Cognitive Science

A Dual-Task Paradigm to Investigate Sentence Comprehension Strategies in Language Models ACL 2026 Analysis of the Neglect-Zero Effect in Large Language Models ACL 2026 An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via Surprisal ACL 2026 Birds of a Feather Reason Together: Gestalt Grouping Meets Neuro-Symbolic Inference UAI 2026 Clozing the Gap: Exploring Why Language Model Surprisal Outperforms Cloze Surprisal ACL 2026 CogToM: A Comprehensive Theory of Mind Benchmark inspired by Human Cognition for Large Language Models ACL 2026 Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks CoNLL 2026 Communication as a Complex System: Modeling the Feedback Dynamics of Trust and Credibility EACL 2026 Comparing human and language models sentence processing difficulties on complex structures ACL 2026 Different types of syntactic agreement recruit the same units within large language models ACL 2026 Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing ACL 2026 Evaluating Humanlike Memory Effects in Transformers Using Item Recognition Tasks CoNLL 2026 From Dependency to CCG to Incremental CCG: Approaches to Flexible Word Order in Turkish CoNLL 2026 Information-Theoretic Storage Cost in Sentence Comprehension CoNLL 2026 Injecting Context via Situation Working Memory for Logical Reasoning with LLMs ACL 2026 Language Statistics and False Belief Reasoning: Evidence from 41 Open-Weight LMs ACL 2026 Measuring the Effects of Visual Salience in Human and AI Descriptions with Image Editing CoNLL 2026 Memory efficiency and resource-rational encoding in sentence processing ACL 2026 Modeling Human-Like Cognition for Stance Detection: Integrating Intuitive Judgment and Analytical Reasoning ACL 2026 On Emergent Social World Models — Evidence for Functional Integration of Theory of Mind and Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models ACL 2026 On the Proper Treatment of Units in Surprisal Theory ACL 2026 On the scaling relationship between cloze probabilities and language model next-token prediction CoNLL 2026 Phase Transitions in Affective Meaning Divergence: The Hidden Drift Before the Break ACL 2026 Probing for Reading Times ACL 2026 Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of “noisy-channel garden-path” sentences CoNLL 2026