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Barbara Pomiechowska

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Schlingloff-Nemecz L, Pomiechowska B, Tatone D, Revencu B, Meszegeto D, Csibra G
Open Mind (Camb) . 2025 Feb; 9:169-188. PMID: 39906871
Instrumental helping is one of the paradigmatic "prosocial" behaviors featured in developmental research on sociomoral reasoning, but not much is known about how children recognize instances of helping behaviors or...
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Pomiechowska B, Takacs S, Volein A, Parise E
Proc Biol Sci . 2024 Nov; 291(2035):20241433. PMID: 39561796
Humans categorize objects not only based on perceptual features (e.g. red, rounded), but also function (e.g. used to transport people). Category membership can be communicated via labelling (e.g. 'apple', 'vehicle')....
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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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Tatone D, Pomiechowska B
Behav Brain Sci . 2024 Jun; 47:e142. PMID: 38934455
Spelke posits that the concept of "social agent," who performs object-directed actions to fulfill social goals, is the first noncore concept that infants acquire as they begin to learn their...
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Pomiechowska B, Csibra G
Open Mind (Camb) . 2022 Nov; 6:51-76. PMID: 36439064
Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a matter of debate. Based on findings and theories from the action interpretation literature, we hypothesized that 12-month-olds...
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Pomiechowska B, Gliga T
R Soc Open Sci . 2021 May; 8(3):200782. PMID: 34035932
To what extent does language shape how we think about the world? Studies suggest that linguistic symbols expressing conceptual categories ('apple', 'squirrel') make us focus on categorical information (e.g. that...
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Pomiechowska B, Brody G, Csibra G, Gliga T
Cognition . 2021 May; 213:104691. PMID: 33934847
Representing objects in terms of their kinds enables inferences based on the long-term knowledge made available through kind concepts. For example, children readily use lexical knowledge linked to familiar kind...
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Torok G, Pomiechowska B, Csibra G, Sebanz N
Psychol Sci . 2019 May; 30(6):930-941. PMID: 31088200
When people perform simple actions, they often behave efficiently, minimizing the costs of movement for the expected benefit. The present study addressed the question of whether this efficiency scales up...
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Pomiechowska B, Gliga T
Psychol Sci . 2018 Dec; 30(2):288-299. PMID: 30575444
Although it is widely recognized that human infants build a sizeable conceptual repertoire before mastering language, it remains a matter of debate whether and to what extent early conceptual and...
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Pomiechowska B, Csibra G
Neuropsychologia . 2017 Feb; 105:84-91. PMID: 28189494
Since the discovery of motor mirroring, the involvement of the motor system in action interpretation has been widely discussed. While some theories proposed that motor mirroring underlies human action understanding,...