Selected Publications
A representative list of publications (see the research page for more details).
2026
Start Making Sense(s): A Developmental Probe of Attention Specialization Using Lexical Ambiguity
Rivière, P. & Trott, S.
TACL 2026
2025
Seeing Through Words, Speaking Through Pixels: Deep Representational Alignment Between Vision and Language Models
He, Z., Trott, S., & Khosla, M.
EMNLP 2025
Do Prosodic Cues Convey Intent Directly or Through Contrastive Marking? A Study of French Indirect Requests
Ruytenbeek, N. & Trott, S.
Glossa Psycholinguistics 2025
Words and Worlds Both: Dynamic Effects of Distributional and Sensorimotor Information in Semantic Processing
Vinaya, H., Trott, S., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Coulson, S.
Open Mind 2025
Turing Jest: Distributional Semantics and One-Line Jokes
Trott, S., Walker, D. E., Taylor, S. M., & Coulson, S.
Cognitive Science 2025
AI-Augmented Predictions: LLM Assistants Improve Human Forecasting Accuracy
Schoenegger, P., Park, P. S., Karger, E., Trott, S., & Tetlock, P. E.
ACM TiiS 2025
Evaluating Contextualized Representations of (Spanish) Ambiguous Words: A New Lexical Resource and Empirical Analysis
Rivière, P. D., Beatty-Martínez, A. L., & Trott, S.
NAACL 2025
Does Language Stabilize Quantity Representations in Vision Transformers?
Rivière, P. D., Parkinson-Coombs, O., Jones, C., & Trott, S.
CogSci 2025
Toward a Theory of Generalizability in LLM Mechanistic Interpretability Research
Trott, S.
NeurIPS MechInterp Workshop 2025
2024
Do Multimodal Large Language Models and Humans Ground Language Similarly?
Jones, C. R., Bergen, B., & Trott, S.
Computational Linguistics 2024
Comparing Humans and Large Language Models on EPITOME
Jones, C. R., Trott, S., & Bergen, B.
TACL 2024
Large Language Models and the Wisdom of Small Crowds
Trott, S.
Open Mind 2024
Can Large Language Models Help Augment English Psycholinguistic Datasets?
Trott, S.
Behavior Research Methods 2024
Multimodal Large Language Models Show Evidence of Embodied Simulation
Jones, C. & Trott, S.
LREC-COLING 2024
2023
Word Meaning is Both Categorical and Continuous
Trott, S. & Bergen, B.
Psychological Review 2023
Do Large Language Models Know What Humans Know?
Trott, S., Jones, C., Chang, T., Michaelov, J., & Bergen, B.
Cognitive Science 2023
Prosody and Speech Act Interpretation: The Case of French Indirect Requests
Ruytenbeek, N., Bergen, B., & Trott, S.
Journal of French Language Studies 2023
2022
Offline Dominance and Zeugmatic Similarity Normings of Variably Ambiguous Words Assessed Against a Neural Language Model (BERT)
DeLong, K., Trott, S., & Kutas, M.
Behavior Research Methods 2022
Spontaneous, Controlled Acts of Reference Between Friends and Strangers
Trott, S., Bergen, B., & Wittenberg, E.
Language Resources and Evaluation 2022
The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests
Trott, S., Reed, S., Kaliblotzky, D., Ferreira, V., & Bergen, B.
Language and Speech 2022
Languages are Efficient, But for Whom?
Trott, S. & Bergen, B.
Cognition 2022
Distributional Semantics Still Can’t Account for Affordances
Jones, C. R., Chang, T. A., Coulson, S., Michaelov, J. A., Trott, S., & Bergen, B.
CogSci 2022
Can a Pressure Against Homophones Explain Phonological Neighborhoods?
Trott, S. & Bergen, B.
CogSci 2022
2021
2020
(Re)construing Meaning in NLP
Trott, S., Torrent, T. T., Chang, N., & Schneider, N.
ACL 2020
Why Do Human Languages Have Homophones?
Trott, S. & Bergen, B.
Cognition 2020
When Do Comprehenders Mentalize for Pragmatic Inference?
Trott, S. & Bergen, B.
Discourse Processes 2020
The Role of Entitlement in Formatting Preferences Across Requesters and Recipients
Trott, S. & Rossano, F.
Discourse Processes 2020
2018
Individual Differences in Mentalizing Capacity Predict Indirect Request Comprehension
Trott, S. & Bergen, B.
Discourse Processes 2018