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Between Two Grammatical Gender Systems: Exploring the Impact of Grammatical Gender on Memory Recall in Ukrainian−Russian Simultaneous Bilinguals 在两种语法性别系统之间：探讨语法性别对乌克兰-俄罗斯双语者记忆回忆的影响

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70117

Oleksandra Osypenko, Silke Brandt, Panos Athanasopoulos

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Communicating Through Acting: Affording Communicative Intention in Pantomimes 通过表演进行交流：哑剧中的交流意图

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70120

Siyi Gong, Kaiwen Jiang, Jessica G. Li, Mireille Karadanaian, Ziyi Meng, Tao Gao

{"title":"Communicating Through Acting: Affording Communicative Intention in Pantomimes","authors":"Siyi Gong, Kaiwen Jiang, Jessica G. Li, Mireille Karadanaian, Ziyi Meng, Tao Gao","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70120","url":null,"abstract":"How do people intuitively recognize communicative intention in pantomimes, even though such actions kinematically resemble instrumental behaviors directed at changing the world? We focus on two alternative hypotheses: one posits that instrumental intention competes with communicative intention, such that the weaker the former, the stronger the latter; the other suggests that instrumental intention is nested within communicative intention, such that the presence of the former facilitates the latter. To test these hypotheses, we compiled a video dataset of action-object pairs with varying frequencies in the English corpus. Using the concept of affordance, we qualitatively varied the degree to which a scene visually supports the execution of an action. Across two empirical experiments, we found a nonmonotonic relationship between affordance and communicative ratings: partial affordance, where the scene provides some support for an action's instrumental purpose, elicited the strongest perception of communicative intention. In contrast, full affordance or no affordance resulted in weaker interpretations of communicative intention. We also found that recognizing the instrumental components of pantomime-like actions predicted a higher communicativeness rating. Our study, on top of confirming humans' ability to interpret novel pantomimes, reveals a novel mechanism of communicative intention: recognizing an instrumental goal and perceiving suboptimal conditions for achieving it together enhance the communicative signal. This work contributes toward an integrated theory of pantomimes, demonstrating how the rationality principle not only aids in distinguishing communicative intention but also supports the identification of instrumental content embedded within it.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204806","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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Coordinating Attention in Face-to-Face Collaboration: The Dynamics of Gaze, Pointing, and Verbal Reference 在面对面合作中协调注意力：凝视、指向和言语参考的动态

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70123

Lucas Haraped, D. Jacob Gerlofs, Olive Chung-Hui Huang, Cam Hickling, Walter F. Bischof, Pierre Sachse, Alan Kingstone

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Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space 身体特异性有坚实的基础吗？情绪效价与横向空间的z曲线关系

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70127

Pablo Dapica, Julio Santiago, Pablo Solana

{"title":"Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space","authors":"Pablo Dapica, Julio Santiago, Pablo Solana","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70127","url":null,"abstract":"The body-specificity hypothesis proposes that people with different bodies should also have different conceptual systems. The test case of this hypothesis has been the association of emotional valence (good vs. bad) with lateral space (left vs. right) in people of different handedness. As expected, right-handers tend to associate the good with the right space, whereas left-handers show the opposite association. This body-specific effect has been very influential and followed up by an important number of studies. Here, we undertake a systematic examination of the quality of this literature by means of z-curve analysis. The results show that the expected replicability rate (statistical power) of this literature is reasonably high (71−76%), especially for those studies using binomial tasks and those that entail the severest tests for the hypothesis, whereas it is lower in reaction time studies. Moreover, the presence of publication bias cannot be statistically asserted. All in all, the literature on space-valence body-specificity appears solid, although there is still room for improvement.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cogs.70127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204803","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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Broadening Cognitive Science in Nigeria: Foundation for a New Discipline 拓宽尼日利亚的认知科学：一个新学科的基础。

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70122

Chika Ezeugwu, Adebunmi Oyekola, Adejumoke Ayede, Members of the Nigeria Child Development Research Network

{"title":"Broadening Cognitive Science in Nigeria: Foundation for a New Discipline","authors":"Chika Ezeugwu, Adebunmi Oyekola, Adejumoke Ayede, Members of the Nigeria Child Development Research Network","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70122","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cogs.70122","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive science has matured into an established discipline, and its development has advanced our understanding of the human brain and cognitive processes. Despite these advancements and popularity, the limited established norms in the field have been in favor of cognitive universals, which is the idea that cognitive processes are consistent and shared across all humans irrespective of their sociocultural or environmental variations. This has limited the chances of improving and understanding variations in cognitive development, particularly among individuals from the majority of the world's population, and may have increased oversight into the unique characteristics of cognitive adaptations shaped by sociocultural and environmental factors. The objective of this paper is to draw insights from a 2-day workshop organized on broadening cognitive science in Nigeria. Inspired by the discussions from the workshop, we identified critical challenges and opportunities at the researcher, participant, and process levels, offering practical strategies for advancing cognitive science in underrepresented regions. We discussed the challenges facing cognitive science research and strategies to solve these challenges in Nigeria, particularly focusing on emerging themes from our workshop. We then discussed pathways for future directions and concluded with final thoughts.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145139103","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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The Mechanisms of the Masked Priming That Do Not Work Jointly 不协同工作的掩蔽启动机制。

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70118

Yongchun Wang, Meilin Di, Huiru Zhang, Zhengqi Tang, Jinlan Cao, Peng Liu, Yonghui Wang

{"title":"The Mechanisms of the Masked Priming That Do Not Work Jointly","authors":"Yongchun Wang, Meilin Di, Huiru Zhang, Zhengqi Tang, Jinlan Cao, Peng Liu, Yonghui Wang","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70118","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cogs.70118","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, hundreds of articles have investigated the mechanisms underlying the phenomenon that masked stimuli reduce people's response performance to subsequent compatible stimuli, for example, the negative compatibility effect (NCE). Whether the NCE results from motor inhibition, object updating, or both is still being debated. We used the digital masked prime task for 3 consecutive days to strengthen stimulus-response associations in relevant and irrelevant contexts (whether the mask consisted of task-relevant features or not) and employed response time distribution analysis to investigate the contributions of motor inhibition and object updating to the NCE. The results showed that the NCE appeared in the irrelevant condition on days 2 and 3, and it increased with response latency on day 3. In contrast, in the relevant condition, the NCE occurred regardless of test day or response latency, and was unaffected by either. These different patterns of results indicated that the cause of the NCE was different in the relevant and irrelevant conditions. In the relevant condition, the results suggested that the NCE was solely due to object updating, whereas in the irrelevant condition, the results indicated that the NCE was solely due to motor inhibition. This study reconciled the previous debate and revealed the mechanisms by which unconscious information influences behavioral performance in different contexts.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145139101","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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The Shape of Blame: The Relationship Between Statistical Norms and Judgments of Blame and Praise 责备的形状：统计规范与责备和赞扬判断之间的关系。

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70114

Dries H. Bostyn, Joshua Knobe

{"title":"The Shape of Blame: The Relationship Between Statistical Norms and Judgments of Blame and Praise","authors":"Dries H. Bostyn, Joshua Knobe","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70114","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cogs.70114","url":null,"abstract":"For many types of behaviors, whether a specific instance of that behavior is blame- or praiseworthy depends on how much of the behavior is done or how people go about doing it. For instance, for a behavior such as “replying to an email in x days,” whether a specific reply is perceived as blameworthy or praiseworthy will depend on how many days have elapsed before the reply. Such behaviors lie on a continuum in which part of the continuum is praiseworthy (replying quickly) and another part of the continuum is blameworthy (replying late). In the current paper, we investigate how judgments of blame and praise on such behaviors relate to people's perceptions of the statistical norms surrounding that behavior (i.e., how quickly people usually reply). We find that people do not base judgments of blame and praise on a comparison to the statistically average quantity. Instead, judgments of blame and praise are related to whether the behavior is perceived as frequent or infrequent. Notably, frequency showed an asymmetric relationship with moral judgments: higher frequency was strongly associated with reduced blame but showed a much weaker association with reduced praise.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145126288","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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Language Universals in Sentence Length: Comparing Sentence Length Distributions of 10 Languages 句子长度的语言共性：比较10种语言的句子长度分布。

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70115

Yikai Zhou, Jingyang Jiang, Haitao Liu

{"title":"Language Universals in Sentence Length: Comparing Sentence Length Distributions of 10 Languages","authors":"Yikai Zhou, Jingyang Jiang, Haitao Liu","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70115","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cogs.70115","url":null,"abstract":"Sentence length reflects cognitive constraints and stylistic decisions about speech and text segmentation for effective communication, but whether sentence length distributions follow universal patterns across languages and genres remains unclear. This study investigates whether sentence lengths and sub-sentence lengths—defined as the number of words between sentence-ending punctuation marks and between adjacent punctuation marks—follow a unified probabilistic distribution across languages, whether this reflects linguistic genealogy, and whether the distribution is affected by genre. Given the links between sentence length, cognitive constraints, and stylistic decisions, we predicted that sentence and sub-sentence lengths would follow a unified probabilistic distribution across languages, modulated by linguistic genealogy and genre. Analyzing news texts in 10 languages, we found that sentence and sub-sentence length distributions both conform to a probabilistic model, the Extended Positive Negative Binomial distribution, which was previously shown to capture sentence length distributions in certain languages. To assess whether these differences align with linguistic typology, we performed cluster analysis based on mean length and distribution parameters, with results mirroring known linguistic genealogical relationships. To examine the genre effects, we analyzed sentence and sub-sentence length distributions across three written genres in English and Chinese. Generalized linear models revealed systematic influences of both genre and language, but with varying results on different linguistic levels: genre accounted for more variance in sentence-level metrics, whereas language exerted stronger effects at the sub-sentence level. Sentence and sub-sentence length distributions reflect a universal probabilistic pattern in punctuation-based sentence segmentation, influenced by cognitive constraints and genre-driven adaptability across languages.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145126339","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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Constructing Memories, Episodic and Semantic 建构记忆，情景性和语义性

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70113

Hunter Gentry

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Do Humans Use Push-Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center-Embedded Sequences? 人类在学习或生成中心嵌入序列时是否使用下推堆栈？

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Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70112

Stephen Ferrigno, Samuel J. Cheyette, Susan Carey

{"title":"Do Humans Use Push-Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center-Embedded Sequences?","authors":"Stephen Ferrigno, Samuel J. Cheyette, Susan Carey","doi":"10.1111/cogs.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70112","url":null,"abstract":"Complex sequences are ubiquitous in human mental life, structuring representations within many different cognitive domains—natural language, music, mathematics, and logic, to name a few. However, the representational and computational machinery used to learn abstract grammars and process complex sequences is unknown. Here, we used an artificial grammar learning task to study how adults abstract center-embedded and cross-serial grammars that generalize beyond the level of embedding of the training sequences. We tested untrained generalizations to longer sequence lengths and used error patterns, item-to-item response times, and a Bayesian mixture model to test two possible memory architectures that might underlie the sequence representations of each grammar: stacks and queues. We find that adults learned both grammars, that the cross-serial grammar was easier to learn and produce than the matched center-embedded grammar, and that item-to-item touch times during sequence generation differed systematically between the two types of sequences. Contrary to widely held assumptions, we find no evidence that a stack architecture is used to generate center-embedded sequences in an indexed AnBn artificial grammar. Instead, the data and modeling converged on the conclusion that both center-embedded and cross-serial sequences are generated using a queue memory architecture. In this study, participants stored items in a first-in-first-out memory architecture and then accessed them via an iterative search over the stored list to generate the matched base pairs of center-embedded or cross-serial sequences.","PeriodicalId":48349,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Science","volume":"49 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cogs.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062769","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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