From an unknown other to an attachment figure: How do mental representations change as attachments form? Abstract Mental representations are the building blocks that guide affect, thought, and behaviors within adult attachment relationships. To date, research has focused on how individual differences in mental representations meaningfully relate to a person's chronic attachment style and the at...

Blind people's inferences about how other people see provide a window into fundamental questions about the human capacity to think about one another's thoughts. By working with blind individuals, we can ask both what kinds of representations people form about others' minds, and how much these representations depend on the observer having had similar mental states themselves. Thinking about othe...

Distributional representations have recently been proposed as a general-purpose representation of natural language meaning, to replace logical form. There is, however, one important difference between logical and distributional representations: Logical languages have a clear semantics, while distributional representations do not. In this paper, we propose a semantics for distributional represen...