Ansgar D Endre
Biographic Data
| ID | 148065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ansgar D Endre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ansgar D |
| FAMILY NAME | Endre |
| SIGNATURE | ENDRE A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4086-5167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In defense of epicycles: Embracing complexity in psychological explanations
Is formal simplicity a guide to learning in humans, as simplicity is said to be a guide to the acceptability of theories in science? Does simplicity determine the difficulty of various learning tasks? I argue that, similarly to how scientists sometimes preferred complex theories when this facilitated calculations, results from perception, learning and reasoning suggest that formal complexity is generally unrelated to what is easy to learn and pro…
The limits of statistical learning in word segmentation: Accumulation of predictive information from unstructured input in the absence of (declarative) memory
Learning statistical regularities from the environment is ubiquitous across do- mains and species. It might support the earliest stages of language acquisi- tion, especially identifying and learning words from fluent speech (i.e., word- segmentation). But how do the statistical learning mechanisms involved in word-segmentation interact with the memory mechanisms needed to actually remember words as well as with the learning situations where words…
Socio-Cultural Values Are Risk Factors for Covid-19-Related Mortality
To assess whether socio-cultural values are population-level risk factors for health, I sought to predict COVID-19-related mortality between 2 weeks and 6 months after the first COVID-19-related death in a country based on values extracted from the World Values Survey for different country sets, after controlling for various confounding variables. COVID-19-related mortality was increased in countries endorsing political participation but decrease…
When forgetting fosters learning: A neural network model for statistical learning
Statistical learning and memory
Duplications and domain-generality
they are available in multiple domains (and thus not domain-specific), but not in other domains (and thus not domain-general). Hence, these computations can be performed in many domains but not in others, can be recruited simultaneously by multiple domains, and, across domains, individual abilities with a given computation are relatively uncorrelated. Domain-bound mechanisms have a straightforward evolutionary interpretation: Analogously to the e…
Hierarchical Processing in Seven‐Month‐Old Infants
Hierarchical structures are crucial to many aspects of cognitive processing and especially for language. However, there still is little experimental support for the ability of infants to learn such structures. Here, we show that, with structures simple enough to be processed by various animals, seven‐month‐old infants seem to learn hierarchical relations. Infants were presented with an artificial language composed of “sentences” made of three‐syl…
The Social Sense: Susceptibility to Others’ Beliefs in Human Infants and Adults
Mind Reading One core component of social cognition, especially of the kind practiced by humans, is the capacity to formulate a representation of what someone else believes to be true, even if that belief is not anchored in reality. Holding two such beliefs in mind—one false and one true—is no simple feat, and up until a few years ago, it was generally accepted that such a capacity did not arise until children were 3 to 4 years old. Since then, a…
Socio-Cultural Values Are Risk Factors for Covid-19-Related Mortality
To assess whether socio-cultural values are population-level risk factors for health, I sought to predict COVID-19-related mortality between 2 weeks and 6 months after the first COVID-19-related death in a country based on values extracted from the World Values Survey for different country sets, after controlling for various confounding variables. COVID-19-related mortality was increased in countries endorsing political participation but decrease…
The Social Sense: Susceptibility to Others’ Beliefs in Human Infants and Adults
Mind Reading One core component of social cognition, especially of the kind practiced by humans, is the capacity to formulate a representation of what someone else believes to be true, even if that belief is not anchored in reality. Holding two such beliefs in mind—one false and one true—is no simple feat, and up until a few years ago, it was generally accepted that such a capacity did not arise until children were 3 to 4 years old. Since then, a…
Hierarchical Processing in Seven‐Month‐Old Infants
Hierarchical structures are crucial to many aspects of cognitive processing and especially for language. However, there still is little experimental support for the ability of infants to learn such structures. Here, we show that, with structures simple enough to be processed by various animals, seven‐month‐old infants seem to learn hierarchical relations. Infants were presented with an artificial language composed of “sentences” made of three‐syl…
Duplications and domain-generality
they are available in multiple domains (and thus not domain-specific), but not in other domains (and thus not domain-general). Hence, these computations can be performed in many domains but not in others, can be recruited simultaneously by multiple domains, and, across domains, individual abilities with a given computation are relatively uncorrelated. Domain-bound mechanisms have a straightforward evolutionary interpretation: Analogously to the e…
Statistical learning and memory
When forgetting fosters learning: A neural network model for statistical learning
The limits of statistical learning in word segmentation: Accumulation of predictive information from unstructured input in the absence of (declarative) memory
Learning statistical regularities from the environment is ubiquitous across do- mains and species. It might support the earliest stages of language acquisi- tion, especially identifying and learning words from fluent speech (i.e., word- segmentation). But how do the statistical learning mechanisms involved in word-segmentation interact with the memory mechanisms needed to actually remember words as well as with the learning situations where words…
Socio-Cultural Values Are Risk Factors for Covid-19-Related Mortality
To assess whether socio-cultural values are population-level risk factors for health, I sought to predict COVID-19-related mortality between 2 weeks and 6 months after the first COVID-19-related death in a country based on values extracted from the World Values Survey for different country sets, after controlling for various confounding variables. COVID-19-related mortality was increased in countries endorsing political participation but decrease…
In defense of epicycles: Embracing complexity in psychological explanations
Is formal simplicity a guide to learning in humans, as simplicity is said to be a guide to the acceptability of theories in science? Does simplicity determine the difficulty of various learning tasks? I argue that, similarly to how scientists sometimes preferred complex theories when this facilitated calculations, results from perception, learning and reasoning suggest that formal complexity is generally unrelated to what is easy to learn and pro…
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Language and cultural evolution (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works)