Publications

Bernard, M., Thiollière, R., Saksida, A., Loukatou, G., Larsen, E., Johnson, M., Fibla, L., Dupoux, E., Daland, R., Cao, X. & Cristia, A. (2020). WordSeg: Standardizing unsupervised word form segmentation from text. Behavior research methods, 52(1), 264-278. doi:10.3758/s13428-019-01223-3

Seidl, A., Cristia, A., Baker, C. & Tincoff, R. (2015). Why the body comes first: effects of experimenter touch on infants' word finding. Developmental Science, 18(1), 155-164. doi:10.1111/desc.12182

Mercier, H., Yesilaltay , S. & Hacquin, A. (2022). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. , 24(6), 1303-1324. doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Cristia, A., Gautheron, L. & Colleran, H. (2023). Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long-form recordings in Vanuatu. Developmental science, e13375. doi:10.1111/desc.13375

Cychosz, M. & Cristia, A. (2022). Using big data from long-form recordings to study development and optimize societal impact. Advances in child development and behavior, 62, 1-36. doi:10.1016/bs.acdb.2021.12.001

Mercier, H. & Boyer, P. (2021). Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 259-267. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004

Schmale, R., Cristia, A. & Seidl, A. (2012). Toddlers recognize words in an unfamiliar accent after brief exposure. Developmental Science, 15(6), 732-738. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01175.x

Tsuji, S., Fiévet, A. & Cristia, A. (2021). Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence. Infant Behavior and Development , 63, 101553. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101553

Mennella, R., Sarlo, M., Messerotti Benvenuti, S., Buodo, G., Mento, G. & Palomba, D. (2017). The two faces of avoidance: Time-frequency correlates of motivational disposition in blood phobia. Psychophysiology, 54(11), 1606-1620. doi:10.1111/psyp.12904

Bai, D. & Strickland, B. (2023). The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system’s tolerance of solidity violations. Psychon Bull Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-023-02271-9

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

O'Madagain, C., Kachel , G. & Strickland, B. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav2558. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav2558

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

Tsuji, S., Fikkert, P., Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Dupoux, E., Filippin, L., Versteegh, M., Hagoort, P. & Cristia, A. (2017). The more, the better? Behavioral and neural correlates of frequent and infrequent vowel exposure. Developmental Psychobiology, 59(5), 603-612. doi:10.1002/dev.21534

Cristia, A. & Seidl, A. (2014). The hyperarticulation hypothesis of infant-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 41(4), 913-934. doi:10.1017/S0305000912000669

Patron, E., Mennella, R., Messerotti Benvenuti, S. & Thayer, J. (2019). The frontal cortex is a heart-brake: Reduction in delta oscillations is associated with heart rate deceleration. NeuroImage, 188, 403-410. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.035

Sperber, D. & Mercier, H. (2017). The Enigma of Reason .

Havron, N., Ramus, F., Heude, B., Forhan, A., Cristia, A. & Peyre, H. (2019). The effect of siblings on language development as a function of age difference and sex. Psychological Science, 30(9), 1333-1343. doi:10.31234/osf.io/fgpmd

Mahr, J. , Mascaro, O., Mercier, H. & Csibra, G. (2021). The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance. Plos One, 16(4), e0249958. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249958

Mercier, H. (2020). The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors. The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 159-187. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340080

Marie, A. , Yesilaltay , S. & Strickland, B. (2020). The cognitive foundations of misinformation on science - What we know and what scientists can do about it. EMBO Rep , 21(4), e50205. doi:10.15252/embr.202050205

Denève, S., Alemi, A. & Bourdoukan, R. (2017). The Brain as an Efficient and Robust Adaptive Learner. Neuron, 94(5), 969-977. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.016

Bai, D., Falck, A. & Strickland, B. (2021). The adult visual system resists learning continuity violations. Journal of vision, 21, 2590. doi:10.1167/jov.21.9.2590

Danielson, D., Seidl, A., Onishi, K., Alamian, G. & Cristia, A. (2014). The acoustic properties of bilingual infant-directed speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(2), EL95-101. doi:10.1121/1.4862881

Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2020). Starting Big: The Effect of Unit Size on Language Learning in Children and Adults. Journal of Child Language. doi:10.31234/osf.io/pj7tg

Piot, L. , Havron, N. & Cristia, A. (2021). Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: A meta-analysis. . Journal of Child Language, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S0305000921000441[Opens in a new window]

Ueshima, A., Mercier, H. & Kameda, T. (2021). Social deliberation systematically shifts resource allocation decisions by focusing on the fate of the least well-off. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104067 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104067

Recanatesi, S., Farrell, M., Lajoie, G., Denève, S., Rigotti, M. & Shea-Brown, E. (2018). Signatures and mechanisms of low-dimensional neural predictive manifolds. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/471987

Cristia, A., Dupoux, E., Ratner, N. & Soderstrom, M. (2019). Segmentability Differences Between Child-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech: A Systematic Test With an Ecologically Valid Corpus. Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 3, 13-22. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00022