Richard L Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 804949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6403-489X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Memory for prediction
We demonstrate that Transformer-based neural network language models provide a new foundation for mechanistic theories of sentence processing that seamlessly integrate expectation-based and memory-based accounts. First, we show that the attention mechanism in GPT2-small operates as a kind of cue-based retrieval architecture that is subject to similarity-based interference. Second, we show that it provides accounts of classic memory effects in par…
Ethical choice reversals
Understanding the systematic ways that human decision making departs from normative principles has been important in the development of cognitive theory across multiple decision domains. We focus here on whether such seemingly "irrational" decisions occur in ethical decisions that impose difficult tradeoffs between the welfare and interests of different individuals or groups. Across three sets of experiments and in multiple decision scenarios, we…
Heuristics contribute to sensorimotor decision-making under risk
Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension
Argument-Head Distance and Processing Complexity
Although proximity between arguments and verbs (locality) is a relatively robust determinant of sentence-processing difficulty (Hawkins 1998, 2001, Gibson 2000), increasing argument-verb distance can also facilitate processing (Konieczny 2000). We present two self-paced reading (SPR) experiments involving Hindi that provide further evidence of antilocality, and a third SPR experiment which suggests that similarity-based interference can attenuate…
An Activation‐Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval
We present a detailed process theory of the moment‐by‐moment working‐memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension. The theory is derived from the application of independently motivated principles of memory and cognitive skill to the specialized task of sentence parsing. The resulting theory construes sentence processing as a series of skilled associative memory retrievals modulated by similarity‐based in…
Falsifying Serial and Parallel Parsing Models
From Innovation to New Sport Development
This paper provides and expands upon a conceptual framework in order to understand the development of a new sport from a product innovation. The example of the snowboard provides a detailed illustration of this process in a winter sports context and was specifically chosen for its ability to deliver tangible evidence of market acceptance by a defined market segment serviced by clearly identifiable suppliers. A model is developed, based on origina…
Interference in short-term memory
Argument-Head Distance and Processing Complexity
Although proximity between arguments and verbs (locality) is a relatively robust determinant of sentence-processing difficulty (Hawkins 1998, 2001, Gibson 2000), increasing argument-verb distance can also facilitate processing (Konieczny 2000). We present two self-paced reading (SPR) experiments involving Hindi that provide further evidence of antilocality, and a third SPR experiment which suggests that similarity-based interference can attenuate…
Interference in short-term memory
Falsifying Serial and Parallel Parsing Models
Interference in short-term memory
From Innovation to New Sport Development
This paper provides and expands upon a conceptual framework in order to understand the development of a new sport from a product innovation. The example of the snowboard provides a detailed illustration of this process in a winter sports context and was specifically chosen for its ability to deliver tangible evidence of market acceptance by a defined market segment serviced by clearly identifiable suppliers. A model is developed, based on origina…
Falsifying Serial and Parallel Parsing Models
An Activation‐Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval
We present a detailed process theory of the moment‐by‐moment working‐memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension. The theory is derived from the application of independently motivated principles of memory and cognitive skill to the specialized task of sentence parsing. The resulting theory construes sentence processing as a series of skilled associative memory retrievals modulated by similarity‐based in…
Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension
Argument-Head Distance and Processing Complexity
Although proximity between arguments and verbs (locality) is a relatively robust determinant of sentence-processing difficulty (Hawkins 1998, 2001, Gibson 2000), increasing argument-verb distance can also facilitate processing (Konieczny 2000). We present two self-paced reading (SPR) experiments involving Hindi that provide further evidence of antilocality, and a third SPR experiment which suggests that similarity-based interference can attenuate…
Heuristics contribute to sensorimotor decision-making under risk
Ethical choice reversals
Understanding the systematic ways that human decision making departs from normative principles has been important in the development of cognitive theory across multiple decision domains. We focus here on whether such seemingly "irrational" decisions occur in ethical decisions that impose difficult tradeoffs between the welfare and interests of different individuals or groups. Across three sets of experiments and in multiple decision scenarios, we…
Memory for prediction
We demonstrate that Transformer-based neural network language models provide a new foundation for mechanistic theories of sentence processing that seamlessly integrate expectation-based and memory-based accounts. First, we show that the attention mechanism in GPT2-small operates as a kind of cue-based retrieval architecture that is subject to similarity-based interference. Second, we show that it provides accounts of classic memory effects in par…
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Sentence (5 works) · Sentence processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)