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. [Email]
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
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. [Email]
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. [Email]
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.