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| 2021 | Limits to Early Mental State Reasoning: Fourteen- to 15-Month-Old Infants Appreciate Whether Others Can See Objects, But Not Others' Experiences of Objects. | Brandon Woo, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | From Alien Zoo to Spy School: A Preregistered Study of Linguistic Sound Symbolism and its Links to Reading in 8-year-olds. | Fei Ting Woon, De-Fu Yap, Shirong Cai, Evelyn C. Law, Lourdes Mary Daniel, Suzy J. Styles |
| 2021 | Open-Minded, Not Nave: Three-Month-Old Infants Encode Objects as the Goals of Other People's Reaches. | Brandon Woo, Shari Liu, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | Who Needs More Help? Sixteen-Month-Old Infants Prefer to Look at and Reach for Helpers who Help with Harder Tasks. | Brandon Woo, Shari Liu, Hyowon Gweon, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | Mental Models of Illness in the COVID-19 Era. | Emma Wood, Mary Grace Harris, Florencia K. Anggoro |
| 2021 | Language as a bootstrap for compositional visual reasoning. | Catherine Wong, Yoni Friedman, Jacob Andreas, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2021 | The role of period correction and continuous input from a co-performer in joint rushing. | Thomas Wolf, Natalie Sebanz, Gnther Knoblich |
| 2021 | Certainly Strange: A Probabilistic Perspective on Ignorance. | Erwin de Wolff, Iris van Rooij, Johan Kwisthout |
| 2021 | The Role of Mindreading in a Pluralist Framework of Social Cognition. | Julia Wolf, Sabrina Coninx |
| 2021 | Why is scaling up models of language evolution hard? | Marieke Woensdregt, Matthew Spike, Ronald de Haan, Todd Wareham, Iris van Rooij, Mark Blokpoel |
| 2021 | The impact of readability on trust in information. | Amanda Withall, Eyal Sagi |
| 2021 | Cumulative frequency can explain cognate facilitation in language models. | Irene Elisabeth Winther, Yevgen Matusevych, Martin J. Pickering |
| 2021 | Sensorimotor similarity: A fully grounded and efficient measure of semantic similarity. | Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell |
| 2021 | A Rational Account of Anchor Effects in Hindsight Bias. | Samarie A. Wilson, Somya Arora, Qiong Zhang, Tom Griffiths |
| 2021 | Contribution of receptive field center and surround to repetition suppression in macaque visual area V2. | Nathaniel Williams, Carl Olson |
| 2021 | A crosslinguistic study of the acquisition of time words in English- and German-speaking children. | Katherine Williams, Anna Bnki, Gabriela Markova, Stefanie Hoehl, Katharine Tillman |
| 2021 | Does cognitive dissonance depend on self-concept? 2-year-old children, but not 1-year-olds, show blind choice-induced preferences. | Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, Dora Kampis, Emilie Poulsen, Clara Schueler, Victoria Southgate |
| 2021 | The Burgeoning Reach of Social Learning and Culture in Animals' Lives. | Andrew Whiten |
| 2021 | Deciding to be wrong: Optimism and pessimism in motivated information search. | Nathan E. Wheeler, William Cunningham |
| 2021 | Can computers tell a story? Discourse Structure in Computer-generated Text and Humans. | Alexander Wey, Babak Hemmatian, Rachel Avram, Sheridan Feucht, Kate Spitalnic, Muskaan Garg, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick, Bjrn Sandstede, Steven A. Sloman |
| 2021 | 8-10 months old infants extract non-adjacent dependencies from segmental information. | Ivonne Weyers, Jutta L. Mueller, Claudia Mnnel |
| 2021 | A Model-Based Analysis of Changes in the Semantic Structure of Free Recall Due to Cognitive Impairment. | Holly A. Westfall, Michael D. Lee |
| 2021 | Planning and Action Organization in Ill-Defined Tasks: The Case of Everyday Activities. | Petra Wenzl, Holger Schultheis |
| 2021 | Does anything predict anchoring bias? | Matthew Brian Welsh |