Francis Mollica

According to our database, Francis Mollica authored at least 22 papers between 2015 and 2025.

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2025

Probing for experience-driven critical period effects in a large language model.

Dyana Muller, Koquiun Li Lin, Charles Kemp, Francis Mollica

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Narrative Communication as a Learning Tool for Resolving Exploration-Exploitation Dilemmas.

Isobel Moore, Francis Mollica, Yoshihisa Kashima

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Usage frequency predicts lexicalization across languages.

Temuulen Khishigsuren, Francis Mollica, Ekaterina Vylomova, Charles Kemp

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Perceptual Discriminability Drives Overinformative Reference, But Colour Information is Special.

Merrick Giles, Paula Rubio-Fernández, Francis Mollica

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network.

Cory Shain, Hope H. Kean, Colton Casto, Benjamin Lipkin, Josef Affourtit, Matthew Siegelman, Francis Mollica, Evelina Fedorenko

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2024

Typological Prevalence Hypothesis: The Case of Kinship.

Jules Torgue, Rosalind Owen, Francis Mollica

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

What can L1 speakers tell us about killing hope? A Novel Behavioral Measure for Identifying Collocations.

Sydelle de Souza, Francis Mollica, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

A note on complexity in efficient communication analyses of semantic typology.

Francis Mollica

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Even Laypeople Use Legalese.

Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

A Colorful Formalization of the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis.

Jules Torgue, Francis Mollica, Matthew Spike

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

What can MINERVA2 tell us about 'killing hope'? Investigating L2 Collocational Processing with a Memory Model.

Sydelle de Souza, Ivan Vegner, Leonidas A. A. Doumas, Francis Mollica

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of United States federal laws (1951-2009).

Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

What did I sign? A study of the impenetrability of legalese in contracts.

Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Yufei Liu, Anita Podrug, Edward Gibson

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

An efficient communication analysis of morpho-syntactic grammatical features.

Francis Mollica, Charles Kemp

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness.

Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2018

A context constructivist account of contextual diversity.

Shaorong Yan, Francis Mollica, Michael K. Tanenhaus

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules.

Lauren Oey, Francis Mollica, Steven T. Piantadosi

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

A Rational Constructivist Account of the Characteristic-to-Defining Shift.

Francis Mollica, Shirlene Wade, Steve Piantadosi

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

An incremental information-theoretic buffer supports sentence processing.

Francis Mollica, Steve Piantadosi

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

What Determines Human Certainty?

Louis Marti, Steven T. Piantadosi, Francis Mollica, Celeste Kidd

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

The perceptual foundation of linguistic context.

Francis Mollica, Steven T. Piantadosi, Michael K. Tanenhaus

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Towards semantically rich and recursive word learning models.

Francis Mollica, Steven T. Piantadosi

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015