Frances Gunther
Biographic Data
| ID | 730704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Gunther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunther |
| SIGNATURE | GUNTHER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9205-6786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Zero-shot pseudowords memorability via representational content analysis
Novel strings of letters (i.e., pseudowords) lack established meaning(s), yet they may still evoke systematic, distributional signals that influence human behavior. Here, we tested whether distributional determinants of word memorability generalize to these novel strings. To do so, we leveraged a word-embedding model that was able to represent in a vector space not only attested words but also unmapped strings as bags of character n -grams. A rid…
Cross-linguistic zero-shot communication via ad-hoc pseudowords
In verbal communication, speakers must encode meanings into signs such as words. Within a given language community, the correspondence between word forms and meanings can become conventionalized. However, speakers from different language communities cannot rely on these shared conventions. Here, we investigate whether purely verbal communication using single words is still possible in such a context, enabled by generalized form-meaning mappings. …
Visual search and real-image similarity
The ability to predict how efficiently a person finds an object in the environment is a crucial goal of attention research. Central to this issue are the similarity principles initially proposed by Duncan and Humphreys, which outline how the similarity between target and distractor objects (TD) and between distractor objects themselves (DD) affect search efficiency. However, the search principles lack direct quantitative support from an ecologica…
Valence without meaning
Valence is a dominant semantic dimension, and it is fundamentally linked to basic approach-avoidance behavior within a broad range of contexts. Previous studies have shown that it is possible to approximate the valence of existing words based on several surface-level and semantic components of the stimuli. Parallelly, recent studies have shown that even completely novel and (apparently) meaningless stimuli, like pseudowords, can be informative of…
Lexical choice and word formation in a taboo game paradigm
Meaning Beyond Lexicality
Pseudowords such as “knackets” or “spechy”—letter strings that are consistent with the orthotactical rules of a language but do not appear in its lexicon—are traditionally considered to be meaningless, and used as such in empirical studies. However, recent studies that show specific semantic patterns associated with these words as well as semantic effects on human pseudoword processing have cast doubt on this view. While these studies suggest tha…
Caoss and transcendence
Many theories on the role of semantics in morphological representation and processing focus on the interplay between the lexicalized meaning of the complex word on the one hand, and the individual constituent meanings on the other hand. However, the constituent meaning representations at play do not necessarily correspond to the free-word meanings of the constituents: Role-dependent constituent meanings can be subject to sometimes substantial sem…
The limits of automatic sensorimotor processing during word processing
While a number of studies have repeatedly demonstrated an automatic activation of sensorimotor experience during language processing in the form of action-congruency effects, as predicted by theories of grounded cognition, more recent research has not found these effects for words that were just learned from linguistic input alone, without sensorimotor experience with their referents. In the present study, we investigate whether this absence of e…
Images of the unseen
Theories of grounded cognition assume that conceptual representations are grounded in sensorimotor experience. However, abstract concepts such as jealousy or childhood have no directly associated referents with which such sensorimotor experience can be made; therefore, the grounding of abstract concepts has long been a topic of debate. Here, we propose (a) that systematic relations exist between semantic representations learned from language on t…
Patterns in Caoss
Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing
Immediate sensorimotor grounding of novel concepts learned from language alone
Semantic transparency is not invisibility
Vector-Space Models of Semantic Representation From a Cognitive Perspective
Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the aggregate language environment (BEAGLE), topic models, global vectors (GloVe), and word2vec—have been introduced as extremely powerful machine-learning proxies for human semantic representations and have seen an explosive rise in popularity over the past 2 decades. However, despit…
Psychoanalysis and the news world
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Psychoanalysis and the news world
Vector-Space Models of Semantic Representation From a Cognitive Perspective
Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the aggregate language environment (BEAGLE), topic models, global vectors (GloVe), and word2vec—have been introduced as extremely powerful machine-learning proxies for human semantic representations and have seen an explosive rise in popularity over the past 2 decades. However, despit…
Immediate sensorimotor grounding of novel concepts learned from language alone
Semantic transparency is not invisibility
Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing
The limits of automatic sensorimotor processing during word processing
While a number of studies have repeatedly demonstrated an automatic activation of sensorimotor experience during language processing in the form of action-congruency effects, as predicted by theories of grounded cognition, more recent research has not found these effects for words that were just learned from linguistic input alone, without sensorimotor experience with their referents. In the present study, we investigate whether this absence of e…
Images of the unseen
Theories of grounded cognition assume that conceptual representations are grounded in sensorimotor experience. However, abstract concepts such as jealousy or childhood have no directly associated referents with which such sensorimotor experience can be made; therefore, the grounding of abstract concepts has long been a topic of debate. Here, we propose (a) that systematic relations exist between semantic representations learned from language on t…
Patterns in Caoss
Caoss and transcendence
Many theories on the role of semantics in morphological representation and processing focus on the interplay between the lexicalized meaning of the complex word on the one hand, and the individual constituent meanings on the other hand. However, the constituent meaning representations at play do not necessarily correspond to the free-word meanings of the constituents: Role-dependent constituent meanings can be subject to sometimes substantial sem…
Valence without meaning
Valence is a dominant semantic dimension, and it is fundamentally linked to basic approach-avoidance behavior within a broad range of contexts. Previous studies have shown that it is possible to approximate the valence of existing words based on several surface-level and semantic components of the stimuli. Parallelly, recent studies have shown that even completely novel and (apparently) meaningless stimuli, like pseudowords, can be informative of…
Lexical choice and word formation in a taboo game paradigm
Meaning Beyond Lexicality
Pseudowords such as “knackets” or “spechy”—letter strings that are consistent with the orthotactical rules of a language but do not appear in its lexicon—are traditionally considered to be meaningless, and used as such in empirical studies. However, recent studies that show specific semantic patterns associated with these words as well as semantic effects on human pseudoword processing have cast doubt on this view. While these studies suggest tha…
Visual search and real-image similarity
The ability to predict how efficiently a person finds an object in the environment is a crucial goal of attention research. Central to this issue are the similarity principles initially proposed by Duncan and Humphreys, which outline how the similarity between target and distractor objects (TD) and between distractor objects themselves (DD) affect search efficiency. However, the search principles lack direct quantitative support from an ecologica…
Zero-shot pseudowords memorability via representational content analysis
Novel strings of letters (i.e., pseudowords) lack established meaning(s), yet they may still evoke systematic, distributional signals that influence human behavior. Here, we tested whether distributional determinants of word memorability generalize to these novel strings. To do so, we leveraged a word-embedding model that was able to represent in a vector space not only attested words but also unmapped strings as bags of character n -grams. A rid…
Cross-linguistic zero-shot communication via ad-hoc pseudowords
In verbal communication, speakers must encode meanings into signs such as words. Within a given language community, the correspondence between word forms and meanings can become conventionalized. However, speakers from different language communities cannot rely on these shared conventions. Here, we investigate whether purely verbal communication using single words is still possible in such a context, enabled by generalized form-meaning mappings. …
Computer Science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Natural language processing (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Language and cultural evolution (5 works)