Royka, A., & Santos, L. R. (2025). Informing does not require attributing ignorance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PDF, Journal
Royka, A., Choi, K., Schoenberger, R., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). Interjections as Tools for Sharing Mental States. 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Rane, S., Kirkman, C., Royka, A., Todd, G., Law, R., Gates Foster, J., & Cartmill, E. (in press). Principles of Animal Cognition for LLM Evaluations: A Case Study on Transitive Inference. Accepted as a position paper. ICML 2025. PDF
Muchovej, J., Royka, A., Lee, S., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). GPT-4o Lacks Core Features of Theory of Mind. 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Bridges, A., Royka, A., Wilson, T., Lockwood, C., Richter, J., Juusola, M., & Chittka, L. (2024). Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone. Nature. Journal (open access)
Royka, A*., Horschler, D*., Bargmann, W., & Santos, L. (2024). Probing Nonhuman Primate Errors on False Belief Tasks to Explore the Evolutionary Roots of Theory of Mind. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Royka, A., Heuser, G., Schwoustra, M., Kirby, S., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2024). Emblems and Improvised Gestures are Structures to Guide their Own Detection. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Royka, A., Torok, G., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2023). Guiding Inference: Signaling intentions using efficient action. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Royka, A., Chen, A., Aboody, R., Huanca, T., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2022). People infer communicative action through an expectation for efficient communication. Nature Communications. Journal (open access)
Royka, A. & Santos, L. R. (2022) Theory of Mind in the Wild. Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences. PDF, Journal
Royka, A. & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2021). Commentary: Ignorance Matters. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. PDF, Journal
McAuliffe, K., Drayton, L. A., Royka, A., Aellen, M., Santos, L. R., & Bshary, R. (2021). Cleaner fish are sensitive to what their partners can and cannot see. Communications Biology. Journal (open access)
Royka, A., Schouwstra, M., Kirby, S., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2021). I Know You Know I’m Signaling: Novel gestures are designed to guide observers’ inferences about communicative goals. 43th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Royka, A., Johnston, A. M., & Santos, L. R. (2020). Metacognition in canids: A comparison of dogs (Canis familiaris) and dingoes (Canis dingo). Journal of Comparative Psychology. PDF, Journal
Johnson, S. G. B., Royka, A., McNally, P., & Keil, F. (2019). When is science considered interesting and important?. 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Royka, A., Aboody, R., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2018). Movement as a message: inferring communicative intent from actions. 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Under review/In prep
Royka, A., Muchovej, J., Heuser, G., Schwoustra, M., Kirby, S., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Emblems and Improvised Gestures are Structures to Guide their Own Detection.
Royka, A*., Suwal, U*., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (submitted). Variability in the Speed, Accuracy, and Effort of Mental-State Inferences in Theory of Mind.
Royka, A*., Horschler, D*., Bargmann, W., & Santos, L. (submitted). Probing Nonhuman Primate Errors on False Belief Tasks to Explore the Evolutionary Roots of Theory of Mind.
Royka, A., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Santos, L. (in prep). Do nonhuman primates have an “atheoretical” theory of mind?.
Horschler, D*., Berke, M*., Royka, A., Santos, L., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Differences Between Human and Nonhuman Primate Theory of Mind: Evidence from computational modeling.