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Modeling bilingual naming performance through laterally-connected SOMs

Divya Prabhakaran, Uli Grasemann, Erie Shivers, Marissa Russell-Meill +2 more

Published

Oct 16, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Oct 16, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning. However, alternative architectures that model neural and cognitive processes in more detail can be more easily fit to individuals and can lead to mechanistic insights into human behavior. BiLex is such a computational model of the bilingual lexicon, containing a shared semantic system and phonetic language systems represented through self-organizing maps. In this study, BiLex was extended further into biological realism with excitatory and inhibitory lateral connections. This extension makes it possible to account for response times as well as common errors such as those based on semantic concept familiarity, typicality, and specificity. The Boston Naming Test was simulated in Spanish and English, and model performance approximated naming accuracy and error types in Spanish-English bilinguals with varying primary and secondary language histories. The results indicated that the approach captures semantic-level processes in bilingual lexical access, thus modeling the semantic cognition of individual subjects. In the future, such models may serve as a foundation for modeling impairments and treatment options.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning."

Reported Metrics

partial

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"The Boston Naming Test was simulated in Spanish and English, and model performance approximated naming accuracy and error types in Spanish-English bilinguals with varying primary and secondary language histories."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracy
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Computational models have explanatory power to understand cognition in individuals, but there is usually not enough training data to build such models with traditional machine learning.
  • However, alternative architectures that model neural and cognitive processes in more detail can be more easily fit to individuals and can lead to mechanistic insights into human behavior.
  • BiLex is such a computational model of the bilingual lexicon, containing a shared semantic system and phonetic language systems represented through self-organizing maps.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • However, alternative architectures that model neural and cognitive processes in more detail can be more easily fit to individuals and can lead to mechanistic insights into human behavior.
  • The Boston Naming Test was simulated in Spanish and English, and model performance approximated naming accuracy and error types in Spanish-English bilinguals with varying primary and secondary language histories.

Why it matters for eval

  • However, alternative architectures that model neural and cognitive processes in more detail can be more easily fit to individuals and can lead to mechanistic insights into human behavior.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy