Agnes Melinda Kovacs
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Recent Articles
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Pomiechowska B, Brody G, Teglas E, Kovacs A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2024 Jul;
121(29):e2315149121.
PMID: 38980899
Combinatorial thought, or the ability to combine a finite set of concepts into a myriad of complex ideas and knowledge structures, is the key to the productivity of the human...
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Fogd D, Sebanz N, Kovacs A
Cognition
. 2024 May;
249:105812.
PMID: 38763072
Successful interactions require not only representing others' mental states but also flexibly updating them, whenever one's original inferences may no longer hold. Such situations arise, for instance, when a partner's...
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Kampis D, Kovacs A
Open Mind (Camb)
. 2022 Nov;
5:189-207.
PMID: 36438424
Humans have a propensity to readily adopt others' perspective, which often influences their behavior even when it seemingly should not. This altercentric influence has been widely studied in adults, yet...
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Byers-Heinlein K, Sin Mei Tsui A, Bergmann C, Black A, Brown A, Carbajal M, et al.
Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci
. 2022 Jul;
4(1).
PMID: 35821764
From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-directed speech (IDS) than adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet, IDS differs within communities, across languages, and across...
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Szabo E, Chiandetti C, Teglas E, Versace E, Csibra G, Kovacs A, et al.
Elife
. 2022 Apr;
11.
PMID: 35404231
Absence is a notion that is usually captured by language-related concepts like zero or negation. Whether nonlinguistic creatures encode similar thoughts is an open question, as everyday behavior marked by...
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Mascaro O, Kovacs A
Dev Sci
. 2021 Dec;
25(4):e13223.
PMID: 34962696
How do people learn about things that they have never perceived or inferred-like molecules, miracles or Marie-Antoinette? For many thinkers, trust is the answer. Humans rely on communicated information, sometimes...
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Dudley R, Kovacs A
Behav Brain Sci
. 2021 Nov;
44:e149.
PMID: 34796829
The authors distinguish knowledge and belief attributions, emphasizing the role of the former in mental-state attribution. This does not, however, warrant diminishing interest in the latter. Knowledge attributions may not...
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Kovacs A, Teglas E, Csibra G
Cognition
. 2021 Mar;
213:104640.
PMID: 33757642
Recent evidence suggests that young infants, as well as nonhuman apes, can anticipate others' behavior based on their false beliefs. While such behaviors have been proposed to be accounted by...
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Byers-Heinlein K, Tsui R, Renswoude D, Black A, Barr R, Brown A, et al.
Infancy
. 2020 Dec;
26(1):4-38.
PMID: 33306867
Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non-verbal cues, for example,...
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Cesana-Arlotti N, Kovacs A, Teglas E
Nat Commun
. 2020 Nov;
11(1):5999.
PMID: 33243975
When perceptually available information is scant, we can leverage logical connections among hypotheses to draw reliable conclusions that guide our reasoning and learning. We investigate whether this function of logical...