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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Following Affirmative and Negated Rules42
Probing Lexical Ambiguity in Chinese Characters via Their Word Formations: Convergence of Perceived and Computed Metrics37
Amount of Learning and Signal Stability Modulate Emergence of Structure and Iconicity in Novel Signaling Systems31
Representational Processes of Actions Toward and Away from the Body26
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Uncertain Facts or Uncertain Values? Testing the Distinction Between Empirical and Normative Uncertainty in Moral Judgments23
Automatization through Practice: The Opportunistic‐Stopping Phenomenon Called into Question22
Counterintuitive Concepts Across Domains: A Unified Phenomenon?22
Do Companies Think and Feel? Mind Perception of Organizations22
Referential Form and Memory for the Discourse History21
Sad Art Gives Voice to Our Own Sadness21
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The Less Meaningful the Understanding, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Perceptual Speech Tempo20
Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations20
Great Minds Think Alike? Spatial Search Processes Can Be More Idiosyncratic When Guided by More Accurate Information19
Can Negation Be Depicted? Comparing Human and Machine Understanding of Visual Representations18
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Semantic Similarity of Alternatives Fostered by Conversational Negation18
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Strategic Task Decomposition in Joint Action17
Rational Sentence Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese16
Children's Ideas About What Can Really Happen: The Impact of Age and Religious Background16
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Easier Said Than Done? Task Difficulty's Influence on Temporal Alignment, Semantic Similarity, and Complexity Matching Between Gestures and Speech16
Understanding Imitation inPapio papio: The Role of Experience and the Presence of a Conspecific Demonstrator16
Plans or Outcomes: How Do We Attribute Intelligence to Others?16
Cross‐situational Learning From Ambiguous Egocentric Input Is a Continuous Process: Evidence Using the Human Simulation Paradigm16
Word Senses as Clusters of Meaning Modulations: A Computational Model of Polysemy15
The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study13
A Quantum Geometric Framework for Modeling Color Similarity Judgments13
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Harnessing Computational Complexity Theory to Model Human Decision‐making and Cognition12
Kin Cognition and Communication: What Talking, Gesturing, and Drawing About Family Can Tell us About the Way We Think About This Core Social Structure12
Defragmenting Learning12
An Impoverished Epistemology Holds Back Cognitive Science Research12
Characterizing the Details of Spatial Construction: Cognitive Constraints and Variability12
Do They Know It's Christmash? Lexical Knowledge Directly Impacts Speech Perception11
Understanding the Role of Eye Movement Pattern and Consistency in Isolated English Word Reading Through Hidden Markov Modeling11
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What Could Go Wrong: Adults and Children Calibrate Predictions and Explanations of Others' Actions Based on Relative Reward and Danger11
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 Claus10
Not When But Whether: Modality and Future Time Reference in English and Dutch10
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Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science: A Document Similarity Analysis10
Embodying Similarity and Difference: The Effect of Listing and Contrasting Gestures During U.S. Political Speech10
Robust Processing Advantage for Binomial Phrases with Variant Conjunctions10
“Big” Sounds Bigger in More Widely Spoken Languages10
Indefinite Pronouns Optimize the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade‐Off10
Visual Heuristics for Verb Production: Testing a Deep‐Learning Model With Experiments in Japanese9
Causal Judgment in the Wild: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election9
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A Neural Dynamic Model of the Perceptual Grounding of Spatial and Movement Relations9
Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience9
People's Preferences for Inequality Respond Instantly to Changes in Status: A Simulated Society Experiment of Conflict Between the Rich and the Poor9
High‐Pitched Sound is Open and Low‐Pitched Sound is Closed: Representing the Spatial Meaning of Pitch Height9
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Testing the Reference of Biological Kind Terms9
Pupils Dilate More to Harder Vocabulary Words than Easier Ones8
Does Momentary Outcome‐Based Reflection Shape Bioethical Views? A Pre‐Post Intervention Design8
Neurodualism: People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain8
Do Children Use Multi‐Word Information in Real‐Time Sentence Comprehension?8
Solving Bongard Problems With a Visual Language and Pragmatic Constraints8
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Bayes Optimal Integration of Social and Endogenous Uncertainty in Numerosity Estimation8
A Linguistic–Sensorimotor Model of the Basic‐Level Advantage in Category Verification8
Two Computational Approaches to Visual Analogy: Task‐Specific Models Versus Domain‐General Mapping8
The Semantic Organization of the English Odor Vocabulary8
Implicit Association Test (IAT) Studies Investigating Pitch‐Shape Audiovisual Cross‐modal Associations Across Language Groups8
Testing the Social Function of Metacognition for Common‐Pool Resource Use8
Cognitive Science of Augmented Intelligence8
Is Nonsymbolic Arithmetic Truly “Arithmetic”? Examining the Computational Capacity of the Approximate Number System in Young Children8
Perceptual Cue Weighting Matters in Real‐Time Integration of Acoustic Information During Spoken Word Recognition8
Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives8
When the Ends Justify the Mean: The Endpoint Leverage Effect in Distribution Perception8
Compositionality in a Parallel Architecture for Language Processing8
Iconicity and Diachronic Language Change7
Pitches that Wire Together Fire Together: Scale Degree Associations Across Time Predict Melodic Expectations7
The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collective Cognitive Alignment7
Effect of Repeated Exposure to the Visual Environment on Young Children's Attention7
Category Clustering and Morphological Learning7
Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment: Two Preregistered Replications of Paxton, Ungar, and Greene (2012)7
Morningness‐Eveningness Preference, Time Perspective, and Passage of Time Judgments7
Mutual Exclusivity in Pragmatic Agents7
Concepts of God and Germs: Social Mechanisms and Cognitive Heuristics7
Semantic Attraction in Sentence Comprehension7
Exposing Individuals to Foreign Accent Increases their Trust in What Nonnative Speakers Say7
Understanding “Why:” How Implicit Questions Shape Explanation Preferences7
On the Connection Between Language Change and Language Processing7
Musical Garden Paths: Evidence for Syntactic Revision Beyond the Linguistic Domain7
A Recurrent Connectionist Model of Melody Perception: An Exploration Using TRACX27
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The Puzzling Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings7
Action Generalization Across Group Members: Action Efficiency Matters6
Conversational Eyebrow Frowns Facilitate Question Identification: An Online Study Using Virtual Avatars6
Limits on the Agent‐First Strategy: Evidence from Children's Comprehension of a Transitive Construction in Korean6
A Simple Computational Model of Semantic Priming in 18‐Month‐Olds6
Semantic and Phonological Prediction in Language Comprehension: Pretarget Attraction Toward Semantic and Phonological Competitors in a Mouse Tracking Task6
Surface and Contextual Linguistic Cues in Dialog Act Classification: A Cognitive Science View6
Speaking of Kinds: How Correcting Generic Statements can Shape Children's Concepts6
Finding Hierarchical Structure in Binary Sequences: Evidence from Lindenmayer Grammar Learning6
Action Predictions Facilitate Embodied Geometric Reasoning6
Does Infant‐Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation6
The Neural Correlates of Analogy Component Processes6
Problems and Mysteries of the Many Languages of Thought6
Erratum for “Chunking Versus Transitional Probabilities: Differentiating Between Theories of Statistical Learning”6
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Intent‐Based Moral Judgment6
Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain6
Multi‐Level Linguistic Alignment in a Dynamic Collaborative Problem‐Solving Task6
Exploring Patterns of Stability and Change in Caregivers' Word Usage Across Early Childhood6
Size‐Sound Iconicity in English‐Like Pseudowords Influences Referent Labeling and Prosody6
Is the Mind Inherently Predicting? Exploring Forward and Backward Looking in Language Processing6
Chunking Versus Transitional Probabilities: Differentiating Between Theories of Statistical Learning6
Autistic Traits, Communicative Efficiency, and Social Biases Shape Language Learning in Autistic and Allistic Learners6
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Bayesian Surprise Predicts Human Event Segmentation in Story Listening6
Associations between Socioeconomic Status, Cognition, and Brain Structure: Evaluating Potential Causal Pathways Through Mechanistic Models of Development6
Dynamic Motion and Human Agents Facilitate Visual Nonadjacent Dependency Learning6
Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics6
Apply the Laws, if They are Good: Moral Evaluations Linearly Predict Whether Judges Should Enforce the Law5
Iconicity in Ideophones: Guessing, Memorizing, and Reassessing5
Hierarchical Integration of Communicative and Spatial Perspective‐Taking Demands in Sensorimotor Control of Referential Pointing5
Role of Metacognitive Confidence Judgments in Curiosity: Different Effects of Confidence on Curiosity Across Epistemic and Perceptual Domains5
Mapping Word to World in ASL: Evidence from a Human Simulation Paradigm5
The Mindset of Cognitive Science5
Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity5
The Influence of Memory on Visual Perception in Infants, Children, and Adults5
Evaluative Deflation, Social Expectations, and the Zone of Moral Indifference5
Adapting to Individual Differences: An Experimental Study of Language Evolution in Heterogeneous Populations5
Developing Concepts of Authenticity: Insights From Parents’ and Children's Conversations About Historical Significance5
Cognition and Society: Prolegomenon to a Dialog5
Flexible Conceptual Representations5
The Emergence of Natural Language Quantification5
The Multifaceted Role of Self‐Generated Question Asking in Curiosity‐Driven Learning5
Relevance and the Role of Labels in Categorization5
How Do Artificial Neural Networks Classify Musical Triads? A Case Study in Eluding Bonini's Paradox5
Toward an Account of Intuitive Time5
Prediction From Minimal Experience: How People Predict the Duration of an Ongoing Epidemic5
Correction to: Pushing the Bounds of Bounded Optimality and Rationality5
Iterated Learning Models of Language Change: A Case Study of Sino‐Korean Accent5
MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note‐Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation5
Cognitive Science in a Nutshell5
Perceived Group Identity Alters Task‐Unrelated Thought and Attentional Divergence During Conversations5
The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions5
Computational Modeling of the Segmentation of Sentence Stimuli From an Infant Word‐Finding Study5
ASmartModel of Imaginal Perspective Taking5
Reasoning AboutWant5
Monotone Quantifiers Emerge via Iterated Learning5
Scientists Invent New Hypotheses, Do Brains?5
Similarity Judgment Within and Across Categories: A Comprehensive Model Comparison5
Infants’ Attributions of Insides and Animacy in Causal Interactions4
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Limited Evidence of an Association Between Language, Literacy, and Procedural Learning in Typical and Atypical Development: A Meta‐Analysis4
Extensional Superposition and Its Relation to Compositionality in Language and Thought4
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Perceptual Dissimilarity Analysis Distinguishes Grapheme‐Color Synesthetes from Nonsynesthetes4
How Prior Knowledge, Gesture Instruction, and Interference After Instruction Interact to Influence Learning of Mathematical Equivalence4
Can Large Language Models Counter the Recent Decline in Literacy Levels? An Important Role for Cognitive Science4
Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives4
The Puzzle of Evaluating Moral Cognition in Artificial Agents4
Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed‐Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming App4
Adults and Children Engage in Subtle and Fine‐Grained Action Interpretation and Evaluation in Moral Dilemmas4
The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences4
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Infant Phonetic Learning as Perceptual Space Learning: A Crosslinguistic Evaluation of Computational Models4
The Effect of Context and Individual Differences in Human‐Generated Randomness4
Eye Movements, Pupil Dilation, and Conflict Detection in Reasoning: Exploring the Evidence for Intuitive Logic4
What Can Bilingual Children Tell Us About the Developmental Relationship Between Vocabulary and Grammar?4
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Expanding Echo: Coordinated Head Articulations as Nonmanual Enhancements in Sign Language Phonology4
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Generalization Bias in Science3
A Social Interpolation Model of Group Problem‐Solving3
Latent Relations at Steady‐state with Associative Nets3
Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Multimodal Neural Networks3
The Bias–Variance Tradeoff in Cognitive Science3
Choosing Among Undesirable Options: Children Consider Desirability of Available Choices in Evaluation of Socially Mindful Actions3
Global and Local Feature Distinctiveness Effects in Language Acquisition3
Items Outperform Adjectives in a Computational Model of Binary Semantic Classification3
Temporal Gestures in Different Temporal Perspectives3
Uncovering the Structure of Semantic Representations Using a Computational Model of Decision‐Making3
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Tree‐Huggers Versus Human‐Lovers: Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization Predict Valuing Nature Over Outgroups3
The Other Accent Effect in Talker Recognition: Now You See It, Now You Don't3
Statistical Learning of Language: A Meta‐Analysis Into 25 Years of Research3
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Gepo with a G, or Jepo with a J? Skilled Readers Generate Orthographic Expectations for Novel Spoken Words Even When Spelling is Uncertain3
Introducing Meta‐analysis in the Evaluation of Computational Models of Infant Language Development3
Are There Cross‐Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law3
Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis3
Attentional Strategies and the Transition From Subitizing to Estimation in Numerosity Perception3
Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Falsity of the Antecedent3
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External Time Monitoring in Time‐Based Prospective Memory: An Integrative Framework3
Is More Always Better? Testing the Addition Bias for German Language Statistics3
Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning3
Evidence for a Weak but Reliable Processing Advantage for False Beliefs Over Similar Nonmental States in Adults3
An Analogical Model of Pretense3
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Quantifying Talker Variability in North‐American Infants' Daily Input3
Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences3
Realistic About Reference Production: Testing the Effects of Domain Size and Saturation3
Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly3
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Correction to “Introducing meta‐analysis in the evaluation of computational models of infant language development”3
Generic Language for Social and Animal Kinds: An Examination of the Asymmetry Between Acceptance and Inferences3
Looking for Wugs in all the Right Places: Children's Use of Prepositions in Word Learning3
Anticipatory Processing in a Verb‐Initial Mayan Language: Eye‐Tracking Evidence During Sentence Comprehension in Tseltal3
Discerning Mouse Trajectory Features With the Drift Diffusion Model3
The Power of Ignoring: Filtering Input for Argument Structure Acquisition3
How Does Topicality Affect the Choice of Referential Form? Evidence From Mandarin3
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Are Emoji Processed Like Words? An Eye‐Tracking Study3
Large Language Models: A Historical and Sociocultural Perspective3
The Puzzle of Belief Requires an Evolutionary Key to be Solved3
Simultaneity as an Emergent Property of Efficient Communication in Language: A Comparison of Silent Gesture and Sign Language3
Age‐Related Differences in Moral Judgment: The Role of Probability Judgments3
The Role of Emotional Content and Perceptual Saliency During the Programming of Saccades Toward Faces3
Visual Form and Event Semantics Predict Transitivity in Silent Gestures: Evidence for Compositionality3
The Meaning of Motion Lines?: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Static Depiction of Motion3
The Persistence of Priming: Exploring Long‐lasting Syntactic Priming Effects in Children and Adults2
Finding Structure in Modern Dance2
Towards a Cognitive Theory of Cyber Deception2
Dissociable Contributions of Goal‐Relevant Evidence and Goal‐Irrelevant Familiarity to Individual and Developmental Differences in Conflict Recognition2
A Rose by Another Name? Odor Misnaming is Associated with Linguistic Properties2
Simple Auto‐Associative Networks Succeed at Universal Generalization of the Identity Function and Reduplication Rule2
The Formal Structure of Kind Representations2
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Co‐Occurrence, Extension, and Social Salience: The Emergence of Indexicality in an Artificial Language2
Single‐Stage Prediction Models Do Not Explain the Magnitude of Syntactic Disambiguation Difficulty2
Pushing the Bounds of Bounded Optimality and Rationality2
Language Signaling High Proportions and Generics Lead to Generalizing, but Not Essentializing, for Novel Social Kinds2
A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning2
Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production2
The Development of Cognitive Reflection in China2
Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study2
Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings2
Task and Timing Effects in Argument Role Sensitivity: Evidence From Production, EEG, and Computational Modeling2
Erratum for Probing Lexical Ambiguity: Word Vectors Encode Number and Relatedness of Senses2
Can Language Models Trained on Written Monologue Learn to Predict Spoken Dialogue?2
Emerging Roots: Investigating Early Access to Meaning in Maltese Auditory Word Recognition2
Composition as Nonlinear Combination in Semantic Space: A Computational Characterization of Compound Processing2
The Role of Stimulus‐Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning2
The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development2
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