About the Authors

Terry Regier

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Regier, Charles Kemp

terry.regier@berkeley.edu

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America

Alexandra Carstensen

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America

Charles Kemp

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Regier, Charles Kemp

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR CK. Performed the experiments: AC CK. Analyzed the data: CK. Wrote the paper: TR AC CK. Jointly led the project: TR CK.