Cognitive Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Cognitive Science is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Morningness‐Eveningness Preference, Time Perspective, and Passage of Time Judgments51
The Puzzling Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings41
Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science: A Document Similarity Analysis30
Putting Complement Clauses into Context: Testing the Effects of Story Context, False‐Belief Understanding, and Syntactic form on Children's and Adults’ Comprehension and Production of Complement Claus28
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Plans or Outcomes: How Do We Attribute Intelligence to Others?26
Category Clustering and Morphological Learning26
A Neural Dynamic Model of the Perceptual Grounding of Spatial and Movement Relations25
Rational Sentence Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese24
Correction to "Cognitive science from the perspective of linguistic diversity"23
Do They Know It's Christmash? Lexical Knowledge Directly Impacts Speech Perception23
Visual Heuristics for Verb Production: Testing a Deep‐Learning Model With Experiments in Japanese22
Bayesian Surprise Predicts Human Event Segmentation in Story Listening21
Can Large Language Models Counter the Recent Decline in Literacy Levels? An Important Role for Cognitive Science20
Adults and Children Engage in Subtle and Fine‐Grained Action Interpretation and Evaluation in Moral Dilemmas20
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Associations between Socioeconomic Status, Cognition, and Brain Structure: Evaluating Potential Causal Pathways Through Mechanistic Models of Development20
MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note‐Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation19
How Do Artificial Neural Networks Classify Musical Triads? A Case Study in Eluding Bonini's Paradox19
Social Network Structure Shapes the Formation of True and False Memories at the Collective Level18
Toward an Account of Intuitive Time18
Evidence for a Weak but Reliable Processing Advantage for False Beliefs Over Similar Nonmental States in Adults18
Why Do Children From Age 4 Fail True Belief Tasks? A Decision Experiment Testing Competence Versus Performance Limitation Accounts17
The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences17
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Never Gonna Give You Up Even When It Is Suboptimal16
Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings14
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Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study14
The Formal Structure of Kind Representations14
Erratum for Probing Lexical Ambiguity: Word Vectors Encode Number and Relatedness of Senses14
Flexible Goals Require that Inflexible Perceptual Systems Produce Veridical Representations: Implications for Realism as Revealed by Evolutionary Simulations14
Finding Structure in Modern Dance13
Dissociable Contributions of Goal‐Relevant Evidence and Goal‐Irrelevant Familiarity to Individual and Developmental Differences in Conflict Recognition13
How do Antecedent Semantics Influence Pronoun Interpretation? Evidence from Eye Movements13
Language Processing Differences Between Blind and Sighted Individuals and the Abstract Versus Concrete Concept Difference12
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Probing the Representational Structure of Regular Polysemy via Sense Analogy Questions: Insights from Contextual Word Vectors12
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Cognitive Development as a Piece of the Language Learning Puzzle12
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Finish What you Started: 2‐Year‐Olds Motivated by a Preference for Completing Others’ Unfinished Actions in Instrumental Helping Contexts11
Euclid's Random Walk: Developmental Changes in the Use of Simulation for Geometric Reasoning11
Anticipating theDamnReferent: How Comprehenders Rapidly Retrieve the Speaker's Attitude When Processing Negative Expressive Adjectives11
How Network Structure Shapes Languages: Disentangling the Factors Driving Variation in Communicative Agents11
Determining the Relativity of Word Meanings Through the Construction of Individualized Models of Semantic Memory11
The Diversity of Strategies Used in Working Memory for Colors, Orientations, and Positions: A Quantitative Approach to a First‐Person Inquiry11
Neglected Factors Bearing on Reaction Time in Language Production11
The Efficiency of Question‐Asking Strategies in a Real‐World Visual Search Task11
What Children with Developmental Language Disorder Teach Us About Cross‐Situational Word Learning11
How to Tell a Dualist?11
Modeling How Suffixes Are Learned in Infancy10
Action Selection in Everyday Activities: The Opportunistic Planning Model10
The N400 is Elicited by Meaning Changes but not Synonym Substitutions: Evidence From Persian Phrasal Verbs10
Event Knowledge in Large Language Models: The Gap Between the Impossible and the Unlikely10
Differentiation and Generic Sentences10
The Sustained Attention Paradox: A Critical Commentary on the Theoretical Impossibility of Perfect Vigilance10
Correction to “Evaluation of an Algorithmic‐Level Left‐Corner Parsing Account of Surprisal Effects”10
Expectations of Processing Ease, Informativeness, and Accuracy Guide Toddlers’ Processing of Novel Communicative Cues10
Elephants are Gray: Linguistic Sensitivity and the Use of Generic Utterances in Pedagogical and Nonpedagogical Contexts10
Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture10
Parameterizing Individual Differences in Fraction and Decimal Arithmetic10
Exhaustivity and Anti‐Exhaustivity in the RSA Framework: Testing the Effect of Prior Beliefs9
Extracting Low‐Dimensional Psychological Representations from Convolutional Neural Networks9
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Complex Words as Shortest Paths in the Network of Lexical Knowledge9
Do Large Language Models Know What Humans Know?9
Folk Intuitions About Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Evaluating the Combined Effects of Misunderstandings About Determinism and Motivated Cognition9
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Rational Redundancy in Referring Expressions: Evidence from Event‐related Potentials9
The Influences of Role, Action Contribution, and Outcome Feedback on Individual and Joint Sense of Agency9
A Computational Model of Context‐Dependent Encodings During Category Learning9
Erratum for: Can the Mind Command the Body, by Iris Berent, in Cognitive Science 45(12)9
The Development of Turn‐Taking Skills in Typical Development and Autism9
Are Rational Numbers Spontaneous? Natural Numbers Suffice all Processing by the Number Sense9
Does Stimulus Category Coherence Influence Visual Working Memory? A Rational Analysis9
Everyday Parameters for Episode‐to‐Episode Dynamics in the Daily Music of Infancy9
The Computational Challenges of Means Selection Problems: Network Structure of Goal Systems Predicts Human Performance9
Cognitive Control Skills Are Related to Ambiguity Awareness in French‐Learning 5‐to‐6‐Year‐Olds: Implications for Reading Development8
Unraveling Temporal Dynamics of Multidimensional Statistical Learning in Implicit and Explicit Systems: An X‐Way Hypothesis8
Drift as a Driver of Language Change: An Artificial Language Experiment8
Perception of Happening: How the Brain Deals with the No‐History Problem8
Draw a Star and Make it Perfect: Incremental Processing of Telicity8
Beyond the Positivity Bias: The Processing and Integration of Self‐Relevant Feedback Is Driven by Its Alignment With Pre‐Existing Self‐Views8
The Multiple Perspectives Theory of Mental States in Communication8
A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming8
Is Categorization in Visual Working Memory a Way to Reduce Mental Effort? A Pupillometry Study8
The Semantic Organization of the English Odor Vocabulary7
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Turing Jest: Distributional Semantics and One‐Line Jokes7
Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis7
Perceived Group Identity Alters Task‐Unrelated Thought and Attentional Divergence During Conversations7
Speaking of Kinds: How Correcting Generic Statements can Shape Children's Concepts7
Perceptual Cue Weighting Matters in Real‐Time Integration of Acoustic Information During Spoken Word Recognition7
Following Affirmative and Negated Rules7
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Counterintuitive Concepts Across Domains: A Unified Phenomenon?7
The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collective Cognitive Alignment7
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Eye Movements, Pupil Dilation, and Conflict Detection in Reasoning: Exploring the Evidence for Intuitive Logic7
The Effect of Context and Individual Differences in Human‐Generated Randomness7
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Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience7
Enriching Thinking Through Discourse7
The Neural Correlates of Analogy Component Processes7
Neurodualism: People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain7
The Role of Stimulus‐Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning7
Monotone Quantifiers Emerge via Iterated Learning7
The Multifaceted Role of Self‐Generated Question Asking in Curiosity‐Driven Learning7
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The Less Meaningful the Understanding, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Perceptual Speech Tempo7
High‐Pitched Sound is Open and Low‐Pitched Sound is Closed: Representing the Spatial Meaning of Pitch Height7
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Cognitive Science of Augmented Intelligence7
Semantic and Phonological Prediction in Language Comprehension: Pretarget Attraction Toward Semantic and Phonological Competitors in a Mouse Tracking Task7
Reduced Implicit but not Explicit Knowledge of Cross‐Situational Statistical Learning in Developmental Dyslexia6
The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development6
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Leveraging Context for Perceptual Prediction Using Word Embeddings6
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Task and Timing Effects in Argument Role Sensitivity: Evidence From Production, EEG, and Computational Modeling6
Correction to “Does Momentary Outcome‐Based Reflection Shape Bioethical Views? A Pre‐Post Intervention Design”6
A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning6
Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production6
A Rose by Another Name? Odor Misnaming is Associated with Linguistic Properties6
Dream Interpretation from a Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspective: The Case of Oneiromancy in Traditional China6
Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Crowd Sound Dynamics6
Social Expectations are Primarily Rooted in Reciprocity: An Investigation of Fairness, Cooperation, and Trustworthiness6
Predicting Definite and Indefinite Referents During Discourse Comprehension: Evidence from Event‐Related Potentials6
Realistic About Reference Production: Testing the Effects of Domain Size and Saturation6
Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine Learning Analysis of Large‐Scale Text Corpora6
Predictive Sentence Processing at Speed: Evidence from Online Mouse Cursor Tracking6
A SPoARC of Music: Musicians Spatialize Melodies but not All‐Comers6
Thought Experiments as an Error Detection and Correction Tool6
Integrating Social Cognition Into Domain‐General Control: Interactive Activation and Competition for the Control of Action (ICON)6
The Social Route to Abstraction: Interaction and Diversity Enhance Performance and Transfer in a Rule‐Based Categorization Task6
Language Signaling High Proportions and Generics Lead to Generalizing, but Not Essentializing, for Novel Social Kinds6
Pushing the Bounds of Bounded Optimality and Rationality6
The Idiom Processing Advantage is Explained By Surprisal5
When Language Switching is Cost‐Free: The Effect of Preparation Time5
Copredication and Complexity Revisited: Reply to Murphy's Reply5
Linguistic Redundancy and its Effects on Younger and Older Adults’ Real‐Time Comprehension and Memory5
How Likely Is it that I Would Act the Same Way: Modeling Moral Judgment During Uncertainty5
Discovering Dynamical Laws for Speech Gestures5
Participatory Design for Cognitive Science: Examples From the Learning Sciences and Human−Computer Interaction5
Face Recognition Depends on Specialized Mechanisms Tuned to View‐Invariant Facial Features: Insights from Deep Neural Networks Optimized for Face or Object Recognition5
The Relationship Between Word Length and Average Information Content in Japanese5
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Aging, Gesture Production, and Disfluency in Speech: A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults5
Recursive Numeral Systems Optimize the Trade‐off Between Lexicon Size and Average Morphosyntactic Complexity5
When Gestures Do or Do Not Follow Language‐Specific Patterns of Motion Expression in Speech: Evidence from Chinese, English and Turkish5
No Peace for the Wicked? Immorality Is Thought to Disrupt Intrapersonal Harmony, Impeding Positive Psychological States and Happiness5
Two Cultural Processing Asymmetries Drive Spatial Attention5
The Effect of Cognitive Relevance of Directed Actions on Mathematical Reasoning5
Understanding Miscommunication: Speech Act Recognition in Digital Contexts5
Blind to Bias? Young Children Do Not Anticipate that Sunk Costs Lead to Irrational Choices5
Grammar and Expectation in Active Dependency Resolution: Experimental and Modeling Evidence from Norwegian5
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The Information‐Processing Perspective on Categorization5
A Computational Approach to Identifying Cultural Keywords Across Languages5
The Role of Language Switching During Cross‐Talk Between Bilingual Language Control and Domain‐General Conflict Monitoring5
Exploring the Impact of Math Anxiety and Task Difficulty on Pupil Dilation in Adults and Young Children5
Motivated Reasoning in an Explore‐Exploit Task5
Against Arguments From Diagnostic Reasoning5
Influence of Mental Training of Attentional Control on Autonomic Arousal Within the Framework of the Temporal Preparation of a Force Task4
Childhood Experience Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities: A Cross‐Cultural Study4
Aspectual Processing Shifts Visual Event Apprehension4
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How do Humans Overcome Individual Computational Limitations by Working Together?4
What Can Cognitive Science Do for People?4
Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech4
When the “Tabula” is Anything but “Rasa:” What Determines Performance in the Auditory Statistical Learning Task?4
Do Companies Think and Feel? Mind Perception of Organizations4
Intellectually Rigorous but Morally Tolerant: Exploring Moral Leniency as a Mediator Between Cognitive Style and “Utilitarian” Judgment4
How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)4
The Icing on the Cake. Or Is it Frosting? The Influence of Group Membership on Children's Lexical Choices4
The Lexicon of Emoji? Conventionality Modulates Processing of Emoji4
Postural and Gestural Synchronization, Sequential Imitation, and Mirroring Predict Perceived Coupling of Dancing Dyads4
“They're Not True Humans:” Beliefs about Moral Character Drive Denials of Humanity4
Varieties of Ignorance: Mystery and the Unknown in Science and Religion4
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Familiar Sequences Are Processed Faster Than Unfamiliar Sequences, Even When They Do Not Match the Count‐List4
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and the Functions of Consciousness4
Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population‐Scale Game‐Based Cognitive Assessment4
Conversational Eyebrow Frowns Facilitate Question Identification: An Online Study Using Virtual Avatars4
Characterizing the Details of Spatial Construction: Cognitive Constraints and Variability4
Vision Verbs Emerge First in English Acquisition but Touch, not Audition, Follows Second4
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Does Lexical Coordination Affect Epistemic and Practical Trust? The Role of Conceptual Pacts4
The Keys to the Future? An Examination of Statistical Versus Discriminative Accounts of Serial Pattern Learning4
Memory Versus Expectation: Processing Relative Clauses in a Flexible Word Order Language4
A Computational Framework to Study Hierarchical Processing in Visual Narratives4
Human Variability and the Explore–Exploit Trade‐Off in Recommendation4
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The Importance of Linguistic Factors:HeLikes Subject Referents4
The In‐Out Effect in the Perception and Production of Real Words4
Linguistic Distributional Knowledge and Sensorimotor Grounding both Contribute to Semantic Category Production4
Musical Experience and Speech Processing: The Case of Whistled Words4
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Inducing Novel Sound–Taste Correspondences via an Associative Learning Task4
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Autistic Traits, Communicative Efficiency, and Social Biases Shape Language Learning in Autistic and Allistic Learners3
A Linguistic–Sensorimotor Model of the Basic‐Level Advantage in Category Verification3
Strategic Task Decomposition in Joint Action3
Erratum for “Chunking Versus Transitional Probabilities: Differentiating Between Theories of Statistical Learning”3
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Computational Modeling of the Segmentation of Sentence Stimuli From an Infant Word‐Finding Study3
More is Better: English Language Statistics are Biased Toward Addition3
The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions3
Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity3
Correction to “Introducing meta‐analysis in the evaluation of computational models of infant language development”3
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Are Emoji Processed Like Words? An Eye‐Tracking Study3
Amount of Learning and Signal Stability Modulate Emergence of Structure and Iconicity in Novel Signaling Systems3
Do Children Use Multi‐Word Information in Real‐Time Sentence Comprehension?3
Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment: Two Preregistered Replications of Paxton, Ungar, and Greene (2012)3
When the Ends Justify the Mean: The Endpoint Leverage Effect in Distribution Perception3
How Prior Knowledge, Gesture Instruction, and Interference After Instruction Interact to Influence Learning of Mathematical Equivalence3
Evaluative Deflation, Social Expectations, and the Zone of Moral Indifference3
The Cross‐Cultural Interplay of Visual Attention and Artistic Design in Comics: Insights From Eye‐Tracking Evidence on American and Japanese Readers3
Infants’ Attributions of Insides and Animacy in Causal Interactions3
Correction to: Pushing the Bounds of Bounded Optimality and Rationality3
Hierarchical Integration of Communicative and Spatial Perspective‐Taking Demands in Sensorimotor Control of Referential Pointing3
Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain3
Are There Cross‐Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law3
Bayes Optimal Integration of Social and Endogenous Uncertainty in Numerosity Estimation3
Understanding Imitation inPapio papio: The Role of Experience and the Presence of a Conspecific Demonstrator3
Relevance and the Role of Labels in Categorization3
What Can Bilingual Children Tell Us About the Developmental Relationship Between Vocabulary and Grammar?3
On the Problems Solved by Cognitive Processes3
Limited Evidence of an Association Between Language, Literacy, and Procedural Learning in Typical and Atypical Development: A Meta‐Analysis3
Visual Form and Event Semantics Predict Transitivity in Silent Gestures: Evidence for Compositionality3
Latent Relations at Steady‐state with Associative Nets3
Pupils Dilate More to Harder Vocabulary Words than Easier Ones3
Apply the Laws, if They are Good: Moral Evaluations Linearly Predict Whether Judges Should Enforce the Law3
Partner‐Specific Adaptation in Disfluency Processing2
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Accessing the States of Enhanced Cognition in a Gaming Context: The Importance of Psychophysiological Arousal2
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Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations2
Can a Robot Lie? Exploring the Folk Concept of Lying as Applied to Artificial Agents2
A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Adaptive Teaching2
Kin Cognition and Communication: What Talking, Gesturing, and Drawing About Family Can Tell us About the Way We Think About This Core Social Structure2
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Odor‐Color Associations Are Not Mediated by Concurrent Verbalization2
Heavy Tails and the Shape of Modified Numerals2
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