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Hierarchical structure of language and narratie recall

Cognition, Cognitive Psychology and seminar by Misha Tsodyks, Institute for Advanced Study

Hosted by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Friday 11:30 Los Angeles (GMT-7)

Recording available

Berkeley, United States
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44 min

Abstract

Human recall of meaningful narratives suggests that comprehension builds a hierarchical memory representation. This talk presents the recall evidence, a mathematical model reproducing the observed organization, and language-model-assisted semantic segmentation supporting a related hierarchical account of language.

Topics

hierarchical memory representationcomprehensionmathematical modelsemantic segmentationmeaningful narratives