Hedderik van Rijn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hedderik van Rijn is involved.
Articles
2014 Modeling inference of mental states: As simple as possible, as complex as necessary Mental Model Ascription by Intelligent Agents, McShane, Marjorie (ed.), pp. 455–477 | Article
Behavior oftentimes allows for many possible interpretations in terms of mental states, such as goals, beliefs, desires, and intentions. Reasoning about the relation between behavior and mental states is therefore considered to be an effortful process. We argue that people use simple strategies to… read more
2013 It’s time to do the math: Computation and retrieval in phrase production The Mental Lexicon 8:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
Research suggests that the lexicon stores high-frequent combinations of words (e.g., Arnon & Snider, 2010), thereby optimizing the balance between computation and retrieval during language comprehension. Here, we studied whether the production of multi-word expressions is optimized in a similar way. read more

