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Jon Anthony Willits

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Department of Psychology

Jon Anthony Willits is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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linguistics language cognitive science psycholinguistics semantic evaluation language acquisition child language language learning distributional semantics semantics language development natural language processing computational linguistics semantic processing general linguistics natural language cognitive development language science semantic representation cognition neurolinguistics lexical semantics cognitive linguistics applied linguistics language resources spoken language processing language comprehension recurrent neural networks atypical language development artificial language second language acquisition sequence modelling lexicon young children psychiatry applied cognitive psychology psychiatric research memory studies speech communication psychotic disorders connectionism semantic interpretation semantic models semantic memory word sequences speech processing narrative biological psychiatry psychological science speech science speech input cognitive communication neuropsychological functioning automated analysis structured prediction narrative extraction lexical complexity prediction language symbiosis syntactic structure controlled vocabulary lexical resource learning theory numerical competence mathematical psychology numeracy semantic impairment naive discriminative learning auditory comprehension visual referents auditory priming cognitive deficits automated program long short-term memory personal narratives semantic cohesion deep levels language processing in the brain computational thinking word learning semantic development

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Success and Failure of Compositional Generalisation in Distributional Models of Language. Language Cognition and Neuroscience (2025)

Shufan MaoPhilip HuebnerJon Willits

general linguisticsrecurrent neural networkscomputational linguisticscombinatorial dependenciescomplex linguistic inferencesnatural languagesyntaxsemantic evaluationlanguage modelsnatural language processingsequence modellingmachine learning researchlanguagedistributional semanticslinguisticslarge language models

The Role of Experience With Visual and Linguistic Factors on Skipping Behavior During Reading in Teen and Adult Readers. Journal of Vision (2025)

Anastasia StoopsSarn MukhopadhyayVolodimir KindratenkoJon WillitsJessica Montag

learning disabilitieslanguage processing in the brainlanguage comprehensioncognitive developmentlanguage acquisitionlinguistic factorslanguage developmentreading researchlanguagelanguage disorderscognitive scienceadult readerspsycholinguistics

Conditions Underlying Success and Failure of Compositional Generalization in Distributional Models of Language. (2024)

Shufan MaoPhilip HuebnerJon Willits

distributional modelscomputational linguisticscompositional generalizationnatural languagesemantic evaluationlanguage modelsnatural language processingmachine learning researchlanguageartificial languagedistributional semanticslinguisticslarge language models

Analogical Inference From Distributional Structure: What Recurrent Neural Networks Can Tell Us About Word Learning. Machine Learning with Applications (2023)

Philip A. HuebnerJon A. Willits

semantic processinglanguagepsycholinguisticscognitive linguisticsnatural languageneurolinguisticsnatural language processinginferenceanalogical inferencecognitive scienceword learningcomputational linguisticslanguage acquisitiondistributional semanticslanguage learningchild languagesemantic evaluationanalogical inferenceslinguistics

Spatial Versus Graphical Representation of Distributional Semantic Knowledge. (2023)

Shufan MaoPhilip HuebnerJon Willits

semantic representationsemanticscomputational linguisticsvector spaceartificial world simulationnatural languagesemantic evaluationnatural language processinglanguagedistributional semanticsword meaningslinguisticsnatural language generation

Using Known Words to Learn More Words: A Distributional Model of Child Vocabulary Acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language (2023)

Andrew Z. FloresJessica L. MontagJon A. Willits

second language acquisitionchild vocabulary acquisitiondistributional modellanguage learningchild literacymore wordschild languageforeign language acquisitioncognitive developmentlanguage acquisitionatypical language developmentlanguage developmentlanguagecognitive sciencelinguistics

Compositional Generalization in a Graph-Based Model of Distributional Semantics. (2022)

Jon Anthony Willits

semanticscomputational linguisticssemantic graphsemantic evaluationnatural language processinglanguagedistributional semanticscomputational semanticslanguage resourceslinguisticscompositional generalization

Generalization and Transfer Learning in Neural Networks Performing Shape, Size, and Color Classification. (2022)

Jon Anthony Willits

color classificationneural network (machine learning)machine learningmachine learning modelsdeep learningpattern recognitionmachine learning researchdata sciencecomputational intelligencetransfer learningcomputer scienceclassifier systems

Scaffolded Input Promotes Atomic Organization in the Recurrent Neural Network Language Model. Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (2021)

Philip A. HuebnerJon A. Willits

word embeddingsrecurrent neural networkscomputational linguisticslanguage resourcessemantic evaluationlanguage modelsneural computationnatural language processingneurolinguisticssequence modellinglanguageartificial languageneural network (machine learning)linguisticslarge language models

Using Lexical Context to Discover the Noun Category: Younger Children Have It Easier. The Psychology of learning and motivation/The psychology of learning and motivation (2021)

Philip A. HuebnerJon A. Willits

general linguisticscontext (linguistics)lexiconchild languagecontrolled vocabularycognitive developmentsemantic evaluationyounger childrenlexical resourcelanguagelexical semanticslinguisticsnoun categorylexical contextpsycholinguistics

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Jon Anthony Willits

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Department of Psychology

Jon Anthony Willits is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Jon Anthony Willits

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Success and Failure of Compositional Generalisation in Distributional Models of Language. Language Cognition and Neuroscience (2025)

Shufan MaoPhilip HuebnerJon Willits

The Role of Experience With Visual and Linguistic Factors on Skipping Behavior During Reading in Teen and Adult Readers. Journal of Vision (2025)

Anastasia StoopsSarn MukhopadhyayVolodimir KindratenkoJon WillitsJessica Montag

Conditions Underlying Success and Failure of Compositional Generalization in Distributional Models of Language. (2024)

Shufan MaoPhilip HuebnerJon Willits

Analogical Inference From Distributional Structure: What Recurrent Neural Networks Can Tell Us About Word Learning. Machine Learning with Applications (2023)

Philip A. HuebnerJon A. Willits

Spatial Versus Graphical Representation of Distributional Semantic Knowledge. (2023)

Shufan MaoPhilip HuebnerJon Willits

Using Known Words to Learn More Words: A Distributional Model of Child Vocabulary Acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language (2023)

Andrew Z. FloresJessica L. MontagJon A. Willits

Compositional Generalization in a Graph-Based Model of Distributional Semantics. (2022)

Jon Anthony Willits

Generalization and Transfer Learning in Neural Networks Performing Shape, Size, and Color Classification. (2022)

Jon Anthony Willits

Scaffolded Input Promotes Atomic Organization in the Recurrent Neural Network Language Model. Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (2021)

Philip A. HuebnerJon A. Willits

Using Lexical Context to Discover the Noun Category: Younger Children Have It Easier. The Psychology of learning and motivation/The psychology of learning and motivation (2021)

Philip A. HuebnerJon A. Willits

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