Language Acquisition

Cultural Learning Symbolic Thinking Human Behavior Communication Systems Evolution of Cognition Speech Processing Cultural Transmission Genetic Influences Memory Limitations

3 ARTICLES

3mo ago

Forgetting Boosts Language Learning in Transformer Models

Adding human-like memory decay with a short echoic buffer improves learning on child-scale data with a simultaneous drop in fit to human reading-time predictions.

4 ARTICLES

5mo ago

Ancient DNA Switches Tied to Language Predate the Human–Neanderthal Split