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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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Combining and integrating multiple linguistic cues during spoken language comprehension: A focus on semantics and coarticulation 口语理解过程中多种语言线索的结合与整合：关注语义与协同发音

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106300

Scarlet Wan Yee Li , Margarethe McDonald , Tania S. Zamuner

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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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Encouraging unitary and compositional representations for relational concept learning 鼓励关系概念学习的统一和组合表示

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106303

Daniel Corral , Matt Jones

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Comment on: Rokosz et al. (2025). Yes, many heads really are more utilitarian than one. 点评：Rokosz et al.（2025）。是的，很多人头确实比一个人头更功利。

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106296

Jonathan Baron, Niels Skovgaard-Olsen

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Probability errors in adults' and children's decision-making 成人和儿童决策中的概率错误

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106297

Dean A. Marshall , Elizabeth Meins

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Speech perception strategies shift instantly 语音感知策略瞬息万变

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Cognition Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106299

Ashley Symons , Kyle Jasmin , Adam Tierney

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