Publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

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. 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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  2. 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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  3. Bee sides: Still no clear evidence for an innate left-to-right mental number line
    Benjamin Pitt, Daniel Casasanto, and Steven T Piantadosi
    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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  2. 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. 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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  2. 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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  3. Cerebellar degeneration selectively disrupts continuous mental operations
    Samuel D McDougle, Jonathan Tsay, Benjamin Pitt, and 4 more authors
    bioRxiv, 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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  2. 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 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014
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