Francis Mollica

Computer Science · Physical Sciences

12h-index523citations63works3.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Natural Language Processing Techniques(11), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism(11), Categorization, perception, and language(11), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(9), Language and cultural evolution(8)

Publications63 total

Search Efficiency Drives Reference Production Across Modalities, But Colour is Special
2026Open Access
Usage frequency predicts lexicalization across languages
2025Open Access
Reference Production Facilitates Listener Search Across Modalities, but Colour is Special
2025Open Access
Search Efficiency Drives Reference Production Across Modalities, But Colour is Special
2025Open Access
Reference Production Facilitates Listener Search Across Modalities, but Colour is Special
2025Open Access
Reference Production Facilitates Listener Search Across Modalities, but Colour is Special
2025Open Access
Reference Production Facilitates Listener Search Across Modalities, but Colour is Special
2025Open Access
Information-theoretic and machine learning methods for semantic categorization
Oxford University Press eBooks·2025
A theoretical framework for experience-driven critical period effects in learning
2025Open Access
Usage frequency predicts lexicalization across languages
2025
What does memory retrieval leave on the table? Modelling the Cost of Semi-Compositionality with MINERVA2 and sBERT
2025Open Access
Is legal jargon actually a ‘magic spell’? Science says maybe
2024
Even laypeople use legalese
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of U.S. federal laws over time.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2024· 7 cited
Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·2024· 34 citedOpen Access
Diverse mathematical knowledge among indigenous Amazonians
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Even lawyers do not like legalese
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Even Lawyers Don't Like Legalese
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Communicative Efficiency or Iconic Learning: Do Acquisition and Communicative Pressures Interact to Shape Colour- Naming Systems?
Entropy·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Communicative Efficiency or Iconic Learning: Do acquisition and communicative pressures interact to shape colour-naming systems?
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Steven T. Piantadosi(13), Edward Gibson(9), Paula Rubio‐Fernández(8), Charles Kemp(6), Matthew Siegelman(5), Evelina Fedorenko(5), Eric Martínez(5), Eric J. Alfaro Martínez(5), Hope Kean(4), Julian Jara‐Ettinger(4), E. Leigh Gibson(4), Evgeniia Diachek(3), Zachary Mineroff(3), Richard Futrell(3), Noga Zaslavsky(3), Peng Qian(2), Yang Xu(2), Terry Regier(2), Geoffrey Iain Bacon(2), Cory Shain(2)