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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Associations between Socioeconomic Status, Cognition, and Brain Structure: Evaluating Potential Causal Pathways Through Mechanistic Models of Development56
Morningness‐Eveningness Preference, Time Perspective, and Passage of Time Judgments47
Communicating Through Acting: Affording Communicative Intention in Pantomimes36
Bayesian Surprise Predicts Human Event Segmentation in Story Listening30
Do They Know It's Christmash? Lexical Knowledge Directly Impacts Speech Perception26
Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science: A Document Similarity Analysis26
Visual Heuristics for Verb Production: Testing a Deep‐Learning Model With Experiments in Japanese25
Correction to "Cognitive science from the perspective of linguistic diversity"25
The Puzzling Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings25
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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 Claus23
Category Clustering and Morphological Learning20
Learned Insignificance of Credibility Signs20
Rational Sentence Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese20
Adults and Children Engage in Subtle and Fine‐Grained Action Interpretation and Evaluation in Moral Dilemmas20
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Social Network Structure Shapes the Formation of True and False Memories at the Collective Level18
The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences18
How Do Artificial Neural Networks Classify Musical Triads? A Case Study in Eluding Bonini's Paradox18
Can Large Language Models Counter the Recent Decline in Literacy Levels? An Important Role for Cognitive Science18
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MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note‐Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation17
Toward an Account of Intuitive Time16
Evidence for a Weak but Reliable Processing Advantage for False Beliefs Over Similar Nonmental States in Adults16
Erratum for Probing Lexical Ambiguity: Word Vectors Encode Number and Relatedness of Senses14
Scope of Message Planning: Evidence From Production of Sentences With Heavy Sentence‐Final NPs14
Why Do Children From Age 4 Fail True Belief Tasks? A Decision Experiment Testing Competence Versus Performance Limitation Accounts14
Finding Structure in Modern Dance13
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How do Antecedent Semantics Influence Pronoun Interpretation? Evidence from Eye Movements13
Dissociable Contributions of Goal‐Relevant Evidence and Goal‐Irrelevant Familiarity to Individual and Developmental Differences in Conflict Recognition13
The Development of Early Phonological Networks: An Analysis of Individual Longitudinal Vocabulary Growth12
Flexible Goals Require that Inflexible Perceptual Systems Produce Veridical Representations: Implications for Realism as Revealed by Evolutionary Simulations12
What Children with Developmental Language Disorder Teach Us About Cross‐Situational Word Learning12
Probing the Representational Structure of Regular Polysemy via Sense Analogy Questions: Insights from Contextual Word Vectors12
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Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings12
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How to Tell a Dualist?12
How Network Structure Shapes Languages: Disentangling the Factors Driving Variation in Communicative Agents12
Never Gonna Give You Up Even When It Is Suboptimal12
Learning Partial Word Meanings From Referentially Ambiguous Naming Events12
Anticipating theDamnReferent: How Comprehenders Rapidly Retrieve the Speaker's Attitude When Processing Negative Expressive Adjectives12
Euclid's Random Walk: Developmental Changes in the Use of Simulation for Geometric Reasoning12
Parameterizing Individual Differences in Fraction and Decimal Arithmetic11
Finish What you Started: 2‐Year‐Olds Motivated by a Preference for Completing Others’ Unfinished Actions in Instrumental Helping Contexts11
Action Selection in Everyday Activities: The Opportunistic Planning Model11
The Efficiency of Question‐Asking Strategies in a Real‐World Visual Search Task11
Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture11
Elephants are Gray: Linguistic Sensitivity and the Use of Generic Utterances in Pedagogical and Nonpedagogical Contexts11
Correction to “Evaluation of an Algorithmic‐Level Left‐Corner Parsing Account of Surprisal Effects”11
Modeling How Suffixes Are Learned in Infancy11
Expectations of Processing Ease, Informativeness, and Accuracy Guide Toddlers’ Processing of Novel Communicative Cues10
The Diversity of Strategies Used in Working Memory for Colors, Orientations, and Positions: A Quantitative Approach to a First‐Person Inquiry10
Differentiation and Generic Sentences10
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
The Sustained Attention Paradox: A Critical Commentary on the Theoretical Impossibility of Perfect Vigilance10
Determining the Relativity of Word Meanings Through the Construction of Individualized Models of Semantic Memory10
Cognitive Development as a Piece of the Language Learning Puzzle10
Do Humans Use Push‐Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center‐Embedded Sequences?10
Folk Intuitions About Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Evaluating the Combined Effects of Misunderstandings About Determinism and Motivated Cognition9
Does Stimulus Category Coherence Influence Visual Working Memory? A Rational Analysis9
A Computational Model of Context‐Dependent Encodings During Category Learning9
The Influences of Role, Action Contribution, and Outcome Feedback on Individual and Joint Sense of Agency9
Rational Redundancy in Referring Expressions: Evidence from Event‐related Potentials9
Erratum for: Can the Mind Command the Body, by Iris Berent, in Cognitive Science 45(12)9
The Shape of Blame: The Relationship Between Statistical Norms and Judgments of Blame and Praise9
Do Large Language Models Know What Humans Know?9
Exhaustivity and Anti‐Exhaustivity in the RSA Framework: Testing the Effect of Prior Beliefs9
The Computational Challenges of Means Selection Problems: Network Structure of Goal Systems Predicts Human Performance9
Are Rational Numbers Spontaneous? Natural Numbers Suffice all Processing by the Number Sense9
Complex Words as Shortest Paths in the Network of Lexical Knowledge9
Extracting Low‐Dimensional Psychological Representations from Convolutional Neural Networks8
The Multiple Perspectives Theory of Mental States in Communication8
Enriching Thinking Through Discourse8
Everyday Parameters for Episode‐to‐Episode Dynamics in the Daily Music of Infancy8
High‐Pitched Sound is Open and Low‐Pitched Sound is Closed: Representing the Spatial Meaning of Pitch Height8
Drift as a Driver of Language Change: An Artificial Language Experiment8
A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming8
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Unraveling Temporal Dynamics of Multidimensional Statistical Learning in Implicit and Explicit Systems: An X‐Way Hypothesis8
Beyond the Positivity Bias: The Processing and Integration of Self‐Relevant Feedback Is Driven by Its Alignment With Pre‐Existing Self‐Views8
Perception of Happening: How the Brain Deals with the No‐History Problem8
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Does Body‐Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z ‐Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space8
Is Categorization in Visual Working Memory a Way to Reduce Mental Effort? A Pupillometry Study8
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The Development of Turn‐Taking Skills in Typical Development and Autism8
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Cognitive Control Skills Are Related to Ambiguity Awareness in French‐Learning 5‐to‐6‐Year‐Olds: Implications for Reading Development8
Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience8
Can Large Language Models Simulate Spoken Human Conversations?7
Eye Movements, Pupil Dilation, and Conflict Detection in Reasoning: Exploring the Evidence for Intuitive Logic7
Perceptual Cue Weighting Matters in Real‐Time Integration of Acoustic Information During Spoken Word Recognition7
Language Universals in Sentence Length: Comparing Sentence Length Distributions of 10 Languages7
Water Is and Is Not H2O, Depending on Who You Ask: Conceptualizations of Water Vary Across Chemists and Laypeople7
Cognitive Science of Augmented Intelligence7
The Multifaceted Role of Self‐Generated Question Asking in Curiosity‐Driven Learning7
The Mechanisms of the Masked Priming That Do Not Work Jointly7
Semantic and Phonological Prediction in Language Comprehension: Pretarget Attraction Toward Semantic and Phonological Competitors in a Mouse Tracking Task7
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The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collective Cognitive Alignment7
The Neural Correlates of Analogy Component Processes7
Following Affirmative and Negated Rules7
Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis7
Perceived Group Identity Alters Task‐Unrelated Thought and Attentional Divergence During Conversations7
Turing Jest: Distributional Semantics and One‐Line Jokes7
Counterintuitive Concepts Across Domains: A Unified Phenomenon?7
The Semantic Organization of the English Odor Vocabulary7
Speaking of Kinds: How Correcting Generic Statements can Shape Children's Concepts7
The Less Meaningful the Understanding, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Perceptual Speech Tempo7
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Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine Learning Analysis of Large‐Scale Text Corpora6
Task and Timing Effects in Argument Role Sensitivity: Evidence From Production, EEG, and Computational Modeling6
Pushing the Bounds of Bounded Optimality and Rationality6
Language Signaling High Proportions and Generics Lead to Generalizing, but Not Essentializing, for Novel Social Kinds6
Reduced Implicit but not Explicit Knowledge of Cross‐Situational Statistical Learning in Developmental Dyslexia6
Predictive Sentence Processing at Speed: Evidence from Online Mouse Cursor Tracking6
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The Effect of Context and Individual Differences in Human‐Generated Randomness6
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Correction to “Does Momentary Outcome‐Based Reflection Shape Bioethical Views? A Pre‐Post Intervention Design”6
A SPoARC of Music: Musicians Spatialize Melodies but not All‐Comers6
Realistic About Reference Production: Testing the Effects of Domain Size and Saturation6
Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production6
Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long‐Distance Dependencies6
Coordinating Attention in Face‐to‐Face Collaboration: The Dynamics of Gaze, Pointing, and Verbal Reference6
A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning6
A Rose by Another Name? Odor Misnaming is Associated with Linguistic Properties6
The Role of Stimulus‐Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning6
The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development6
Predicting Definite and Indefinite Referents During Discourse Comprehension: Evidence from Event‐Related Potentials6
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How Likely Is it that I Would Act the Same Way: Modeling Moral Judgment During Uncertainty5
Recursive Numeral Systems Optimize the Trade‐off Between Lexicon Size and Average Morphosyntactic Complexity5
Copredication and Complexity Revisited: Reply to Murphy's Reply5
The Ideological Turing Test: A Behavioral Measure of Open‐Mindedness and Perspective‐Taking5
Constructing Memories, Episodic and Semantic5
Integrating Social Cognition Into Domain‐General Control: Interactive Activation and Competition for the Control of Action (ICON)5
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Social Expectations are Primarily Rooted in Reciprocity: An Investigation of Fairness, Cooperation, and Trustworthiness5
When Language Switching is Cost‐Free: The Effect of Preparation Time5
Grammar and Expectation in Active Dependency Resolution: Experimental and Modeling Evidence from Norwegian5
Visual Statistical Learning in Children Aged 3−9 Years5
The Information‐Processing Perspective on Categorization5
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When Gestures Do or Do Not Follow Language‐Specific Patterns of Motion Expression in Speech: Evidence from Chinese, English and Turkish5
Aging, Gesture Production, and Disfluency in Speech: A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults5
Leveraging Context for Perceptual Prediction Using Word Embeddings5
The Social Route to Abstraction: Interaction and Diversity Enhance Performance and Transfer in a Rule‐Based Categorization Task5
Dream Interpretation from a Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspective: The Case of Oneiromancy in Traditional China5
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Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech4
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How do Humans Overcome Individual Computational Limitations by Working Together?4
The Lexicon of Emoji? Conventionality Modulates Processing of Emoji4
Participatory Design for Cognitive Science: Examples From the Learning Sciences and Human−Computer Interaction4
Familiar Sequences Are Processed Faster Than Unfamiliar Sequences, Even When They Do Not Match the Count‐List4
A Computational Approach to Identifying Cultural Keywords Across Languages4
Memory Versus Expectation: Processing Relative Clauses in a Flexible Word Order Language4
Two Cultural Processing Asymmetries Drive Spatial Attention4
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and the Functions of Consciousness4
Exploring the Impact of Math Anxiety and Task Difficulty on Pupil Dilation in Adults and Young Children4
A Computational Framework to Study Hierarchical Processing in Visual Narratives4
Influence of Mental Training of Attentional Control on Autonomic Arousal Within the Framework of the Temporal Preparation of a Force Task4
Blind to Bias? Young Children Do Not Anticipate that Sunk Costs Lead to Irrational Choices4
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The Importance of Linguistic Factors:HeLikes Subject Referents4
Against Arguments From Diagnostic Reasoning4
From Human Child to Grey Parrot: Exploring a Common Model of Word Meaning Extension Across Species4
Thought Experiments as an Error Detection and Correction Tool4
The Role of Language Switching During Cross‐Talk Between Bilingual Language Control and Domain‐General Conflict Monitoring4
No Peace for the Wicked? Immorality Is Thought to Disrupt Intrapersonal Harmony, Impeding Positive Psychological States and Happiness4
The In‐Out Effect in the Perception and Production of Real Words4
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Musical Experience and Speech Processing: The Case of Whistled Words4
Childhood Experience Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities: A Cross‐Cultural Study4
The Idiom Processing Advantage is Explained By Surprisal4
When the “Tabula” is Anything but “Rasa:” What Determines Performance in the Auditory Statistical Learning Task?4
Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Crowd Sound Dynamics4
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The Effect of Cognitive Relevance of Directed Actions on Mathematical Reasoning4
Linguistic Redundancy and its Effects on Younger and Older Adults’ Real‐Time Comprehension and Memory4
Discovering Dynamical Laws for Speech Gestures4
Postural and Gestural Synchronization, Sequential Imitation, and Mirroring Predict Perceived Coupling of Dancing Dyads4
The Relationship Between Word Length and Average Information Content in Japanese4
Aspectual Processing Shifts Visual Event Apprehension4
Human Variability and the Explore–Exploit Trade‐Off in Recommendation4
“They're Not True Humans:” Beliefs about Moral Character Drive Denials of Humanity4
Varieties of Ignorance: Mystery and the Unknown in Science and Religion3
Strategic Task Decomposition in Joint Action3
Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity3
Latent Relations at Steady‐state with Associative Nets3
Do Children Use Multi‐Word Information in Real‐Time Sentence Comprehension?3
Erratum for “Chunking Versus Transitional Probabilities: Differentiating Between Theories of Statistical Learning”3
Do Companies Think and Feel? Mind Perception of Organizations3
Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment: Two Preregistered Replications of Paxton, Ungar, and Greene (2012)3
Does Lexical Coordination Affect Epistemic and Practical Trust? The Role of Conceptual Pacts3
Vision Verbs Emerge First in English Acquisition but Touch, not Audition, Follows Second3
Inducing Novel Sound–Taste Correspondences via an Associative Learning Task3
The Icing on the Cake. Or Is it Frosting? The Influence of Group Membership on Children's Lexical Choices3
Pupils Dilate More to Harder Vocabulary Words than Easier Ones3
Autistic Traits, Communicative Efficiency, and Social Biases Shape Language Learning in Autistic and Allistic Learners3
Broadening Cognitive Science in Nigeria: Foundation for a New Discipline3
Seeking Meaning: Incorporating Linguistic Information in Cross‐Situational Verb Learning3
Conversational Eyebrow Frowns Facilitate Question Identification: An Online Study Using Virtual Avatars3
How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)3
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When the Ends Justify the Mean: The Endpoint Leverage Effect in Distribution Perception3
Amount of Learning and Signal Stability Modulate Emergence of Structure and Iconicity in Novel Signaling Systems3
Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population‐Scale Game‐Based Cognitive Assessment3
The Keys to the Future? An Examination of Statistical Versus Discriminative Accounts of Serial Pattern Learning3
Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain3
Characterizing the Details of Spatial Construction: Cognitive Constraints and Variability3
Apply the Laws, if They are Good: Moral Evaluations Linearly Predict Whether Judges Should Enforce the Law3
Acquisition and Utilization of Recursive Rules in Motor Sequence Generation3
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Understanding Imitation inPapio papio: The Role of Experience and the Presence of a Conspecific Demonstrator3
A Linguistic–Sensorimotor Model of the Basic‐Level Advantage in Category Verification3
Bayes Optimal Integration of Social and Endogenous Uncertainty in Numerosity Estimation3
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What Can Cognitive Science Do for People?3
Intellectually Rigorous but Morally Tolerant: Exploring Moral Leniency as a Mediator Between Cognitive Style and “Utilitarian” Judgment3
Partner‐Specific Adaptation in Disfluency Processing2
Accessing the States of Enhanced Cognition in a Gaming Context: The Importance of Psychophysiological Arousal2
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The New‐Meaning Objection: A Reply to Nicolò D'Agruma2
Numbers in Context: Cardinals, Ordinals, and Nominals in American English2
The Relative Importance of Target and Judge Characteristics in Shaping the Moral Circle2
Exposing Individuals to Foreign Accent Increases their Trust in What Nonnative Speakers Say2
Predicting Outcomes in a Sequence of Binary Events: Belief Updating and Gambler's Fallacy Reasoning2
Great Minds Think Alike? Spatial Search Processes Can Be More Idiosyncratic When Guided by More Accurate Information2
Distinct Profiles for Beliefs About Religion Versus Science2
Finding Structure in One Child's Linguistic Experience2
Age‐Related Diversification and Specialization in the Mental Lexicon: Comparing Aggregate and Individual‐Level Network Approaches2
Face Age is Mapped Into Three‐Dimensional Space2
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People's Preferences for Inequality Respond Instantly to Changes in Status: A Simulated Society Experiment of Conflict Between the Rich and the Poor2
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We Do Not Speak Like This Here: The Role of Perceived Foreignness in Shaping Speaker‐Specific Social and Linguistic Inferences2
Three Simple Rules for Good Cognitive Science2
Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Recursive Pattern Processing in Human Adults2
Size‐Sound Iconicity in English‐Like Pseudowords Influences Referent Labeling and Prosody2
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