[Lingtyp] Brain, learning and memory

[Stela Manova]

Dear Colleagues,

Please allow me to draw your attention to the following (popular science) interview on brain, learning and memory with P. M. Balaban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860aXwfp1CU. What is reported is relevant not only to the question of how scientific research should be carried out but also to the relationship between language and cognition, including typological studies involving artificial language learning (ALL), among other issues.

"ALL is a widely used technique for investigating the preferences and biases learners bring to a language-like task, with the potential to provide insight into natural language learning. ALL experiments invite participants to learn and reproduce small sets of words or phrases, on the assumption that this taps into the same cognitive and learning principles at work in language, even though the small vocabulary, brief timescale and experimental setting are all very different from the learning processes in actual language use."
Mansfield, J., Saldana, C., Hurst, P., Nordlinger, R., Stoll, S., Bickel, B. and Perfors, A. (2022), Category Clustering and Morphological Learning. Cognitive Science, 46: e13107, full text at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13107

The interview is in Russian, but I think that many of the list subscribers understand this language. In English, on a related topic: Kozachkov, L., Kastanenka, K. V., and Krotov, D. (2023). Building transformers from neurons and astrocytes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol. 120 No. 34, pages =e2219150120, full text at: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2219150120

Even in these confusing times, I hope it is obvious that the above is not a promotion of "Science in Russia" but of science in general.

Best,
Stela

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