Kumar, A.A., Steyvers, M. (in prep.). Pragmatic inference in help-related scenarios.

Kumar, A.A. (in prep.). Novel word learning from co-occurrence.

Hambric, C.E., Sides, J., Holmes, K., Kumar, A.A. (under review). Representing object state change during sentence comprehension: Boundary conditions and language-specific constraints.[PDF] [open materials]

Hambric, C.E., Rammell, S.C., Kronenberger, W.G., Pisoni, D.B., Jones, M.N., Kumar, A.A. (under review). Adaptive lexical search in verbal fluency: The subtle role of early auditory experience.[PDF] [open materials]

Hambric, C.E.,Kumar, A.A. (in press). Lexical search dynamics in taxonomic, thematic, and ad hoc categories. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.[PDF] [open materials]

Hambric, C.E., Holmes, K.J., Kumar, A.A. (in press). Are object state changes represented during language comprehension? A non-replication and extension. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.[PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Hawkins, R.D. (2025). Lexical search and social reasoning jointly explain communication in associative reference games. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Lundin, N.B, Jones, M.N.(2025). What’s in my cluster? Evaluating automated clustering methods to understand idiosyncratic search behavior in verbal fluency. Journal of Memory and Language. [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Kang, M., Kronenberger, W.G., Jones, M.N., Pisoni, D. (2024). Structure and process-level lexical interactions in memory search: A case study of individuals with cochlear implants and normal hearing. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.[PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Apsel, M., Zhang, L., Xing, N., Jones. M.N. (2023). forager: A Python package and web interface for modeling mental search. Behavior Research Methods [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Steyers, M. (2023). Help me help you: A computational model for goal inference and action planning. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] [open materials]

Coretta, S., Casillas, J. V., Roessig, S., Franke, M., Ahn, B., Al-Hoorie, A. H., ... Kumar, A.A.,... & Wood, A. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences.[PDF] [open materials]

Kovacs, C.J., Wilson, J., Kumar, A.A. (2022). Fast and frugal memory search for communication. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Lundin, N. B., Jones, M.N. (2022). Mouse-mole-vole: The inconspicuous benefits of phonology during retrieval from semantic memory. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.[PDF] [open materials]

Apsel, M., Kumar, A.A., Jones, M.N. (2022). Finding the right words: A computational model of cued lexical retrieval. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] [open materials]

Rosen, A.C., Lavacot, J.A., Porter, I. M., Chao, S. Z., Bikson, M., Kumar, A.A., Cardenas, V.A. (2022). TDCS in a patient with dreadlocks: Improvements in COVID-19 related verbal fluency dysfunction. Brain Stimulation. [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Steyvers, M., Balota, D.A. (2021). Semantic memory search and retrieval in a novel cooperative word game: A comparison of associative and distributional semantic models. Cognitive Science , 45(10), e13053. [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Steyvers, M., Balota, D.A. (2021). A critical review of network-based and distributional approaches to semantic memory structure and processes. Topics in Cognitive Science. [PDF]

Kumar, A.A., Garg, K., Hawkins, R.D. (2021). Contextual flexibility guides efficient communication in a cooperative language game. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society . [PDF] [open materials]

Kumar, A.A. (2021). Modeling semantic structure and spreading activation in retrieval tasks [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington University in St. Louis. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. [preview]

Kumar, A.A.(2021). Semantic memory: A review of methods, models, and current challenges. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, pp. 40-80. [PDF]​

Kumar, A.A., Balota, D.A., De Deyne, S. (2020). Modeling free associations using distributional semantic models and spreading activation. Grace Hopper Conference 2020 . [PDF]​

Kumar, A.A., Balota, D.A., & Steyvers, M. (2020). Distant connectivity and multiple-step priming in large-scale semantic networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 46 (12), pp. 2261-2276. [PDF]​ [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., & Balota, D.A. (2020). Attempted prime retrieval is a double-edged sword: facilitation and disruption in repeated lexical retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 46(8), 1505–1532. [PDF]​ [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Balota, D.A., & Steyvers, M. (2019). Distant concept connectivity in network-based and spatial word representations. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1348-1354. [PDF]​ [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Hangal, S., & Rosen, A. C. (2019). Autobiographical recall of personally familiar names and temporal information in e-mails: An automatic analytic approach using e-mail communications. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1510–1530 (2019). [PDF]​ [open materials]

Kumar, A.A., Balota, D.A., Habbert, J., Scaltritti, M., Maddox, G.B. (2019). Converging semantic and phonological information in lexical retrieval and selection in young and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition , 45(12), 2267–2289. [PDF]​ [open materials]

Maddox, G.B., Balota, D.A., Kumar, A.A., Millar, P., Churchill, L. (2019). The immediate benefits and long-term costs of briefly presented primes on episodic recollection. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 77-94 [PDF]