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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106231

Nele J Bögemann, Lasana T Harris, Steffen Nestler

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Negative polarity illusions are robust with both ‘ever’ and ‘any’ (when linear position is held constant) 负极性错觉对“永远”和“任意”都是稳健的（当线性位置保持不变时）。

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106295

Dave Kush , Mechelle Wu , Amman Khurana

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The moral pull of “women and children” “妇女和儿童”的道德吸引力

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106320

Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean, Stella F. Lourenco, Arber Tasimi

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Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events 因果连贯提高动态事件的情景记忆

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106317

Andreas Arslan, Jonathan F. Kominsky

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Creativity, the fountain of youth: Association between creativity and semantic memory networks across the lifespan 创造力，青春之泉：一生中创造力与语义记忆网络的关系

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106318

Lorenzo Campidelli , Umberto Domanti , Giulia Fusi , Yoed N. Kenett , Sergio Agnoli

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The impact of distractor processing on semantic memory retrieval: The role of interference-by-process and inhibition 干扰物加工对语义记忆提取的影响：加工干扰和抑制的作用

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106314

Martin Marko , Adam Kubinec , Veronika Zelenayová , Igor Riečanský

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Corrigendum to "Is thirty-two three tens and two ones? The embedded structure of cardinal numbers" [Cognition, 203 (2020) 104331]. “32是3个10和2个1吗？”基数的嵌入结构[j].认知，2013(2020):104331。

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106313

Diego Guerrero, Jihyun Hwang, Brynn Boutin, Tom Roeper, Joonkoo Park

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A quantum model for serial reproduction 连续繁殖的量子模型。

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106266

Jiaqi Huang , Qizi Zhang , Xinjie Xie , Fritz Breithaupt , Jerome Busemeyer

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The first attribute heuristic influences risky choice preferences 第一属性启发式影响风险选择偏好

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106298

Joseph Teal, Petko Kusev, Rose Martin

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The chicken and the egg: unraveling aspects of semantic change and how they relate to lexical acquisition 鸡和蛋：揭示语义变化的各个方面及其与词汇习得的关系

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106301

Andreas Baumann , Stefan Hartmann

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