Publications — Babylab CEU

Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner

Tauzin, T., Call, J. & Gergely, G. (2024) in Open Mind 2024/8: 1228–1246.

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Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?

Szabó, E., Kovács, Á. M. (2024) in Cognition, Volume 254, 105929

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Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts

Pomiechowska, B., Bródy, G., Téglás, E., & Kovács, G. M. (2024) in PNAS 121(29).

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Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events

Tatone, D., Schlingloff, L. & Pomiechowska, B. (2023) in Cognitive Development, Volume 66, 101329

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The pupillometry of the possible: an investigation of infants' representation of alternative possibilities

Cesana-Arlotti, N., Téglás, E. & Varga, B. (2022) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377: 20210343

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Seeing the World From Others’ Perspective: 14-Month-Olds Show Altercentric Modulation Effects by Others’ Beliefs

Kampis, D., Kovács, Á.M. (2022) in Open Mind, 5, 189–207.

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The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language

Forgács, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, Gy. & Gervain, J. (2022) in Scientific Reports, 12, 1220.

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The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life

Mascaro, O., Kovács Á.M. (2022) in Developmental Science, 13223.

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A Short History of Theories of Intuitive Theories

Mahr, J. B. & Csibra, G. (2022) in J. Gervain, G. Csibra, K. Kovács (Eds.), A Life in Cognition (pp. 219-232). Springer.

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Dissociating Measures of Information- and Control-Seeking in 12-Month-Olds’ Contingency Exploration

Téglás, E., Kovács, Á. M., & Gergely, G. (2022) in J. Gervain, G. Csibra, K. Kovács (Eds.), A Life in Cognition (pp. 335-349). Springer.

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Consequences of Perspective Taking: Some Uncharted Avenues

Fischer, P., Madarász, L., Téglás, E., & Kovács, Á. M. (2022) in Gervain, Csibra & Kovács (Eds.) A Life in Cognition (pp. 323-334). Springer

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Three cognitive mechanisms for knowledge tracking

Kampis, D. & Csibra, G. (2021) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e157.

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Do “knowledge attributions” involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?

Dudley, R. & Kovács, Á.M. (2021) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e149.

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Facilitation of object encoding in infants by the observation of giving

Tatone, D., Hernik, M., & Csibra, G. (2021) in Scientific Reports, 11, 18305.

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Co-dependency of exchanged behaviors is a cue for agency attribution in 10-month-olds

Tauzin, T. & Gergely, G. (2021) in Scientific Reports, 11, 18217.

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For 19-Month-Olds, What Happens On-Screen Stays On-Screen

Revencu, B. & Csibra, G. (2021) in Open Mind (2021) 5: 71–90.

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A two-lab direct replication attempt of Southgate, Senju and Csibra (2007)

Kampis, D., Kármán, P., Csibra, G., Southgate, V., & Hernik, M. (2021) in Royal Society Open Science, 8, 210190.

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Twelve-month-olds disambiguate new words using mutual-exclusivity inferences

Pomiechowska, B., Brody, G., Csibra, G., & Gliga, T. (2021) in Cognition, 213, 104691.

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Can infants adopt underspecified contents into attributed beliefs? Representational prerequisites of theory of mind

Kovács, Á. M., Téglás, E., & Csibra, G. (2021) in Cognition, 213, 104640.

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Infants’ interpretation of information-seeking actions

Varga, B., Csibra, G., Kovács, A. (2021) in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 472-478.

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The effect of source claims on statement believability and speaker accountability

Mahr, J. B. & Csibra, G. (2021) in Memory & Cognition, 49, 1505-1525.

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The frequency of referent objects influences expectations about label length

Tauzin, T. (2019) in Acta Psychologica, 196, 70-74.

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The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance

Mahr, J., Mascaro, O., Mercier, H., & Csibra, G. (2021) in PLOS One, 16(4): e0249958.

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A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech

Byers-Heinlein K., et al. (incl. Hernik, M; and Kovács AM.) (2021) in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(1), 1-30

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The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-laboratory study

Byers-Heinlein, K., et al. (including Hernik, M; and Kovács AM.) (2021) in Infancy, 26(1), 4-38.

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Infants recruit logic to learn about the social world

Cesana-Arlotti, N., Kovács. Á.M., & Téglás, E. (2020) in Nature Communications, 11, 5999.

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Ten-month-olds infer relative costs of different goal-directed actions

Pomiechowska, B. & Csibra, G. (2020) in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42, 391-396.

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Do Infants Think That Agents Choose What’s Best?

Schlingloff, K., Tatone, D., Pomiechowska, B., & Csibra, G. (2020) in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42

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Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gervain, J., Baross, J., Gergely, G.,& Király, I. (2020) in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43.

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Acquiring sub-efficient and efficient variants of novel means by integrating information from multiple social models in preschoolers

Altinok, N., Hernik, M., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (2020) in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 195, 104847.

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Do 15-month-old infants prefer helpers? A replication of Hamlin et al. (2007)

Schlingloff, L., Csibra, G., & Tatone, D. (2020) in Royal Society Open Science, 7: 191795.

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Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference

The ManyBabies Consortium, inc. Mikołaj Hernik (2020) in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24-52.

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The dimensions of episodic simulation

Mahr, J. (2020) in Cognition, 196(3), 104085.

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Giving, but not taking, actions are spontaneously represented as social interactions: Evidence from modulation of lower alpha oscillations

Yin, J., Tatone, D., & Csibra, G. (2020) in Neuropsychologia, 139(2), 107363.

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How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?

Ladányi, E., Kovács Á.M., & Gervain, J. (2020) in Infancy, 25(2), 190-204.

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Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes

Tauzin, T., Bohn, M., Gergely, G., & Call, J. (2020) in Scientific Reports, 10, 1048.

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Witnessing, Remembering, and Testifying: Why the Past Is Special for Human Beings

Mahr, J. & Csibra, G. (2020) in Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(2), 428-443.

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Natural pedagogy of social emotions

Gergely, G. & Király, I. (2019) in Foundations of Affective Social Learning (pp. 87-114). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

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Variability of signal sequences in turn-taking exchanges induces agency attribution in 10.5-mo-olds

Tauzin, T. & Gergely, G. (2019) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(31), 15441-15446.

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14-Month-olds anticipate others’ actions based on their belief about an object's identity

Buttelmann, F. & Kovács, Á. M. (2019) in Infancy, 24(5), 738-751.

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Minimal Cues of Possession Transfer Compel Infants to Ascribe the Goal of Giving

Tatone, D., Hernik, M., & Csibra, G. (2019) in Open Mind, 2019, 31-40.

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Lexical Acquisition Through Category Matching: 12-Month-Old Infants Associate Words to Visual Categories

Pomiechowska, B. & Gliga, T. (2019) in Psychological Science, 30(2), 288-299.

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Infant gaze following depends on communicative signals: An eye-tracking study of 5- to 7-month-olds in Vanuatu

Hernik, M. & Broesch, T. (2019) in Developmental Science, e12779.

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Communicative mind-reading in preverbal infants

Tauzin, T., & Gergely, Gy.. (2018)

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Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal human infants

Cesana-Arlotti, N., Martín, A., Téglás, E., Vorobyova, L., Cetnarski, R., & Bonatti, L. L.. (2018)

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Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Jacquey, L., & Gervain, J. (2019) in Developmental Science, 22(2), e12751.

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Learning Theories

Hernik, M. & Shamsudheen, R. . (2017)

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Motor activation during action perception depends on action interpretation

Pomiechowska, B., Csibra, & G. Gergely . (2017)

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Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory

Mahr, J., & Csibra, G.. (2017)

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Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner

Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy?

Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts

Better Together: 14-Month-Old Infants Expect Agents to Cooperate

An initial but receding altercentric bias in preverbal infants' memory

Can 18-Month-Olds Revise Attributed Beliefs?

Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events

The pupillometry of the possible: an investigation of infants' representation of alternative possibilities

Seeing the World From Others’ Perspective: 14-Month-Olds Show Altercentric Modulation Effects by Others’ Beliefs

The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language

The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life

A Short History of Theories of Intuitive Theories

Dissociating Measures of Information- and Control-Seeking in 12-Month-Olds’ Contingency Exploration

Consequences of Perspective Taking: Some Uncharted Avenues

Three cognitive mechanisms for knowledge tracking

Do “knowledge attributions” involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?

Facilitation of object encoding in infants by the observation of giving

Co-dependency of exchanged behaviors is a cue for agency attribution in 10-month-olds

For 19-Month-Olds, What Happens On-Screen Stays On-Screen

A two-lab direct replication attempt of Southgate, Senju and Csibra (2007)

Twelve-month-olds disambiguate new words using mutual-exclusivity inferences

Can infants adopt underspecified contents into attributed beliefs? Representational prerequisites of theory of mind

Infants’ interpretation of information-seeking actions

The effect of source claims on statement believability and speaker accountability

The frequency of referent objects influences expectations about label length

The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance

A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech

The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-laboratory study

Infants recruit logic to learn about the social world

Ten-month-olds infer relative costs of different goal-directed actions

Do Infants Think That Agents Choose What’s Best?

Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding

Acquiring sub-efficient and efficient variants of novel means by integrating information from multiple social models in preschoolers

Do 15-month-old infants prefer helpers? A replication of Hamlin et al. (2007)

Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference

The dimensions of episodic simulation

Giving, but not taking, actions are spontaneously represented as social interactions: Evidence from modulation of lower alpha oscillations

How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?

Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes

Witnessing, Remembering, and Testifying: Why the Past Is Special for Human Beings

Natural pedagogy of social emotions

Variability of signal sequences in turn-taking exchanges induces agency attribution in 10.5-mo-olds

14-Month-olds anticipate others’ actions based on their belief about an object's identity

Minimal Cues of Possession Transfer Compel Infants to Ascribe the Goal of Giving

Lexical Acquisition Through Category Matching: 12-Month-Old Infants Associate Words to Visual Categories

Infant gaze following depends on communicative signals: An eye-tracking study of 5- to 7-month-olds in Vanuatu

Communicative mind-reading in preverbal infants

Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal human infants

Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners

Learning Theories

Motor activation during action perception depends on action interpretation

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory