Publications

Submitted

• Saad, L., Hemmer, P., and J. Musolino (2025). Rethinking Temporal Binding. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Published

• Sommer, J. Musolino, J., and Hemmer, P. (2024). Updating, Evidence Evaluation, and Operator Availability: A theoretical Framework for Understanding Belief. Psychological Review. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000444
• Sommer, J., Musolino, J., and Hemmer, P. (2023). Counterintuitive concepts across domains: A unified phenomenon? Cognitive Science 47, e13276, 1-25.
• Sommer, J., Musolino, J., & P. Hemmer (2022). A hobgoblin of large minds: troubles with consistency in belief. WIREs Cognitive Science, e1639, 1-19.
• Sommer, J., Musolino, J. & P. Hemmer (2022). The memorability of supernatural concepts: Some puzzles and new theoretical directions. Journal of Cognition and Culture 22, 90-135.
• Sommer, J., Spencer, C., Musolino, J. & P Hemmer (2022). A new methodological tool for research on supernatural concepts. Behavior Research Methods
• Blochowiak, J., Castelain, T., and Musolino (2022). If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials. Journal of Pragmatics 197, 137-158.
• Saad, L., Musolino, J., and Hemmer, P. (2022) Bayesian Rational Memory Model Simulates Temporal Binding Results. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Sommer, J. Musolino, J. & P. Hemmer (2022). Toward a Cognitive Science of Belief. In Musolino, Sommer, and Hemmer (Eds) The Cognitive Science of Belief: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge University Press.
• Musolino, J., Laity d’Agostino, K., Piantadosi, S. (2019). Why we should abandon the semantic subset principle. Language Learning & Development, 15 (1), 32-46.
• Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. (2018). Structural asymmetry in question/quantifier interactions. In Katalin E. Kiss & Tamás Zétényi (Eds.): Linguistic and cognitive aspects of quantification p. 13 – 30, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol. 47, Springer, Cham.
• Achimova, A., Syrett, K., Musolino, J. and Deprez, V. (2017). Children’s developing knowledge of Wh/Quantifier question-answer relations. Language Learning and Development, 13 (1), 80-99.
• Han C. H., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2016). Reply to Piantadosi and Kidd: Endogenous content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (20), E2765-E2765.
• Han C. H., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2016). Endogenous Sources of Variability in Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (4), 942-947.
• Syrett, K. and Musolino, J. (2015). All together now: disentangling semantics and pragmatics with together in child and adult language. Language Acquisition, 23 (2), 175-197.
• Syrett, K. and Musolino, J. (2013). Collectivity and Distributivity in child and adult language. Language Acquisition, 20 (4) 259-291.
• Musolino, J. and Landau, B. (2012). Genes, Language, and the Nature of Scientific Explanations: The Case of Williams Syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29 (1-2), 123-148.
• Syrett, K., Musolino, J., and Gelman, R. (2012). Number Word Acquisition: Bootstrapping, Cardinality, and Beyond. Language Learning and Development, 8(2), 190-195.
• Syrett, K., Musolino, J., and Gelman, R. (2012). How can syntax support number word acquisition? Language Learning and Development, 8 (2), 146-176.
• Musolino, J., and Landau, B. (2010). When theories don’t compete. Language Learning and development, 6 (2), 170-178.
• Musolino, J., Chunyo, G., and B. Landau (2010). Uncovering knowledge of core syntactic and semantic principles in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Language Learning and Development, 6 (2), 126-161.
• Viau, J., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2010). Priming of abstract logical representations in 4-year-olds. Language Acquisition, 17 (1), 26-50.
• Musolino, J. (2009). The Logical Syntax of Number Words: Theory, Acquisition and Processing. Cognition, 111 (1), 24-45.
• Conroy, A., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2009). The fleeting Isomorphism Effect. Language Acquisition, 16 (2), 106-117.
• Han, C.H., Lidz, J. and Musolino, J. (2007). Verb-raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope. Linguistic Inquiry, 38 (1), 1-47.
• Musolino, J. and Lidz, J. (2006). Why Children aren’t universally successful with Quantification. Linguistics, 44 (4), 817-852.
• Musolino, J. (2006). On the Semantics of the Subset Principle. Language Learning and Development, 2 (3), 195-218.
• Anderson, J and Musolino, J. (2004). How useful is the usage-based approach to Stuttering research? Stammering Research, 1 (3), 295-296.
• Musolino, J. (2004). The semantics and acquisition of number words: integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives. Cognition 93 (1), 1-41.
• Musolino, J. and Gualmini, A. (2004). The role of partitivity in Child Language. Language Acquisition, 12 (1), 97-107.
• Lidz, J. and Musolino, J. (2003). On the quantificational status of indefinites: the view from child language. Language Acquisition, 13 (2), 73-102.
• Musolino, J. & Lidz, J. (2003). The scope of Isomorphism: turning adults into children. Language Acquisition, 11 (4), 277-291.
• Papafragou, A. and Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognition, 86 (3), 253-282.
• Lidz, J. and Musolino, J. (2002). Children’s Command of Quantification. Cognition 84 (2), 113-154.
• Musolino, J., Crain and R. Thornton (2000). Navigating Negative Quantificational Space. Linguistics, 38 (1), 1-32.

• Musolino, J. (forthcoming) The Rational Ape: Exploring the Mysteries of Human Intelligence from the Stone Age to the Age of AI.
• Musolino, J. Sommer, J. and P. Hemmer (Eds) (2022) The Cognitive Science of Belief: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge University Press.
• Musolino, J. (2015) The Soul Fallacy. Published by Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY and distributed by Penguin Random House.

Submitted

• Saad, L., Hemmer, P., and J. Musolino (2024). Rethinking Temporal Binding. Manuscript submitted to Open Mind.

Published

• Sommer, J. Musolino, J., and Hemmer, P. (2023). Updating, Evidence Evaluation, and Operator Availability: A theoretical Framework for Understanding Belief. Psychological Review. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000444
• Sommer, J., Musolino, J., and Hemmer, P. (2023). Counterintuitive concepts across domains: A unified phenomenon? Cognitive Science 47, e13276, 1-25.
• Sommer, J., Musolino, J., & P. Hemmer (2022). A hobgoblin of large minds: troubles with consistency in belief. WIREs Cognitive Science, e1639, 1-19.
• Sommer, J., Musolino, J. & P. Hemmer (2022). The memorability of supernatural concepts: Some puzzles and new theoretical directions. Journal of Cognition and Culture 22, 90-135.
• Sommer, J., Spencer, C., Musolino, J. & P Hemmer (2022). A new methodological tool for research on supernatural concepts. Behavior Research Methods
• Blochowiak, J., Castelain, T., and Musolino (2022). If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials. Journal of Pragmatics 197, 137-158.
• Musolino, J., Laity d’Agostino, K., Piantadosi, S. (2019). Why we should abandon the semantic subset principle. Language Learning & Development, 15 (1), 32-46.
• Achimova, A., Syrett, K., Musolino, J. and Deprez, V. (2017). Children’s developing knowledge of Wh/Quantifier question-answer relations. Language Learning and Development, 13 (1), 80-99.
• Han C. H., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2016). Reply to Piantadosi and Kidd: Endogenous content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (20), E2765-E2765.
• Han C. H., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2016). Endogenous Sources of Variability in Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (4), 942-947.
• Syrett, K. and Musolino, J. (2015). All together now: disentangling semantics and pragmatics with together in child and adult language. Language Acquisition, 23 (2), 175-197.
• Syrett, K. and Musolino, J. (2013). Collectivity and Distributivity in child and adult language. Language Acquisition, 20 (4) 259-291.
• Musolino, J. and Landau, B. (2012). Genes, Language, and the Nature of Scientific Explanations: The Case of Williams Syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29 (1-2), 123-148.
• Syrett, K., Musolino, J., and Gelman, R. (2012). Number Word Acquisition: Bootstrapping, Cardinality, and Beyond. Language Learning and Development, 8(2), 190-195.
• Syrett, K., Musolino, J., and Gelman, R. (2012). How can syntax support number word acquisition? Language Learning and Development, 8 (2), 146-176.
• Musolino, J., and Landau, B. (2010). When theories don’t compete. Language Learning and development, 6 (2), 170-178.
• Musolino, J., Chunyo, G., and B. Landau (2010). Uncovering knowledge of core syntactic and semantic principles in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Language Learning and Development, 6 (2), 126-161.
• Viau, J., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2010). Priming of abstract logical representations in 4-year-olds. Language Acquisition, 17 (1), 26-50.
• Musolino, J. (2009). The Logical Syntax of Number Words: Theory, Acquisition and Processing. Cognition, 111 (1), 24-45.
• Conroy, A., Lidz, J., and Musolino, J. (2009). The fleeting Isomorphism Effect. Language Acquisition, 16 (2), 106-117.
• Han, C.H., Lidz, J. and Musolino, J. (2007). Verb-raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope. Linguistic Inquiry, 38 (1), 1-47.
• Musolino, J. and Lidz, J. (2006). Why Children aren’t universally successful with Quantification. Linguistics, 44 (4), 817-852.
• Musolino, J. (2006). On the Semantics of the Subset Principle. Language Learning and Development, 2 (3), 195-218.
• Anderson, J and Musolino, J. (2004). How useful is the usage-based approach to Stuttering research? Stammering Research, 1 (3), 295-296.
• Musolino, J. (2004). The semantics and acquisition of number words: integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives. Cognition 93 (1), 1-41.
• Musolino, J. and Gualmini, A. (2004). The role of partitivity in Child Language. Language Acquisition, 12 (1), 97-107.
• Lidz, J. and Musolino, J. (2003). On the quantificational status of indefinites: the view from child language. Language Acquisition, 13 (2), 73-102.
• Musolino, J. & Lidz, J. (2003). The scope of Isomorphism: turning adults into children. Language Acquisition, 11 (4), 277-291.
• Papafragou, A. and Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognition, 86 (3), 253-282.
• Lidz, J. and Musolino, J. (2002). Children’s Command of Quantification. Cognition 84 (2), 113-154.
• Musolino, J., Crain and R. Thornton (2000). Navigating Negative Quantificational Space. Linguistics, 38 (1), 1-32.

Sommer, J., Musolino, J., & P. Hemmer (2022). Toward a Cognitive Science of Belief. In Musolino, Sommer, and Hemmer (Eds) The Cognitive Science of Belief: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge University Press.

Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. (2018). Structural asymmetry in question/quantifier interactions. In Katalin E. Kiss & Tamás Zétényi (Eds.): Linguistic and cognitive aspects of quantification p. 13 – 30, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol. 47, Springer, Cham.

Musolino, J. (2016). The Soul Fallacy. In John Loftus Eds. Christianity in the Light of Science: Critically Examining the World’s Largest Religion, Prometheus Books.

Musolino, J. (2014). Quantifiers (Acquisition of). Encyclopedia of Language Development, P. Brooks and V. Kempe (Eds), SAGE publications, Inc.

Musolino, J. (2011). Studying language acquisition through the prism of Isomorphism. In J. de Villiers and T. Roeper (Eds.), Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition. New York: Springer Science & Business Media.

Musolino, J. & Gualmini, (2011). Parsing, Grammar, and the Challenge of Raising Children at LF. In E. Gibson & N. J. Pearlmutter (Eds.), The Processing and Acquisition of Reference (pp. 109-131). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Han, C-H, Lidz, J, and Musolino, J. (2009). The acquisition of the placement of the verb in the clause structure of Korean. In The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, C. Lee, G. B. Simpson, and Y. Kim (eds), Cambridge University Press.

Noveck, I., Chevallier, C., Chevaux, F., Musolino, J., & Bott, L. (2009). Children’s enrichments of conjunctive sentences in context. In De Brabanter, P. & Kissine, M. Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics (Vol. 20). Emerald.

Musolino, J. (2006). Structure and Meaning in the acquisition of Scope. In Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, ‘Semantics in Acquisition’, 141-166, (Veerle Van Geenhoven, Ed.), Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

Musolino, J. (2016) The Curse of the Carl Sagan Effect. In “The Freethought Society News.” https://www.ftsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/September-October-2016-Ezine.pdf

Musolino, J. (2015) Can Science Tell Us Anything about the Soul? Part 1: The traditional soul is a scientific hypothesis. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soul-fallacy/201508/can-science-tell-us-anything-about-the-soul

Musolino, J. (2015) Can Science Tell Us Anything about the Soul? Part 2: Science gives us every reason to believe that people do not have souls. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soul-fallacy/201508/can-science-tell-us-anything-about-the-soul-0

Musolino, J. (2015) You don’t have a soul: The real science that debunks superstitious charlatans, Salon Magazine, January 26. http://www.salon.com/2015/01/25/you_dont_have_a_soul_the_real_science_that_debunks_superstitious_charlatans/

Musolino, J. (2014) A Tale of Two Juries: Why we all trust science. Applied Sentience, A National Platform for the Next Generation of Humanist Thinkers. https://appliedsentience.com/2014/07/29/2059/

Musolino, J. (2013) Science isn’t ‘straight from the gut’: A response to creationism. Applied Sentience, A National Platform for the Next Generation of Humanist Thinkers. https://appliedsentience.com/2013/04/19/straight-from-the-gut-a-response-to-creationism/