MPRG Naturalistic Social Cognition – Publications

Amici, F., Oña, L., & Liebal, K. (2024). Compositionality in primate gestural communication and multicomponent signal displays. International Journal of Primatology, 45, 482–500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00316-9

Florkiewicz, B. N., Oña, L. S., Oña, L., & Campbell, M. W. (2024). Primate socio-ecology shapes the evolution of distinctive facial repertoires. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 138(1), 32–44. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000350

Schlegelmilch, K., & Wertz, A. E. (2023). Grass and gravel: Investigating visual properties preschool children and adults use when distinguishing naturalistic images. Cognitive Development, 66, Article 101324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101324

Smaldino, P. E., Pietraszewski, D., & Wertz, A. E. (2023). On the problems solved by cognitive processes. Cognitive Science, 47(6), Article e13297. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13297

Bohn, M., Liebal, K., Oña, L., & Tessler, M. H. (2022). Great ape communication as contextual social inference: A computational modelling perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: B, Biological Sciences, 377, Article 20210096. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0096

Coricelli, C., Rumiati, R. I., & Rioux, C. (2022). Implicit and explicit safety evaluation of foods: The importance of food processing. Appetite, 175, Article 106062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106062

Epperlein, T., Kovacs, G., Oña, L. S., Amici, F., & Bräuer, J. (2022). Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species. PLoS ONE, 17(12), Article e0277783. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277783

Pietraszewski, D., & Wertz, A. E. (2022). Why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(2), 465–490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621997113

Schlegelmilch, K., & Wertz, A. E. (2022). Visual segmentation of complex naturalistic structures in an infant eye-tracking search task. PLoS ONE, 17(4), Article e0266158. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266158

Fantasia, V., Oña, L. S., Wright, C., & Wertz, A. E. (2021). Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, Article 101601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101601

Gerdemann, S. C., & Wertz, A. E. (2021). 18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(4), 304–315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.12.003

McNamara, R. A., & Wertz, A. E. (2021). Early plant learning in Fiji. Human Nature, 32, 115–149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09389-6

Rioux, C., & Wertz, A. E. (2021). Avoidance of plant foods in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 57(5), 609–624. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001146

Donnier, S., Kovács, G., Oña, L. S., Bräuer, J., & Amici, F. (2020). Experience has a limited effect on humans’ ability to predict the outcome of social interactions in children, dogs and macaques. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 21240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78275-5

Falck, A., Labouret, G., Izard, V., Wertz, A. E., Keil, F. C., & Strickland, B. (2020). Core cognition in adult vision: A surprising discrepancy between the principles of object continuity and solidity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(12), 2250–2263. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000785

Giari, G., Leonardelli, E., Tao, Y., Machado, M., & Fairhall, S. L. (2020). Spatiotemporal properties of the neural representation of conceptual content for words and pictures: An MEG study. NeuroImage, 219, Article 116913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116913

Haun, D. B. M., Liebal, K., Amici, F., Bender, A., Bohn, M., Bräuer, J., Buttelmann, D., Burkart, J., Cacchione, T., Detroy, S., Faßbender, I., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gampe, A., Gray, R. D., Horn, L., Oña, L., Kärtner, J., Kaminski, J., Kanngießer, P., Keller, H., Köster, M., Kopp, K. S., Kornadt, H.-J., Rakoczy, H., Schuppli, C., Stengelin, R., Trommsdorff, G., Van Leeuwen, E., & Van Schaik, C. (2020). Ein Plädoyer für die Relevanz der Vergleichenden Psychologie für das Verständnis menschlicher Entwicklung. Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1), 40–41. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000466

Lafraire, J., Rioux, C., Hamaoui, J., Girgis, H., Nguyen, S., & Thibaut, J.-P. (2020). Food as a borderline domain of knowledge: The development of domain-specific inductive reasoning strategies in young children. Cognitive Development, 56, Article 100946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100946

Luan, S., Schooler, L. J., & Tan, J. (2020). Improving judgment accuracy by sequential adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(1), 170–177. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01696-5

Włodarczyk, A., Rioux, C., & Wertz, A. E. (2020). Social information reduces infants' avoidance of plants. Cognitive Development, 54, Article 100867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100867