011 B conf
Investigating how infants learn to search in the A-not-B task.
CogSci
Hanna Popick, Melody Dye, Natasha Z. Kirkham, Michael Ramscar
2010 J jnl
Computing Machinery and Understanding.
Cogn. Sci.
Michael Ramscar
2010 J jnl
The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and Their Implications for Symbolic Learning.
Cogn. Sci.
Michael Ramscar, Daniel Yarlett, Melody Dye, Katie Denny, Kirsten Thorpe
2009 J jnl
Relationships Between Language Structure and Language Learning: The Suffixing Preference and Grammatical Categorization.
Cogn. Sci.
Michelle C. St. Clair, Padraic Monaghan, Michael Ramscar
2009 — ch.
Time, Motion, and Meaning: The Experiential Basis of Abstract Thought.
The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition
Michael Ramscar, Teenie Matlock, Lera Boroditsky
2007 J jnl
Linguistic Self-Correction in the Absence of Feedback: A New Approach to the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition.
Cogn. Sci.
Michael Ramscar, Daniel Yarlett
2005 J jnl
On the Experiential Link Between Spatial and Temporal Language.
Cogn. Sci.
Teenie Matlock, Michael Ramscar, Lera Boroditsky
2003 J jnl
Semantic grounding in models of analogy: an environmental approach.
Cogn. Sci.
Michael Ramscar, Daniel Yarlett
2001 — conf
A Quantitative Model of Counterfactual Reasoning.
NIPS
Daniel Yarlett, Michael Ramscar
2001 — ch.
Conclusion: mere similarity?
Similarity and Categorization
Ulrike Hahn, Michael Ramscar
2001 — ch.
Introduction: similarity and categorization.
Similarity and Categorization
Ulrike Hahn, Michael Ramscar
2001 — book
Similarity and Categorization.
Ulrike Hahn, Michael Ramscar
1998 B conf
Modeling the Cognitive Effects of Participative Learner Modeling.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Rafael Morales, Helen Pain, Michael Ramscar