individualdifferences

Common words, uncommon meanings: Evidence for widespread gender differences in word meaning

Communication relies on a shared understanding of word meaning; however, recent evidence suggests that individual variation in meaning exists even for common nouns. Understanding where and how this variation arises is therefore integral to …

Modeling individual performance in cross-situational word learning

Representational and sampling assumptions drive individual differences in single category generalisation

Bayesian models of cognition revisited: Setting optimality aside and letting data drive psychological theory

Presents a new approach to Bayesian modelling of cognition that removes the interpretation of optimality

When extremists win: On the behavior of iterated learning chains when priors are heterogeneous