Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (2026)

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Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics CMCL 27 papers

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Transformer Attention as a Unified Model of Encoding and Retrieval in Human Sentence Processing
Dan Parker

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Predicting Sentence Acceptability Judgments in Multimodal Contexts
Hyewon Jang | Nikolai Ilinykh | Sharid Loaiciga | Jey Han Lau | Shalom Lappin

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ToM in LLM is not ToM, but a Pragmatic Effect
Agnese Lombardi | Alessandro Lenci

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What Kind of Language is Easy to Language-Model Under Curriculum Learning?
Nadine El-Naggar | Tatsuki Kuribayashi | Ted Briscoe

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Modeling semantic association in self-paced reading with language model embeddings
Sara Møller Østergaard | Kenneth Enevoldsen | Afra Alishahi | Bruno Nicenboim

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Character-aware Transformers Learn an Irregular Morphological Pattern Yet None Generalize Like Humans
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao | Kevin Tang | Dinah Baer-Henney

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Comparing Transformer Model Interpretability with Human Cognition: A Dual Analysis of Attention and Attribution
Lingchen Kong | Jinnie Shin | Pavlo Antonenko

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Correlating Language Model Surprisal With Cloze and Plausibility: Getting the Best of Both Measures
Kate Rebecca Belcher | Matthew Crocker

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Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and English
Iza Škrjanec | Irene Elisabeth Winther | Vera Demberg | Stefan L. Frank

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Brain-to-Text Decoding with Brain Atlases and Brain Foundation Models
Haruka Akama | Ryo Yoshida | Max Müller-Eberstein | Yohei Oseki

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Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb–Object Constructions
Prisca Piccirilli | Alexander Fraser | Sabine Schulte im Walde

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Social Meaning in Large Language Models: Structure, Magnitude, and Pragmatic Prompting
Roland Mühlenbernd

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Headlines You Won’t Forget: Can Pronoun Insertion Increase Memorability?
Selina Meyer | Magdalena Abel | Michael Roth

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Aggregated Transformer Attention Measures Predict Reading Times Beyond Surprisal
Lukas Mielczarek | Laura Kallmeyer

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’Layer su Layer’: Identifying and Disambiguating the Italian NPN Construction in BERT’s family
Greta Gorzoni | Ludovica Pannitto | Francesca Masini

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Teaching LLMs to unveil tendentious implicit contents of Italian political communication
Walter Paci | Lorenzo Gregori | Alessandro Panunzi

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Examining Algebraic Recombination for Compositional Generalisation
Joaquin Cardona Ruiz | Antske Fokkens | Lucia Donatelli

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Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task
Mengyang Qiu | Zoe Brisebois | Siena Sun

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Translation from the Information Bottleneck Perspective: an Efficiency Analysis of Spatial Prepositions in Bitexts
Antoine Taroni | Ludovic Moncla | Frederique Laforest

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Causal Inferences Are Driven by Noun Concept Specificity Evidence from Self-Paced Reading and Large Language Model Surprisal
Fabian Schlotterbeck | Raphael Barth

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Topic-context Dependency on Continuous Semantic Reconstruction of Language from fMRI Signals
Fermin Travi | Agustin Delmagro | Diego Fernandez Slezak | Bruno Bianchi | Juan E. Kamienkowski

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Disentanglement and Compositionality of Letter Identity and Letter Position in Variational Auto-Encoder Vision Models
Bruno Bianchi | Aakash Agrawal | Stanislas Dehaene | Emmanuel Chemla | Yair Lakretz

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Plausibility as Commonsense Reasoning: Humans Succeed, Large Language Models Do not
Sercan Karakas

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Benchmarking Source-Sensitive Reasoning in Turkish: Humans and LLMs under Evidential Trust Manipulation
Sercan Karakas | Yusuf Şimşek

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Toward Cognitive Alignment in Large Language Models: Integrating Linguistic Theory and Human Data
Wajdi Zaghouani