REPORT Biology, Society, or Choice: How Do Non-Experts Interpret Explanations of Behaviour? Daniel Nettle1,2, Willem E. Frankenhuis3,4, and Karthik Panchanathan5 1Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, EHESS, CNRS, Paris, France 2Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK 3Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 4Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany 5Department

REPORT Speech Segmentation and Cross-Situational Word Learning in Parallel Rodrigo Dal Ben1 Débora de Hollanda Souza1 , Isabella Toselli Prequero1, , and Jessica F. Hay2 a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: statistical learning, speech segmentation, cross-situational word learning, word learning 1Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil 2University

REPORT The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Arises from Human Psychology Iris Berent Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Keywords: Bewusstsein, the hard problem, intuitive psychology, dualism, essentialism a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Consciousness presents a “hard problem” to scholars. At stake is how the physical body gives rise to subjective experience.

REPORT Noun Sequence Statistics Affect Serial Recall and Order Recognition Memory Steven C. Schwering and Maryellen C. MacDonald Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA Keywords: Arbeitsgedächtnis, short-term memory, language a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Most theories of verbal working memory recognize that language comprehension and production

REPORT Gaps in the Lexicon Restrict Communication Lilia Rissman , Qiawen Liu, and Gary Lupyan Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA Keywords: communication, semantics, categories, lexicon, compositionality, Chinese a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Across languages, words carve up the world of experience in different ways. Zum Beispiel,

REPORT Spatial Scene Memories Are Biased Towards a Fixed Amount of Semantic Information Michelle R. Greene1,2 and Devanshi Trivedi1,3 1Bates College, Program in Neuroscience 2Barnard College, Columbia University 3Oxford University a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: boundary extension, scene perception ABSTRACT Scene memory has known spatial biases. Boundary extension is a

REPORT Can 18-Month-Olds Revise Attributed Beliefs? Ildikó Király1,2 , Katalin Oláh1, and Ágnes M. Kovács2 1MTA-ELTE Social Minds Research Group, Psychology Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 2Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Keywords: theory of mind, episodic memory, prospective and retrospective processes in mindreading, memory development a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u

REPORT Virtue Discounting: Observability Reduces Moral Actors’ Perceived Virtue Gordon T. Kraft-Todd1 , Max Kleiman-Weiner2 , and Liane Young1 1Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA 2School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Universität, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r

REPORT Eye Movement Traces of Linguistic Knowledge in Native and Non-Native Reading Yevgeni Berzak1,2 and Roger Levy2 1Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 2Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: eye movements,

REPORT The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi1,2, Caroline Andrews1,2, Monique Flecken3, Itziar Laka4, Moritz M. Daum2,5,6, Martin Meyer1,2,7, Balthasar Bickel1,2*, and Sebastian Sauppe1,2* 1Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3Department of Linguistics, Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Die Niederlande

REPORT “The Red Spots Are Now Lava, We Shouldn’t Step on Them”—The Joint Creation of Novel Arbitrary Social Contexts in Pretend Play Krisztina Andrási1,2,3 and Ildikó Király2,3 1Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 2Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 3MTA-ELTE ‘Lendület’ (Momentum) Social Minds Research Group, Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Keywords: pretend play,

REPORT The Pandemic in Words: Tracking Fast Semantic Changes via a Large-Scale Word Association Task Julieta Laurino1,2, Simon De Deyne3, Álvaro Cabana4,5*, and Laura Kaczer1,2* 1Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE)-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3Computational Cognitive Science Lab, Complex Human Data Hub, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 4Instituto de Fundamentos

REPORT The Bayesian Mutation Sampler Explains Distributions of Causal Judgments Ivar R. Kolvoort1,2, Nina Temme1, and Leendert van Maanen3 1Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r

REPORT Eight-Month-Old Infants Meta-Learn by Downweighting Irrelevant Evidence Francesco Poli1 , Tommaso Ghilardi1 , Rogier B. Mars1,2 , Max Hinne1 , and Sabine Hunnius1 1Donders Center for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Universität Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK a n o p e n a c c e s

REPORT The Development of Relational Reasoning: An Eyetracking Analysis of Strategy Use and Adaptation in Children and Adults Performing Matrix Completion Jesse Niebaum1 and Yuko Munakata2 a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l 1Center for Mind and Brain, Universität von Kalifornien, Davis, Davis, CA 2Department of Psychology, Universität von Kalifornien, Davis, Davis, CA

REPORT High Performance on a Pragmatic Task may Not Be the Result of Successful Reasoning: On the Importance of Eliciting Participants’ Reasoning Strategies Alexandra Mayn1 and Vera Demberg1,2 a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l 1Department of Language of Science and Technology, Saarland University 2Department of Computer Science, Saarland University Keywords: experimental stimuli,

REPORT Not Playing by the Rules: Exploratory Play, Rational Action, and Efficient Search Junyi Chu and Laura E. Schulz Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Keywords: play, exploration, rational action, preschoolers a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest children’s exploratory play is consistent

REPORT What is “Where”: Physical Reasoning Informs Object Location Tal Boger1 and Tomer Ullman2 1Department of Psychology, Yale Universität, New Haven, CT, USA 2Department of Psychology, Harvard Universität, Cambridge, MA, USA a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: object representation, perception, physical reasoning ABSTRACT A central puzzle the visual system tries to