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Open Mind Volume 6: October

Subject Areas: Cognitive Neuroscience
Publisher: MIT Press - MIT Press
SJR: 4

Open Access

Journal Article

More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms

Saldana, Carmen; Herce, Borja; Bickel, Balthasar

2022 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00062 pmid:36439066

Morphological systems often reuse the same forms in different functions, creating what is known as syncretism. While syncretism varies greatly, certain cross-linguistic tendencies are apparent. Patterns where all syncretic forms share a morphological feature value (e.g., first person, or plural...
Open Access

Journal Article

Dangerous Ground: One-Year-Old Infants are Sensitive to Peril in Other Agents’ Action Plans

Liu, Shari; Pepe, Bill; Ganesh Kumar, Manasa; Ullman, Tomer D.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.

2022 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00063 pmid:36439074

Do infants appreciate that other people’s actions may fail, and that these failures endow risky actions with varying degrees of negative utility (i.e., danger)? Three experiments, including a pre-registered replication, addressed this question by presenting 12- to 15-month-old infants (N = 104,...

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