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Exploring the bounded rationality in human decision anomalies through an assemblable computational framework 通过可组装计算框架探索人类决策异常中的有限理性。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101713

Yi-Long Lu , Yang-Fan Lu , Xiangjuan Ren , Hang Zhang

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Free time, sharper mind: A computational dive into working memory improvement 自由的时间，更敏锐的头脑：工作记忆改进的计算研究

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101701

Benjamin Kowialiewski , Steve Majerus

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Building compressed causal models of the world 建立世界的压缩因果模型

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101682

David Kinney , Tania Lombrozo

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Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying 高效做事：测试简单解释令人满意的原因。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101692

Claudia G. Sehl, Stephanie Denison, Ori Friedman

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Perceptual inference corrects function word errors in reading: Errors that are not noticed do not disrupt eye movements 感知推理可纠正阅读中的功能词错误：未注意到的错误不会干扰眼球运动

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101691

Adrian Staub, Harper McMurray, Anthony Wickett

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Direct lexical control of eye movements in Chinese reading: Evidence from the co-registration of EEG and eye tracking 中文阅读中眼球运动的直接词汇控制：来自脑电图和眼动跟踪共同注册的证据

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101683

Shuyuan Chen , Erik D. Reichle , Yanping Liu

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Ethical choice reversals 伦理选择逆转。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101672

Chenxu Hao , Richard L. Lewis

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Disentangling the roles of age and knowledge in early language acquisition: A fine-grained analysis of the vocabularies of infant and child language learners 厘清年龄和知识在早期语言习得中的作用：对婴儿和儿童语言学习者词汇的精细分析。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101681

Joseph R. Coffey, Jesse Snedeker

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How infants predict respect-based power 婴儿如何预测基于尊重的权力

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101671

Francesco Margoni , Lotte Thomsen

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Recruitment of magnitude representations to understand graded words 利用量级表征来理解分级词。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101673

Sashank Varma , Emily M. Sanford , Vijay Marupudi , Olivia Shaffer , R. Brooke Lea

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