Publications

Klopfenstein, A. & Mercier, H. (2026). Explaining is not enough: Appealing explanations should also be surprising. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 33(1), 35. doi:10.3758/s13423-025-02789-0

Cleret de Langavant, L., Mouton , A., de Gardelle, V., Kouider, S., Bachoud-Levi, A., Fenelon, G. & Remy, P. (2026). Visual misperceptions in favour of living beings in Parkinson's disease: A psychophysical study. Revue Neurologique, . doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2025.12.005

Dubourg, E. & Scrivner, C. (2026). Vulnerability and the computational logic of fear: insights from the horror genre. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(1), 106813. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106813

Miller-Viacava, N., Régis, F., Friedman, N. , Mullet, T. , Sueur, J. , Willie, J. & Lorenzi, C. (2026). Spectro-temporal modulation templates for human perception of animal vocalisations in natural soundscapes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Kandemir, E. , Esposito, E., Gurgand, L. & Ramus, F. (2026). A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Feedback Timing on Learning Outcomes in Computer-Assisted Learning. Educational Psychology Review, 38(1), 13. doi:10.1007/s10648-026-10117-8

Baumard, N. & Andre, J. (2026). Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture. Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture, Evolution and Human Behavior, 106844. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106844

Pacherie, E. (2026). Agency. Cambridge University Press

Chaix-Eichel, N., Guerillon, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., P Rougier, N., Boraud, T. & Ballesta, S. (2026). Social hierarchy influences monkeys' risky decisions. Communications biology, . doi:10.1038/s42003-026-09817-2

Darcy, G., Karabegovic , M. & Mercier, H. (2026). The Property in Intellectual Property: Reputation Is Harder to Share Than Ideas. Cognitive science, 50(3), e70192. doi:10.1111/cogs.70192

Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2026). Structural constraints and the diffusion of responsibility. European Journal of Law and Economics. doi:10.1007/s10657-026-09874-2

Wanek, E., Mari, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & Mercier, H. (2026). Contextual expectations and norms of evidential disclosure in assertion. Journal of Pragmatics, 257, 39-50. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2026.02.010

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N., Formisano, E., Proix, T. & Giraud, A. (2026). Aligning statistical models with inference goals in the neuroscience of language: A dual-dependency taxonomy. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 4 IMAG.a.1132. doi:10.1162/IMAG.a.1132

Almeras, C., Chambon, V. & Wyart, V. (2026). Competing cognitive pressures on human exploration in the absence of trade-off with exploitation. Nature communications, 17(1), 883. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-68639-2

Brunsberg, S. & Ramus, F. (2026). Technical comment on Romero, A., Blanch, A., & Chopik, W. J. (2026). Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees. Personality and Individual Differences, 257, 113790. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2026.113790

Cecchi, R. & Palminteri, S. (2026). Genuine learning biases persist after accounting for temporally decreasing learning rates: Insight from fitting six datasets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(6), e2534141123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2534141123

Nasioulas, A., Potier, E., Cerrotti, F., Lebreton, M. & Palminteri, S. (2026). Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences. Nature communications, 17(1), 992. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-67729-x

Palminteri, S. & M Wu, C. (2026). Beyond computational equivalence: the behavioral inference principle for machine consciousness. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2026(1), niag002. doi:10.1093/nc/niag002

Palminteri, S. & Wyart, V. (2026). Decision Making: A Very Short Introduction. doi:10.1093/9780191912344.001.0001

Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., De Courson, B., A Johnson, E. , T Johnson, M. & E Pickett, K. (2025). Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: implications for social policy. Social Policy & Administration, 59(2), 293-308. doi:10.1111/spol.13065

Leglaive, S., Fraticelli, M. , Borne, L. , Sadeghi, M. , Wisdom, S. , Pariente, M., R. Hershey, J. , Pressnitzer, D. & P. Barker, J. (2025). Objective and subjective evaluation of speech enhancement methods in the UDASE task of the 7th CHiME challenge. Computer Speech & Language, 89, 101685. doi:10.1016/j.csl.2024.101685

Dubourg, E. & Baumard, N. (2025). Does curiosity adaptively vary with ecological contexts? A correlational study with socioeconomic status. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 19(1), 76–84. doi:10.1037/ebs0000355

Boon-Falleur, M., Andre, J., Baumard, N. & Nettle, D. (2025). Household Wealth is Associated With Perceived Trustworthiness in a Diverse Set of Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(7), 732-742. doi:10.1177/19485506241289461

Sijilmassi, A. , Safra, L. & Baumard, N. (2025). Coalitional psychology and the evolution of nationalistic cultures. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2(47), e197. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2400133X

Lavechin, M., De Seyssel, M., Titeux, A. , Wisniewski, G., Bredin, H., Cristia, A. & Dupoux, E. (2025). Simulating Early Phonetic and Word Learning Without Linguistic Categories. Developmental science, 28(2), e13606. doi:10.1111/desc.13606

Zhou, R. , Spector, B. & Maldonado, M. (2025). An experimental assessment of the nall lexical gap Authors. In Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 422-427.

Dubourg, E., Chambon, V. & Baumard, N. (2025). Human motivation is organized hierarchically, from proximal (means) to ultimate (ends) The Behavioral and brain sciences, 48(e31). doi:10.1017/S0140525X24000542

Kim, Y., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Miton, H. & Morin, O. (2025). The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems. Journal of Memory and Language, 142, 104620. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2025.104620

Dautriche, I. & Chemla, E. (2025). Evidence for compositional abilities in one-year-old infants. Communications psychology, 3(1), 37. doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00222-9

Borredon, Q., Bulamac, Z., Crozat, C., Dayre, E., Fuchs, E., Hallo, M., Kerzreho, L., Lavagne D?ortigue, P., Lellouche, T., Samani, H., Penel, S., Ryszefld, N., Sandhu, T., Timsit, A., Yrjö{-}koskinen, J., Morin, O. & Dubourg, E. (2025). Did Teddy Bears Culturally Evolve to Be Cuter? A Preregistered Replication. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 25(1-2), 114–127. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340203

Dubourg, E. & Chambon, V. (2025). DEEP: A model of gaming preferences informed by the hierarchical nature of goal-oriented cognition. Entertainment Computing, 53(100930). doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100930