Past Undergraduate Publications

This page includes academic publications with undergraduate Cognitive Science authors. The undergraduate Cognitive Science authors are in bold. If you know of any publications that should be added to this list, please e-mail cogsci.registrar@yale.edu.

Prior Years

Tristan, S.Y., Jared, F., Dawoon, C., Juiliana, E.T., Lillian, B., Cameron, T.E., & Nicholas, B.T. (2025).  Hippocampal encoding of memories in Human Infants. Science.

Lucinda, M.S., Taylor, J.K., Emily, M.C., Sarah, M., Jasmyne, C.P., Paola, O., Sahana, K., Jason, T.H., Sadie J.Z., Hopewell, R.H., Camilia, C., Gillian, G., Audrey, Y.H., Ashley, T., Dylan, G.G. (2025). Multivariate Links Between the Developmental Timing of Adversity Exposure and White Matter Tract Connectivity in Adulthood. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

Wisteria, D., Kwaku, A., Jutta, J., Tyrone, D.C. (2023). Cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation: Dual layers of resilience against the emergence of paranoia. Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Vivian, W., Joan, D.K.O., Brian, J.S. (2023). Here it comes: Active forgetting triggered even just by anticipation of an impending event boundary. The Psychonomic Society.

Srivastava, A., Frank, R., Widder, S., & Chartash, D. (2020). The Role of Linguistic Features in Domain Adaptation: TAG Parsing of Questions. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.  

Royka, A. L., Johnston, A. M., & Santos, L. R. (2020). Metacognition in canids: A comparison of dogs (Canis familiaris) and dingoes (Canis dingo). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134(3), 303-317

Aono, D., Yaffe, G., & Kober, H. (2019). Neuroscientific evidence in the courtroom: A review. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 40-60.

Norris, C.J., Creem, D., Hendler, R., & Kober, H. (2018). Brief mindfulness meditation improves attention in novices: Evidence from ERPs and moderation by neuroticism. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12(315).

Lowet, A.S., Firestone, C. & Scholl, B.J. (2018). Seeing structure: Shape skeletons modulate perceived similarity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Strickland, B., Silver, I. & Keil, F.C. Mem Cogn (2017) 45: 442. 

Decker, K., Chin, J., Peng, A., Summers, C., Nguyen, G., Oberlander, A., Sakib, G., Sharifrazi, N., Heath, C., Gray, J.S., & Falck, R.D. (2017). “Conceptual Feasibility Study of the Hyperloop for Next-Generation Transport.” AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2017-0221).

Johnston, A. M., Holden, P. C., & Santos, L. R. (2016). Exploring the evolutionary origins of overimitation: A comparison across domesticated and non-domesticated canids. Developmental Science. (video abstract on youtube)

De Freitas, J., Tobia, K. P., Newman, G. E., & Knobe, J. (2016). Normative judgments and individual essence. Cognitive science.

Newman, G., De Freitas, J., and Knobe, J. (2014), “Beliefs about the true self explain asymmetries based on moral judgment.” Cognitive Science, 39

I. Leite, M. McCoy, M. Lohani, D. Ullman, N. Salomons, C. Stokes, S. Rivers, and B. Scassellati (2015). Emotional Storytelling in the Classroom: Individual versus Group Interaction between Children and Robots. In: Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Portland, USA, March 2-5. 

I. Leite, M. McCoy, D. Ullman, N. Salomons, and B. Scassellati (2015). Comparing Models of Disengagement in Individual and Group Interactions. In: Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Portland, USA, March 2-5.

I. Leite, M. McCoy, M. Lohani, D. Ullman, N. Salomons, C. Stokes, S. Rivers, and B. Scassellati (2015). Using Robot-Robot Interaction to Build Emotional Understanding in Children. In: Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Portland, USA, March 2-5.

A. Litoiu, D. Ullman, J. Kim, and B. Scassellati (2015). Evidence that Robots Trigger a Cheating Detector in Humans. In: Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Portland, USA, March 2-5. 

De Freitas, J., Liverence, B. M., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Attentional rhythm: A temporal analogue of object-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1), 71.

Cowen, A. S., Chun, M. M., & Kuhl, B. A. (2014). Neural portraits of perception: reconstructing face images from evoked brain activity. Neuroimage, 94, 12-22.

Sheskin, M., Ashayeri, K., Skerry, A., & Santos, L. (2014). Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) fail to show inequality aversion in a no-cost situation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(2), 80-88.

Skerry, A., Sheskin, M., & Santos, L. (2011). Capuchin monkeys are not prosocial in an instrumental helping task. Animal Cognition, 14(5), 647-54. 

W. A. Bainbridge, J. W. Hart, E. S. Kim & B. Scassellati (2010). The benefits of interactions with physically present robots over video-displayed agents. International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 3(1), p. 41-52.

Bargh, J. A., & Earp, B. (2009). The will is caused, not “free.”. Dialogue: Newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 24, 13-15.