Cognition

Article	Citations
Self-persuasion does not imply self-deception	104
Tell me your (cognitive) budget, and I’ll tell you what you value	69
Editorial Board	57
The puzzle of wrongless injustice: Reflections on Kürthy and Sousa	55
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Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?	45
Cognition outstanding reviewer awards - 2025	42
Schema drift: Relational concepts and conceptual change	40
Mental cost of simple(st) physical exertion	39
Is an eye truly for an eye? Magnitude differences affect moral praise more than moral blame	39
How causal structure, causal strength, and foreseeability affect moral judgments	38
Model-based planning in structured foraging environments	38
Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity	38
Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory	38
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception	37
Associative learning or Bayesian inference? Revisiting backwards blocking reasoning in adults	35
Hidden size: Size representations in implicitly coded objects	34
Reaction-time signatures reveal divergent cognitive strategies underlying numerical decisions in monkeys and crows	33
Is a linguistic model needed to build abstract event representations?	33
Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness	32
Response modalities and the cognitive architecture underlying action control: Intra-modal trumps cross-modal action coordination	32
Dimensions underlying human understanding of the reachable world	30
Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language	30
Speech perception strategies shift instantly	30
Capacity limits in face detection	29

What can a half-million saccades tell us about distractor suppression?	29
Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too	29
Syllabic rhythm and prior linguistic knowledge interact with individual differences to modulate phonological statistical learning	29
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task	28
Is it good to feel bad about littering? Conflict between moral beliefs and behaviors for everyday transgressions	27
Bend but don't break: Prioritization protects working memory from displacement but leaves it vulnerable to distortion from distraction	26
Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge	26
Consequences of phonological variation for algorithmic word segmentation	26
Computational bases of domain-specific action anticipation superiority in experts: Kinematic invariants mapping	26
Automatic and strategic components of bilingual lexical alignment	25
The contribution of episodic long-term memory to working memory for bindings	25
Editorial Board	25
Interpersonal utility and children's social inferences from shared preferences	25
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Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval	25
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Contraction bias in temporal estimation	24
Who attributes what to whom? Moral values and relational context shape causal attribution to the person or the situation	24
Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories	24
Editorial to the special issue on morality and AI	23
Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning	23
Do individual differences in lexical reliance reflect states or traits?	23
Perceptual confidence has near perfect access to the existence of discrete representations, but only weak access to precision	22
How do humans want causes to combine their effects? The role of analytically-defined causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge	22
Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires	22
Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces	22
What drives regressions in reading? Insights from surprisal and saliency from language models	22
Editorial Board	22
Structural asymmetries in the representation of giving and taking events	21
Why do Americans foresee a grim future for their country? The influences of country well-being, national identity, and news coverage	21
Making sense of domain specificity	21
Speech categorization consistency is associated with language and reading abilities in school-age children: Implications for language and reading disorders	21
Diffindo! Precise language comprehension in older adulthood revealed by event-related brain potential studies of domain knowledge	21
Adults' number gestures focus children on numeracy	21
Social offloading: When joint action leads to cognitive facilitation	21
20-month-olds can use negative evidence while learning word meanings	21
The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory	21
Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators	21
Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations	21
Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text: Experimental evidence from Dutch and Mandarin	21
Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition probabilities	21
Planning on Autopilot? Associative Contributions to Proactive Control	20
Stronger effects of motion priors on sensitivity and bias in children	20
Changing your mind about the data: Updating sampling assumptions in inductive inference	20
Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony	20
Is numerical information always beneficial? Verbal and numerical cue-integration in additive and non-additive tasks	20
Most pragmatic responses to underinformative some-statements are associated with scalar implicatures	20
Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? Longitudinal and correlational evidence from children	20
How children come to (not) detect and apply multiple functions for objects: Rethinking perseveration and functional fixedness	20
The transposed word effect is consistent with serial word recognition and varies with reading speed	20

Working memory load affects intelligence test performance by reducing the strength of relational item bindings and impairing the filtering of irrelevant information	19
Tempering the tension between science and intuition	19
Study choices and inference in an acquired equivalence task	19
The assumed motor capabilities of a partner influence motor imagery in a joint serial disc transfer task	19
Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account	19
On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words	19
Corrigendum to “The effect of gaze contingencies on infants' looking preference” [Cognition 270 (2026) 106417]	19
Computational models reveal intuitive physics and statistical cues separately contribute to the visual perception of liquids	19
Recollective and non-recollective processes in working memory retrieval	19
Humans' extreme face recognition abilities challenge the well-established familiarity effect	19
The deflationary model of harm and moral wrongdoing: A rejoinder to Royzman & Borislow	19
Ignoring distractors takes its (memory) toll	18
Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in ‘scaffolded attention’	18
Spatial-numerical associations of manual response codes are strongly asymmetrical	18
Corrigendum to “Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference” [Cognition 217 (2021) 104915]	18
Generalization and false memory in acquired equivalence	18
Children perceive illusory faces in objects as male more often than female	17
Say it again, you'll be faster: Or on how the language production system keeps track of co-occurrences	17
Similarity and structured representation in human and nonhuman apes	17
Graphesthesia on human fingernails	17
Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow: Implications for language learning	17
Adaptive cognitive maps for curved surfaces in the 3D world	17
Language context flexibly modulates language control mechanisms	17
The role of prior beliefs in causal illusions	17
Does collaboration improve or impede finding remote associations?	17
A cognitive template for human face detection	17
Implicit prediction as a consequence of statistical learning	17
Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective	16
Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h	16
Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands	16
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks principle in colexification	16
Increasing entropy reduces perceived numerosity throughout the lifespan	16
Cross-species acoustic codes for yes and no in human nonverbal vocalizations	16
Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from case-marking in artificial languages	16
Motion extrapolation in sport expertise: Representational momentum and representational gravity in volleyball athletes	16
Continuous and discrete proportion elicit different cognitive strategies	16
Forever young: The end of history illusion in children	15
Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction: A cross-cultural investigation between Japan and The Netherlands	15
Spatial updating of gaze position in younger and older adults – A path integration-like process in eye movements	15
Chain shifts and transphonologizations are driven by homophony avoidance	15
Not just what you did, but how: Children see distributors that count as more fair than distributors who don't	15
Informationally redundant utterances elicit pragmatic inferences	15
Capacity limits in sentence comprehension: Evidence from dual-task judgements and event-related potentials	15
Editorial Board	15
Common and distinct neural substrates of rule- and similarity-based category learning	15
The influence of working memory mechanisms on false memories in immediate and delayed tests	15
The psychological link between decisions and communicative behavior based on verbal probabilities	15
Word recognition and learning in signing deaf toddlers	15
Children attribute higher social status to people who have extraordinary capabilities	15
Efficient sensory encoding predicts robust averaging	15
Editorial Board	15
Urges now, interests later: On the factors and dynamics of epistemic curiosity	15
Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?	15
Fundamental units of numerosity estimation	15
Categorisation of sex and age from facial appearance	15
The organizational principles of impression formation	15
Evidence for top-down constraints and form-based prediction in 4–5 year-olds' lexical processing	14
The paradoxical effects of time pressure on base rate neglect	14
Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information	14
Decoding face identity: A reverse-correlation approach using deep learning	14
Spatiotemporal dynamics of mouse tracking reveal general and selective control mechanisms of the congruency sequence effect in Simon tasks	14
Ethical judgments of poverty depictions in the context of charity advertising	14
Duration reproduction under memory pressure: Modeling the roles of visual memory set size in duration encoding and reproduction	14
Interplay of semantic and phonological predictions in language comprehension: Insights from the visual world paradigm	14
“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research	14
No selective integration required: A race model explains responses to audiovisual motion-in-depth	14
Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe	14
Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking	14
Dimensions of identity-representing belief	14
Revisiting causal pluralism: Intention, process, and dependency in cases of double prevention	14
Suppression-induced forgetting of motor sequences	13
Improving the diagnostic value of lineup rejections	13
Self-portrait of a stranger: Self-face representation and interoception in depersonalization experiences	13
Causal relational problem solving in toddlers	13
The object as the unit for state switching in visual working memory	13
Rational number representation by the approximate number system	13
Approximal simulations of the future: Evaluating the role of self-relevance	13
Linking space and ordinal position in working memory: A multi-level meta-analysis of the SPoARC effect	13
When the timing is right: The link between temporal coupling in dyadic interactions and emotion recognition	13
Image saliency predicts the expected looking behaviour of other agents	13

Heuristic interpretation as rational inference: A computational model of the N400 and P600 in language processing	13
When a look is enough: Neurophysiological correlates of referential speaker gaze in situated comprehension	13
Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving	13
Agency and social affordance shape visual perception	13
Children's representation of coincidence	13
Editorial Board	13
People expect artificial moral advisors to be more utilitarian and distrust utilitarian moral advisors	13
What is autonoetic consciousness? Examining what underlies subjective experience in memory and future thinking	13
If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement	13
Color singletons are suppressed under serial search, but not abrupt onsets.	13
Slippage of the attentional beam when searching in space and in time	13
Metacognitive judgements of change detection predict change blindness	13
Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition	13
Are there unconscious visual images in aphantasia? Development of an implicit priming paradigm	12
Continuous time causal structure induction with prevention and generation	12
Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis	12
Exploring power-law behavior in human gaze shifts across tasks and populations	12
Joint contributions of collaborative facilitation and social contagion to the development of shared memories in social groups	12
Face detection from patterns of shading and shadows: The role of overhead illumination in generating the familiar appearance of the human face	12
Editorial Board	12
Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications	12
The effect of abstract inter-chunk relationships on serial-order control	12
Seeing food fast and slow: Arousing pictures and words have reverse priorities in accessing awareness	12
Aesthetic speed preferences when viewing dance synchronize to a ‘natural’ pace of human movement	12
Learning the statistics of pronoun reference: By word or by category?	12
Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power	12
How many seconds was that? Teaching children about time does not refine their ability to track durations	12
Facets of pitch sensitivity in L2 prosody acquisition: Roles of domain-general and speech-specific individual differences	12
Computational underpinnings of partisan information processing biases and associations with depth of cognitive reasoning	12
Social interoception: Perceiving events during cardiac afferent activity makes people more suggestible to other people's influence	12
The development of creative search strategies	11
Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memory	11
Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis	11
The context of experienced sensory discrepancies shapes multisensory integration and recalibration differently	11
A developmental investigation of group concepts in the context of social hierarchy: Can the powerful impose group membership?	11
Many heads are more utilitarian than one, but are they also less deontological? Reply to Baron and Skovgaard-Olsen (2026)	11
Rule is a dual character concept	11
Ownership and convention	11
Hearing is believing: Lexically guided perceptual learning is graded to reflect the quantity of evidence in speech input	11
Action chunking as conditional policy compression	11
No need to forget, just keep the balance: Hebbian neural networks for statistical learning	11
Discourse-based constraints on long-distance dependencies generalize across constructions in English and French	11
Relative source credibility affects the continued influence effect: Evidence of rationality in the CIE	11
Conditionals in context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing	11
Evaluative mindsets can protect against the influence of false information	11
A novel task for measuring numerical bias among adults	11
From separate items to an integrated unit in visual working memory: Similarity chunking vs. configural grouping	11
Editorial Board	11
Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation	11
Does age affect metacognition? A cross-domain investigation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework	11
Competition for selection drives the nature of bilingual language control: Picture naming, but not reading aloud, triggers global inhibition of the dominant language	11
Some scales require cognitive effort: A systematic review on the role of working memory in scalar implicature derivation	11
Interaction of phonological biases and frequency in learning a probabilistic language pattern	11
Symbol superiority: Why $ is better remembered than ‘dollar’	11
Slowdowns in scalar implicature processing: Isolating the intention-reading costs in the Bott & Noveck task	11
On what it means to automatize a rule	11
Modeling regularization in language acquisition as noise-tolerant grammar selection	11
Bad victims: Moral transgressions against immoral victims are judged less harshly	11
On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds	11
Making a positive difference: Criticality in groups	11
Do I look like I'm sure?: Partial metacognitive access to the low-level aspects of one's own facial expressions	11
Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots	11
Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: Chinese and U.S. children's possibility judgments	11
Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration	11
The ‘Sentence Superiority Effect’ is due to guessing	10
Preschoolers decide who is knowledgeable, who to inform, and who to trust via a causal understanding of how knowledge relates to action	10
Refreshing the conversation about adaptation and perceived numerosity: A reply to Yousif, Clarke and Brannon	10
Editorial Board	10
Quantifier spreading and the question under discussion	10
A rational process model of reasoning causally with continuous variables	10
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean	10
One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions	10
The temporal structure of parent talk to toddlers about objects	10
Modeling the left digit effect in adult number line estimation	10
Statistical learning performance is impacted by a previous learning experience: A predictive eye-movement study	10
How workload and availability of spatial reference shape eye movement coupling in visuospatial working memory	10
A common signal-strength factor limits awareness and precise knowledge of multiple moving objects across the adult lifespan	10
Editorial Board	10
Motivated information search: Context-dependent efficiency in children and adults	10
Training “Zero” in preschoolers: Fast referential learning, slow relational integration	10
The relative balance between languages predicts the degree of engagement of global language control	10
Temporal dynamics of the semantic versus affective representations of valence during reversal learning	10
Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition	10
Why people choose deliberate ignorance in times of societal transformation	10
Disclosing sample bias fails to fully correct judgments of partisan extremity	10
Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence	10
Multiple predictions during language comprehension: Friends, foes, or indifferent companions?	10
The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds	10
Comparing human evaluations of eyewitness statements to a machine learning classifier under pristine and suboptimal lineup administration procedures	10
Systematicity in language and the fast and slow creation of writing systems: Understanding two types of non-arbitrary relations between orthographic characters and their canonical pronunciation	10
Corrigendum to “Language context flexibly modulates language control mechanisms” [Cognition 272 (2026) 106488]	10
Diversity in research on the psychology of language: A large-scale examination of sampling bias	10
Motivational drivers of costly information search	9
Contextual modulation of language comprehension in a dynamic neural model of lexical meaning	9
When metrics matter: How reasoning in different metrics impacts judgments of uncertainty	9