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Multiple P3 evidence of a two-stage process in word gender decision

2000· article· en· W2042112257 on OpenAlexaff
Alexandra Muller-Gass, Isabelle Gonthier, Alain Desrochers, Kenneth B. Campbell

Bibliographic record

VenueNeuroreport · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicReading and Literacy Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSuperordinate goalsNounPsychologyGrammatical genderWord (group theory)LinguisticsCognitive psychologySocial psychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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All French nouns must be assigned to one of two grammatical genders: masculine or feminine. Participants used either the superordinate labels masculin/féminin or the singular indefinite articles un/une to classify French target nouns. Reaction time to the labels masculin/féminin was about 200 ms longer than to the un/une labels. When the indefinite articles were used, a single P3 peak of the event-related potential was elicited. When superordinate labels were used, a double-peaked positivity was observed. The latency of the initial P3 in the masculin/féminin trials was not significantly different from that in the un/une trials. The second positive wave peaked approximately 300 ms following the first. An explanation consistent with these data is that subjects used a two-stage process to classify the nouns appearing with superordinate labels.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.074
GPT teacher head0.396
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations48
Published2000
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