Publications

Journal Article (38)

2024
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
2023
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
supplementary-material
supplementary-material
post-print
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
2022
Journal Article
Amici, F., Oña, L., & Liebal, K. (2022). Compositionality in primate gestural communication and multicomponent signal displays. International Journal of Primatology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00316-9
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
post-print
ZIP
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
2021
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
post-print
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
supplementary-material
post-print
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
supplementary-material
post-print
Journal Article
Rioux, C., & Wertz, A. E. (2021). Avoidance of plant foods in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 57(5), 609–624. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001146
MPG.PuRe
DOI
post-print
2020
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
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
MPG.PuRe
DOI
2019
Journal Article
Elsner, C., & Wertz, A. E. (2019). The seeds of social learning: Infants exhibit more social looking for plants than other object types. Cognition, 183, 244–255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.016
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Fantasia, V., Galbusera, L., Reck, C., & Fasulo, A. (2019). Rethinking intrusiveness: Exploring the sequential organization in interactions between infants and mothers. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1543. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01543
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
Oña, L., Oña, L. S., & Wertz, A. E. (2019). The evolution of plant social learning through error minimization. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(5), 447–456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.05.009
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Oña, L. S., Sandler, W., & Liebal, K. (2019). A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication. PeerJ, 7, Article e7623. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7623
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
Rioux, C., Lafraire, J., Picard, D., & Blissett, J. (2019). Food rejection in young children: Validation of the Child Food Rejection Scale in English and cross-cultural examination in the UK and France. Food Quality and Preference, 73, 19–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.11.018
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Schlegelmilch, K., & Wertz, A. E. (2019). The effects of calibration target, screen location, and movement type on infant eye-tracking data quality. Infancy, 24(4), 636–662. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12294
MPG.PuRe
DOI
post-print
Journal Article
Storbeck, F., Schlegelmilch, K., Streitberger, K.-J., Sommer, W., & Ploner, C. J. (2019). Delayed recognition of emotional facial expressions in Bell's palsy. Cortex, 120, 524–531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.015
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Wertz, A. E. (2019). How plants shape the mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(7), 528–531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.009
MPG.PuRe
DOI
post-print
Journal Article
Wertz, A. E., & Moya, C. (2019). Pathways to cognitive design. Behavioural Processes, 161, 73–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.05.013
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Wertz, A. E., & Wynn, K. (2019). Can I eat that too? 18-month-olds generalize social information about edibility to similar looking plants. Appetite, 138, 127–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.02.013
MPG.PuRe
DOI
2018
Journal Article
Rioux, C., Leglaye, L., & Lafraire, J. (2018). Inductive reasoning, food neophobia, and domain-specificity in preschoolers. Cognitive Development, 47, 124–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.05.001
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Włodarczyk, A., Elsner, C., Schmitterer, A., & Wertz, A. E. (2018). Every rose has its thorn: Infants' responses to pointed shapes in naturalistic contexts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(6), 583–593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.001
MPG.PuRe
DOI
post-print
2017
Journal Article
Kominsky, J. F., Strickland, B., Wertz, A. E., Elsner, C., Wynn, K., & Keil, F. C. (2017). Categories and constraints in causal perception. Psychological Science, 28(11), 1649–1662. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617719930
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
Journal Article
Pietraszewski, D., Wertz, A. E., Bryant, G. A., & Wynn, K. (2017). Three-month-old-human infants use vocal cues of body size. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, Biological Sciences, 284, Article 20170656. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0656
MPG.PuRe
DOI
2016
Journal Article
Adam, M., Reitenbach, I., Papenheimer, F., Gredebäck, G., Elsner, C., & Elsner, B. (2016). Goal saliency boosts infants' action prediction for human manual actions, but not for mechanical claws. Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.05.001
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Fantasia, V., Markova, G., Fasulo, A., Costall, A., & Reddy, V. (2016). Not just being lifted: Infants are sensitive to delay during a pick-up routine. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 2065. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02065
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version
2014
Journal Article
Wertz, A. E., & Wynn, K. (2014). Thyme to touch: Infants possess strategies that protect them from dangers posed by plants. Cognition, 130(1), 44–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.09.002
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Journal Article
Wertz, A. E., & Wynn, K. (2014). Selective social learning of plant edibility in 6- and 18-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 25(4), 874–882. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613516145
MPG.PuRe
DOI
publisher-version

Book Chapter (2)

2019
Book Chapter
Rioux, C. (2019). Food neophobia in childhood. In H. L. Meiselman (Ed.), Handbook of eating and drinking: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Living ed.). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75388-1_159-1
MPG.PuRe
DOI
2018
Book Chapter
Russell, C. J. S., & Muthukrishna, M. (2018). Dual inheritance theory. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (Living ed.). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1381-2
MPG.PuRe
DOI

Thesis - PhD (3)

2022
Thesis - PhD
Russell, C. J. S. (2022). Error management in learning and generalisation: The domain of food [PhD Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin]. https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-36992
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Full
2021
Thesis - PhD
Schlegelmilch, K. (2021). Grass or gravel? Influences on the visual categorization of naturalistic structures in infancy and early childhood [PhD Thesis, Universität Potsdam]. https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-52637
MPG.PuRe
DOI
Full
2019
Thesis - PhD
Wlodarczyk, A. (2019). Response to naturalistic threats in infancy [PhD Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin].
MPG.PuRe

Thesis - Master (6)

2020
Thesis - Master
Vidal Orga, B. (2020). The role of social information in non-human great apes' behavioral responses to plants [Master's Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin].
MPG.PuRe
2019
Thesis - Master
Wright, C. (2019). A preliminary analysis exploring young children’s touch behavior towards plants in a naturalistic garden setting [Master's Thesis, Universität Potsdam].
MPG.PuRe
2018
Thesis - Master
Dähmlow, M. (2018). How does your garden grow? How children learn about their natural environment [Master's Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin].
MPG.PuRe
Thesis - Master
Gerdemann, S. (2018). Categorization of plants and novel artifacts in infancy [Master's Thesis, Universität Leipzig].
MPG.PuRe
2017
Thesis - Master
Brenner, M. (2017). Die Erfassung antizipatorischer Blickbewegungen als Maß der Kategorisierungsfähigkeiten im frühen Kindesalter [Master's Thesis, Universität Potsdam].
MPG.PuRe
Thesis - Master
De Simone, C. (2017). Gesture imitation in a naturalistic context [Master's Thesis, MSB Medical School Berlin].
MPG.PuRe

Thesis - Bachelor (2)

2021
Thesis - Bachelor
Forbes-Mitchell, T. (2021). Exploring whether domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) possess protective behavioural avoidance strategies in response to plant defences [Bachelor Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin].
MPG.PuRe
Web-View
Print Page
Open in new window
Estimated DIN-A4 page-width
Go to Editor View