Publications

Relational abstraction in early childhood: Three cultures and three trajectories

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Carstensen, A., Kim, M., Kim, G., Jin, M., Kang, M., Choi, Y., Walker, C.M. (2023). Relational abstraction in early childhood: Three cultures and three trajectories. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgments using language statistics

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Le, K.N., Gao, S., Frank, M.C., Carstensen, A. (2023). Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgments using language statistics. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Bridging cultural and cognitive perspectives on similarity reasoning

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Carstensen, A., Saponaro, C., Frank, M.C., Walker, C.M. (2022). Bridging cultural and cognitive perspectives on similarity reasoning. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Characterizing the development of relational reasoning in India

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Carstensen, A., Dhaliwal, T., and Frank, M.C. (2021). Characterizing the development of relational reasoning in India. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Variation in spatial concepts: Different frames of reference on different axes

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Pitt, B., Carstensen, A., Gibson, E., and Piantadosi, S. (2021). Variation in spatial concepts: Different frames of reference on different axes. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Peekbank: Exploring children’s word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Zettersten, M., Bergey, C.A., Bhatt, N.S., Boyce, V., Braginsky, M., Carstensen, A.…and Frank, M.C. (2021). Peekbank: Exploring children’s word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Relational reasoning and generalization using non-symbolic neural networks

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Geiger, A., Carstensen, A., Frank, M.C., & Potts, C. (2020). Relational reasoning and generalization using non-symbolic neural networks. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [full paper withheld from proceedings; preprint]

Language evolution in the lab tends toward informative communication

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Carstensen, A., Xu, J., Smith, C., and Regier, T. (2015). Language evolution in the lab tends toward informative communication. In D. Noelle et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 303-308). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Testing a rational account of pragmatic reasoning: The case of spatial language

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Carstensen, A., Kon, E., and Regier, T. (2014). Testing a rational account of pragmatic reasoning: The case of spatial language. In P. Bello et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2009-2013). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Individuals recapitulate the proposed evolutionary development of spatial lexicons

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Carstensen, A. and Regier, T. (2013). Individuals recapitulate the proposed evolutionary development of spatial lexicons. In M. Knauff et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 293-298). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Grounding spatial language in non-linguistic cognition: Evidence for universal and relative spatial semantics in thought

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

*Carstensen, A., *Pacer, M., and Regier, T. (2012). Grounding spatial language in non-linguistic cognition: Evidence for universal and relative spatial semantics in thought. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, and R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 827-832). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. *equal contribution [PDF]