PUBLICATIONS

2025

• Nguyễn, A., Tompkins, R., & Schachner, A. (2025). When walls talk: People make social inferences from towns’ protective features. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]

• Liu, X.S., McKenzie, C., & Schachner, A. (2025). When Default Options Explain Away Preferences:  A Causal Reasoning Account of Mental State Reasoning from Default Options. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]

• Kim, M. & Schachner, A. (2025). The sounds of hidden agents: The development of causal reasoning about musical sounds. Developmental Science, 28, e70021. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70021 [preprint][paper]

• Tompkins, R., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Schachner, A. (2025). Societal inferences from the physical world. [Commentary on target article by Mark W. Moffett] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48, e73. doi:10.1017/S0140525X24001158. [preprint] [paper]

2024

• Jara-Ettinger, J. & Schachner, A. (2024). Traces of our past: The social representation of the physical world. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(5), 334-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214241268145 [preprint] [paper]

• Agrawal, T., Cui, A., Lense, M.D., Lopez, G., Owusu, B., Schachner, A., Slevc, L.R., Swaminathan, S., & Vuvan, D.T. (2024). From Commitment to Action: Assessing the Impact of New Mentorship Programs to Promote Equity in the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Music Perception, 41(4), 233–239. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.4.233

• Garcia, M.C., Pesowski, M.L., Smith-Flores, A., Schachner, A., & Powell, L.J. (2024). Investigating Infants' Expectations of Emotional Responses to Ownership Violations: Abstracts from the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Affective Science: Emotions and Development. Affective Science, 5(1), 39, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00232-y [brief paper][longer report on OSF]

2023

• Agrawal, T. & Schachner, A. (2023). Aesthetic motivation impacts judgments of others’ prosociality and mental life. Open Mind. 7: 947–980. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00113. [paper] [preprint]

• 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]

• Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2023).  Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources. Developmental Science, 26(3), e13321. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13321  [paper] [preprint]

• Agrawal, T., Rottman, J., & Schachner, A. (2023). How musicality changes our moral decisions: People judge musical entities to be more wrong to harm. Psychology of Music, 51(1), 316-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221096507 [paper] [preprint] [presentation]

• Kim, M. & Schachner, A. (2023). The origins of dance: Characterizing the development of infants' earliest dance behavior. Developmental Psychology. 59(4), 691–706. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001436 [paper] [preprint]

• Oey, L., Schachner A., & Vul, E. (2023). Designing and detecting lies by reasoning about other agents. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(2), 346. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001277DOI: 10.1037/xge0001277 [paper] [preprint]
  
  

2022

• Atwood, S., Schachner, A.*, & Mehr, S. A.* (2022). Expectancy effects threaten the inferential validity of synchrony-prosociality research. Open Mind, 6, 280–290. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00067 [paper] [preprint] 
  *these authors contributed equally

• 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. http://doi.org/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, 6, 1545–1556. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01410-x [paper][preprint] 

2021

• Savage P.E., Loui, P., Tarr, B., Schachner, A., Glowacki, L., Mithen, S., Fitch, W.T. (2021). Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality [response to commentaries]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E121. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000042 [paper]

• Savage, P. E., Loui, P., Tarr, B., Schachner, A., Glowacki, L., Mithen, S., & Fitch, T. (2021). Music as a coevolved system for social bonding [target article]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E59. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000333 [paper]

• 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, 3, 484-494. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.276 [paper] [presentation]

• Schneider, R. M., Pankonin, A. H., Schachner, A., & Barner, D. (2021). Starting small: Exploring the origins of successor function knowledge. Developmental Science, 24(4), e13091. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13091 [paper] [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 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 500-506. [paper] [preprint] [talk]

• 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 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 2416-2422. [paper] [preprint]

2020

• ManyBabies Consortium, including Schachner, A., and Lee, M. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809 [paper] [preprint]

• 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, 42, 845-851. [paper] [preprint] [presentation]

• 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. In: S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, B. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42, 494-499. [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. In: S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, B. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42, 1583-1587. [paper] [preprint]

• Kim, M., & Schachner, A. (2020). Gesture Production and Theory of Mind: Effective Disambiguation in Communication through Gesture. In: S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, B. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42, 2759-2765. [paper] [preprint] [presentation at CogSci] [undergrad conference presentation] [poster]

• 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: C. Freska, A. Goel, & C. Seifert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 41, 897-903. [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 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 41, 457-463. [preprint].
  
  

2018

• 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 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 40, 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 (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 40, 2430-2435. [paper][preprint].

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

2017

• Schachner, A., Zhu, L., Li, J., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.12.006 [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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.01.006 [paper]
  
  

2016 and prior

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.006 [paper]

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082007 [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]

• Hartshorne, J.K., & Schachner, A. (2012). Tracking replicability as a method of post-publication open evaluation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 6(8), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2012.00008 [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. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v7i3-4.3748 [paper]

• Schachner, A., & Hannon, E. (2011). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 47, 19-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020740 [paper]

• Schachner, A. (2010). Auditory-motor entrainment in vocal-mimicking species: Additional ontogenetic and phylogenetic factors. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 3(3), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.4161/cib.3.3.11708 [paper] 

• 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., 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. https://doi.org/S0960982209009154 [paper] [supplementary materials] [table] [video 1] [video 2] [youtube videos (zip file)]