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Language-specific accounts of bilingual learning advantages suggest that advantages in language learning are tied to an individual’s linguistic experience, with learning advantages stemming from transfer effects between known and to-be-learnt language features. To test this hypothesis, we trained Singapore English-Mandarin bilinguals on a synthesised alveolar-retroflex [tsʰuə́n]-[ʈʂʰuə́n] contrast with a bimodal distributional learning paradigm. We reasoned that participants with higher Mandarin understanding proficiencies would show larger distributional learning effects due to transfer between real-world Mandarin experience and the training stimuli. We examined overall learning effects in a pilot study (N = 20) and a preregistered main study (N = 50). We found evidence of learning in both the pilot and the main study. We also found evidence of a transfer effect tied to individual Mandarin skills, with larger learning effects linked to higher Mandarin understanding proficiencies. This study demonstrates specific advantages of language background on perceptual learning at the individual level.

**Authors:**

Hannah L. Goh: Nanyang Technological University; Suzy J. Styles: Nanyang Technological University

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A preregistered investigation of language-specific distributional learning advantages in English-Mandarin bilingual adults

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Welcome to the 2024 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Rotterdam! CogSci 2024 brings together a large community of cognitive scientists who have traveled here from around the world, as well as a smaller group of remote presenters. I would like to extend an especially warm welcome to our first-time CogSci meeting attendees, and hope that 
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I want to thank this year’s conference co-chairs, Larissa K Samuelson, Stefan Frank, Mariya Toneva, Allyson Mackey, and Eliot Hazeltine, for putting together an amazing series of invited talks and symposia around the theme of Dynamics of Cognition. The co-chairs also deserve credit for handling a record-breaking number of submissions and producing a truly exciting conference program 

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The 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.

The Green IT approach questions the environmental, social and economic impact of digital technology. Design fiction is a discipline that can guide behaviors in favor of Green IT by building new imaginaries. However, to our knowledge, few studies assess the impact of narratives of possible future on behavioral intentions. To answer this question, we conducted a study with 388 participants, examining the impact of 14 different scenarios of possible digital futures on individual perceptions. The results showed that, for individuals with already a high level of Green IT practices, the fear dimension of scenarios has a preeminent impact on their intention to further increase these behaviors, whereas people with little practice of Green IT are more sensitive to confidence and the presence of solutions. These results pave the way for the integration of specific technological narratives within the construction of future public policies in favor of Green IT.

**Authors:**

Julie Rochat: b<>com; Martin Ragot: b<>com; Jean-Marc Josset: b<>com

Design fiction and Green IT: Impact of foresight scenarios on behavioral intention

Reading acquisition primarily relies on orthographic learning.
Behavioral studies show that familiarity with a novel word’s
pronunciation facilitates learning, particularly in semantically
meaningful contexts. Two main components of orthographic
learning are commonly described: perceptual processing of
the visual stimulus, to infer corresponding phonological rep-
resentations, and “pronunciation correction”, to correct errors
from perceptual processing. Currently, pronunciation correc-
tion has not been featured in reading acquisition computa-
tional models. This study uses BRAID-Acq, a reading ac-
quisition model, to implement and compare two pronunciation
correction mechanisms (an “online” and a “post-processing”
variant). We simulated learning of words with and without
prior phonological knowledge and explored the impact of con-
text strength and size on learning. Results indicate that both
mechanisms improve decoding. However, the post-processing
mechanism induced implausible lexicalization for words with-
out prior phonological knowledge, while the online mecha-
nism did not. Overall, our simulation results suggest that pro-
nunciation correction could be construed as an online process.

**Authors:**

Alexandra Steinhilber: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition; Sylviane Valdois: CNRS et Université Grenoble Alpes; Julien Diard: CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes

Comparing online and post-processing pronunciation correction during orthographic incidental learning: A computational study with the BRAID-Acq model

To succeed in social situations, we must learn how social cues predict subsequent events. How do we quickly form associations between a variety of social cues, such as individuals signaling their current emotion state, and social outcomes? To address this question, we developed a task in which participants viewed images of individuals conveying different emotions and searched among these images to gain rewards. Rewards were associated with either individuals’ identities or emotion cues. Across four experiments (N=720), individuals learned about rewards more efficiently from individual identity cues versus a wide variety of emotion cues. Participants also generalized cue-outcome associations more easily for individuals versus emotions. Learning was worse if participants experienced a change in the association rule, especially when switching from learning individual-based associations to emotion-based associations. Overall, we show that social cue type influences how associations between cues and rewards are learned, with implications for understanding learning in social contexts.

**Authors:**

Rista C Plate: University of Pennsylvania; Emily R. Perkins: University of Pennsylvania; Rebecca Waller: University of Pennsylvania; Martin Zettersten: Princeton University

Learning and generalizing associations between social cues and outcomes

While the impact of social cognition on novel word learning has been extensively studied in monolingual populations, limited research has investigated its role in multilingual children with and without autism spectrum disorder. This study examined the role of multilingualism on the acquisition of novel English words under directly addressed and overhearing conditions. Participants included four groups of children with different language status (multilingual and monolingual and diagnostic status (typically developing and autistic). The results revealed that the learning preferences vary across participant groups depending on their language and diagnostic statuses. Additionally, dynamic patterns of novel word learning were unveiled, demonstrating the influence of English vocabulary proficiency on multilingual children's learning process. The findings highlighted the complex role of multilingualism on driving the formation of learning preference for typical developing and autistic children.

**Authors:**

Jinghong NING: PolyU; Anqi Hu: University of Delaware; Zhenghan Qi: Northeastern University; Li Sheng: PolyU

Novel Word Learning in Multilingual Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Roles of Social Cognition, Multilingualism and Vocabulary Proficiency

The recent surge in the use of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT has led to new challenges in academia. These chatbots can enable student plagiarism and the submission of misleading content, undermining educational objectives. With plagiarism detectors unreliable in the face of this issue, educational institutions have been struggling to update their policies apace. This study assesses the effectiveness of sending warning messages - a common strategy used to discourage unethical use of ChatGPT - and investigates the use of the illusion of explanatory depth (IOED) paradigm as an alternative intervention. An international sample of students was asked to rate their understanding of, likelihood to use, and moral stance toward ChatGPT-generated text in assignments both before and after either reading a cautionary university message or explaining how ChatGPT works. Results showed that the explanation task did lead to the expected reduction in ratings of understanding, but despite this, neither moral acceptability nor likelihood to use decreased along with it. Similarly, reading the cautionary message neither resulted in a change in likelihood to use nor in moral acceptability, although it unexpectedly increased ratings of understanding. The results suggest that tackling students’ understanding of ChatGPT is insufficient when it comes to deterring its unethical use, and that future interventions might want to have students reflect on moral issues surrounding the use of AI-powered chatbots.

**Authors:**

Yomn Elsayed: Erasmus University Rotterdam; Steven Verheyen: Erasmus University Rotterdam

ChatGPT and the Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Studies on interactions between procedural and declarative learning have focused on largely on competition during encoding, consolidation, or use (retrieval). Less attention has been paid to interactions between the representations created by each system. In a behavioral study, we demonstrated that information from both declarative and procedural learning can contribute to response selection. Participants were instructed to use a completely diagnostic, verbalizable, shape-based rule to categorize exemplars and received feedback after each trial. However, the categories also differed probabilistically in their color distributions. Participants used both color (learned procedurally) and shape (learned declaratively) to categorize exemplars, making faster responses when both sources indicated the same category judgement, and slower when they conflicted. Debriefing confirmed that most participants were unaware of the color distributions (aware participants were analyzed separately). This result suggests that both the color (procedural) and shape (declarative) information contributed to response selection.

**Authors:**

Priya B. Kalra: University of Western Ontario; Laura Batterink: University of Western Ontario; John Paul Minda: University of Western Ontario

Procedural and Declarative Category Learning Simultaneously Contribute to Downstream Processes

Human moral judgments are both precise, with clear intuitions about right and wrong, and at the same time obscure, as they seem to result from principles whose logic often escapes us. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications requires an understanding of this subtle logic if we are to embed moral considerations in artificial systems. Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have emerged as a valuable interactive tool for investigating moral behavior. However, being value-based algorithms, they face difficulty when it comes to explaining deontological, non-consequentialist moral judgments. Here, in a multi-agent learning scenario based on the Producer-Scrounger Game, we show that RL agents can converge towards apparently non-consequentialist outcomes, provided the algorithm accounts for the temporal value of actions. The implications of our findings extend to integrating morality into AI agents by elucidating the interplay between learning strategies, characteristics for accounting temporal values, and methods of considering the opponent’s payoff.

**Authors:**

Ali Shiravand: École Normale Supérieure - PSL; Jean-Baptiste André: École Normale Supérieure - PSL

Human-Like Moral Decisions by Reinforcement Learning Agents

Notifications convey important information, but they can also act as distractions, leading to resumption errors. Previous research has primarily focused on two types of notifications: pop-up notifications that appear quickly (1 second) and transparency reduction notifications that appear slowly (2 seconds). Pop-up notifications in an environment with perceptual feedback tend to result in the highest number of errors, while transparency reduction notifications may go unnoticed in an environment without feedback. To bridge this gap, the third variant of notification speed (1.5 seconds) was introduced in this study. The aim was to strike a balance between the noticeability of notification and minimizing the negative impact of attention redirection. Participants were instructed to perform the Modified Bourdon Test and close notifications. The findings revealed that the third variant, combining the features of pop-up and transparency reduction notifications, led to a decrease in resumption errors while still effectively capturing users' attention.

**Authors:**

Valeriya Sklemenova: HSE University; Anastasia Anufrieva: HSE University

Attentional sustainability of organizer users under fast and slow appearing notifications

The generation effect, demonstrating improved memory performance through self-generating information, was explored in this study. Participants engaged in semantic and perceptual generation tasks, where semantic tasks involved meaning-related associations, and perceptual tasks focused on surface characteristics. While previous studies separately examined these tasks, our project directly compared their impact. Experiment 1 revealed higher recognition performance for semantic generation over perceptual generation, with no significant difference in recognition across perceptual and semantic reading conditions. Experiment 2 incorporated judgments-of-learning (JOL) and no-JOL groups, demonstrating that participants accurately predicted and performed better on memory tasks involving the generation and semantic manipulations. Additionally, JOL-group participants outperformed the no-JOL group, suggesting that predicting one's memory performance enhances actual memory performance. Experiment 3 aimed to see the effects of the match between encoding and retrieval. Although the memory benefit for the JOL group diminished, it was still marginally significant, indicating the importance of the reactivity effect.

**Authors:**

Fatih Yavuz: Bilkent University; Miri Besken: Bilkent University

Investigation of The Generation Effect on Memory and Metamemory Through Semantic and Perceptual Cues

Despite the long-standing theoretical importance of the con- cept of illocutionary force in communication (Austin, 1975), quantitative measurement of it has remained elusive. The fol- lowing study seeks to measure the influence of illocutionary force on the degree to which subreddit community members maintain the concepts and ideas of previous community members’ comments when they reply to each other’s content. We leverage a information-theoretic framework implementing a measurement of linguistic convergence to capture how much of a previous comment can be recovered from its replies. To show the effect of illocutionary force, we then ask a large language model (LLM) to write a reply to the same previous comment as though it were a member of that subreddit community. Because LLMs inherently lack illocutionary intent but produce plausible utterances, they can function as a useful con- trol to test the contribution of illocutionary intent and the effect it may have on the language in human-generated comments. We find that LLMs indeed have statistically significant, lower entropy with prior comments than human replies to the same comments. While this says very little about LLMs on the basis of how they are trained, this difference offers a quantitative baseline to assess the effect of illocutionary force on the flow of information in online discourse.

**Authors:**

Zachary P Rosen: University of California, Los Angeles; Rick Dale: UCLA

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