The World Color Survey [WCS] was undertaken to investigate the main findings of Berlin and
Kay [B&K](1). These were (A) that there exist universal cross-linguistic constraints on color …

Music is present in every known society, yet varies from place to place. What is universal to
the perception of music? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in …

Categorical knowledge and episodic memory have traditionally been viewed as separate
lines of inquiry. Here, we present a perspective on the interrelatedness of categorical …

We address the problem of evaluating the quality of self-supervised learning (SSL) models
without access to supervised labels, while being agnostic to the architecture, learning …

Expectations learned from our environment are known to exert strong influences on episodic
memory. Furthermore, people have prior expectations for universal color labels and their …

The World Color Survey collected comprehensive color-naming data from an average of 24
speakers of each of 110 unwritten languages from around the world. Analysis of these data …

Conversational tones--the manners and attitudes in which speakers communicate--are
essential to effective communication. Amidst the increasing popularization of Large …

Music is a product of both biological and cultural evolution. Cultural transmission is the
engine of cultural evolution and may play a role in the establishment of musical universals …

Iterated Learning Experiments Page 1 Preprint: chapter in The Oxford handbook of
empirical approaches to language evolution 1 Iterated Learning Experiments Monica …

Abstract Knowledge of color has strong individual, environmental, and cultural differences
that may systematically influence performance in cognitive tasks. For example, color …