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., Heuser, G., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Conventional Gestures across 30 cultures share a common structure that reveals communicative intentions.
Royka, A., Schouwstra, M., Kirby, S., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Shaped to Communicate: People account for observers’ likely goal inferences when creating novel gestures.