Kyle Mahowald

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kyle Mahowald is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle Mahowald has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kyle Mahowald's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (23 papers), Topic Modeling (13 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 papers). Kyle Mahowald is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (23 papers), Topic Modeling (13 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 papers). Kyle Mahowald collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Kyle Mahowald's co-authors include Edward Gibson, Richard Futrell, Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi, Isabelle Dautriche, Idan Blank, Leon Bergen, Ariel N. James, Roger Lévy and Joshua B. Tenenbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NeuroImage and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kyle Mahowald

42 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

How Efficiency Shapes Human Language

2019 250 citations Edward Gibson, Richard Futrell et al. profile →
Dissociating language and thought in large language models

2024 118 citations Kyle Mahowald, Idan Blank et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Intrinsically memorable words have unique associations with their meanings. 2025 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology General ·Greta Tuckute, Kyle Mahowald, Phillip Isola, Aude Oliva, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko	0
2	Are Language Models More Like Libraries or Like Librarians? Bibliotechnism, the Novel Reference Problem, and the Attitudes of LLMs 2024 ·Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ·Harvey Lederman, Kyle Mahowald	0
3	Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI 2024 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Saima Malik-Moraleda, Olessia Jouravlev, (unknown), Zachary Mineroff, (unknown), Kyle Mahowald, Idan Blank, Evelina Fedorenko	7
4	Mission: Impossible Language Models 2024 ·(unknown), Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Christopher Potts	7
5	Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena: The Case of the Missing AANNs 2024 ·Kanishka Misra, Kyle Mahowald	8
6	Grammatical cues to subjecthood are redundant in a majority of simple clauses across languages 2023 ·Cognition ·Kyle Mahowald, Evgeniia Diachek, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko, Richard Futrell	3
7	How random is the review outcome? A systematic study of the impact of external factors on eLife peer review 2023 ·bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ·Weixin Liang, Kyle Mahowald, Jennifer L Raymond, (unknown), Daniel Scott Smith, Daniel Jurafsky, Daniel A. McFarland, James Zou	1
8	Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion 2023 ·Yating Wu, William P. Sheffield, Kyle Mahowald, Junyi Li	3
9	Inducing Character-level Structure in Subword-based Language Models with Type-level Interchange Intervention Training 2023 ·Jing Huang, Zhengxuan Wu, Kyle Mahowald, Christopher Potts	5
10	An information-theoretic approach to the typology of spatial demonstratives 2023 ·Cognition ·Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald	2
11	A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces 2023 ·(unknown), Kyle Mahowald, Katrin Erk	2
12	What counts as an exemplar model, anyway? A commentary on Ambridge (2020) 2020 ·First Language ·Kyle Mahowald, George Kachergis, Michael C. Frank	4
13	Color naming across languages reflects color use 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Edward Gibson, Richard Futrell, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Kyle Mahowald, Leon Bergen, Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam, (unknown), Steven T. Piantadosi, Bevil R. Conway	139
14	Words cluster phonetically beyond phonotactic regularities 2017 ·Cognition ·Isabelle Dautriche, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson, Anne Christophe, Steven T. Piantadosi	31
15	Don’t Underestimate the Benefits of Being Misunderstood 2017 ·Psychological Science ·Edward Gibson, (unknown), Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Lars Konieczny, Barbara Hemforth, Evelina Fedorenko	44
16	Reliable individual-level neural markers of high-level language processing: A necessary precursor for relating neural variability to behavioral and genetic variability 2016 ·NeuroImage ·Kyle Mahowald, Evelina Fedorenko	78
17	SNAP Judgments: A Small n Acceptability Paradigm (SNAP) for Linguistic Acceptability Judgments 2016 ·Language ·Kyle Mahowald, Peter Graff, (unknown), Edward Gibson	27
18	Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson	211
19	Info/information theory: Speakers choose shorter words in predictive contexts 2012 ·Cognition ·Kyle Mahowald, Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi, Edward Gibson	111
20	"It may nat be": Chaucer, Derrida, and the Impossibility of the Gift 2010 ·Studies in the age of Chaucer ·Kyle Mahowald	2

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