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Overview

Benjamin Bergen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Language and Linguistics.

The scientist's work has explored a variety of topics including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language and cultural evolution

Benjamin Bergen has contributed research articles to several publication venues. The most frequent outlets for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), with 27 publications
  • Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, with 3 publications
  • Computational Linguistics, with 2 publications
  • Cognition, with 2 publications
  • Journal of French Language Studies, with 2 publications

Their recent papers highlight various aspects of language, cognitive processes, and computational modeling, including:

  • "A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)" (2021) published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Do Large Language Models Know What Humans Know?" (2023) published in Cognitive Science
  • "Language Model Behavior: A Comprehensive Survey" (2023) published in Computational Linguistics
  • "Why do human languages have homophones?" (2020) published in Cognition
  • "Strong Prediction: Language Model Surprisal Explains Multiple N400 Effects" (2023) published in Neurobiology of Language

Collaboration has been significant in Bergen's research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sean Trott (17 joint publications)
  • James A. Michaelov (17 joint publications)
  • Tyler A. Chang (12 joint publications)
  • Cameron R. Jones (10 joint publications)
  • Catherine Arnett (8 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

    Benjamin K. Bergen

  • Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding

    Benjamin K. Bergen;Nancy Chang

  • The Psychological Reality of Phonaesthemes

    Benjamin K. Bergen

  • Spatial and Linguistic Aspects of Visual Imagery in Sentence Comprehension.

    Benjamin K. Bergen;Shane Lindsay;Teenie Matlock;Srini Narayanan

  • The cognitive linguistics enterprise: an overview

    Vyvyan Evans;Benjamin K. Bergen;Jörg Zinken

  • The cognitive linguistics reader

    Vyvyan Evans;Benjamin K. Bergen;Jörg Zinken

  • Grammatical aspect and mental simulation.

    Benjamin Bergen;Kathryn Wheeler

  • Writing direction affects how people map space onto time.

    Benjamin K. Bergen;Ting Ting Chan Lau

  • Experimental methods for simulation semantics

    Benjamin K. Bergen

  • How Language Programs the Mind

    Gary Lupyan;Benjamin Bergen

  • Writing Direction Influences Spatial Cognition

    Benjamin Bergen;Ting Ting Chan

  • A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)

    Richard D. Morey;Michael P. Kaschak;Antonio M. Díez-Álamo;Antonio M. Díez-Álamo;Arthur M. Glenberg;Arthur M. Glenberg

  • Doing arithmetic by hand: Hand movements during exact arithmetic reveal systematic, dynamic spatial processing

    Tyler Marghetis;Rafael Núñez;Benjamin K. Bergen

  • Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar

    Benjamin Bergen;Nancy Chang;Shweta Narayan

  • Body part representations in verbal semantics

    Benjamin Bergen;Ting-Ting Chan Lau;Shweta Narayan;Diana Stojanovic

  • To Awaken a Sleeping Giant Cognition and Culture in September 11 Political Cartoons

    Benjamin Bergen

  • Strong Prediction: Language Model Surprisal Explains Multiple N400 Effects

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  • Literal and Metaphorical Senses in Compositional Distributional Semantic Models

    E.Dario Gutierrez;Ekaterina Shutova;Tyler Marghetis;Benjamin Bergen

  • The Cognitive Linguistics of Scalar Humor

    Benjamin Bergen;Kim Binsted

  • Embodied Verbal Semantics: Evidence from an Image-Verb Matching Task

    Benjamin Bergen;Shweta Narayan;Jerome Feldman

  • Nativization processes in L1 Esperanto.

    Benjamin K. Bergen

  • Language comprehenders represent object distance both visually and auditorily

    Bodo Winter;Benjamin Bergen

Frequent Co-Authors

Seana Coulson
Seana Coulson University of California, San Diego
Arthur M. Glenberg
Arthur M. Glenberg Arizona State University
Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel N. Bub
Daniel N. Bub University of Victoria
Michael P. Kaschak
Michael P. Kaschak Florida State University
Richard D. Morey
Richard D. Morey Cardiff University
Rolf A. Zwaan
Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam
Michael E. J. Masson
Michael E. J. Masson University of Victoria
Ayse Pinar Saygin
Ayse Pinar Saygin University of California, San Diego

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