Research

Publications

• Schwartz, E., Pion, G., Quilty-Dunn, J., Mandelbaum, E., & Caplan, S. (2025). "Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations", in Azzurra Ruggeri, David Barner, Caren Walker & Neil Bramley (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (preprint here)

• Pion, G., Schwartz, E., & Mandelbaum, E. (forthcoming), "Believe What We Think!: The Spinozan Theory of Mind", in T. Lombrozo & N. Van Leeuwen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief. (preprint here)

Works in Progress (drafts available upon request)

• Paper on whether polysemy should be modeled as ambiguity

• Paper on competing interpretations of the polysemy advantage effect

• Study on whether generics uniquely lead to essentialism, and the underlying mechanisms for generic memory asymmetry effects (with Jared Vasil, Elliot Schwartz, Julia Johnson, Eric Mandelbaum, Marjorie Rhodes)