Lori Bergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 97976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Bergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergen |
| SIGNATURE | BERGEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1445-5247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theory-driven statistical modeling for semantics and pragmatics: A case study on grammatically generated implicature readings
Computational probabilistic modeling is increasingly popular in linguistics, but its relationship with linguistic theory is ambivalent. We argue here for the potential benefit of theory-driven statistical modeling, based on a case study situated at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Using data from a novel experiment, we employ Bayesian model comparison to evaluate the predictive adequacy of four models that differ in the extent to and manner in…
How Efficiency Shapes Human Language
Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference
A number of recent proposals have used techniques from game theory and Bayesian cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning (Frank & Goodman, 2012; Franke, 2009; Goodman & Stuhlmuller, 2013; Jager, 2012). We discuss two phenomena which pose a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures (Horn, 1984) and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford’s constraint (Chierchia, Fox, & Spector, 2012; Hurford, 1974). While tech…
Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation
Sentence processing theories typically assume that the input to our language processing mechanisms is an error-free sequence of words. However, this assumption is an oversimplification because noise is present in typical language use (for instance, due to a noisy environment, producer errors, or perceiver errors). A complete theory of human sentence comprehension therefore needs to explain how humans understand language given imperfect input. Ind…
The Epistemological Argument Against a Causal Relationship Between Media Violence and Sociopathic Behavior Among Psychologically Well Viewers
Much of the media violence research that has occurred, principally in the United States, has been based on a fundamental epistemological error: A correlation between variables- that is, between the consumption of media violence and acted-out aggression-has been inferred by many researchers to be a causal relationship. This article suggests that scholars who infer causation from correlation miss an important point. They propose to rescue a deeply …
How Attention Partitions Itself During Simultaneous Message Presentations
Television producers, across all types of programming, assume young viewers can parallel process simultaneously presented messages. For instance, television news producers appear to believe that young viewers can attend to weather icons, lexical news crawls, and sports scores while they also attend to news anchors who present the news. Nonetheless, attention theory suggests parallel processing on this scale cannot be executed efficiently. Given t…
Is Psychopathology the Key to Understanding Why Some Children Become Aggressive When They Are Exposed To Violent Television Programming
Journal Article Is Psychopathology the Key to Understanding Why Some Children Become Aggressive When They Are Exposed To Violent Television Programming? Get access Tom Grimes, Tom Grimes 1Kansas State University 5Tom Grimes, Journalism & Mass Communication, ECC-Bob Dole Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lori Bergen, Lori Bergen 1Kansas State University Sear…
The Notion of Convergence As an Epistemological Base for Evaluating the Effect of Violent TV Programming on Psychologically Normal Children
Empirical evidence, which is convincing, that violent TV programming can cause psychological abnormality among previously psychologically normal children has yet to surface. However, there is a sizable fraternity of scholars, public policy experts, and lay people who believe that causal evidence is abundant and, in fact, overwhelmingly makes the case. Why? There are 4 reasons. First, there is much correlational evidence to support the idea that t…
Theory-driven statistical modeling for semantics and pragmatics: A case study on grammatically generated implicature readings
Computational probabilistic modeling is increasingly popular in linguistics, but its relationship with linguistic theory is ambivalent. We argue here for the potential benefit of theory-driven statistical modeling, based on a case study situated at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Using data from a novel experiment, we employ Bayesian model comparison to evaluate the predictive adequacy of four models that differ in the extent to and manner in…
The Notion of Convergence As an Epistemological Base for Evaluating the Effect of Violent TV Programming on Psychologically Normal Children
Empirical evidence, which is convincing, that violent TV programming can cause psychological abnormality among previously psychologically normal children has yet to surface. However, there is a sizable fraternity of scholars, public policy experts, and lay people who believe that causal evidence is abundant and, in fact, overwhelmingly makes the case. Why? There are 4 reasons. First, there is much correlational evidence to support the idea that t…
The Notion of Convergence As an Epistemological Base for Evaluating the Effect of Violent TV Programming on Psychologically Normal Children
Empirical evidence, which is convincing, that violent TV programming can cause psychological abnormality among previously psychologically normal children has yet to surface. However, there is a sizable fraternity of scholars, public policy experts, and lay people who believe that causal evidence is abundant and, in fact, overwhelmingly makes the case. Why? There are 4 reasons. First, there is much correlational evidence to support the idea that t…
Is Psychopathology the Key to Understanding Why Some Children Become Aggressive When They Are Exposed To Violent Television Programming
Journal Article Is Psychopathology the Key to Understanding Why Some Children Become Aggressive When They Are Exposed To Violent Television Programming? Get access Tom Grimes, Tom Grimes 1Kansas State University 5Tom Grimes, Journalism & Mass Communication, ECC-Bob Dole Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lori Bergen, Lori Bergen 1Kansas State University Sear…
How Attention Partitions Itself During Simultaneous Message Presentations
Television producers, across all types of programming, assume young viewers can parallel process simultaneously presented messages. For instance, television news producers appear to believe that young viewers can attend to weather icons, lexical news crawls, and sports scores while they also attend to news anchors who present the news. Nonetheless, attention theory suggests parallel processing on this scale cannot be executed efficiently. Given t…
The Epistemological Argument Against a Causal Relationship Between Media Violence and Sociopathic Behavior Among Psychologically Well Viewers
Much of the media violence research that has occurred, principally in the United States, has been based on a fundamental epistemological error: A correlation between variables- that is, between the consumption of media violence and acted-out aggression-has been inferred by many researchers to be a causal relationship. This article suggests that scholars who infer causation from correlation miss an important point. They propose to rescue a deeply …
Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation
Sentence processing theories typically assume that the input to our language processing mechanisms is an error-free sequence of words. However, this assumption is an oversimplification because noise is present in typical language use (for instance, due to a noisy environment, producer errors, or perceiver errors). A complete theory of human sentence comprehension therefore needs to explain how humans understand language given imperfect input. Ind…
Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference
A number of recent proposals have used techniques from game theory and Bayesian cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning (Frank & Goodman, 2012; Franke, 2009; Goodman & Stuhlmuller, 2013; Jager, 2012). We discuss two phenomena which pose a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures (Horn, 1984) and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford’s constraint (Chierchia, Fox, & Spector, 2012; Hurford, 1974). While tech…
How Efficiency Shapes Human Language
Theory-driven statistical modeling for semantics and pragmatics: A case study on grammatically generated implicature readings
Computational probabilistic modeling is increasingly popular in linguistics, but its relationship with linguistic theory is ambivalent. We argue here for the potential benefit of theory-driven statistical modeling, based on a case study situated at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Using data from a novel experiment, we employ Bayesian model comparison to evaluate the predictive adequacy of four models that differ in the extent to and manner in…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (3 works) · Inference (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Utterance (3 works)