CogSci 2025

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August 01, 2025

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San Francisco, United States

keywords:

behavioral science

computer-based experiment

language and thought

quantitative behavior

spatial cognition

language comprehension

language production

pattern recognition

psychology

representation

linguistics

reasoning

When conducting experimental research, the research questions are often inherently linked (and limited) to the paradigm that is used. In this paper, we present a new experimental tool -- GRIS (Generating Representations in Space) -- that builds experiments where participants can manipulate objects on a screen. Through a series of three experiments on sentence acceptability, category typicality, and multi-dimensional similarity, we demonstrate how GRIS-based experiments allow cognitive scientists to approximate representational spaces for a variety of cognitive phenomena, expanding the set of possible research questions that cognitive scientists may ask.

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