Benavides-Varela, S., Bouchon, C., Hochmann, J. R., & Toro, J. M. (2025). A focus on vowels in young human infants and animals: early sensitivities in language processing. Journal of Language Evolution, 10(1), lzaf005.

Papeo, L., Vettori, S., Serraille, E., Odin, C., Rostami, F.,  Hochmann, J-R. (2024). Abstract thematic roles in infants’ representations of social events. Current Biology, 34, 1-7 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.081

Goupil, N., Rayson, H., Serraille, E., Massera, A., Ferrari, P. F., Hochmann, J.-R., & Papeo, L. (2024). Visual Preference for Socially Relevant Spatial Relations in Humans and Monkeys. Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241242995

Adibpour, P., & Hochmann, J. R. (2023). Infants’ understanding of the causal power of agents and tools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(50), e2309669120.

Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann, J-R., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: a multi-lab multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73 101890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890

Hochmann, J-R. (2023). Incomplete language of thought in infancy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, https://psyarxiv.com/qkjwt 

Hochmann, J-R. (2023). La lente émergence de la conscience chez le nourrisson. Progrès en Néonatologie, 42, 97-109

Hochmann, J-R., (2022). Representations of abstract relations in infancy. Open Mind, 6, 291-310, https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00068 

Hochmann, J-R., & Kouider ,S. (2022). Acceleration of information processing en route to perceptual awareness in infancy. Current Biology, 32, 1206-1210

Spriet, C., Abassi, E., Hochmann, J-R., & Papeo, L. (2022). Visual object categorization in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 119, e2105866119

Goupil, N., Papeo, L.,  & Hochmann, J-R. (2022). Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants. Infancy, 27, 210-231

Bouchon, C., Hochmann, J-R., & Toro, J. M. (2022). Spanish-learning infants switch from a vowel to a consonant bias during the first year of life. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, 105444

Hochmann, J-R., & Papeo, L. (2021). How can it be both abstract and perceptual? Comment on Hafri, A., & Firestone, C. (2021), The perception of relations, Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://psyarxiv.com/hm49p

Hochmann, J-R., & Toro, J. M. (2021). Negative mental representations in infancy. Cognition, 213, 104599

Hochmann, J-R., Wasserman, E., & Carey, S. (2021). Editorial overview: Same/different conceptualization. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, iii-v

Hochmann, J-R. (2021). Asymmetry in the representations of same and different. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 133-139

Adibpour, P., Hochmann, J-R., & Papeo, L. (2021). Spatial relations trigger visual binding of people. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(7), 1343-1353 

Hochmann, J-R (2020). Cognitive precursors of negation in pre-verbal infants. In V. Deprez & M. T. Espinal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Negation. Oxford University Press.

Quirins, M., Marois, C., Valente, M., Seassau, M., Weiss, N., El Karoui, I., Hochmann, J-R., & Naccache, L. (2018). Conscious processing of auditory regularities induces a pupil dilation. Scientific Reports 8, 14819

Hochmann, J-R, Carey, S., & Mehler, J. (2018). Infants learn a rule predicated on the relation same but fail to simultaneously learn a rule predicated on the relation different. Cognition, 177, 49-57 

Hochmann, J-R., Benavides-Varela, S., Fló, A., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2018) Bias for vocalic over consonantal information in 6-month-olds. Infancy, 23, 136-151

Hochmann, J-R., Tuerk, A. S., Sanborn, S., Zhu, R., Long, R., Dempster, M., & Carey, S. (2017) Children’s representation of abstract relations in relational/array match-to-sample tasks. Cognitive Psychology, 99, 17-43.

Papeo, L., Hochmann, J-R., & Battelli, L. (2016). The default computation of negated meanings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 1980-1986

Hochmann, J-R., Langus, A., & Mehler, J. (2016). An advantage for perceptual edges in young infants’ memory for speech. Language Learning, 66, S2, 13-28

Hochmann, J-R., Mody, S., & Carey, S. (2016). Infants’ representations of same and different in match- and non-match-to sample. Cognitive Psychology, 86, 87-111.

Hochmann, J-R., & Papeo, L. (2014). The invariance problem in infancy: a pupillometry study. Psychological Science, 25, 2038-2046. PDF

Hochmann, J-R. (2013). Word frequency, function words and the second Gavagai problem. Cognition, 128, 13-25. PDF

Hochmann, J-R. (2013). Pupilometry in six-month-old infants. In Baiz, Sarah, Eleanor Goldman, and Rachel Hawkes (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press. PDF

Hochmann, J-R., & Mehler, J. (2012). Recent findings about language acquisition. In M. Piattelli-Palmarini, & R.C. Berwick (Eds.), Rich Languages from Poor Inputs (pp. 107-114). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Benavides-Varela, S., Hochmann, J-R., Macagno, F., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2012). Newborn’s brain activity signals the origin of word memories.  Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, 109, 17908-17913. PDF

Papeo, L., & Hochmann, J-R. (2012). A cross-talk between brain-damage patients and infants on action and language. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1222-1234. PDF

Hochmann, J-R., Benavides-Varela, S., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2011). Vowels and Consonants in Early Language Acquisition. Developmental Science, 14, 1445-1458. PDF

Hochmann, J-R. Endress A.D., & Mehler, J. (2010). Word frequency as a cue to identify function words in infancy. Cognition, 115, 444-457. PDF

Hochmann, J-R., Azadpour M. & Mehler J. (2008). Can humans really learn AⁿBⁿ artificial grammars from exemplars? , Cognitive Science, 32, 1021-1036. PDF

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