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2024
Berent, I., & Sansiveri, A. (2024). Davinci the Dualist: The Mind-Body Divide in Large Language Models and in Human Learners. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 8, 84–101.
Berent, I. (2024, in press). Consciousness isn’t “hard”—it’s human psychology that makes it so! Neuroscience of Consciousness.
2023
Berent, I., & Gervain, J. (2023). Speakers aren’t blank slates (with respect to sign-language phonology)! Cognition, 232, 105347.
Berent, I., Fried, P. J., Theodore, R. M., Manning, D., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2023).Phonetic categorization relies on motor simulation, but combinatorial phonological computations are abstract. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 874. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28099-w
Nallet, C., Berent, I., Werker, J. & Gervain, J . (2023). The neonate brain’s sensitivity to repetition-based structure: specific to speech? Developmental Science, 00, e13408.
Berent, I. (2023). The illusion of the mind-body divide is attenuated in males. Scientific Reports, 13(1): p. 6653
Berent, I. (2023). The “hard problem of consciousness” arises from human psychology. Open Mind, 7 564–587.
Andan, Q., Bex, P., & Berent, I. (2023). Linguistic illusions guide eye movement: evidence from doubling. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52(52), 2811–2833.
Berent, I. (2023). How to tell a Dualist? Cognitive Science. 47(11), e13380.
2022
Berent, I. and Platt, M. (2022) Berent, I. and Platt, M. (2022) Is Phonology Embodied? Evidence from Mechanical Stimulation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Berent, I., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., & Galaburda, A. (2022). Phonology and phonetics in dyslexia—linked, but distinct: Evidence from dyslexia. Radical: a journal of phonology, 4, 491-527.
2021
Berent, I. (2021). Can we get human nature right? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (39) e2108274118.
Berent, I. (2021). Can the mind command the body? Cognitive Science, 45(2), e13067.
Berent, I., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Brentari, D., & Gervain, J. (2021). Infants differentially extract rules from language. Scientific Reports.
Berent, I., & Platt, M. (2021). The true “me”—mind or body? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, p. 104100.
Berent, I. (2021). On the matter of essence. Cognition, 213, p. 104701
Berent, I., & Platt, M. (2021). Laypeople’s misconceptions towards psychiatric disorders: Brain disorders are presumed innate. Cognitive Science (45), e12970.
Berent, I., Bat-El, O., Andan, Q., Brentari, D., & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2021). Amodal phonology. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 199-529.
Sandoboe, G., & Berent, I. (2021). The seductive allure of the brain: Dualism and lay perceptions of neuroscience. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Berent, I., & Platt, M. (2021). Public misconceptions about dyslexia: the role of intuitive psychology. Plos One, 16(2), e0259019
Berent (2021). Is intuitive psychology bad for psychology? Reply to Krueger. The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 134, 125-127.
Berent, I., Platt, M., & Sandoboe, G. M. (2021). Empiricism is natural: it arises from dualism and essentialism. In T. Lombrozo, J. Knobe & S. Nichols (Eds.), Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (Vol. 4, pp. 112-154): Oxford University Press.
2020
Berent (2020). Is intuitive psychology bad for psychology? Reply to Krueger. American Psychologist.
Berent I, Platt M, Theodore R, Balaban E, Fried PJ and Pascual-Leone A (2020) Speech Perception Triggers Articulatory Action: Evidence From Mechanical Stimulation. Front. Commun. 5:34. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.00034
Berent, I., Bat-el, O., Brentari, D., Platt, M. (2020) Knowledge of language transfers from speech to sign: Evidence from doubling. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12809
Berent, I., Feldman Barrett, L., & Platt, M. (2020). Essentialists biases in reasoning about emotions. Frontiers In Psychology: Cognitive Science (23).
Berent, I. (2020). Empiricist intuitions arise from an ontological dissonance: Reply to Carruthers. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 27, 220-229.
2019
Berent, I. & Marcus, G. (2019). No integration without structured representations: Reply to Pater. Language, 95, e75-e86.
Berent, 1., Platt, M., & Sandoboe, G. M. (2019). People’s intuitions about innateness. Accepted, pending minor revision, Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Sciences. Advanced publication.
2018
Berent, I. (2018). Is markedness a confused concept? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 7, 493-499.
Andan, Q, Bat-El, O., Brentari, D., & Berent, I. (2018). ANCHORING is amodal: evidence from a signed language. Cognition, 180, 279-283
2017
Berent, I & Dupuis, A. (2017). The unbounded productivity of (sign) language: Evidence from the Stroop task. The Mental Lexicon, 12, 309 –341
Zhao, X., & Berent, I. (2017). The basis of the syllable hierarchy: articulatory pressures or universal phonological constraints? . Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Berent, I, Bat-El, O & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2017). The double identity of doubling: Evidence for the phonology/morphology split. Cognition.
Berent, I. (2017). On the origins of phonology. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
2016
Zhao, X., & Berent, I. (2016). Universal Restrictions on Syllable Structure: Evidence From Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45, 795–811.
Berent, I. (2016). Evans’s (2014) modularity myths: A mental architecture digest. Language, 92, 195-197.
Berent, I. ( 2016). Commentary: An Evaluation of Universal Grammar and the phonological mind”—UG is still a viable hypothesis. Frontiers in Language Sciences.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01029
Berent, I. & Dupuis, A. (2016). Where does (sign) language begin? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Berent, I., Zhao, X. , Balaban, E. & Galaburda, A. (2016). Phonology and phonetics dissociate in dyslexia evidence from adult English speakers Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 1178-1192.
Berent, I., Bat-El, O., Brentari, D., Dupuis, A., & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2016). The double identity of linguistic doubling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 13702-13707.
2015
Dupuis, A., & Berent, I. (2015). Signs are symbols: evidence from the Stroop task. Language, Cognition, Neuroscience, 11, 1-6.
Berent, I., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2015). Language by mouth and by hand. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 78-78.
Berent, I., Brem, A.-K., Zhao, X., Seligson, E., Pan, H., Epstein, J., et al. (2015). Role of the motor system in language knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 1983-1988.
2014
Lennertz, T., & Berent, I. (2014). On the sonority levels of fricatives and stops. The Mental Lexicon, 10, 88–132.
Berent, I., Dupuis, A., & Brentari, D. (2014). Phonological reduplication in sign language: Rules rule. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 5, 560.
Berent, I. (2014). Rich languages from poor inputs ed. by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Robert C. Berwick (review). Language, 90, 980-983.
Berent, I., Pan, H., Zhao, X., Epstein, J., Bennett, M. L., Deshpande, V., et al. (2014). Language universals engage Broca’s area.
Tamasi, K., & Berent, I. (2014). Sensitivity to phonological universals: The case of fricatives and stops. Journal of Psycholinguisitc research.
Gómez, D. M., Berent, I., Benavides-Varela, S., Bion, R. A. H., Cattarossi, L., Nespor, M., Mehler, J. (2014). Language universals at birth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2013
Berent, I., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Balaban, E., & Galaburda, A. (2013). Phonological generalizations in dyslexia: is the grammar impaired? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 30: 285-310.
Berent, I. (2013). The phonological mind. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, 17(7), 319-327.
Berent I, Dupuis A, Brentari D (2013) Amodal Aspects of Linguistic Design. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60617. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060617.
2012
Berent, I., Lennertz, T., & Rosselli, M. (2012). Universal linguistic pressures and their solutions: Evidence from Spanish. The Mental Lexicon, 13, 275-305.
Berent, I., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Balaban, E., & Galaburda, A., M., (2012). Dyslexia impairs speech recognition but can spare phonological competence. PLoS ONE, 7(9): p. e44875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044875.
Berent, I. (in press). The phonological mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berent, I., Wilson, C., Marcus, G., & Bemis, D. (2012). On the role of variables in phonology: Remarks on Hayes and Wilson. Linguistic Inquiry, 43.
Gervain, J., Berent, I., & Werker, J. (in press). Binding at birth: Newborns detect identity relations and sequential position in speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
2011
Berent, I., Lennertz, T., & Smolensky, P. (2011). Markedness and misperception: It’s a two-way street. In C. E. Cairns & E. Raimy (Eds.), Handbook of the Syllable (pp. 373-394). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Berent, I. (2011). Core phonology: Evidence from grammatical universals. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society.
Berent, I., Balaban, E., & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2011). How linguistic chickens help spot spoken-eggs: phonological constraints on speech identification. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00182.
Berent, I., Harder, K., & Lennertz, T. (2011). Phonological universals in early childhood: Evidence from sonority restrictions. Language Acquistion, 18, 281–293.
Berent, I., Lennertz, T., & Balaban, E. (2011). Language universals and misidentification: A two way street.
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2010
Berent, I., Balaban, E., Lennertz, T. & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2010). Phonological universals constrain the processing of nonspeech stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 418-435.
Marom, M. & Berent, I. (2010). Phonological constraints on the assembly of skeletal structure in reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 39, 67-88.
Berent, I., & Lennertz, T. (2010). Universal constraints on the sound structure of language: Phonological or acoustic? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36, 212-223.
2009
Lewkowicz, D. & Berent, I. (2009). Sequence Learning by 4 Month-Old Infants: Do infants represent ordinal information? Child Development, 80, 1811-1823.
Berent I. (2009). Unveiling phonological universals: A linguist who asks “why” is (inter alia) an experimental psychologist. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 450-451.
Berent, I., Lennertz, T., & Smolensky, P. (2009). Listeners’ knowledge of phonological universals: Evidence from nasal clusters. Phonology, 26, 75-108.
2008
Berent, I., Lennertz, T., Jun, J., Moreno, M., A., & Smolensky, P. (2008). Language universals in human brains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 5321-5325.
Berent, I, D. (2008). Are phonological representations of printed and spoken language isomorphic? Evidence from the restrictions on unattested onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 34, 1288-1304.
Berent, I., & Pinker, S. (2008). Compound formation is constrained by morphology: A reply to Seidenberg, MacDonald & Haskell. The Mental Lexicon, 3, 176-187.
2007
Berent, I., & Pinker, S. (2007). The Dislike of Regular Plurals in Compounds: Phonological or Morphological? The Mental Lexicon, 2, 129-181.
Berent, I., Vaknin, V., & Marcus. G. (2007). Roots, stems, and the universality of lexical representations: Evidence from Hebrew. Cognition, 104, 254-286.
Berent, I., Lennertz, T, (2007). What we know about what we have never heard: Beyond Phonetics. Reply to Peperkamp. Cognition, 104, 638-643.
Berent, I., Steriade, D., Lennertz, T & Vaknin, V. (2007). What we know about what we have never heard: Evidence from perceptual illusions. Cognition, 104, 591-630.
2006
Berent, I., Tzelgov, J. , & Bibi, U. (2006). The autonomous computation of morphophonological structure in reading: Evidence from the Stroop task. The Mental Lexicon, 1-2, 201-230.
2005
Berent, I., Pinker, S., Tzelgov, J., Bibi, U., & Goldfarb, L. (2005). Computation of Semantic Number from Lexical, Morphological, and Conceptual Information. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 342-358.
Berent, I. & Marom, M. (2005). The skeletal structure of printed words: Evidence from the Stroop task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31, 328-338.
2004
Berent, I., Vaknin, V. & Shimron, J. (2004). Does a theory of language need a grammar? Evidence from Hebrew root structure. Brain and Language, 90 (1-3), 170-182.
2003
Marcus, G. F., & Berent, I. (2003). Are there limits to statistical learning? Science, 300, 53-55.
Berent, I. & Van Orden, G. C. (2003). Do null phonemic masking effects reflect strategic control of phonology? Reading and Writing, 16(4), 349-376.
Berent, I. & Shimron, J. (2003). Co-occurrence restrictions on identical consonants in the Hebrew lexicon: Are they due to similarity? Journal of Linguistics, 39(1), 31-55.
2002
Berent, I. (2002). [Review of the book The algebraic mind: Integrating connectionism and cognitive science, by Gary F. Marcus]. Language, 78(3), 569-571.
Berent, I., Pinker, S.& Shimron, J. (2002). The nature of Regularity and Irregularity: Evidence from Hebrew Nominal Inflection. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31(5), 459-502.
Berent, I., Marcus, G. F., Shimron, J.& Gafos, A. I. (2002). The scope of linguistic generalizations: evidence from Hebrew word formation. Cognition, 83(2), 113-39.
2001
Berent, I., Shimron, J.& Vaknin, V. (2001). Phonological constraints on reading: Evidence from the Obligatory Contour Principle. Journal of Memory and Language, 44(4), 644-665.
Berent, I., Everett, D. L. & Shimron, J. (2001). Do phonological representations specify variables? Evidence from the obligatory contour principle. Cognitive Psychology, 42(1), 1-60.
Berent, I., Bouissa, R. & Tuller, B. (2001). The effect of shared structure and content on reading nonwords: evidence for a CV skeleton. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(4), 1042-57.
Berent, I. (2001). Can connectionist models of phonology assembly account for phonology? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8(4), 661-76.
Berent I. Identity avoidance in the Hebrew lexicon: implications for symbolic accounts of word formation. Brain Lang. 2002 Apr-Jun;81(1-3):326-41.
2000
Berent, I. & Van Orden, G. (2000). Homophone dominance modulates the phonemic-masking effect. . Scientific studies of reading, 42, 133-167.
1999
Berent, I., Pinker, S. & Shimron, J. (1999). Default nominal inflection in Hebrew: Evidence for mental variables. Cognition, 72, 1-44.
1997
Berent, I. (1997). Phonological priming in the lexical decision task: Regularity effects are not necessary evidence for assembly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 1-16.
Berent, I. & Shimron, J. (1997). The representation of Hebrew words: Evidence from the Obligatory Contour Principle. Cognition, 64, 39-72.
1995
Berent, I. & Perfetti, C. A. (1995). A rose is a REEZ: The two cycles model of phonology assembly in reading English. Psychological Review, 102, 146-184.
1993
Berent, I. & Perfetti, C. A. (1993). An on-line method in studying music parsing. Cognition, 46, 203-222.