| 2025 | CogSci | Perceptual Discriminability Drives Overinformative Reference, But Colour Information is Special. | Merrick Giles, Paula Rubio-Fernndez, Francis Mollica |
| 2025 | CogSci | Usage frequency predicts lexicalization across languages. | Temuulen Khishigsuren, Francis Mollica, Ekaterina Vylomova, Charles Kemp |
| 2025 | CogSci | Narrative Communication as a Learning Tool for Resolving Exploration-Exploitation Dilemmas. | Isobel Moore, Francis Mollica, Yoshihisa Kashima |
| 2025 | CogSci | Probing for experience-driven critical period effects in a large language model. | Dyana Muller, Koquiun Li Lin, Charles Kemp, Francis Mollica |
| 2024 | CogSci | Even Laypeople Use Legalese. | Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson |
| 2024 | CogSci | A note on complexity in efficient communication analyses of semantic typology. | Francis Mollica |
| 2024 | CogSci | What can L1 speakers tell us about killing hope? A Novel Behavioral Measure for Identifying Collocations. | Sydelle de Souza, Francis Mollica, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2024 | CogSci | Typological Prevalence Hypothesis: The Case of Kinship. | Jules Torgue, Rosalind Owen, Francis Mollica |
| 2023 | CogSci | What can MINERVA2 tell us about 'killing hope'? Investigating L2 Collocational Processing with a Memory Model. | Sydelle de Souza, Ivan Vegner, Leonidas A. A. Doumas, Francis Mollica |
| 2023 | CogSci | A Colorful Formalization of the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis. | Jules Torgue, Francis Mollica, Matthew Spike |
| 2022 | CogSci | So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of United States federal laws (1951-2009). | Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson |
| 2021 | CogSci | What did I sign? A study of the impenetrability of legalese in contracts. | Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Yufei Liu, Anita Podrug, Edward Gibson |
| 2020 | CogSci | Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness. | Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp |
| 2020 | CogSci | An efficient communication analysis of morpho-syntactic grammatical features. | Francis Mollica, Charles Kemp |
| 2018 | CogSci | Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules. | Lauren Oey, Francis Mollica, Steven T. Piantadosi |
| 2018 | CogSci | A context constructivist account of contextual diversity. | Shaorong Yan, Francis Mollica, Michael K. Tanenhaus |
| 2017 | CogSci | An incremental information-theoretic buffer supports sentence processing. | Francis Mollica, Steve Piantadosi |
| 2017 | CogSci | A Rational Constructivist Account of the Characteristic-to-Defining Shift. | Francis Mollica, Shirlene Wade, Steve Piantadosi |
| 2016 | CogSci | What Determines Human Certainty? | Louis Marti, Steven T. Piantadosi, Francis Mollica, Celeste Kidd |
| 2015 | CogSci | Towards semantically rich and recursive word learning models. | Francis Mollica, Steven T. Piantadosi |
| 2015 | CogSci | The perceptual foundation of linguistic context. | Francis Mollica, Steven T. Piantadosi, Michael K. Tanenhaus |