Twin Pleas: Probing Content and Compositionality

Crimes, Widgets, and Plea Bargaining: An Analysis of Charge Content, Pleas, and Trials

A comparative evaluation of periodontal parameters and oral health in the twins of Khorasan Province, Iran

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Several risk factors contribute to periodontal diseases. Studying twins has helped increase our knowledge on the roles of genetic and environmental factors in periodontal diseases. The objective of this study was the evaluation of periodontal parameters in the twins of Khorasan Province, Iran. METHODS:...

Implementing the (De-)Composition of Concepts: Oscillatory Networks, Coherency Chains and Hierarchical Binding

The paper introduces oscillatory networks as a model of the realization of lexical and non-lexical complex concepts in the cortex. The network has both perceptual and semantic capabilities. Three adequacy conditions, the compositionality of meaning, the compositionality of content, and the co-variation with content, are satisfied. Coherency chains and hierarchical mechanisms of binding are disc...

Pleas without Bargaining: Guilty Pleas in the Felony Courts of Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania

outlines of two very different conceptions of the guilty plea process in answering the question: What makes the plea system work? While most observers agree some form of trial penalty exists to encourage pleas (i.e., a more severe sentence will be given to defendants who are convicted after trial), they differ over how pleas are put together. These differences form the basis for two competing m...

Probing the Compositionality of Intuitive Functions

How do people learn about complex functional structure? Taking inspiration from other areas of cognitive science, we propose that this is accomplished by harnessing compositionality: complex structure is decomposed into simpler building blocks. We formalize this idea within the framework of Bayesian regression using a grammar over Gaussian process kernels. We show that participants prefer compo...