Kenny Smith - Publications

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Linguistics and English Language University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom 

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Year Citation  Score
2024 Nedergaard J, Smith K. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. Plos One. 19: e0288330. PMID 38180973 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288330  0.318
2022 Saldana C, Claidière N, Fagot J, Smith K. Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates. Scientific Reports. 12: 13092. PMID 35907973 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16983-w  0.762
2022 Hawkins RD, Franke M, Frank MC, Goldberg AE, Smith K, Griffiths TL, Goodman ND. From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. Psychological Review. PMID 35420850 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000348  0.584
2022 Tal S, Smith K, Culbertson J, Grossman E, Arnon I. The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study. Cognitive Science. 46: e13119. PMID 35297091 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13119  0.606
2021 Karjus A, Blythe RA, Kirby S, Wang T, Smith K. Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study. Cognitive Science. 45: e13035. PMID 34491584 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13035  0.772
2021 Ota M, San José A, Smith K. The emergence of word-internal repetition through iterated learning: Explaining the mismatch between learning biases and language design. Cognition. 210: 104585. PMID 33465675 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104585  0.504
2020 Wilson B, Spierings M, Ravignani A, Mueller JL, Mintz TH, Wijnen F, van der Kant A, Smith K, Rey A. Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals. Topics in Cognitive Science. 12: 843-858. PMID 32729673 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12381  0.487
2020 O'Grady C, Scott-Phillips T, Lavelle S, Smith K. Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). 1747021820942479. PMID 32718242 DOI: 10.1177/1747021820942479  0.777
2020 Carr JW, Smith K, Culbertson J, Kirby S. Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems. Cognition. 202: 104289. PMID 32502868 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2020.104289  0.811
2020 Karjus A, Blythe RA, Kirby S, Smith K. Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics. 5: 45. DOI: 10.5334/Gjgl.909  0.757
2020 Karjus A, Blythe R, Kirby S, Smith K. Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language Language Dynamics and Change. 10: 86-125. DOI: 10.1163/22105832-01001200  0.769
2019 Castillo L, Smith K, Branigan HP. Interaction Promotes the Adaptation of Referential Conventions to the Communicative Context. Cognitive Science. 43: e12780. PMID 31446662 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12780  0.366
2019 Motamedi Y, Schouwstra M, Smith K, Culbertson J, Kirby S. Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign. Cognition. 192: 103964. PMID 31302362 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2019.05.001  0.835
2019 Saldana C, Fagot J, Kirby S, Smith K, Claidière N. High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20190729. PMID 31161908 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.0729  0.768
2019 Fehér O, Ritt N, Smith K. Asymmetric accommodation during interaction leads to the regularisation of linguistic variants Journal of Memory and Language. 109: 104036. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2019.104036  0.397
2018 Ferdinand V, Kirby S, Smith K. The cognitive roots of regularization in language. Cognition. 184: 53-68. PMID 30572180 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2018.12.002  0.784
2018 Atkinson M, Smith K, Kirby S. Adult Learning and Language Simplification. Cognitive Science. PMID 30320460 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12686  0.811
2018 Smith K. How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty. Topics in Cognitive Science. PMID 30182526 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12377  0.503
2018 Winters J, Kirby S, Smith K. Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy. Cognition. 176: 15-30. PMID 29533765 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2018.03.002  0.767
2018 Atkinson M, Mills GJ, Smith K. Social Group Effects on the Emergence of Communicative Conventions and Language Complexity Journal of Language Evolution. 4: 1-18. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzy010  0.446
2018 Claidière N, Amedon GK, André J, Kirby S, Smith K, Sperber D, Fagot J. Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 191-202. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2017.12.007  0.729
2018 Smith K. The cognitive prerequisites for language: insights from iterated learning Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 21: 154-160. DOI: 10.1016/J.COBEHA.2018.05.003  0.364
2017 Hutchison J, Cunningham SJ, Slessor G, Urquhart J, Smith K, Martin D. Context and Perceptual Salience Influence the Formation of Novel Stereotypes via Cumulative Cultural Evolution. Cognitive Science. PMID 29094380 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12560  0.354
2017 Kanwal J, Smith K, Culbertson J, Kirby S. Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication. Cognition. 165: 45-52. PMID 28494263 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2017.05.001  0.839
2017 Samara A, Smith K, Brown H, Wonnacott E. Acquiring variation in an artificial language: Children and adults are sensitive to socially conditioned linguistic variation. Cognitive Psychology. 94: 85-114. PMID 28340356 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cogpsych.2017.02.004  0.322
2017 Smith K, Perfors A, Fehér O, Samara A, Swoboda K, Wonnacott E. Language learning, language use and the evolution of linguistic variation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 372. PMID 27872370 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0051  0.492
2016 Carr JW, Smith K, Cornish H, Kirby S. The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World. Cognitive Science. PMID 27061857 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12371  0.796
2016 Thompson B, Kirby S, Smith K. Culture shapes the evolution of cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 27044094 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1523631113  0.812
2016 Spike M, Stadler K, Kirby S, Smith K. Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling. Cognitive Science. PMID 26988073 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12351  0.732
2016 Blythe RA, Smith AD, Smith K. Word learning under infinite uncertainty. Cognition. 151: 18-27. PMID 26927884 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2016.02.017  0.725
2016 Stadler K, Blythe RA, Smith K, Kirby S. Momentum in Language Change Language Dynamics and Change. 6: 171-198. DOI: 10.1163/22105832-00602005  0.737
2015 Wilson B, Kikuchi Y, Sun L, Hunter D, Dick F, Smith K, Thiele A, Griffiths TD, Marslen-Wilson WD, Petkov CI. Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans. Nature Communications. 6: 8901. PMID 26573340 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms9901  0.374
2015 Atkinson M, Kirby S, Smith K. Speaker Input Variability Does Not Explain Why Larger Populations Have Simpler Languages. Plos One. 10: e0129463. PMID 26057624 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0129463  0.805
2015 Kirby S, Tamariz M, Cornish H, Smith K. Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure. Cognition. 141: 87-102. PMID 25966840 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2015.03.016  0.804
2015 Wilson B, Smith K, Petkov CI. Mixed-complexity artificial grammar learning in humans and macaque monkeys: evaluating learning strategies. The European Journal of Neuroscience. 41: 568-78. PMID 25728176 DOI: 10.1111/Ejn.12834  0.387
2015 Silvey C, Kirby S, Smith K. Word meanings evolve to selectively preserve distinctions on salient dimensions. Cognitive Science. 39: 212-26. PMID 25066300 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12150  0.808
2015 O’Grady C, Kliesch C, Smith K, Scott-Phillips TC. The ease and extent of recursive mindreading, across implicit and explicit tasks Evolution and Human Behavior. 36: 313-322. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2015.01.004  0.337
2014 Claidière N, Smith K, Kirby S, Fagot J. Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281. PMID 25377450 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.1541  0.751
2014 Kirby S, Griffiths T, Smith K. Iterated learning and the evolution of language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 28: 108-14. PMID 25062470 DOI: 10.1016/J.Conb.2014.07.014  0.83
2014 Martin D, Hutchison J, Slessor G, Urquhart J, Cunningham SJ, Smith K. The spontaneous formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution. Psychological Science. 25: 1777-86. PMID 25052829 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614541129  0.314
2014 WINTERS J, KIRBY S, SMITH K. Languages adapt to their contextual niche Language and Cognition. 7: 415-449. DOI: 10.1017/Langcog.2014.35  0.83
2013 Wilson B, Slater H, Kikuchi Y, Milne AE, Marslen-Wilson WD, Smith K, Petkov CI. Auditory artificial grammar learning in macaque and marmoset monkeys. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 33: 18825-35. PMID 24285889 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.2414-13.2013  0.441
2013 Reisenauer R, Smith K, Blythe RA. Stochastic dynamics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world. Physical Review Letters. 110: 258701. PMID 23829764 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.110.258701  0.721
2012 Caldwell CA, Smith K. Cultural evolution and perpetuation of arbitrary communicative conventions in experimental microsocieties. Plos One. 7: e43807. PMID 22928039 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0043807  0.43
2011 Smith K. Learning bias, cultural evolution of language, and the biological evolution of the language faculty. Human Biology. 83: 261-78. PMID 21615289 DOI: 10.3378/027.083.0207  0.593
2010 Blythe RA, Smith K, Smith AD. Learning times for large lexicons through cross-situational learning. Cognitive Science. 34: 620-42. PMID 21564227 DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2009.01089.X  0.69
2010 Smith K, Wonnacott E. Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning. Cognition. 116: 444-9. PMID 20615499 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2010.06.004  0.539
2010 Smith K, Smith ADM, Blythe RA. Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms Cognitive Science. 35: 480-498. DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2010.01158.X  0.696
2008 Smith K, Kirby S. Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 363: 3591-603. PMID 18801718 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2008.0145  0.827
2008 Smith K, Kalish ML, Griffiths TL, Lewandowsky S. Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 363: 3469-76. PMID 18799420 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2008.0147  0.577
2008 Kirby S, Cornish H, Smith K. Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: an experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 10681-6. PMID 18667697 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0707835105  0.824
2008 Smith K, Kirby S, Smith ADM. The brain plus the cultural transmission mechanism determine the nature of language Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31: 533-534. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X08005244  0.789
2006 Smith K. Cultural Evolution of Language Encyclopedia of Language &Amp; Linguistics. 315-322. DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/04742-8  0.353
2005 BRIGHTON H, SMITH K, KIRBY S. Language as an evolutionary system Physics of Life Reviews. 2: 177-226. DOI: 10.1016/J.Plrev.2005.06.001  0.803
2004 Smith K. The evolution of vocabulary. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 228: 127-42. PMID 15064088 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2003.12.016  0.502
2003 Smith K, Kirby S, Brighton H. Iterated learning: a framework for the emergence of language. Artificial Life. 9: 371-86. PMID 14761257 DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694825  0.802
2003 SMITH K, BRIGHTON H, KIRBY S. COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: THE CULTURAL EMERGENCE OF COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE Advances in Complex Systems. 6: 537-558. DOI: 10.1142/S0219525903001055  0.804
2003 Brighton H, Kirby S, Smith K. Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 88-109. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44826-8_6  0.805
2002 Smith K. Natural Selection and Cultural Selection in the Evolution of Communication Adaptive Behavior. 10: 25-45. DOI: 10.1177/10597123020101002  0.565
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