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Julian Jara-Ettinger

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Jara-Ettinger J, Rubio-Fernandez P
Psychol Rev . 2021 Dec; 129(6):1394-1413. PMID: 34968132
A foundational assumption of human communication is that speakers should say as much as necessary, but no more. Yet, people routinely produce redundant adjectives and their propensity to do so...
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Royka A, Jara-Ettinger J
Behav Brain Sci . 2021 Nov; 44:e167. PMID: 34796822
The ability to reason about ignorance is an important and often overlooked representational capacity. Phillips and colleagues assume that knowledge representations are inevitably accompanied by ignorance representations. We argue that...
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Jara-Ettinger J, Rubio-Fernandez P
Sci Adv . 2021 Nov; 7(47):eabj0970. PMID: 34788100
Human social intelligence relies on our ability to infer other people’s mental states such as their beliefs, desires, and intentions. While people are proficient at mental state inference from physical...
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Jacobs C, Flowers M, Jara-Ettinger J
Cognition . 2021 Jun; 214:104790. PMID: 34090035
When children learn to count, do they understand its logic independent of the number list that they learned to count with? Here we tested CP-knowers' (ages three to five) understanding...
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Aboody R, Zhou C, Jara-Ettinger J
Child Dev . 2021 Mar; 92(5):1919-1931. PMID: 33739438
When deciding whether to explore, agents must consider both their need for information and its cost. Do children recognize that exploration reflects a trade-off between action costs and expected information...
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Rubio-Fernandez P, Mollica F, Jara-Ettinger J
J Exp Psychol Gen . 2020 Sep; 150(3):583-594. PMID: 32969681
Pragmatic theories and computational models of reference must account for people's frequent use of redundant color adjectives (e.g., referring to a single triangle as "the blue triangle"). The standard pragmatic...
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Jara-Ettinger J, Schulz L, Tenenbaum J
Cogn Psychol . 2020 Aug; 123:101334. PMID: 32738590
The human ability to reason about the causes behind other people' behavior is critical for navigating the social world. Recent empirical research with both children and adults suggests that this...
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Sheskin M, Scott K, Mills C, Bergelson E, Bonawitz E, Spelke E, et al.
Trends Cogn Sci . 2020 Jul; 24(9):675-678. PMID: 32624386
We propose that developmental cognitive science should invest in an online CRADLE, a Collaboration for Reproducible and Distributed Large-Scale Experiments that crowdsources data from families participating on the internet. Here,...
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Rubio-Fernandez P, Jara-Ettinger J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2020 Jun; 117(24):13399-13404. PMID: 32482876
To correctly interpret a message, people must attend to the context in which it was produced. Here we investigate how this process, known as pragmatic reasoning, is guided by two...
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Conway B, Ratnasingam S, Jara-Ettinger J, Futrell R, Gibson E
Cognition . 2019 Nov; 195:104086. PMID: 31731116
Languages vary in their number of color terms. A widely accepted theory proposes that languages evolve, acquiring color terms in a stereotyped sequence. This theory, by Berlin and Kay (BK),...