Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center - CNRS UMR 8002
CNRS, Université de Paris
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Dr. Olivier MASCARO

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Journal articles

2026

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Cyann Bernard, Adeline Depierreux, Olivier Mascaro. The Quantity‐Competence Presumption: Children Use Informativeness to Calibrate Trust and Infer Speakers' Knowledge. Developmental Science, 2026, 29 (5), ⟨10.1111/desc.70276⟩. ⟨hal-05726741⟩
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Olivier Mascaro. From pairs to patterns: combinatorial processes and relational reasoning in the processing of social relations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2026, 49, pp.e38. ⟨10.1017/S0140525X25101301⟩. ⟨hal-05639093⟩
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Olivier Mascaro, Adeline Depierreux, Ninon Peysson, Olivier Morin. Elcos are common, ajajatas are weird: Manner implicatures guide the interpretation of unfamiliar words for French children and for adults in 18 languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2026, 155 (8), pp.1905-1920. ⟨10.1037/xge0001972⟩. ⟨hal-05707780v2⟩
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Olivier Mascaro, Ágnes Kovács. Core Intuitions of Psychological Non-Contradiction: Infants Assume That Individual Agents Act and Communicate Coherently. Open Mind, 2026, 10, pp.287-305. ⟨10.1162/OPMI.a.339⟩. ⟨hal-05576129⟩
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2025

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Marie Aguirre, Mélanie Brun, Anne Reboul, Olivier Mascaro. The early ontogeny of expectations about communicative informativeness: from infants’ exemplar frequency tracking to preschoolers’ pragmatic inference. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2025, pp.1-18. ⟨10.1080/23273798.2025.2563859⟩. ⟨hal-05343073⟩
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Cyann Bernard, Adeline Depierreux, Viviane Huet, Olivier Mascaro. Infants Assume Questions Serve an Information‐Seeking Function, Link Them to Interrogative Sentences and Differentiate Them From Assertions. Child Development, In press, 96 (5), pp.1605-1618. ⟨10.1111/cdev.14267⟩. ⟨hal-05093488⟩
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2023

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Olivier Mascaro, Nicolas Goupil, Hugo Pantecouteau, Adeline Depierreux, Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst, et al.. Human and animal dominance hierarchies show a pyramidal structure guiding adult and infant social inferences. Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, 7 (8), pp.1294-1306. ⟨10.1038/s41562-023-01634-5⟩. ⟨hal-04193958⟩
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2022

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Marie Aguirre, Mélanie Brun, Anne Reboul, Olivier Mascaro. How do we interpret questions? Simplified representations of knowledge guide humans’ interpretation of information requests. Cognition, 2022, 218, ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104954⟩. ⟨hal-03433052⟩
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Marie Aguirre, Mélanie Brun, Auriane Couderc, Anne Reboul, Philomène Senez, et al.. Actions Knowledge in Sight: Toddlers Plan Efficient Epistemic Actions by Anticipating Learning Gains. Cognitive Science, 2022, 46 (2), ⟨10.1111/cogs.13103⟩. ⟨hal-03624303⟩
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2021

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Johannes B Mahr, Olivier Mascaro, Hugo Mercier, Gergely Csibra. The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance. PLoS ONE, 2021, 16, ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0249958⟩. ⟨hal-03437735⟩
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Olivier Mascaro, Ágnes Kovács. The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life. Developmental Science, 2021, ⟨10.1111/desc.13223⟩. ⟨hal-03624277⟩
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2019

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Marie Aguirre, Auriane Couderc, Justine Epinat-Duclos, Olivier Mascaro. Infants discriminate the source of social touch at stroking speeds eliciting maximal firing rates in CT-fibers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2019, 36, ⟨10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100639⟩. ⟨hal-02992835⟩
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Olivier Mascaro, Marie Aguirre, Mélanie Brun, Auriane Couderc, Hugo Mercier. Nonverbal Rhetoric: Two- to Four-year-old Children Select Relevant Evidence When Trying to Influence Others. Developmental Psychology, 2019, 55 (10), pp.2039-2047. ⟨10.1037/dev0000779⟩. ⟨hal-02992861⟩
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Olivier Mascaroid, Dan Sperber. The pragmatic role of trust in young children's interpretation of unfamiliar signals. PLoS ONE, 2019, 14 (10), pp.e0224648. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0224648⟩. ⟨hal-02992814v2⟩
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2010

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Dan Sperber, Fabrice Clement, Christophe Heintz, Olivier Mascaro, Hugo Mercier, et al.. Epistemic Vigilance. Mind and Language, 2010, 25, pp.Issue : 4 Pages : 359-393. ⟨hal-01110526⟩
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Dan Sperber, Fabrice Clément, Christophe Heintz, Olivier Mascaro, Hugo Mercier, et al.. Epistemic Vigilance. Mind and Language, 2010, 25 (4), pp.359-393. ⟨10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x⟩. ⟨hal-04800224⟩
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Conference papers

2025

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Camille Rioux, Pia Rämä, Elodie Farineaux, Lionel Granjon, Olivier Mascaro, et al.. The neuro-cognitive bases of food categorization in the infant brain. GDR - French Babylab, Oct 2025, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05347393⟩
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Poster communications

2024

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Camille Rioux, Pia Rämä, Lionel Granjon, Olivier Mascaro, Stefanie Peykarjou. Neural bases of food categorization in adults and 9 to 12 month old infants using a fast periodic visual stimulation paradigm. Annual meeting of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Jul 2024, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-05348108⟩
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Preprints, Working Papers, ...

2026

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Camille Rioux, Pia Rämä, Elodie Farineaux, Lionel Granjon, Olivier Mascaro, et al.. So much variety, so much to eat: The neuro-cognitive bases of food categorization in infancy. 2026. ⟨hal-05341138⟩
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2020

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Johannes B Mahr, Gergely Csibra, Olivier Mascaro, Hugo Mercier. The effect of disagreement on children's source memory performance. 2020. ⟨hal-02992874⟩
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