Research Digest

Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 37-42 Abstract "Can the perception that one’s partner is investing effort generate a sense of commitment to a joint action? To test this, we developed a 2-player version of the classic snake game which ...

Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 19-27 Abstract "Current statistical learning theories predict that embedding implicit regularities within a task should further improve online performance, beyond general practice. We challenged this assumption by contrasting performance in a visual search task containing either ...

Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 1-18 Abstract "In his monograph Modularity of Mind (1983), philosopher Jerry Fodor argued that mental architecture can be partly decomposed into computational organs termed modules, which were characterized as having nine cooccurring features such ...

Published in: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 100, June 2018, 51-60 Abstract "To develop adult-like communication skills, children need to learn to converse not only with individuals from their local community, but also with second-language learners who might have foreign ...

Published in: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 100, June 2018, 32-50 Abstract "Current models of spoken word recognition suggest that multiple lexical candidates are activated in parallel upon hearing an utterance, with these lexical hypotheses competing with each other for ...