Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center - CNRS UMR 8002
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Dr. Olivier MASCARO

CR CNRS
Language and cognition

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    Journal articles

    2025

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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, ⟨10.1111/cdev.14267⟩. ⟨hal-05093488⟩
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    https://hal.science/hal-05093488/file/Child%20Development%20-%202025%20-%20Bernard%20-%20Infants%20Assume%20Questions%20Serve%20an%20Information%25E2%2580%2590Seeking%20Function%20%20Link%20Them%20to.pdf BibTex

    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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    https://hal.science/hal-04193958/file/Mascaro_Main_for_HAL.pdf BibTex

    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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    https://hal.science/hal-03433052/file/Preprint_Questions.pdf BibTex
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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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    https://hal.science/hal-03624303/file/Manuscript-Informativity-Main.pdf BibTex

    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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    https://hal.science/hal-03437735/file/Mahr_2021_PLoSONE.pdf BibTex
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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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    https://hal.science/hal-03624277/file/Mascaro%20Kovacs%20Trust_all.pdf BibTex

    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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    https://hal.science/hal-02992835/file/1-s2.0-S1878929318301786-main.pdf BibTex
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    Olivier Mascaro, 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-02348916⟩
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    https://hal.science/hal-02348916/file/MascaroSperber2019.pdf BibTex
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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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    https://hal.science/hal-02992861/file/Nonverbal_rhetoric_complete%20-%20copie.pdf BibTex
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    Olivier Mascaroid, Dan Sperber. The pragmatic role of trust in young children's interpretation of unfamiliar signals. PLoS ONE, 2019, ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0224648⟩. ⟨hal-02992814⟩
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    2010

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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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    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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    Preprints, Working Papers, ...

    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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