Rachel Ryskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 822665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Ryskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryskin |
| SIGNATURE | RYSKIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9516-4467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Semantic Representations Are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change
Humans learn the meanings of words from the contexts in which they are used. Patterns of language use change over time, suggesting that the contexts in which some words are experienced change across an individual’s lifespan. Here, we investigated whether language users’ semantic space changes in lockstep with changes in the language or whether it retains traces of historical language use/meanings. In two studies, we used distributional semantic w…
Noisy-channel language comprehension in aphasia: A Bayesian mixture modeling approach
Individuals with “agrammatic” receptive aphasia have long been known to rely on semantic plausibility rather than syntactic cues when interpreting sentences. In contrast to early interpretations of this pattern as indicative of a deficit in syntactic knowledge, a recent proposal views agrammatic comprehension as a case of “noisy-channel” language processing with an increased expectation of noise in the input relative to healthy adults. Here, we i…
The contribution of learning and memory processes to verb-specific syntactic processing
We exposed specific verbs towards their dispreferred syntactic interpretations. • Primed interpretations were more preferable ∼ 20 min after encountering them. • There is some evidence that this enhanced preferability was present 12 h later. • Verb-bias priming is underpinned by memory systems. • Results are consistent with an episodic context account of language processing. Certain aspects of lexical knowledge can be primed by recent usage, with…
Cross‐Situational Statistics Present in an Early Language Learning Context: Evidence From Naturalistic Parent–Child Interactions
According to the cross‐situational learning account, infants aggregate statistical information from multiple parent naming events to resolve ambiguous word‐referent mappings within individual naming events. While previous experimental studies have shown that infant and adult learners can build correct mappings based on statistical regularities encoded in multiple learning situations in an experiment, other studies that use more naturalistic stimu…
A noisy-channel approach to depth-charge illusions
The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension
Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic must
This article presents four experiments that investigate the meaning of English and Italian statements containing the epistemic necessity auxiliary verb must/dovere , a topic of long-standing debate in the philosophical and linguistics literature. Our findings show that the endorsement of such statements in a given scenario depends on the participants’ subjective assessment about whether they are convinced that the conclusion suggested by the scen…
Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic must: Supplemental material
1) ## ##Null deviance: 126.32
A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English
Language, Perspective, and Memory
The ability to take the perspective of another person is ubiquitous in many everyday cognitive activities. In particular, it allows people to communicate efficiently with conversational partners. Speakers tailor what they say based on the listener's knowledge and, likewise, listeners use what they know about the speaker to better understand what the speaker means. In this essay, we review foundational research on the role of perspective‐taking in…
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Language, Perspective, and Memory
The ability to take the perspective of another person is ubiquitous in many everyday cognitive activities. In particular, it allows people to communicate efficiently with conversational partners. Speakers tailor what they say based on the listener's knowledge and, likewise, listeners use what they know about the speaker to better understand what the speaker means. In this essay, we review foundational research on the role of perspective‐taking in…
A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English
A noisy-channel approach to depth-charge illusions
The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension
Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic must
This article presents four experiments that investigate the meaning of English and Italian statements containing the epistemic necessity auxiliary verb must/dovere , a topic of long-standing debate in the philosophical and linguistics literature. Our findings show that the endorsement of such statements in a given scenario depends on the participants’ subjective assessment about whether they are convinced that the conclusion suggested by the scen…
Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic must: Supplemental material
1) ## ##Null deviance: 126.32
Semantic Representations Are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change
Humans learn the meanings of words from the contexts in which they are used. Patterns of language use change over time, suggesting that the contexts in which some words are experienced change across an individual’s lifespan. Here, we investigated whether language users’ semantic space changes in lockstep with changes in the language or whether it retains traces of historical language use/meanings. In two studies, we used distributional semantic w…
Noisy-channel language comprehension in aphasia: A Bayesian mixture modeling approach
Individuals with “agrammatic” receptive aphasia have long been known to rely on semantic plausibility rather than syntactic cues when interpreting sentences. In contrast to early interpretations of this pattern as indicative of a deficit in syntactic knowledge, a recent proposal views agrammatic comprehension as a case of “noisy-channel” language processing with an increased expectation of noise in the input relative to healthy adults. Here, we i…
The contribution of learning and memory processes to verb-specific syntactic processing
We exposed specific verbs towards their dispreferred syntactic interpretations. • Primed interpretations were more preferable ∼ 20 min after encountering them. • There is some evidence that this enhanced preferability was present 12 h later. • Verb-bias priming is underpinned by memory systems. • Results are consistent with an episodic context account of language processing. Certain aspects of lexical knowledge can be primed by recent usage, with…
Cross‐Situational Statistics Present in an Early Language Learning Context: Evidence From Naturalistic Parent–Child Interactions
According to the cross‐situational learning account, infants aggregate statistical information from multiple parent naming events to resolve ambiguous word‐referent mappings within individual naming events. While previous experimental studies have shown that infant and adult learners can build correct mappings based on statistical regularities encoded in multiple learning situations in an experiment, other studies that use more naturalistic stimu…
Psychology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sentence (3 works) · Syntax (3 works) · Verb (3 works)