Papers and Chapters

In press

Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Stavans, M., Revencu, B., Hashiya, K., Kobayashi, H., & Csibra, G. (in press). Children’s trait inference and partner choice in a cooperative game. Child Development.

Brody, G. & Csibra, G. (in press). Discourse referents in infancyPsychological ReviewPDF icon 

Revencu, B. (in press). Object substitution pretense reflects a general capacity to interpret objects as symbols. Psychological ReviewPDF icon

2025

Ciftci, B. G., Kominsky, J. F., & Csibra, G. (2025). Do infants use cues of saliva sharing to infer close relationships? A replication of Thomas et al. (2022). Royal Society Open Science, 12, 240229.

Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Mészégető, D., Pomiechowska, B., Revencu, B., Tatone, D., & Csibra. G. (2025). Preschoolers’ understanding of helping as increasing another agent’s utilityOpen Mind, 9, 169–188.

Lucca, K. et al. (2025). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581.

Szabó, E. & Kovács, Á.M. (2025). Do early meanings of negation map onto a fully-fledged negation concept in infancy? Cognition, 254, 105929.

2024

Pomiechowska, B., Takács, S., Volein, Á., & Parise, E. (2024). The nature of label-induced categories: preverbal infants represent surface features and category symbolsProceedings of the Rotal Society, B. 291, 20241433.

Tauzin, T., Call, J., & Gergely, G. (2024). Infants produce optimally informative points to satisfy the epistemic needs of their communicative partnerOpen Mind, 8, 1228-1246.

Revencu, B. & Csibra, G. (2024). Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debateCognitive Development, 71, 101487.

Pomiechowska, B., Bródy, G., Téglás, E., & Kovács, Á.M. (2024). Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity conceptsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 121(29), e2315149121. 

Revencu, B., Pomiechowska, B., Brody, G., & Csibra, G. (2024). Fifteen-month-olds accept arbitrary shapes as symbols of familiar kind tokens. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 1568-1574. 

Celik, B. & Kovács, Á.M. (2024). Communication-based belief attribution: Do infants encode better others’ beliefs induced via communication or the ones induced via visual cues? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 2049-2056.

Blesić, M. & Kovács, Á.M. (2024). Action observation influences scene perception in 18-month-olds. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 4666-4670.

Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Csibra, G., Tatone, D., & Pomiechowska, B. (2004). Infants expect an agent to choose a goal that can be reached at a lower cost. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 4938-4944. 

Tatone, D. & Csibra, G. (2024). The representation of giving actions: Event construction in the service of monitoring social relationshipsCurrent Directions in Psychological Science, 33(3), 159-165.

Fogd, D., Sebanz, N., & Kovács, Á.M. (2024). Flexible social monitoring as revealed by eye movements: Spontaneous mental state updating triggered by others’ unexpected actionsCognition, 249, 105812.

Lukošiūnaitė, I., Kovács, Á.M., & Sebanz, N. (2024). The influence of another’s actions and presence on perspective taking. Scientific Reports, 14, 4971. 

Vizmathy, L.Begus, K. Knoblich, G., Gergely, G., & Curioni, A. (2024). Better together: 14-Month-old infants expect agents to cooperateOpen Mind, 8, 1–16.

2023

Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Tatone, D., & Csibra, G. (2023). The representation of third-party helping interactions in infancyAnnual Review of Developmental Psychology, 5, 67-88.

Revencu, B. & Csibra, G. (2023). The missing link between core knowledge and language: Review of Elizabeth Spelke’s “What Babies Know, Volume 1 (2022)”Mind & Language, 38, 1314–1322.

Mussavifard, N. (2023). Metarepresenting in communicationSynthese,  202, 168.

Király, I., Oláh, K., & Kovács, Á.M. (2023). Can 18-month-olds revise attributed beliefs? Open Mind, 7, 435–444.

Manea, V., Kampis, D., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Revencu, B., & Southgate, V. (2023). An initial but receding altercentric bias in preverbal infants’ memoryProceedings of the Royal Society B, 290: 20230738.

Brody, G., Revencu, B., & Csibra, G. (2023). Images of objects are interpreted as symbols: A case study of automatic size measurement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(4), 1146-1157.

Tatone, D., Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., & Pomiechowska, B. (2023). Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action eventsCognitive Development, 66, 101329.

Warren, E., Call, J., & Gergely, G. (2023). On the murky dissociation between expression and communicationBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e19.

Mussavifard, N. & Csibra, G. (2023). The co-evolution of cooperation and communication: alternative accountsBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e11.

Bas, J., Sebastian-Galles, N., Csibra, G., & Mascaro, O. (2023). Infants’ representation of asymmetric social influenceJournal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105564.

Hinzen, W. & Mattos, O. (2023). Explaining early generics: A linguistic modelMind & Language, 38, 256-273.

2022

Cesana-Arlotti, N., Varga, B., & Téglás, E. (2022). The pupillometry of the possible: an investigation of infants' representation of alternative possibilitiesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Soceity B, 377(1866), 20210343.

Mascaro, O. & Csibra, G. (2022). Infants expect agents to minimize the collective cost of collaborative actionsScientific Reports, 12, 17088.

Yin, J., Csibra, G., & Tatone, D. (2022). Structural asymmetries in the representation of giving and taking eventsCognition, 229, 105248.

Pomiechowska, B. & Csibra, G. (2022). Nonverbal action interpretation guides novel word disambiguation in 12-month-oldsOpen Mind, 6, 51-76.

Tatone, D. (2022). More than one way to skin a cat: Addressing the arbitration problem in developmental scienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e123.

Galusca, C. I., Andrási, K., & Csibra, G. (2022). Kind-relevant information supports the fast-mapping of novel labels. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA, USA. 

Szabó, E., Chiandetti, C., Versace, E., Téglás, E., Csibra, G., Kovács, Á.M., & Vallortigara, G. (2022). Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objectseLife, 11, e67208.

Fischer, P., Madarász, L., Téglás, E., & Kovács, Á. M. (2022). Consequences of perspective taking: Some uncharted avenues. In J. Gervain, G. Csibra, K. Kovács (Eds.), A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh (pp. 323-334). Springer.

Téglás, E., Kovács, Á. M., & Gergely, G. (2022). Dissociating measures of information- and control-seeking in 12-month-olds’ contingency exploration. In J. Gervain, G. Csibra, K. Kovács (Eds.), A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh (pp. 335-349). Springer.

Mahr, J. B. & Csibra, G. (2022). A short history of theories of intuitive theories. In J. Gervain, G. Csibra, K. Kovács (Eds.), A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh (pp. 219-232). Springer.

Kampis, D. & Kovács, Á.M. (2022). Seeing the World From Others’ Perspective: 14-Month-Olds Show Altercentric Modulation Effects by Others’ BeliefsOpen Mind, 5, 189–207.

Forgacs, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, G. & Gervain, J. (2022). The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language. Scientific Reports, 12, 1220.

Mascaro, O. & Kovács Á.M. (2022). The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life. Developmental Science, 13223.