TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics
AU - Houghton, Conor
AU - Kazanina, Nina
AU - Sukumaran, Priyanka
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Large language models (LLMs) are not detailed models of human linguistic processing. They are, however, extremely successful at their primary task: Providing a model for language. For this reason LLMs are important in psycholinguistics: They are useful as a practical tool, as an illustrative comparative, and philosophically, as a basis for recasting the relationship between language and thought.
AB - Large language models (LLMs) are not detailed models of human linguistic processing. They are, however, extremely successful at their primary task: Providing a model for language. For this reason LLMs are important in psycholinguistics: They are useful as a practical tool, as an illustrative comparative, and philosophically, as a basis for recasting the relationship between language and thought.
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X23001693
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X23001693
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 38054292
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 46
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
M1 - e395
ER -