PUBLICATIONS

2023

• Pesowski, M.L., Powell, L.J., Cikara, M., & Schachner, A. (2023). Interpersonal utility and children’s social inferences from shared preferences. Cognition. 232, 105344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105344. [paper] [preprint]

2022

• Atwood, S., Schachner, A.*, & Mehr, S. A.* (2022). Expectancy effects threaten the inferential validity of synchrony-prosociality research. Open Mind. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00067. [paper] [preprint] 
  *these authors contributed equally

• Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2022).  Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13321  [paper] [preprint]

• Kim, M. & Schachner, A. (2022). The origins of dance: Characterizing the development of infants' earliest dance behavior. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001436. [paper] [preprint]

• Agrawal, T., Rottman, J., & Schachner, A. (2022). How musicality changes our moral decisions: People judge musical entities to be more wrong to harm. Psychology of Music. doi.org/10.1177/03057356221096507 [paper] [preprint] [presentation]

• Oey, L., Schachner A., & Vul, E. (2022). Designing and detecting lies by reasoning about other agents. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. DOI: 10.1037/xge0001277. [paper] [preprint]

• Qi, W., Vul, E., Schachner, A. & Powell, L.J. (2022). Triadic "conflict" primitives can be reduced to welfare tradeoff ratios. (Commentary on target article by David Pietraszewski.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 45, E117. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001382. [paper] [preprint]

• Moser, C., Lee-Rubin, H., Bainbridge, C.M., Atwood, S., Simson, J., Knox, D., Glowacki, L., Galbarczyk, A., Jasienska, G., Ross, C.T., Neff, M.B., Martin, A., Cirelli, L.K., Trehub, S.E., Song, J., Kim, M., Schachner, A., Vardy, T.A., Atkinson, Q.D., Antfolk, J., Madhivanan, P., Siddaiah, A., Placek, C.D., Salali, G.D., Keestra, S., Singh, M., Collins, S.A., Patton, J.Q., Scaff, C., Stieglitz, J., Moya, C., Sagar, R. R., Wood, B. M., Krasnow, M.M., & Mehr, S.A. (2022). Acoustic regularities in infant-directed vocalizations across cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. [preprint] [paper]

2021

• Bennette, E., Metzinger, A., Lee, M., Ni, J., Nishith, S., Kim, M., & Schachner, A. (2021). Do you see what I see? Children's understanding of perception and physical interaction over video chat. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 1-11.  [paper] [presentation].

• Kim, M. & Schachner, A. (2021). From music to animacy: Causal reasoning links animate agents with musical sounds. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2416-2422).  [preprint]

• Pesowski, M.L., Kelemen, D., & Schachner, A. (2021). Children use artifacts to infer others' shared interests. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 500-506).  [preprint]  [talk]

• Schneider, R. M., Pankonin, A. H., Schachner, A., & Barner, D. (2021). Starting small: Exploring the origins of successor function knowledge. Developmental Science. [preprint]. 

2020

• Savage, P. E., Loui, P., Tarr, B., Schachner, A., Glowacki, L., Mithen, S., & Fitch, T. (2020). Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000333. 

• Pesowski, M.L., Quy, A.D., Lee, M., & Schachner, A. (2020). Children use inverse planning to detect social transmission in design of artifacts. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 845-851). [preprint] [presentation].

• Kim, M., & Schachner, A. (2020). Gesture Production and Theory of Mind: Effective Disambiguation in Communication through Gesture. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [preprint] [presentation at CogSci] [undergraduate research conference presentation] [poster].

• Agrawal, T., Lee, M., Calcetas, A., Clarke, D., Lin, N., Schachner, A. (2020). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of auditory events. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint] [presentation]. 

• Bennette, E., Metzinger, A., Lee, M., & Schachner, A. (2020). Do you see what I see? Children's understanding of perception and physical interaction over video chat. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]. 

• Baker, D.J., Belfi, A., Creel, S., Grahn, J., Hannon, E., Loui, P., Margulis, E.H., Schachner, A., Schutz, M., Shanahan, D., Vuvan, D.T. (2020). Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community. Music Perception, 38 (2): 103–105. [paper]

2019

• Oey, L.A., Schachner, A., & Vul, E. (2019). Designing good deception: Recursive theory of mind in lying and lie detection. In the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 897-903). [preprint]. 

• ManyBabies Consortium, including Schachner, A., & Lee, M. (2019). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. [preprint]. 

• Hurwitz, E., Brady, T.F., & Schachner, A. (2019). Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts via inverse planning. In C. Freska, A. Goel, & C. Seifert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 457-463). [preprint]. 

2018

• Schachner, A., & Kim, M. (2018). Alternative causal explanations for order break the link between order and agents. [preprint] [data and stimuli].

• Schachner, A., Brady, T.F., Oro, K., & Lee, M. (2018). Intuitive archeology: Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T.T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1037-1042). [preprint]. 

• Schachner, A., & Kim, M. (2018). Entropy, order and agency: The cognitive basis of the link between agents and order. In C. Kalisch, M. Rau, T. Rogers, & J. Zhu, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint].

2017

• Schachner, A., Zhu, L., & Kelemen, D. (2017). Is the bias for function-based explanations culturally universal? Children from China endorse teleological explanations of natural phenomena. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 157, 29-48. [paper]  .

• Hannon, E., Schachner, A., & Nave-Blodgett, J. (2017). Babies know bad dancing when they see it: Older but not younger infants discriminate between synchronous and asynchronous audiovisual musical displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 159-174. [paper].

2013

• Schachner, A. & Carey, S. (2013). Reasoning about 'irrational' actions: When intentional movements cannot be explained, the movements themselves are seen as the goal. Cognition, 129, 309-327. [paper] [supplementary materials].

• Mehr, S., Schachner, A., Katz, R., & Spelke, E. (2013). Two randomized trials provide no consistent evidence for nonmusical cognitive benefits of brief preschool music enrichment. PLOS ONE, 8(12), e82007. [paper].

• Schachner, A. (2013). The origins of human and avian auditory-motor entrainment. In A. Wessel, R. Menzel, & G. Tembrock (Eds.), Quo Vadis, Behavioural Biology? Past, Present, and Future of an Evolving Science. Nova Acta Leopoldina N.F. 111 (380), 243-253. [paper].

2012

• Hartshorne, J.K., & Schachner, A. (2012). Tracking replicability as a method of post-publication open evaluation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 6(8), 1-14. [paper].

• Schachner, A. (2012). If horses entrain, don't entirely reject vocal learning: An experience-based vocal learning hypothesis. Empirical Musicology Review, 7(3-4), 157-159. [paper].

2011

• Schachner, A., & Hannon, E. (2011). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 47, 19-25. [paper].

2010

• Trehub, S.E., Hannon, E.E., & Schachner, A. (2010). Perspectives on music and affect in the early years. In P.N. Juslin & J.A. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of music and emotion: Theory, research, applications. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [paper].

• Schachner, A. (2010). Auditory-motor entrainment in vocal-mimicking species: Additional ontogenetic and phylogenetic factors. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 3(3), 1-4. [paper] 

2009

• Schachner, A., Brady, T.F., Pepperberg, I.M., & Hauser, M.D. (2009). Spontaneous motor entrainment to music in multiple vocal-mimicking species. Current Biology, 19, 831-836. [paper] [supplementary materials] [table] [video 1] [video 2] [youtube videos (zip file)]