Researcher profile

Andrew Perfors

3 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus

Publications

Papers by this author

  1. Modeling individual performance in cross-situational word learning

    2019

    What mechanisms underlie people’s ability to use cross- situational statistics to learn the meanings of words? Here we present a large-scale evaluation of two major models of cross-situational learning: associative (Kachergis, Yu, & Shiffrin, 2012a) …

  2. The acceptability and uptake of smartphone tracking for COVID-19 in Australia

    2020

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Governments are instituting mobile tracking technologies to perform rapid contact tracing. However, these technologies are only effective if the public is willing to use them, implying that their …

  3. Human-like property induction is a challenge for large language models

    2022

    The impressive recent performance of large language models such as GPT-3 has led many to wonder to what extent they can serve as models of general intelligence or are similar to human cognition. We address …