About the Authors

Coralie Chevallier

Affiliation Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, INSERM U960, DEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure—PSL Research University, Paris, France

Jing Xu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kuniko Adachi

Affiliation Urban-Culture Research Center, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan

Jean-Baptiste van der Henst

Affiliation Laboratoire Langage, Cerveau et Cognition (L2C2), CNRS, Université de Lyon, UMR 5304, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Bron, France

Nicolas Baumard

nbaumard@gmail.com

Affiliations Institut Jean-Nicod, UMR 8129, DEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure—PSL Research University, Paris, France, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB CC. Performed the experiments: JX KA. Analyzed the data: CC. Wrote the paper: CC NB JBVDH.