Knowledge and Communication: Volume 83(Volume 83 Psychology of Learning and Motivation)

Intelligence in a Physical World, Volume 83 in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series, the latest release in this ongoing series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving. Chapters in this new release include The genetic and neuronal basis of animal architecture, Adopting whole-brain computational modeling to investigate neurophysiological features, Dynamical and robotic modeling of brain motivational and decision-making systems, Attention and consciousness are one and the same, Hierarchical processing in the brain: Insights from predictive coding and its neural signatures, and much more. Additional sections cover Scratching the itch of "not knowing": Non-instrumental information-seeking in humans, How do emotions move us? Emotional influence can occur by changing perceivers’ feelings, bodies, and inferences, Cultural bodybuilding: the embodied influence of culture on perception and action, and Beyond dyadic interaction and shared experience: rethinking social connections.

Table of Contents:
1. Semantic memory: Explorations in ERPs and large language models Lin Khern Avery Chia and Jon Willits 2. Something cold and full of rum: What neural language models do and don’t get about meaning Seana Coulson 3. Knowledge representation: Mechanisms and perspectives Will Deng 4. TBD Barbara Kaup 5. Effects of comprehender knowledge on sentence processing: When, what representations and what processes? Pia Knoeferle 6. Language related ERP components and their relation to learning and adaptation Milena Rabovsky 7. TBD Mike Tanenhaus 8. Representations of meaning Noortje J. Venhuizen and Harm Brouwer 9. Reliance on language versus world knowledge during comprehension Tessa Warren and Mike Dickey

About the Author :
Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.