Cognitive Science: Academic Discipline — Prolific Citations Library

Explore 13 peer-reviewed papers in Cognitive Science (2021–2026). Academic research using Prolific for high-quality human data collection.

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Papers (13 of 13)

Unlocking Cognitive Potential: How Working Memory Training Impacts Reading Skills in Aging Adults

Authors: S Assecondi

Year: 2026

Published in: SPRINGER

Institution: University of Trento

Research Area: Geropsychology, Cognitive intervention research, Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology

Discipline: Psychology, Cognitive Science

Working memory training shows modest improvements in reading comprehension for younger adults but not older adults, highlighting the need for ecologically valid measures in cognitive training programs.

Methods: Participants underwent a 5-day cognitive training program targeting visuo-spatial working memory to evaluate effects on reading comprehension as a proxy for everyday functions.

Key Findings: The relationship between visuo-spatial working memory improvements and reading comprehension performance across age groups.

Sample Size: 175
Visual cognition in multimodal large language models

Authors: LM Schulze Buschoff, E Akata, M Bethge

Year: 2025

Published in: Nature Machine ..., 2025 - nature.com

Institution: Max Planck Institute

Research Area: Visual Cognition, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs)

Discipline: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision

Vision-based large language models show proficiency in visual data interpretation but fall short in human-like abilities for causal reasoning, intuitive physics, and social cognition.

Methods: Controlled experiments evaluating model performance on tasks related to intuitive physics, causal reasoning, and intuitive psychology using visual processing benchmarks.

Key Findings: Model capabilities in understanding physical interactions, causal relationships, and social preferences.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00963-y

Citations: 70
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels

Authors: L Muttenthaler, K Greff, F Born, B Spitzer, S Kornblith

Year: 2025

Published in: Nature, 2025 - nature.com

Institution: Google DeepMind, Google, Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin, BIFOLD, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Max Planck Institute

Research Area: Cognitive Alignment, Computer Vision, Multi-level Conceptual Knowledge

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science

This paper presents a method for **aligning machine vision model representations with human visual similarity judgments across different abstraction levels, improving how well models reflect human perceptual and conceptual organization and enhancing generalization and uncertainty prediction.

Citations: 11
Sounding Trustworthy: AI-Generated Audio Outperforms Video and Images in Political Communication

Authors: H Shakeeb, C Conrad

Year: 2025

Published in: 2025 - aisel.aisnet.org

Institution: Dalhousie University

Research Area: AI, Political Communication, Media Trustworthiness, Cognitive Science, Autonomous Applications

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science

AI-generated audio in political communication is perceived as more trustworthy than image or video formats, but lower realism leads to skepticism.

Methods: An online experiment with participants assessing AI-generated political content in audio, video, and image formats; data analyzed using linear mixed effects analysis and NLP.

Key Findings: Impact of AI-generated media formats on trust and willingness to follow political recommendations, considering realism levels.

Citations: 1

Sample Size: 150
Evidence of human-like visual-linguistic integration in multimodal large language models during predictive language processing

Authors: V Kewenig, C Edwards

Year: 2024

Published in: ... and Rechardt, Akilles ..., 2023 - papers.ssrn.com

Research Area: Multimodal AI, Cognitive Science, Visual-Linguistic Integration

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science

Citations: 2
Can Large Language Models Generalize Analogy Solving Like Children Can?

Authors: Claire E. Stevenson⋄

Year: 2024

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: Santa Fe Institute, University of Amsterdam

Research Area: LLM Generalization, Analogy Solving, Cognitive Development, Artificial Intelligence in Psychology

Discipline: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence
People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test

Authors: C Jones, B Bergen

Year: 2024

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: University of California San Diego

Research Area: Turing Test, LLM Evaluation, Cognitive Science of AI

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Visualizing threat and trustworthiness prior beliefs in face perception in high versus low paranoia

Authors: A Bott, H Steer, J Faße, T Lincoln

Year: 2024

Published in: Nature

Institution: Universität Hamburg

Research Area: Face perception, Paranoia, Threat prior beliefs, Predictive Processing in Psychology.

Discipline: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Behavioral Science
How to run behavioural experiments online: Best practice suggestions for cognitive psychology and neuroscience

Authors: N Gagné, L Franzen

Year: 2023

Published in: ... Open: the official journal of the ..., 2023 - swisspsychologyopen.com

Institution: Concordia University, University of Lübeck

Research Area: Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Research Methods

Discipline: Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience

Citations: 75
Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks

Authors: C Demircan, T Saanum, L Pettini

Year: 2023

Published in: Advances in ..., 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc

Institution: Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark

Research Area: Neural Network Alignment, Human Cognition, Image-Based Learning

Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-3890

Citations: 8
Auditory distraction can be studied online! A direct comparison between in-person and online experimentation

Authors: EM Elliott, R Bell, S Gorin, N Robinson

Year: 2022

Published in: Journal of Cognitive ..., 2022 - Taylor & Francis

Institution: University of Hull, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Derby

Research Area: Online Experimental Methodology, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Psychology

Discipline: Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology

Citations: 38
Perceptual judgments are resistant to the advisor's perceived level of trustworthiness: A deep fake approach

Authors: M Van der Biest, S Verschooren, F Verbruggen

Year: 2022

Published in: Plos one, 2025 - journals.plos.org

Institution: Ghent University

Research Area: Cognitive Psychology, Decision-Making, Trust in AI, Deep Fakes

Discipline: Psychology, Cognitive Science

Citations: 2
Conducting web-based experiments for numerical cognition research

Authors: AR Kochari

Year: 2021

Published in: Journal of cognition, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Institution: NiH

Research Area: Numerical Cognition, Web-Based Behavioral Research Methods

Discipline: Cognitive Science

Citations: 57