Publications

F. Mollica, N. Zaslavsky (2024). Information-theoretic and machine learning methods for semantic categorization. The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution.

E. Martinez, F. Mollica, E. Gibson (2023). Even lawyers do not like legalese. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

D.M. O’Shaughnessy, T. Cruz Cordero, F. Mollica, I. Boni, J. Jara-Ettinger, E. Gibson, S.T. Piantadosi (2023). Diverse mathematical knowledge among indigenous Amazonians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

J. Torgue, M. Spike, F. Mollica (2023). A colorful formalization of the typological prevalence hypothesis.. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

E. Martinez, F. Mollica, E. Gibson (2022). So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of United States federal laws over time. PsyArXiv Preprint.

E. Martinez, F. Mollica, E. Gibson (2022). So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of United States federal laws (1951-2009). Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

E. Martinez, F. Mollica, E. Gibson (2022). Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drive processing difficulty in legal texts. Cognition.

B. Gyevnar, G. Dagan, C. Haley, S. Guo, F. Mollica (2022). Communicative Efficiency or Iconic Learning: Do communicative and acquisition pressures interact to shape colour-naming systems?. Entropy.

C. Shain, H. Kean, B. Lipkin,, J. Affourtit, M. Siegelman, F. Mollica, E. Fedorenko (2021). ‘Constituent length’ effects in fMRI do not provide evidence for abstract syntactic processing. bioArXiv Preprint.

E. Martinez, F. Mollica, Y. Liu, A. Podrug, E. Gibson (2021). What did I sign? A study of the impenetrability of legalese in contracts. Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

F. Mollica, G. Bacon, N. Zaslavsky, Y. Xu, T. Regier, C. Kemp (2021). The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

P. Rubio-Fernández, F. Mollica, J. Jara-Ettinger (2021). Speakers and listeners exploit word order for communicative efficiency: A cross-linguistic investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2021). Logical word learning: The case of kinship. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

M. Long, I. Moore, F. Mollica, P. Rubio-Fernández (2021). Contrast perception as a visual heuristic in the formulation of referential expressions. Cognition.

F. Mollica, G. Bacon, Y. Xu, T. Regier, C. Kemp (2020). Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness.. Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

F. Mollica$^\dagger$, M. Siegelman$^\dagger$, E. Diachek, S.T. Piantadosi, R. Futrell, Z. Mineroff, H. Kean, P. Qian, E. Fedorenko (2020). Composition is the core driver of the language-selective network. Neurobiology of Language.

F. Mollica, C. Kemp (2020). An efficient communication analysis of morpho-syntactic grammatical features.. Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

F. Mollica (2019). The Human Learning Machine: Rational Constructivist Models of Conceptual Development.

F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2019). Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition.. Royal Society Open Science.

P. Rubio-Fernández, F. Mollica, M. Oraa Ali, E. Gibson (2019). How do you know that? Automatic belief inferences in passing conversation. Cognition.

L. Martí, F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi, C. Kidd (2018). Certainty is primarily determined by past performance during concept learning. Open Mind.

L. Oey, F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2018). Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules.. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

S. Yan$^\dagger$, F. Mollica$^\dagger$, M. K. Tanenhaus (2018). A context constructivist account of contextual diversity.. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Y. Register, F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2017). Semantic verification is flexible and sensitive to context. PsyArXiv Preprint.

F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2017). How data drives early word learning: a cross-linguistic waiting time analysis.. Open Mind.

F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2017). An incremental information theoretic buffer supports sentence processing.. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

F. Mollica, S Wade, S. T. Piantadosi (2017). A rational constructivist account of the characteristic to defining shift.. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

L. Martí, F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi, C. Kidd (2016). What determines human certainty?. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi (2015). Towards semantically rich and recursive word learning models.. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

F. Mollica, S. T. Piantadosi, M. K. Tanenhaus (2015). The perceptual foundation of linguistic context.. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.