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Experimental pragmatics, Cognitive Science, Theory of Mind

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University of Oslo: Oslo, NO

2014 to present | Researcher (Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature)
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Paula Rubio-Fernández

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2001 to 2004 | PhD (Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics)
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Paula Rubio-Fernández

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2000 to 2001 | MPhil (Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics)
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Paula Rubio-Fernández

University of Reading: Reading, Reading, GB

1998 to 1999 | MA (Linguistics)
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Funding (3)

Saying enough, without saying too much

2014 to 2018 | Grant
Norwegian Research Council (Oslo, NO)
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Paula Rubio-Fernández

Inferential processes in lexical interpretation (IPLI)

2006 to 2009 | Award
European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (Brussels, BE)
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Paula Rubio-Fernández

Inferential processes in lexical interpretation

2005 to 2008 | Grant
British Academy (London, GB)
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Paula Rubio-Fernández

Works (41)

Multimodal communication in newly sighted children: An investigation of the relation between visual experience and pragmatic development

2024-02-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/tkfqv
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Cultural evolutionary pragmatics: Investigating the codevelopment and coevolution of language and social cognition.

Psychological Review
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000423
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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The social basis of referential communication: Speakers construct physical reference based on listeners’ expected visual search.

Psychological Review
2022-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000345
Contributors: Julian Jara-Ettinger; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Head turning is an effective cue for gaze following: Evidence from newly sighted individuals, school children and adults

Neuropsychologia
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108330
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Vishakha Shukla; Vrinda Bhatia; Shlomit Ben-Ami; Pawan Sinha
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Visual perspective taking is not automatic in a simplified Dot task: Evidence from newly sighted children, primary school children and adults

Neuropsychologia
2022-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108256
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Madeleine Long; Vishakha Shukla; Vrinda Bhatia; Pawan Sinha
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Some sentences prime pragmatic reasoning in the verification and evaluation of comparisons.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001082
Contributors: Vishakha Shukla; Madeleine Long; Vrinda Bhatia; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Finding the bigger picture: macro- (but not micro-) level features of the discourse reveal age-related differences in referential choice

2022-01-09 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/685ts
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Michelle Oraa Ali; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Pragmatic markers: the missing link between language and Theory of Mind

Synthese
2021-12-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02768-z
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Quantitative mental state attributions in language understanding

Science Advances
2021-11-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj0970
Contributors: Julian Jara-Ettinger; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Color interpretation is guided by informativity expectations, not by world knowledge about colors

2021-08-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jmd9w
Contributors: Hannah Rohde; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Demonstratives can train spatial perspective taking: The case of Spanish

2021-08-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/dvhe6
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Head turning is an effective cue for gaze following

2021-08-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/s6f2y
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Vishakha Shukla; Vrinda Bhatia; Shlomit Ben-Ami; Pawan Sinha
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Prosocial speech acts: links to pragmatics and ageing

2021-08-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mc43a
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Sarah E. MacPherson; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Visual perspective taking is not automatic in a simplified Dot task

2021-08-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/grsm7
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Madeleine Long; Vishakha Shukla; Vrinda Bhatia; Pawan Sinha
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The Development of Simile Comprehension: From Similarity to Scalar Implicature

Child Development
2021-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13507
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Vishakha Shukla; Paula Rubio‐Fernandez
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ASL Production

2021-07-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/tv2jb
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Anne Wienholz; Carey M. Ballard; Simon Kirby; Amy Lieberman
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Pragmatics for infants: commentary on Wenzel et al . (2020)

Royal Society Open Science
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210247
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Victoria Southgate; Ildikó Király
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Color discriminability makes over-specification efficient: Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
2021-06-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00818-6
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Speakers and listeners exploit word order for communicative efficiency: A cross-linguistic investigation.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2021-03-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000963
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Francis Mollica; Julian Jara-Ettinger
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The social basis of referential communication: Speakers construct reference based on listeners' expected visual search.

2020-11-04 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fzuvh
Contributors: Julian Jara-Ettinger; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Incrementality and efficiency shape pragmatics across languages

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-06-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922067117
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Julian Jara-Ettinger
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The pressure to communicate efficiently continues to shape language use later in life

Scientific Reports
2020-05-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64475-6
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Contrast perception as a visual heuristic in the formulation of referential expressions

2020-04-08 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/z6jbg
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Isabelle Moore; Francis Mollica; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Children’s acquisition of discourse markers in English, Hindi, Mandinka and Spanish: Effects of optionality, grammaticalization and narrative elicitation

2020-03-02 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jsr6w
Contributors: Vishakha Shukla; Madeleine Long; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Attentional control predicts pronominalization irrespective of competing referents

2020-02-28 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2fvbz
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Michelle Oraa Ali; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Redundant color words are more efficient than shorter descriptions

2020-02-28 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gbpt3
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Speakers construct reference based on listeners’ expected visual search

2020-02-28 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/89r72
Contributors: Julian Jara-Ettinger; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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The pressure to communicate efficiently continues to shape language use later in life

2020-02-28 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/89z3n
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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The development of simile comprehension: From comparison to scalar implicature.

2020-02-27 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/utwec
Contributors: Madeleine Long; Vishakha Shukla; Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Overinformative speakers are cooperative: Revisiting the Gricean Maxim of Quantity

2019-10-01 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/f35tr
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez
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Contrastive inferences are sensitive to informativity expectations, adjective semantics and visual salience

2019-08-09 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mr4ah
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Helena Aparicio Terrasa; Vishakha Shukla; Julian Jara-Ettinger
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Speakers and listeners exploit word order for communicative efficiency: A cross-linguistic investigation

2018-10-13 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gf8qx
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernandez; Francis Mollica; Julian Jara-Ettinger
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The director task: A test of Theory-of-Mind use or selective attention?

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2017-08-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-016-1190-7
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernández
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Why are bilinguals better than monolinguals at false-belief tasks?

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2017-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-016-1143-1
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernández
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Can processing demands explain toddlers’ performance in false-belief tasks?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-05-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701286114
Contributors: Paula Rubio-Fernández; Julian Jara-Ettinger; Edward Gibson
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Associative and inferential processes in pragmatic enrichment: The case of emergent properties

Language and Cognitive Processes
2013 | Journal article
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10.1080/01690965.2012.659264
Contributors: Rubio-Fernandez, Paula
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How to Pass the False-Belief Task Before Your Fourth Birthday

Psychological Science
2013 | Journal article
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10.1177/0956797612447819
Contributors: Rubio-Fernandez, Paula; Geurts, Bart
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Perspective tracking in progress: Do not disturb

Cognition
2013 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.005
Contributors: Rubio-Fernandez, Paula
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Reasoning About Other People's Beliefs: Bilinguals Have an Advantage

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition
2012 | Journal article
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10.1037/a0025162
Contributors: Rubio-Fernandez, Paula; Glucksberg, Sam
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Concept Narrowing: The Role of Context-independent Information

Journal of Semantics
2008 | Journal article
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10.1093/jos/ffn004
Contributors: Rubio-Fernandez, Paula
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Eye-tracking the classic Sally-Ann task: A real-time investigation of adult theory of mind

International Journal of Psychology
2008 | Journal article
Contributors: Fernandez, Rubio Paula
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