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| 2021 | Modeling the Anticipatory Remapping of Spatial Body Representations: A Free Energy Approach. | Patrick Weigert, Johannes Lohmann, Martin V. Butz |
| 2021 | A Task-Optimized Neural Network Model of Decision Confidence. | Taylor W. Webb, Kiyofumi Miyoshi, Tsz Yan So, Hakwan Lau |
| 2021 | Processing differences among irregular inflection classes. | Maya C. Watt, Mika Braginsky, Timothy J. O'Donnell |
| 2021 | Coin it up: Generalization of creative constructions in the wild. | Julia Watson, Farhan Samir, Suzanne Stevenson, Barend Beekhuizen |
| 2021 | Come Together: Integrating Perspective Taking and Perspectival Expressions. | Julia Watson, Anna Kapron-King, Jai Aggarwal, Barend Beekhuizen, Daphna Heller, Suzanne Stevenson |
| 2021 | Shared temporal expectation across higher- and lower-level cognition. | Muzhi Wang, Hang Zhang |
| 2021 | Two languages, one mind: the effects of language learning on motion event processing in early Cantonese-English bilinguals. | Yi Wang, Li Wei |
| 2021 | Theory Acquisition as Constraint-Based Program Synthesis. | Haoliang Wang, Ed Vul, Nadia Polikarpova, Judith E. Fan |
| 2021 | Verbal working memory capacity modulates category representation. | Qianqian Wan, Mengcun Gao, Vladimir M. Sloutsky |
| 2021 | Learning part-based abstractions for visual object concepts. | Haoliang Wang, Nadia Polikarpova, Judith E. Fan |
| 2021 | Modeling Question Asking Using Neural Program Generation. | Ziyun Wang, Brenden M. Lake |
| 2021 | A Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Word Order Harmony. | Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2021 | Dynamics of Counterfactual Retrieval. | Feiyi Wang, Ada Aka, Sudeep Bhatia |
| 2021 | Directionality Effects and Exceptions in Learning Phonological Alternations. | Anqi Wang |
| 2021 | Blame the Player and the Game. | Drew Walker, Ed Vul |
| 2021 | Using prototype-defined checkerboards to investigate the mechanisms contributing to the Composite Face Effect. | Emika Waguri, Rossy McLaren, I. P. L. Mclaren, Ciro Civile |
| 2021 | No evidence for attraction to consonance in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) from a place preference paradigm. | Bernhard Wagner, Daniel L. Bowling, Marisa Hoeschele |
| 2021 | Investigating novice and expert programmers' problem solving via protocol analysis. | Maria Vorobeva, Kasia Muldner |
| 2021 | Expectancy violations about physical properties of animated objects in dogs. | Christoph J. Vlter, Ludwig Huber |
| 2021 | Learning rate and success as a function of code-switching strategies in the input. | Margreet Vogelzang, Ianthi M. Tsimpli, John Williams |
| 2021 | If you think your action was erroneous, you will reject the outcome you actually wanted: a case of reverse choice blindness. | Gabriel Vogel, Lars Hall, Petter Johansson |
| 2021 | The Effects of Dyadic Conversations on Coronavirus-Related Belief Change. | Madalina Vlasceanu, Alin Coman |
| 2021 | Belief Change Triggers Behavioral Change. | Madalina Vlasceanu, Jay J. Van Bavel, Alin Coman |
| 2021 | The mental representation of integers: Further evidence for the negative number line as a reflection of the natural number line. | Nicholas Vest, Martha W. Alibali |