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  1. You cannot just count: A statistical rethinking of semantic richness in free-generation tasks and semantic norms.

    Article • Psychological Methods, April 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  2. Breaking the chains of independence: A Bayesian uncertainty model of normative violations in human causal probabilistic reasoning

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, April 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  3. An Agent‐Based Model of Semantic Memory Search: Disentangling Cognitive Control and Semantic Space Organization

    Article • Cognitive Science, December 2025, Wiley

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  4. Rules in the mist: Emerging probabilistic rules in uncertain categorization

    Article • Cognition, November 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  5. Towards scalable and reliable coding of semantic property norms: ChatGPT vs. an improved AC-PLT

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  6. Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr. Alexios Arvanitis, Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau, Juan Carlos Oliveros, Master Maciej Behnke

  7. Bridging consciousness and AI: ChatGPT-assisted phenomenological analysis

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2025, Frontiers

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  8. Breaking the chains of independence: A Bayesian uncertainty model of normative violations in human causal probabilistic reasoning

    Article • April 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  9. Single and multiple systems in probabilistic categorization

    Article • Nature Reviews Psychology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  10. Validity of a One-Stop Automatic Algorithm for Counting Clusters and Shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2025, University of California Press

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  11. WordListsAnalytics: An R package for multiple data analysis of Property Listing Tasks

    Article • SoftwareX, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  12. A NEW HORIZON IN MIXED-METHOD STUDIES: CHATGPT-ASSISTED PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

    Article • July 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  13. A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions

    Article • Language and Cognition, April 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  14. Validity of a one-stop automatic algorithm for counting clusters and shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  15. Author Correction: Neurocognitive correlates of semantic memory navigation in Parkinson’s disease

    Article • npj Parkinson s Disease, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  16. Neurocognitive correlates of semantic memory navigation in Parkinson’s disease

    Article • npj Parkinson s Disease, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adolfo M. García, Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  17. Mechanisms Behind Public School Enrollment Trends in School Choice Systems: The Case of Chile

    Article • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, January 2024, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau, Director Institute of Education Alejandra Mizala

  18. AC-PLT: An algorithm for computer-assisted coding of semantic property listing data

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  19. Describing and understanding the time course of the property listing task

    Article • Cognitive Processing, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  20. Uncertainty can explain apparent mistakes in causal reasoning

    Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  21. A Context‐Dependent Bayesian Account for Causal‐Based Categorization

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2023, Wiley

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  22. Challenges from Probabilistic Learning for Models of Brain and Behavior

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  23. Use of Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) in Psychological Research

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  24. Using agreement probability to study differences in types of concepts and conceptualizers

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  25. On the importance of feedback for categorization: Revisiting category learning experiments using an adaptive filter model.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, October 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Nicolas Marchant, Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  26. An adaptive linear filter model of procedural category learning

    Article • Cognitive Processing, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  27. Mechanisms Underlying Choice-Set Formation: The Case of School Choice in Chile

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  28. CPNCoverageAnalysis: An R package for parameter estimation in conceptual properties norming studies

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  29. Computational Cognitive models of Categorization: Predictions under Conditions of Classification Uncertainty

    Article • January 2022, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  30. Know your priors: Task specific priors reflect subjective expectations in Bayesian models of categorization

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  31. An Adaptive Linear Filter model of procedural category learning

    Article • October 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  32. Language Processing Differences Between Blind and Sighted Individuals and the Abstract Versus Concrete Concept Difference

    Article • Cognitive Science, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  33. Eliciting semantic properties: methods and applications

    Article • Cognitive Processing, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  34. Mathematical regularities of data from the property listing task

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Psychology, August 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  35. How to carry out conceptual properties norming studies as parameter estimation studies: Lessons from ecology

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  36. Informational content of cosine and other similarities calculated from high-dimensional Conceptual Property Norm data

    Article • Cognitive Processing, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  37. Modeling stereotypes and negative self‐stereotypes as a function of interactions among groups with power asymmetries

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, April 2019, Wiley

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  38. Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2018, Frontiers

    Dr. Yuki Yamada, Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  39. The role of variability in the property listing task

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  40. Response surface methodology for estimating missing values in a pareto genetic algorithm used in parameter design

    Article • Ingeniería e Investigación, May 2017, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  41. Why the designer's intended function is central for proper function assignment and artifact conceptualization: Essentialist and normative accounts

    Article • Developmental Review, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  42. Modeling Inferential Minds In Conceptual Space

    Article • June 2016, European Council for Modeling and Simulation

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  43. Procesamiento semántico de palabras epistémicas y metafísicas en niños y adolescentes con Trastorno de Espectro Autista (TEA) y con Desarrollo Típico (DT)

    Article • Terapia psicológica, December 2015, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  44. Using sequential approximate optimization and a genetic algorithm to calibrate agent-based models

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  45. When are concepts comparable across minds?

    Article • Quality & Quantity, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  46. Calibrating Agent-Based Models Using a Genetic Algorithm

    Article • Studies in Informatics and Control, March 2015, ICI Bucharest

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  47. Calibrating Agent-Based Models Using an Improved Genetic Algorithm

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  48. The Association Between Group Size And Communicational Complexity According To Conceptual Agreement Theory

    Article • May 2014, European Council for Modeling and Simulation

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  49. Inference and coherence in causal-based artifact categorization

    Article • Cognition, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  50. The dynamics of social agreement according to Conceptual Agreement Theory

    Article • Quality & Quantity, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  51. Modeling Agreement in Social Groups Using Conceptual Agreement Theory

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  52. The Proper Function of Artifacts: Intentions, Conventions and Causal Inferences

    Article • Review of Philosophy and Psychology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  53. The Life of Concepts: An ABM of Conceptual Drift in Social Groups

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  54. La Edad Se Correlaciona Directamente con la Fuerza de los Estereotipos de Género: Evidencia Obtenida en unaTarea de Memoria de Reconocimiento

    Article • Psykhe (Santiago), November 2012, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  55. Conceptual agreement theory

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  56. The Power of Collective Action: How Agents Get Rid of Useless Concepts without Even Noticing Their Futility

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  57. Property generation reflects word association and situated simulation

    Article • Language and Cognition, March 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  58. The Spreading and Demise of Concepts in Social Groups

    Article • November 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  59. Situational information contributes to object categorization and inference

    Article • Acta Psychologica, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  60. Creators’ intentions bias judgments of function independently from causal inferences

    Article • Cognition, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  61. The Role of Function in Categories

    Article • Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, January 2008, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  62. Reporte de Investigación: El Efecto de ser Observado Sobre el Rendimiento en una Tarea de Fluidez Verbal

    Article • Psykhe (Santiago), May 2006, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  63. A causal model of the meaning of cause, enable, and prevent

    Article • January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  64. The HIPE Theory of Function

    Article • December 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  65. Assessing the Causal Structure of Function.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  66. The Error-Reaction Time Correlation as a Prediction of Category Verification Models

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, January 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau