Gary Lupyan

Failures and Successes to Learn a Core Conceptual Distinction from the Statistics of Language

Zhimin Hu, Jeroen van Paridon, Gary Lupyan

Generic statements like "tigers are striped" and "cars have radios" communicate information that is, in general, true. However, while the first statement is true in principle, the second is true only statistically. People are exquisitely sensitive to this principled-vs-statistica…Read more