User profiles for Viktor Kewenig

Viktor Kewenig

PhD candidate in the Leverhulme DTP for the Ecological Study of the Brain
Verified email at ucl.ac.uk
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Intentionality but not consciousness: reconsidering robot love

V Kewenig - AI love you: Developments in human-robot intimate …, 2019 - Springer
Robots already assist humans in a wide spectrum of domains. As technology evolves, social
interaction with robots will become more frequent and propagate into the most private social …

Evidence of Human-Like Visual-Linguistic Integration in Multimodal Large Language Models During Predictive Language Processing

V Kewenig, C Edwards, QL DEstalenx… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The advanced language processing abilities of large language models (LLMs) have
stimulated debate over their capacity to replicate human-like cognitive processes. One …

Ecological brain: reframing the study of human behaviour and cognition

…, L Convertino, S De Felice, L Gregorians, V Kewenig… - 2023 - osf.io
The last decade has seen substantial advances in the capacity to record behaviour and
neural activity in humans in real-world settings, to simulate real-world situations in laboratory …

Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication

…, M Murgiano, B Grzyb, Y Gu, V Kewenig… - Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the
challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically …

When abstract becomes concrete: naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain

V Kewenig, G Vigliocco, JI Skipper - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Language is acquired and processed in complex and dynamic naturalistic contexts, involving
simultaneous processing of connected speech, faces, bodies, objects, etc. How words and …

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions

A Simkute, L Tankelevitch, V Kewenig, AE Scott… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Generative AI (GenAI) systems offer opportunities to increase user productivity in many tasks,
such as programming and writing. However, while they boost productivity in some studies, …

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

L Tankelevitch, V Kewenig, A Simkute, AE Scott… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generative AI (GenAI) systems offer unprecedented opportunities for transforming professional
and personal work, yet present challenges around prompting, evaluating and relying on …

[HTML][HTML] Commentary: Robots as intentional agents: Using neuroscientific methods to make robots appear more social

V Kewenig, Y Zhou, MH Fischer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Robots can assist humans in a wide spectrum of domains (Tapus and Mataric, 2006;
Cabibihan et al., 2013), including entertainment, teaching and health care. Since the need for …

Do you hear how BIG it is? Iconic Prosody in Child Directed Language Supports Language Acquisition

V Kewenig, R Brieke, Y Gu… - Proceedings of the Annual …, 2021 - escholarship.org
Child directed language has been characterized by exaggerated prosody which can serve
multiple functions including highlighting properties of meaning via iconicity. Iconic prosody …

Integrating Across Conceptual Spaces

KT Aho - 2023 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
It has been shown that structure is shared across multiple modalities in the real world: if we
speak about two items in similar ways, then they are also likely to appear in similar visual …