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Richard Futrell

@futrell.bsky.social

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Language scientist at UC Irvine

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Weijie Xu @weijiexu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

[SRA 2.0] Glad to share that my new paper (with @futrell.bsky.social) titled "Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing" is now on Journal of Memory and Language: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shiva Upadhye @shivaaupadhye.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

How do future plans affect word form & word choice in online production? With @futrell.bsky.social in #Cogsci25, we examine the backward predictability effect & introduce a principled variant of backward planning that preserves info proc dependencies b/w words in the past and future context (1/9)

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Now most *urgently*: we review the history of these models. A straight line can be traced to modern AI from basic science. Not in engineering but in the cognitive science of language. Much of it funded by NSF, whose funding has now been paused. www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/pdp

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How We Think: Brain-Inspired Models of Human Cognition Contribute to the Foundations of Today’s Artificial Intelligence — The Golden Goose Award

AWARDEES : Geoffrey Hinton, James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation Decades before ar...

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

LMs need linguistics! New paper, with @futrell.bsky.social, on LMs and linguistics that conveys our excitement about what the present moment means for linguistics and what linguistics can do for LMs. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17047. 🧵below.

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