Publications

in reverse chronological order

Articles

2025

  1. One action, two reference frames: Compound cognitive maps of object location
    Benjamin Pitt
    Psychological Science, 2025
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2023

  1. No clear evidence for an innate left-to-right mental number line
    Benjamin Pitt, Daniel Casasanto, and Steven T Piantadosi
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
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2022

  1. Continuous manipulation of mental representations is compromised in cerebellar degeneration
    Samuel D McDougle, Jonathan S Tsay, Benjamin Pitt, and 4 more authors
    Brain, 2022
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  2. Exact number concepts are limited to the verbal count range
    Benjamin Pitt, Edward Gibson, and Steven T Piantadosi
    Psychological Science, 2022
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  3. Spatial metaphors and the design of everyday things
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
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  4. The Order of Magnitude: Why SNARC-like Tasks (Still) Cannot Support a Generalized Magnitude System
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    Cognitive Science, 2022
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  5. Different reference frames on different axes: Space and language in indigenous Amazonians
    Benjamin Pitt, Alexandra Carstensen, Isabelle Boni, and 2 more authors
    Science Advances, 2022
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2021

  1. Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture
    Benjamin Pitt, Stephen Ferrigno, Jessica F Cantlon, and 3 more authors
    Science Advances, 2021
    Featured in ScienceNews and ntv
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2020

  1. The correlations in experience principle: How culture shapes concepts of time and number.
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020
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2019

  1. The faulty magnitude detector: Why SNARC-like tasks cannot support a generalized magnitude system
    Daniel Casasanto and Benjamin Pitt
    Cognitive Science, 2019
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2018

  1. Spatializing emotion: No evidence for a domain-general magnitude system
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    Cognitive Science, 2018
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Forthcoming

in revision

  1. Algorithm induction in indigenous Amazonian children
    Benjamin Pitt, Elena Lieb, David O’Shaughnessy, and 3 more authors
    in revision
  2. What does it mean for culture to ’shape’ cognition?
    Benjamin Pitt and Dorsa Amir
    in revision
  3. Spatial language and memory diverge within individual children
    Benjamin Pitt, Alaina Heeren, Margaret Debelak, and 1 more author
    in revision
  4. Modality matters: Space-time mappings differ in vision and audition
    Tom Gijssels, Benjamin Pitt, Roberto Bottini, and 3 more authors
    in revision

Preprints

2023

  1. Bee sides: Still no clear evidence for an innate left-to-right mental number line
    Benjamin Pitt, Daniel Casasanto, and Steven T Piantadosi
    Open Science Framework, 2023
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Proceedings

2025

  1. Rhesus monkeys show no preference for a left-to-right number-space mapping
    Alessandra Acadia Silva, Benjamin Pitt, and Stephen Ferrigno
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
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2024

  1. Multidimensional spatial memory: One action, two reference frames
    Benjamin Pitt
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
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2023

  1. Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes
    Benjamin Pitt, Sahra Aalaei, and Alison Gopnik
    In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society, 2023
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2022

  1. Dimensions of Diversity in Spatial Cognition: Culture, Context, Age, and Ability
    Benjamin Pitt, Holly Huey, Matthew Jordan, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

  1. Variation in spatial concepts: Different frames of reference on different axes
    Benjamin Pitt, Alexandra Carstensen, Edward Gibson, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society, 2021
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2020

  1. Multi-directional mappings in the minds of the Tsimane’: Size, time, and number on three spatial axes
    Benjamin Pitt, Daniel Casasanto, Stephen Ferrigno, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020
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  2. Exact number concepts depend on language
    Benjamin Pitt, Edward Gibson, and Steven Piantadosi
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

  1. Ordinality trumps cardinality: What we spatialize when we spatialize numbers
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

  1. Time and numbers on the fingers: Dissociating the mental timeline and mental number line
    Benjamin Pitt, Kamilah Scales, and Daniel Casasanto
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018
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2016

  1. Spatializing emotion: a mapping of valence or magnitude?
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016
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  2. Reading experience shapes the mental timeline but not the mental number line
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016
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2014

  1. Experiential Origins of the Mental Number Line.
    Benjamin Pitt and Daniel Casasanto
    In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014
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