Dr James Winters
Lecturer in Psychology
Winters, J. (2023) 'Graphic codes, language, and the computational niche.'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46. pp. e256. ISSN: 0140-525X
Segovia-Martin, J., Creutzig, F. and Winters, J. (2023) 'Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration-exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects'. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 378 (1889). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 0962-8436 Open Access Link
Müller, TF., Brinkmann, L., Winters, J. and Pescetelli, N. (2023) 'Machine Impostors Can Avoid Human Detection and Interrupt the Formation of Stable Conventions by Imitating Past Interactions: A Minimal Turing Test'. Cognitive Science, 47 (4). pp. 1 - 24. ISSN: 0364-0213 Open Access Link
Charbonneau, M., Strachan, JWA. and Winters, J. (2022) 'The problem with solutions: A commentary of “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten'. Physics of Life Reviews, 44. pp. 61 - 63. ISSN: 1571-0645
Han, SJ., Kelly, P., Winters, J. and Kemp, C. (2022) 'Simplification Is Not Dominant in the Evolution of Chinese Characters'. Open Mind, 6. pp. 264 - 279. ISSN: 2470-2986 Open Access Link
Morin, O., Müller, TF., Morisseau, T. and Winters, J. (2022) 'Cultural Evolution of Precise and Agreed-Upon Semantic Conventions in a Multiplayer Gaming App'. Cognitive Science, 46 (2). pp. 1 - 26. ISSN: 0364-0213 Open Access Link
Kelly, P., Winters, J., Miton, H. and Morin, O. (2021) 'Evolution of Items and Evolution of Systems Reply'. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 62 (6). pp. 687 - 691. ISSN: 0011-3204
Kelly, P., Winters, J., Miton, H. and Morin, O. (2021) 'The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes An Emergent Script of West Africa Recapitulates Historical Change in Writing Systems'. Current Anthropology, 62 (6). pp. 669 - 691. ISSN: 0011-3204 Open Access Link
Pavlek, B., Winters, J. and Morin, O. (2021) 'Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges'. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37 (1). pp. 202 - 217. ISSN: 2055-7671 Open Access Link
Müller, TF., Winters, J., Morisseau, T., Noveck, I. and Morin, O. (2021) 'Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application'. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 33 (4). pp. 357 - 378. ISSN: 2044-5911 Open Access Link
Winters, J. (2020) 'Is the cultural evolution of technology cumulative or combinatorial?'. .
Henschel, M., Winters, J., Müller, TF. and Bräuer, J. (2020) 'Effect of shared information and owner behavior on showing in dogs (Canis familiaris)'. Animal Cognition, 23 (5). pp. 1019 - 1034. ISSN: 1435-9448
Pavlek, B., Winters, J. and Morin, O. (2020) 'Reverse engineering cash: Coin designs mark out high value differentials and coin sizes track values logarithmically'. Cognition, 198. pp. 104182 - 104182. ISSN: 0010-0277
Morin, O., Kelly, P. and Winters, J. (2020) 'Writing, Graphic Codes, and Asynchronous Communication'. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12 (2). pp. 727 - 743. ISSN: 1756-8757
Winters, J. (2019) 'Escaping optimization traps: the role of cultural adaptation and cultural exaptation in facilitating open-ended cumulative dynamics'. Palgrave Communications, 5 (1). ISSN: 2055-1045
Pavlek, B., Winters, J. and Morin, O. (2019) 'Ancient coin designs encoded increasing amounts of economic information over centuries'. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 56. pp. 101103 - 101103. ISSN: 0278-4165
Müller, TF., Winters, J. and Morin, O. (2019) 'The Influence of Shared Visual Context on the Successful Emergence of Conventions in a Referential Communication Task'. Cognitive Science, 43 (9). pp. e12783. ISSN: 0364-0213
Winters, J. and Morin, O. (2019) 'From Context to Code: Information Transfer Constrains the Emergence of Graphic Codes'. Cognitive Science, 43 (3). pp. e12722. ISSN: 0364-0213
Müller, TF. and Winters, J. (2018) 'Compression in cultural evolution: Homogeneity and structure in the emergence and evolution of a large-scale online collaborative art project'. PLoS ONE, 13 (9). pp. e0202019 - e0202019. ISSN: 1932-6203
Winters, J., Kirby, S. and Smith, K. (2018) 'Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy'. Cognition, 176. pp. 15 - 30. ISSN: 0010-0277
Morin, O., Winters, J., Müller, TF., Morisseau, T., Etter, C. and Greenhill, SJ. (2018) 'What smartphone apps may contribute to language evolution research'. Journal of Language Evolution, 3 (2). pp. 91 - 93. ISSN: 2058-4571
Pleyer, M., Hartmann, S., Winters, J. and Zlatev, J. (2017) 'Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language: Introduction to the special issue'. Interaction Studies, 18 (3). pp. 303 - 313. ISSN: 1572-0373
WINTERS, J., KIRBY, S. and SMITH, K. (2015) 'Languages adapt to their contextual niche'. Language and Cognition, 7 (3). pp. 415 - 449. ISSN: 1866-9808
Roberts, SG., Winters, J. and Chen, K. (2015) 'Future tense and economic decisions: Controlling for cultural evolution'. PLoS ONE, 10 (7). pp. e0132145 - e0132145. ISSN: 1932-6203
Pleyer, M. and Winters, J. (Accepted) 'Integrating Cognitive Linguistics and language evolution research'. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, 11. pp. 19 - 19. ISSN: 0867-4159
Roberts, S. and Winters, J. (2013) 'Linguistic Diversity and Traffic Accidents: Lessons from Statistical Studies of Cultural Traits'. PLoS ONE, 8 (8). pp. e70902 - e70902. ISSN: 1932-6203
Roberts, S. and Winters, J. (2012) 'Social structure and language structure: The new nomothetic approach'. Psychology of Language and Communication, 16 (2). pp. 89 - 112. ISSN: 1234-2238