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REPORT Toward Cumulative Cognitive Science: A Comparison of Meta-Analysis, Mega-Analysis, and Hybrid Approaches Ezequiel Koile1,2 and Alejandrina Cristia3 1National Research University Higher School of Economics 2Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History 3Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, De(cid:1)partement d’e(cid:1)tudes cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University Keywords: cumulative science, open science, meta-analyses, mega-analyses, data simulation, fixed effects,

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REPORT The Reading Signatures of Agreement Attraction Sol Lago1 , Carlos Acuña Fariña2, and Enrique Meseguer3 1Goethe University Frankfurt 2University of Santiago de Compostela 3University of La Laguna Keywords: agreement attraction, comprehension, cue-based retrieval, similarity-based interference, Spanish a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT l D o w n o a d

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PERSPECTIVE Do Infants Really Learn Phonetic Categories? Naomi H. Feldman1* , Sharon Goldwater2*, Emmanuel Dupoux3,4, and Thomas Schatz1 1Department of Linguistics and UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MARYLAND, USA 2School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 3Cognitive Machine Learning (ENSEHESSPSL Research UniversityCNRSINRIA), Paris, France 4Facebook A.I. Research, Paris, France *These authors contributed equally to this

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REPORT Computing Joint Action Costs: Co-Actors Minimize the Aggregate Individual Costs in an Action Sequence Georgina Török1 , Oana Stanciu1, Natalie Sebanz1, and Gergely Csibra1,2 1Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University 2Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: joint action, cost computation, efficiency,

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REPORT To Believe Is Not to Think: A Cross-Cultural Finding Neil Van Leeuwen1, Kara Weisman2*, and Tanya Marie Luhrmann3 1Department of Philosophy and Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University 2Department of Psychology, Université de Californie, Riverside 3Department of Anthropology, Stanford University *Kara Weisman was at Stanford University (Psychology and Anthropology Departments) at the time of the writing of this article. a n o p e n

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REPORT For 19-Month-Olds, What Happens On-Screen Stays On-Screen Barbu Revencu1 and Gergely Csibra1,2 1Cognitive Development Center, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University 2Birkbeck College, University of London Keywords: cognitive development, representations, animation, fiction, methodology a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT l D o w n o a d e d

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REPORT Prior Beliefs Modulate Projection Judith Degen1 and Judith Tonhauser2 1Department of Linguistics, Stanford University 2Department of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart Keywords: experimental semantics, experimental pragmatics, projection a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Beliefs about the world affect language processing and interpretation in several empirical domains. In two experiments, nous

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REPORT Does Local Coherence Lead to Targeted Regressions and Illusions of Grammaticality? Dario Paape1 , Shravan Vasishth1, and Ralf Engbert2 1Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 2Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Keywords: local coherence, eye tracking, grammaticality judgments, targeted regressions

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REPORT “Impossible” Somatosensation and the (Ir)rationality of Perception Isabel Won1,2, Steven Gross1,2,3, and Chaz Firestone1,2,3 1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MARYLAND, USA 2Department of Cognitive Science, Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MARYLAND, USA 3Department of Philosophy, Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MARYLAND, USA a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l

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REPORT SAYCam: A Large, Longitudinal Audiovisual Dataset Recorded From the Infant’s Perspective Jessica Sullivan1, Michelle Mei1, Andrew Perfors2, Erica Wojcik1, and Michael C. Frank3 a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: headcam, first-person video, child development 1Skidmore College 2University of Melbourne 3Stanford University ABSTRACT We introduce a new resource: the SAYCam corpus.

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REPORT Knowing How You Know: Toddlers Reevaluate Words Learned From an Unreliable Speaker Isabelle Dautriche1,2, Louise Goupil3, Kenny Smith4, and Hugh Rabagliati4 1Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France 2Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France 3School of Psychology, University of East London, Londres, UK 4University of Edinburgh, Édimbourg, UK Keywords: source monitoring, word learning, selective trust, metacognition

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REPORT Grouping Mechanisms in Numerosity Perception Lorenzo Ciccione 1,2,3 and Stanislas Dehaene1,2 1Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 2Collège de France, Paris, France 3PSL University, Paris, France a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: numerical cognition, arithmetics, mathematics, groupitizing, multiplication l D o

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REPORT Coordination and Consonance Between Interacting, Improvising Musicians Matthew Setzler 1 and Robert Goldstone1,2 1Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University 2Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: joint action, distributed cognition, improvisation, time series modeling, music ABSTRACT Joint action (JA) is ubiquitous in our

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REPORT Numeral Systems Across Languages Support Efficient Communication: From Approximate Numerosity to Recursion Yang Xu 1∗, Emmy Liu2∗, and Terry Regier3 1Department of Computer Science, Cognitive Science Program, University of Toronto 2Computer Science and Cognitive Science Programs, University of Toronto 3Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science Program, Université de Californie, Berkeley a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u

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PERSPECTIVE What Does Dorsal Cortex Contribute to Perception? Erez Freud 1, Marlene Behrmann 2, and Jacqueline C. Snow 3 1Department of Psychology and the Centre for Vision Research, York University 2Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University 3Department of Psychology, The University of Nevada Reno Keywords: affordance two visual pathways, object recognition, vision-for-perception, vision-for-action, ABSTRACT According to the influential “Two Visual Pathways”

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REPORT Communicating Compositional Patterns Eric Schulz1, Francisco Quiroga2, and Samuel J. Gershman3 1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics 2University College London 3Harvard University a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: communication games, cultural transmission, compositionality, function learning ABSTRACT How do people perceive and communicate structure? We investigate this question by letting participants

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REPORT Inconvenient Samples: Modeling Biases Related to Parental Consent by Coupling Observational and Experimental Results Yue Yu 1 , Patrick Shafto 2 , and Elizabeth Bonawitz 2 1Centre for Research in Child Development, National Institute of Education, Singapore 2Rutgers University-Newark Keywords: parental consent, parent–child interaction, pedagogical question, multiple imputation, propensity score matching ABSTRACT In studies involving human subjects, voluntary participation may lead to sampling bias,

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REPORT Greater Early Disambiguating Information for Less-Probable Words: The Lexicon Is Shaped by Incremental Processing Adam King1 and Andrew Wedel1 1Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: evolution, information theory language efficiency, Zipf’s law of abbreviation, incremental processing, language l D o w n o a

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