Publications:

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Porot, N. & Mandelbaum, E. (forthcoming). The Language of Thought Hypothesis. Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MIT.

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Porot, N. & Mandelbaum, E. (forthcoming). Belief: Dumb, Cold, & Cynical. in E. Schwitzgebel & J. Jong (Eds.) What is Belief? OUP.

 

Tracy, R., Porot, N., Young, S., & Mandelbaum, E. (forthcoming).Disfluency Attentuates Reception of Pseudoprofound and Postmodernist Bullshit. Thinking & Reasoning.

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Quilty-Dunn, J., Porot, N., Mandelbaum, E. (2023). The Language of Thought Hypothesis as a Working Hypothesis in Cognitive Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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Mandelbaum, E., Dunham, Y., Feiman, R., Firestone, C., Green, E. J., Harris, D., Kibbe, M. M.,Kurdi, B., Mylopoulos, M., Shepherd, J., Wellwood, A., Porot, N., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2022). Problems and Mysteries of the Many Languages of Thought. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13225. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13225

 

Mandelbaum, E., & Porot, N. (2022). How the Cognitive Science of Belief Can Transform the Study of Mental Health. JAMA: Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.3611

 

Quilty-Dunn, J., Porot, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2022). The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergenceof the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002849

 

Porot, N., & Mandelbaum, E. (2020). The science of belief: A progress report. WIREs Cognitive Science. reprinted with substantial additions in Musolino, J, Hemmer, P, & Sommer, J. (2022).The Cognitive Science of Belief, Cambridge University Press)

Devitt, M., & Porot, N. (2018). The Reference of Proper Names: Testing Usage and Intuitions. Cognitive Science 42 (5), 1552-1585. 

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Papers in Progress:​

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Single Authored:

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“Some Evidence for Languages of Thought in Chimpanzees, Olive Baboons, and an

African Grey Parrot” 

“Symbolic Representation in Arthropods”

“Multi-Stability as a Mark of the Mental”

“Maps, Icons, and Vectors in a Language of Thought”

“There Are No Holes in Conscious Vision”

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Co-authored with Eric Mandelbaum, Ryan Tracy, & Steve Young:

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“Spinoza’s Return: Fluency Does Not Explain Illusory Truth” (first author, under review)​

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