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Introduction to topiCS Volume 18, Issue 2. 主题导论第18卷，第2期。

IF 3 2区心理学

Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70045

Andrea Bender

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Visual Moral Inference and Communication. 视觉道德推理与沟通。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70031

Warren Zhu, Aida Ramezani, Yang Xu

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AIPsychoBench: Understanding the Psychometric Differences Between LLMs and Humans. aipsychbench：理解法学硕士和人类之间的心理测量差异。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70041

Wei Xie, Zhenhua Wang, Shuoyoucheng Ma, Xiaobing Sun, Kai Chen, Enze Wang, Wei Liu, Hanying Tong

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Quantifying the Cost of Context Sensitivity in Decision-Making. 情境敏感性决策成本的量化。

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70030

Shuze Liu, Samuel J Gershman, Bilal A Bari

{"title":"Quantifying the Cost of Context Sensitivity in Decision-Making.","authors":"Shuze Liu, Samuel J Gershman, Bilal A Bari","doi":"10.1111/tops.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/tops.70030","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that context-dependent decisions incur mental costs. While previous research has sought to formalize these costs at various levels of analysis, we still lack basic insight into the nature of mental costs, including the underlying cognitive resources being consumed. Moreover, many computational models assume that mental costs scale linearly with the cognitive resource being used, an assumption of convenience that has yet to be systematically tested. To address these gaps, we build on rate-distortion theory by formalizing an information-theoretic notion of mental costs. Specifically, we define the cost of policies-the mappings from states to actions-as a function of the mutual information between states and actions, the policy complexity. Across four decision-making experiments featuring diverse task manipulations, we find that this mental cost formulation offers a parsimonious description of how humans adaptively adjust their policy complexity across different tasks. Notably, a quadratic mental cost formulation, where increases in policy complexity incur supralinear costs, provides the best fit. These findings highlight the meta-cognitive ability of humans to account for mental costs when forming decision strategies, and pave the way toward a domain-general quantification of mental effort.","PeriodicalId":47822,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Cognitive Science","volume":" ","pages":"e70030"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comparing Geometric Shape Representations in Humans and Baboons: A Language of Thought Perspective. 比较人类和狒狒的几何形状表征：一种思维语言的视角。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-27 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70038

Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Joël Fagot, Stanislas Dehaene

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The Paleolithic in Color: Color and Other Visual Qualities in Archaeological Discussions of Early Symbolic Behavior. 色彩中的旧石器时代：早期象征行为的考古讨论中的色彩和其他视觉品质。

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70033

Michelle C Langley, Mirani Litster

{"title":"The Paleolithic in Color: Color and Other Visual Qualities in Archaeological Discussions of Early Symbolic Behavior.","authors":"Michelle C Langley, Mirani Litster","doi":"10.1111/tops.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/tops.70033","url":null,"abstract":"The appearance of colorful earth pigments-primarily red ochre-in the archaeological record dating back to at least 300,000 years ago has long been held by researchers to signal the emergence of symbolic behavior in humanity. Specifically, the deliberate selection and use of this material is connected to its bright color and its ability to transfer that color onto human skin, rock surfaces, and many other materials. Despite this recognition that colorants-and color selection-represent some of the earliest evidence for emerging symbolic capacities in our lineage, clear description and discussion of the visual qualities of \"symbolic material culture\" recovered from Pleistocene-aged sites is surprisingly minimal. In this paper, we present results of a quantitative review of the archaeological literature surrounding early symbolic behavior in relation to how color and other visual aspects are reported. As well as highlighting trends and gaps in research to date, we outline how a more nuanced treatment of the visual qualities of raw materials and/or artifacts created by hominins may provide new insights into the origin and development of symbolism in our genus.","PeriodicalId":47822,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Cognitive Science","volume":" ","pages":"e70033"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145551517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Traces of Intentionality: Balance, Complexity, and Organization in Artworks by Humans and Apes. 意向性的痕迹：人类和猿类艺术作品中的平衡、复杂性和组织。

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70022

Larissa M Straffon, Juan O Perea-García, Tijmen den Blaauwen, Mariska E Kret

{"title":"Traces of Intentionality: Balance, Complexity, and Organization in Artworks by Humans and Apes.","authors":"Larissa M Straffon, Juan O Perea-García, Tijmen den Blaauwen, Mariska E Kret","doi":"10.1111/tops.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1111/tops.70022","url":null,"abstract":"Are people able to tell apart a random configuration of lines and dots from a work of art? Previous studies have shown that untrained viewers can distinguish between abstract art made by professional artists, children, or apes. Pieces made by artists were perceived as more intentionally made and organized than the rest. However, these studies used paintings by prominent abstract artists (e.g., Mark Rothko) as stimuli, which in any case showed that people were able to recognize high-quality paintings made by trained artists, not \"any\" human. In this study, we presented participants with artworks by untrained human artists versus artworks made by captive chimpanzees in a visual discrimination task. In Study 1, participants viewed sets of human- and non-human-made paintings and were asked to identify the artist as human or ape. In Study 2, they rated the paintings on several criteria: intentionality, organization, balance, and complexity. We found that participants: (1) successfully distinguished between human-made and non-human-made paintings; (2) reported perceiving more balance, organization, and intentionality in human-made paintings; (3) preferred stimuli, which ranked higher in intentionality. We also identified balance, complexity, and organization as key features that influence preference for abstract artworks. Overall, our results show that even non-figurative paintings made by adults untrained in the visual arts are perceived as intentionally made, suggesting people spontaneously produce and perceive cues of intentionality, generating an implicit human signature in visual art.","PeriodicalId":47822,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Cognitive Science","volume":" ","pages":"e70022"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13102278/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Avoid Confusion! Does Survival Processing Shape the Spontaneous Use of Learning Strategies for Distinguishing Edible and Poisonous Mushroom Twins? 避免混淆!生存加工过程是否塑造了区分可食用和有毒蘑菇双胞胎的学习策略的自发使用？

IF 3 2区心理学

Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70044

Roman Abel

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Time Tools. 时间的工具。

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70005

Kensy Cooperrider

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Material Anchors in Language Learning. 语言学习中的材料锚点。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70026

Conor Snoek

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