Department of Cognitive Science

Research output

Research output per year 1987 2010 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 327 Article
• 88 Meeting Abstract
• 45 Chapter
• 25 Paper
• 114 More
  • 23 Review Article
  • 18 Comment/debate
  • 13 Conference contribution
  • 11 Poster
  • 10 Book
  • 10 Other contribution
  • 9 Editorial
  • 6 Book/Film/Article review
  • 4 Abstract
  • 3 Preprint
  • 2 Commissioned report
  • 2 Conference article
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 1 Presentation
  • 1 Short survey

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Active Control of Learning Enhances Memory Across the Lifespan

  Ruggeri, A., Li, Y. L., Battisti, A. & Markant, D. B., 2025, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Spatial Memory 100%
  • Applied Research 50%

• Active control over exploration improves memory in toddlers

  Li, Y. L., Poli, F. & Ruggeri, A., 29 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2039, p. 20242555 20242555.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Exploratory Behavior 100%
  • Eye Movement 50%

• Discourse Referents in Infancy

  Brody, G. & Csibra, G., 2025, In: Psychological Review. p. 1-35 35 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Discourse Referent 100%
  • Developmental Psychology 20%

• Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?

  Szabó, E. & Kovács, Á. M., Jan 2025, In: Cognition. 254, 105929.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Toddlers 100%
  • Early Development 100%

• Dynamicity Predicts Inferred Temporal Order in Complex Sentences: Evidence from English, German, and Polish

  Marx, E., Iwan, O. & Wittenberg, E., 14 Feb 2025, In: Cognitive Science. 49, 2, p. e70038 33 p., e70038.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Relative Clause 100%

• Effects of Joint Action Observation on Children’s Imitation

  Rizvanović, N., Király, I. & Sebanz, N., Feb 2025, In: Behavioral Sciences. 15, 2, 208.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Grasping 100%
  • Social Interaction 100%

• Effects of noise and metabolic cost on cortical task representations

  Stroud, J. P., Wojcik, M., Jensen, K. T., Kusunoki, M., Kadohisa, M., Buckley, M. J., Duncan, J., Stokes, M. G. & Lengyel, M., 21 Jan 2025, In: eLife. 13, 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prefrontal Cortex 100%
  • Neural Circuit 66%
  • Cognitive Flexibility 33%

• Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal

  Dockendorff, M., Schmitz, L., Knoblich, G. & Vesper, C., Mar 2025, In: Acta Psychologica. 253, 12 p., 104724.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Temporal construal in sentence comprehension depends on linguistically encoded event structure

  Marx, E. & Wittenberg, E., Jan 2025, In: Cognition. 254, 105975.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Language Comprehension 100%
  • Construal 100%
  • Sentence Comprehension 100%
  • Mental Representation 50%

• Theory-Driven Development of an Embodied-Planning Paradigm: Integrating Methods for Advancing Theory

  Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., Juppen, L. & Raab, M., 2025, In: Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Theory Development 100%
  • Sport Psychology 50%

• Young Children's Understanding of Helping as Increasing Another Agent's Utility

  Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Pomiechowska, B., Tatone, D., Revencu, B., Mészégető, D. & Csibra, G., 23 Jan 2025, In: Open Mind. 9, p. 169-188 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prosocial Behavior 100%
• 2024

  Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households

  Deb, A., Saunders, D., Major-Smith, D., Dyble, M., E. Page, A., Salali, G. D., B. Migliano, A., Heintz, C. & Chaudhary, N., 1 Jul 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 45, 4, 106589.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Social Capital 100%
  • Leisure 100%
  • Welfare 50%
  • Logit Model 50%
  • Bayesian 50%

• Better Together: 14-Month-Old Infants Expect Agents to Cooperate

  Vizmathy, L., Begus, K., Knoblich, G., Gergely, G. & Curioni, A., 1 Feb 2024, In: Open Mind. 8, p. 1-16 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Videorecording 100%
  • Human 100%
  • Contrast 100%
  • Aptitude 100%
  • Options 100%

• Children Adapt Their Information Search to Goal and Statistical Structure of a Problem

  Török, G., Domberg, A. & Ruggeri, A., 22 Aug 2024, In: Developmental Psychology. 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Developmental trajectories 100%
  • High Reliability 25%
  • Preferential Treatment 25%
  • Complex Task 25%

• Children's information-search strategies: Operationalizing efficiency and effectiveness

  Török, G., Stanciu, O. & Ruggeri, A., Jun 2024, In: Child Development Perspectives. 18, 2, p. 57-63 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Effectiveness 100%
  • Efficiency 100%
  • Child 100%
  • Information 100%
  • Search Strategies 100%

• Chimpanzees demonstrate a behavioural signature of human joint action

  Constable, M. D., McEwen, E. S., Knoblich, G., Gibson, C., Addison, A., Nestor, S. & Call, J., 1 May 2024, In: Cognition. 246, p. 105747 105747.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Humans 100%
  • Task Demand 14%

• Communicative modulations of early action components support the prediction of distal goals

  Dockendorff, M., Schmitz, L., Vesper, C. & Knoblich, G., 27 Jun 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 6, p. e0306072 e0306072.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Social Interaction 100%

• Correction to: Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees

  Schweinfurth, M. K., Baldridge, D. B., Finnerty, K., Call, J. & Knoblich, G. K., 23 Sep 2024, In: Current Biology. 34, 18, p. 4338 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

  Open Access

• Crosstalk rebuttal: Marr's three levels of analysis are not useful as a framework for neuroscience

  Lengyel, M., May 2024, In: Journal of Physiology. 602, 9, p. 1919 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Discovering Temporally Compositional Neural Manifolds with Switching Infinite GPFA

  Yu, C., Sahani, M. & Lengyel, M., 4 Oct 2024, (In preparation) 20 p.

  Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint

  • Manifold 100%
  • Gaussian Process 100%
  • Factor Analysis 100%
  • Analysis Model 100%
  • Factor Analysis Model 55%

• Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts

  Pomiechowska, B., Bródy, G., Téglás, E. & Kovács, Á. M., 9 Jul 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 29, p. e2315149121 e2315149121.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sensation of Hearing 100%
  • Human Cognition 100%
  • Human Thought 100%

• Early pragmatic expectations in human infancy

  Tauzin, T., Jacob, P. & Gergely, G., 27 Jun 2024, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 47, 81 p., e143.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Communicative Interaction 100%
  • Speech Production 100%
  • Language Faculty 100%
  • Early Childhood 100%

• Eventuality type predicts temporal order inferences in discourse comprehension

  Marx, E. & Wittenberg, E., 28 May 2024, In: Glossa Psycholinguistics. 3, 1, p. 1-24 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Discourse Comprehension 100%
  • Eventuality 100%
  • Preregistered 100%
  • Predictably 100%
  • stative 16%

• Eye movements reflect active statistical learning

  Arató, J., Rothkopf, C. A. & Fiser, J., 1 May 2024, In: Journal of Vision. 24, 5, p. 17 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Reduce Uncertainty 100%
  • Visual Stimuli 100%
  • Contingent Stimulus 100%
  • Eye Movement 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 20%

• Flexible social monitoring as revealed by eye movements: Spontaneous mental state updating triggered by others’ unexpected actions

  Fogd, D., Sebanz, N. & Kovács, Á. M., 1 Aug 2024, In: Cognition. 249, 105812.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mental State 100%
  • Eye Movement 100%
  • Perspective Taking 28%

• Galician Perfective Periphrases among Complex Predicates: Degrees of Grammaticalization and the Possibility of a Perfect Tense

  Jardón, N., 27 May 2024, In: Languages. 9, 6, 196.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • periphrases 100%
  • Grammaticalization 100%
  • Participles 100%
  • perfect tense 100%
  • Complex predicates 100%

• Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner

  Tauzin, T., Call, J. & Gergely, G., 2024, In: Open Mind. 8, p. 1228-1246 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Infants' representations of michottean triggering events

  Kominsky, J. F. & Carey, S., 1 Sep 2024, In: Cognition. 250, 105844.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Triggering Event 100%
  • Elastic Scattering 100%
  • Physical Constraint 25%
  • Independent Event 25%
  • Visual Processing 25%

• Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

  Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., Axelsson, E. L., Baumer, J., Baumgartner, H. A., Bertels, J., Bhavsar, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., Capelier-Mourguy, A., Chijiiwa, H., Chin, C. S. S., Christner, N., Cirelli, L. K., Corbit, J., Daum, M. M. & Doan, T. & 74 others, Dresel, M., Exner, A., Fei, W., Forbes, S. H., Franchin, L., Frank, M. C., Geraci, A., Giraud, M., Gornik, M. E., Wiesmann, C. G., Grossmann, T., Hadley, I. M., Havron, N., Henderson, A. M. E., Matzner, E. H., Immel, B. A., Jankiewicz, G., Jędryczka, W., Kanakogi, Y., Kominsky, J. F., Lew-Williams, C., Liberman, Z., Liu, L., Liu, Y., Loeffler, M. T., Martin, A., Mayor, J., Meng, X., Misiak, M., Moreau, D., Nencheva, M. L., Oña, L. S., Otálora, Y., Paulus, M., Pepe, B., Pickron, C. B., Powell, L. J., Proft, M., Quinn, A. A., Rakoczy, H., Reschke, P. J., Roth-Hanania, R., Rothmaler, K., Schlegelmilch, K., Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Schmuckler, M. A., Schuwerk, T., Seehagen, S., Şen, H. H., Shainy, M. R., Silvestri, V., Soderstrom, M., Sommerville, J., Song, H. J., Sorokowski, P., Stutz, S. E., Su, Y., Taborda-Osorio, H., Tan, A. W. M., Tatone, D., Taylor-Partridge, T., Tsang, C. K. A., Urbanek, A., Uzefovsky, F., Visser, I., Wertz, A. E., Williams, M., Wolsey, K., Wong, T. T. Y., Woodward, A. M., Wu, Y., Zeng, Z., Zimmer, L. & Hamlin, J. K., 26 Nov 2024, In: Developmental Science. 28, 1, e13581.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Preregistered 100%

• Marr's three levels of analysis are useful as a framework for neuroscience

  Lengyel, M., 16 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Physiology. 602, 9, p. 1911-1914 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Me or we? Action-outcome learning in synchronous joint action

  Marschner, M., Dignath, D. & Knoblich, G., 1 Jun 2024, In: Cognition. 247, 105785.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mental Representation 100%
  • Goal-Directed Behavior 50%

• Neural correlates tracking different aspects of the emerging representation of novel visual categories

  Jellinek, S. & Fiser, J., 31 Jan 2024, In: Cerebral Cortex. 34, 2, bhad544.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Evoked Potential 100%

• Prescribing Agreement Improves Judgments and Decisions

  Voinov, P. & Knoblich, G., 26 Nov 2024, In: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 37, 5, e70004.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Verbal Communication 100%

• Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate

  Revencu, B. & Csibra, G., 1 Jul 2024, In: Cognitive Development. 71, 5 p., 101487.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • External Validity 100%
  • Early Development 100%
  • Input Condition 50%

• Response sub-additivity and variability quenching in visual cortex

  Goris, R. L. T., Coen-Cagli, R., Miller, K. D., Priebe, N. J. & Lengyel, M., 19 Feb 2024, In: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 25, 4, p. 237-252 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Visual Cortex 100%
  • Brain 50%
  • Phenomenology 50%

• Selective advantage of climbers in spatial navigation tasks

  Ruggeri, A., Stanciu, O. & Völter, C., 14 Feb 2024, In: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 22, 2, p. 428-445 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Navigation Task 100%
  • Cognitive Function 100%
  • Training 100%
  • Entire Sequence 50%
  • Extensive Training 50%

• Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game

  McEllin, L. & Sebanz, N., 29 Jan 2024, In: Psychological Science. 35, 2, p. 202-212 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Cooperativity 100%

• The computational foundations of dynamic coding in working memory

  Stroud, J. P., Duncan, J. & Lengyel, M., 1 Jul 2024, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28, 7, p. 614-627 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Working Memory 100%
  • Neural Network Model 100%
  • Memory Maintenance 50%
  • Neural Network 16%
  • Network Model 16%

• The Differential Impact of Active Learning on Children’s Memory

  Stanciu, O., Jones, A., Metzner, N., Fandakova, Y. & Ruggeri, A., 29 Feb 2024, In: Developmental Psychology. 60, 5, p. 904-915 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The importance of epistemic intentions in ascription of responsibility

  Kovacevic, K. M., Bonalumi, F. & Heintz, C., 12 Jan 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, p. 1183 1183.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Intention 100%
  • Information 100%
  • Worse Outcome 80%
  • Knowledge 50%
  • Judgement 20%

• The influence of another’s actions and presence on perspective taking

  Lukošiūnaitė, I., Kovács, Á. M. & Sebanz, N., 29 Feb 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, p. 4971 4971.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Perspective Taking 100%
  • Research 40%
  • Abilities 20%
  • Goal 20%

• The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships

  Tatone, D. & Csibra, G., 24 Apr 2024, In: Current Directions in Psychological Science. 33, 3, p. 159-165 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Social Cognition 100%

• Toddlers strategically adapt their information search

  Poli, F., Li, Y. L., Naidu, P., Mars, R. B., Hunnius, S. & Ruggeri, A., 10 Jul 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 10 p., 5780.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Information Seeking 100%
  • Eye Movement 50%
  • Markov Model 50%

• When is it appropriate to ask a question? The role of age, social context, and personality

  Ransom, A., Ruggeri, A. & Ronfard, S., 1 Sep 2024, In: Journal of experimental child psychology. 245, 105976.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Five-Factor Model of Personality 100%

• Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts

  Grueneisen, S., Török, G., Wathiyage Don, A. & Ruggeri, A., May 2024, In: Child Development. 95, 3, p. 1023-1031 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Task Demand 100%
  • Social Challenge 100%
• 2023

  Action planning and execution cues influence economic partner choice

  McEllin, L., Fiedler, S. & Sebanz, N., 1 Dec 2023, In: Cognition. 241, p. 105632 105632.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prisoner 100%
  • Human Decision 50%

• Animal Communication in Linguistic and Cognitive Perspective

  Scott-Phillips, T. & Heintz, C., 17 Jan 2023, In: Annual Review of Linguistics. 9, p. 93-111 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Ancestry 100%
  • Animal Communication 100%
  • Communication 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • Great apes 50%

• Bayesian nonparametric (non-)renewal processes for analyzing neural spike train variability

  Liu, D. & Lengyel, M., 2023, In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 36, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

  • Renewal Process 100%
  • Place Cell 100%
  • Head Direction Cell 50%
  • Temporal Resolution 50%
  • Neural Computation 50%

• Being ostensive (reply to commentaries on Expression unleashed)

  Heintz, C. & Scott-Phillips, T., 17 Feb 2023, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 46, p. e20 e20.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Communication 100%
  • Human Behavior 66%
  • Humans 50%
  • Human Communication 33%
  • Goals 25%

• Can 18-Month-Olds Revise Attributed Beliefs?

  Király, I., Oláh, K. & Kovács, Á. M., 21 Jul 2023, In: Open Mind. 7, p. 435-444 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Infant 100%
  • Social Interaction 16%
  • Person 16%
  • Belief Revision 16%