| 2025 | CogSci | Re-examining the tradeoff between lexicon size and average morphosyntactic complexity in recursive numeral systems. | David Yang, Terry Regier |
| 2025 | COLING | A cultural shift in Western perceptions of Palestine. | Terry Regier, Muhammad Ali Khalidi |
| 2024 | ACL | American Sign Language Handshapes Reflect Pressures for Communicative Efficiency. | Kayo Yin, Terry Regier, Dan Klein |
| 2023 | CogSci | Kinship terminologies reflect culture-specific communicative need: Evidence from Hindi and English. | Gunjan Anand, Terry Regier |
| 2023 | CogSci | Iterated learning and communication jointly explain efficient color naming systems. | Emil Carlsson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Terry Regier |
| 2022 | CogSci | Culture, communicative need, and the efficiency of semantic categories. | Shan Gao, Terry Regier |
| 2020 | CogSci | Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness. | Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp |
| 2020 | CogSci | Categorical perception as inference under uncertainty: New evidence from color. | Sonnet Phelps, Amit Millo, Kevin Holmes, Terry Regier |
| 2019 | CogSci | "Natural concepts" revisited in the spatial-topological domain: Universal tendencies in focal spatial relations. | Alexandra Carstensen, George Kachergis, Noah Hermalin, Terry Regier |
| 2019 | CogSci | Efficient use of ambiguity in an early writing system: Evidence from Sumerian cuneiform. | Noah Hermalin, Terry Regier |
| 2019 | CogSci | Season naming and the local environment. | Charles Kemp, Alice Gaby, Terry Regier |
| 2019 | CogSci | Evolution and efficiency in color naming: The case of Nafaanra. | Noga Zaslavsky, Karee Garvin, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier |
| 2019 | CogSci | Communicative need and color naming. | Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier |
| 2019 | CogSci | Semantic categories of artifacts and animals reflect efficient coding. | Noga Zaslavsky, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby, Charles Kemp |
| 2018 | CogSci | Information-theoretic efficiency and semantic variation: The case of color naming. | Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby |
| 2018 | CogSci | Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need. | Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier |
| 2018 | EMNLP | Probing sentence embeddings for structure-dependent tense. | Geoff Bacon, Terry Regier |
| 2016 | CogSci | The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color. | Emily Cibelli, Yang Xu, Joseph L. Austerweil, Thomas L. Griffiths, Terry Regier |
| 2016 | CogSci | A computational investigation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: The case of spatial relations. | Christine Tseng, Alexandra Carstensen, Terry Regier, Yang Xu |
| 2015 | CogSci | Tense systems across languages support efficient communication. | Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu, Terry Regier |
| 2015 | CogSci | The space of spatial relations: An extended stimulus set. | Alexandra Carstensen, Yang Xu, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier |
| 2015 | CogSci | Language evolution in the lab tends toward informative communication. | Alexandra Carstensen, Jing Xu, Cameron Smith, Terry Regier |
| 2015 | CogSci | Semantic chaining and efficient communication: The case of container names. | Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Barbara Malt |
| 2015 | CogSci | An adaptive cue combination model of spatial reorientation. | Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Nora S. Newcombe |
| 2014 | CogSci | Locomotion language in the wild: Biomechanical constraints and caveats. | Alexandra Carstensen, Kevin Holmes, Aagje van der Meer, Terry Regier |
| 2014 | CogSci | Testing a rational account of pragmatic reasoning: The case of spatial language. | Alexandra Carstensen, Elizabeth Kon, Terry Regier |
| 2014 | CogSci | Language evolution in the lab tends toward informative communication. | Shubha Guha, Alexandra Carstensen, Terry Regier |
| 2014 | CogSci | Categorical perception reflects non-basic color categories. | Kevin Holmes, Terry Regier |
| 2014 | CogSci | Categorical perception of spatial relations across languages: The case of support. | Kelsey Moty, Kevin Holmes, Terry Regier |
| 2014 | CogSci | Numeral systems across languages support efficient communication: From approximate numerosity to recursion. | Yang Xu, Terry Regier |
| 2013 | CogSci | Thinking in ways we don't speak: Evidence for a universal preference in semantic granularity. | Alexandra Carstensen, Grace Neveu, Lev Michael, Terry Regier |
| 2013 | CogSci | Individuals recapitulate the proposed evolutionary development of spatial lexicons. | Alexandra Carstensen, Terry Regier |
| 2013 | CogSci | Spatial terms across languages support near-optimal communication: Evidence from Peruvian Amazonia, and computational analyses. | Naveen Khetarpal, Grace Neveu, Asifa Majid, Lev Michael, Terry Regier |
| 2012 | CogSci | Predicting focal colors with a rational model of representativeness. | Joshua T. Abbott, Terry Regier, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2012 | CogSci | Grounding spatial language in non-linguistic cognition: Evidence for universal and relative spatial semantics in thought. | Michael Pacer, Alexandra Carstensen, Terry Regier |
| 2011 | CogSci | Language and spatial frames of reference: The effect of verbal interference. | Sophie Bridgers, Terry Regier |
| 2011 | CogSci | Universals and variation in spatial language and cognition: Evidence from Chichewa. | Alexandra Carstensen, Naveen Khetarpal, Asifa Majid, Terry Regier |
| 2011 | CogSci | Inferring Conceptual Structure from Cross-Language Data. | Terry Regier, Naveen Khetarpal, Asifa Majid |
| 1991 | ACL | Learning Perceptually-Grounded Semantics in The L | Terry Regier |
| 1991 | IJCAI | Line Labeling and Junction Labeling: A Coupled System for Image Interpretation. | Terry Regier |