"Deaf homesigners can create the foundations of phonetics and phonology without an adult linguistic model". 📢 New paper from: Sotaro Kita, Diane Brentari, & Susan Goldin-Meadow.

Are your eyes following your thoughts? We show internal coupling depends on spatial references, imagery skills, and working memory, suggesting eye movements support internal attention and reflect mental image quality during visual imagery.

RT @cocosci_lab: Paper now out in @CognitionJourn shows that people make suboptimal decisions about how to make investments to mitigate exi….

The framework also invites further exploration of perceiver and target characteristics, deepening our understanding of a phenomenon that importantly impacts moral rights and responsibilities of animal and artificial agents.

Based on survey data from two online studies, they show that the dimensionality of mind perception changes depending on perspective. Thus, embracing both perceiver and target perspectives within one framework can resolve previous inconsistencies.

The authors developed and tested a novel account that distinguishes between a perceiver and a social target perspective on the phenomenon ("Who perceives mind?" vs. "Whose mind is perceived?").

Which dimensions organize people's perception of the mind? Previous social cognition research disagrees on this question. A new study seeks to resolve the ongoing debate.

"A question of perspective: Target- vs. perceiver-specific dimensions of mind perception". 📢New paper from: Nele Bögemann, Lasana Harris, & Steffen Nestler.

Children are able to differentiate fake news from real news even before exposure to fake news on social media. This ability improves with age and even more so with cognitive reflection or the disposition to question an initial intuition @andrewshtulman .

"Self-portrait of a stranger: Self-face representation and interoception in depersonalization experiences". 📢New paper from: Lara Maister & Anna Ciaunica.

"Wink or blush? Pupil-linked phasic arousal signals both change and uncertainty during assessment of changing environmental regularities". Check it out:.

A reversal learning paradigm. Four manipulations. Cluster based permutation test. Two pupil responses. Five linear mixed models. Blinks. Response times. and a double dissociation.

Environmental change. Belief uncertainty. Arousal. Pupil dilation. Two separable effects. .

Full paper and materials: Authors: Rosie Aboody (@AboodyRosie), Isaac Davis (@Isaac_Davis_8c), Yarrow Dunham (@yarrowdunham), Julian Jara-Ettinger.

These results suggest that epistemic inference goes beyond specific belief states: we can form precise representations of how much someone knows, even when we cannot determine the specific contents of their knowledge.

Their judgments closely matched predictions from a computational model based on utility maximization and Bayesian reasoning, suggesting that people infer knowledge magnitude by reasoning about the costs and efficiency of others’ actions under different quantities of knowledge.

Across two studies, we found that people can make precise, quantitative judgments about how much other people know from watching them make simple choices (like where to search for a hidden prize), even when they have no way to determine the contents of that knowledge.

Can we infer how much someone knows, even when we can't tell what they know?.

"A counterfactual explanation for recency effects in double prevention scenarios: Commentary on Thanawala and Erb (2024)". 📢New paper from: Tadeg Quillien, Kevin O’Neill, & Paul Henne.

These results suggest that time affects causal reasoning by influencing the events people mentally modify when imagining how things could have happened.