PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
- Hafri, A. (2024). The origins of structured thought in the mind. Current Biology, 34, R854–R875.
- Hafri, A., Landau, B., Bonner, M.F., & Firestone, C. (2024). A phone in a basket looks like a knife in a cup: Role-filler independence in visual processing. Open Mind, 8, 766–794.
- De Freitas, J.* & Hafri, A.* (2024). Moral thin-slicing: Forming moral impressions from a brief glance. The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 112, 104588.
* co-first authors - Hafri, A., Green, E. J., & Firestone, C. (2023). Compositionality in visual perception [commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E277.
– This is a reply to a target article by Quilty-Dunn, Porot, & Mandelbaum, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. For the original article, see here. - Hafri, A., Gleitman, L.R., Landau, B., & Trueswell., J.C. (2023). Where word and world meet: Language and vision share an abstract representation of symmetry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152 (2), 509-527.
- Hafri, A., Wadhwa, S., Bonner, M.F. (2022). Perceived distance alters memory for scene boundaries. Psychological Science, 33 (12), 2040–2058.
- Lin, F., Hafri, A., & Bonner, M.F. (2022). Scene memories are biased toward high-probability views. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 48 (10), 1116-1129.
- Hafri, A.*, Boger, T.*, & Firestone, C. (2022). Melting ice with your mind: Representational momentum for physical states. Psychological Science, 33 (5), 725-735.
* co-first authors - Hafri, A., & Firestone, C. (2021). The perception of relations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 475–492. [cover]
- Caplan, S., Hafri, A., Trueswell, J.C. (2021). Now you hear me, later you don’t: The immediacy of linguistic computation and the representation of speech. Psychological Science, 32 (3), 410-423.
- Hafri, A., Trueswell, J.C., & Strickland, B. (2018). Encoding of event roles from visual scenes is rapid, spontaneous, and interacts with higher-level visual processing. Cognition, 175, 336-52.
- Hafri, A., Trueswell, J.C., & Epstein, R.A. (2017). Neural representations of observed actions generalize across static and dynamic visual input. The Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (11), 3056-3071.
- Hafri., A., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J.C. (2013). Getting the gist of events: Recognition of two-participant actions from brief displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142 (3), 880-905.
- Trueswell, J.C., Medina, T.N., Hafri, A., & Gleitman, L.R. (2013). Propose but verify: Fast mapping meets cross-situational word learning. Cognitive Psychology, 66(1), 126-156.
Preprints and Manuscripts
- Sun, Z., Firestone, C., & Hafri, A. The psychophysics of compositionality: Relational scene perception occurs in a canonical order.
- Hafri, A. & Papeo, L. (in revision). The past, present, and future of relation perception.
- Guan, C.*, Schwitzgebel, D.*, Firestone, C., & Hafri, A. (in revision). Part-whole effects in visual number estimation.
* co-first authors
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Hafri, A., Gleitman, L.R., Landau, B., & Trueswell., J.C. (2021). When word and world meet: Intuitive correspondence between visual and linguistic symmetry. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vienna, Austria.
- Caplan, S., Hafri, A., Trueswell, J.C. (2019). Speech processing does not involve acoustic maintenance. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada.
- Wehry, J., Hafri, A., Trueswell, J.C. (2019). The end’s in plain sight: Implicit association of visual and conceptual boundedness. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada.
- Hafri, A., Trueswell, J. C., & Strickland, B. (2016). Extraction of event roles from visual scenes is rapid, automatic, and interacts with higher-level visual processing. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA.
- Trueswell, J.C., Kaufman, D., Hafri, A., & Lidz, J. (2012). Development of parsing abilities interacts with grammar learning: Evidence from Tagalog and Kannada. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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