@inproceedings{dziewonski-etal-2026-cognitively, title = "Cognitively Inspired Developmental Trajectories Improve Explore-Exploit Dynamics in Neural Agent Emergent Communication", author = "Dziewo{\'n}ski, Jan and Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam and Verhoef, Tessa", editor = "Bonial, Claire and Berzak, Yevgeni", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.conll-main.8/", pages = "104--120", ISBN = "979-8-89176-410-1" }