Posts tagged with “psychology”
Free to play
I’m curious/trepidatious about this recurrent theme in the icons of successful free-to-play iOS games.
Like, there must be a reason. But I’ll bet it’s either superstition or awful psychology.
Updates below!
New preprint: "Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition"
I have recently submitted a paper based on some work I have been doing at my job at the Embodied Cognition Lab at Lancaster University. In it, we look at a large set of linguistic distributional models commonly used in cognitive psychology, evaluating each on a benchmark behavioural dataset.
Music Video Telephone
Telephone is a game in which participants whisper a phrase person-to-person, and see how it evolves as people guess at words they mishear.
The following music video for True Thrush takes this a step further, giving participants one shot to view and memorise a short video, before asking them to recreate it.
Telephone is entertaining because people’s natural automatic error correction (tendency to recognise and reproduce actual words) fights with the noisy communication channel of a quiet whisper. The True Thrush video is more about the unreliability of memory and creativity, and what details seem salient.
New paper in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience: Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition
A paper on which I am joint-first author, which I previously posted here as a preprint, has just (after a long time!) been published in the journal Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
It should be open-access, but if for some reason you can’t see it properly there, I can give you a copy.